Hi Eric: You could try generating a SMILES string for your compound using this: http://www.molinspiration.com/cgi-bin/properties
(or search to see if one is available) and feed that into elbow, eg:elbow.builder -- smiles = "CC12C (C(CC(O1)N3C4=CC=CC=C4C5=C6C(=C7C8=CC=CC=C8N2C7=C53)C(NC6=O)O)NC)OC"
I got the smiles string here: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?sid=14717161 Here is the resulting cif file generated by the above command:
elbow.cif
Description: Binary data
The compound is spelled lightly differently to what you wrote, so check to see if this is the right thing.
HTH, Bill On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Eric Liu wrote:
Hi All,I downloaded a stausporine PDB file and used elbow to generate the cif filefor my ccp4 refinement. It gave the following error message:0:00 Bondise Bondise Bondise Bondise Bondise Bondise Bondise Bondise BondiseB Failed to determine the bonding of a fragment of the molecule. PDB file elbow.stau_pdb.001.pdb written. Bonding file elbow.stau_pdb.001.bonding.py written. Edit bonding file to reflectALTERNATIVELY Re-run eLBOW with the --reel option and the molecule wil be loaded into REEL. Edit the bonds and save the results as "fixed.cif" to allow eLBOW to load the bonding. the desired bond.I guess stausporine was quite complicated molecule. How do I rerun the elbowwith reel option? What other programs you can use to generate compound library file? Thanks! Eric