Dear Fred,
People have already done this for all PDB entries:
- http://eds.bmc.uu.se/eds/ : maps and many crystallographic stats
- http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/pdb_redo : maps and re-refinement. And yes, the
stats and maps do improve most of the time, unfortunately also for
structures that are not "old" (but to a lesser extent).
Except it doesn't work for _all_ PDB entries, even when SF are
available. On your site, for example, the "Current entries" link on
the home page seems to be broken and entry 3G6A (which was released 8
months ago) is not available for some unspecified reason.
For some cases (like twinned structures) EDS won't have a map.
Rather than relying on availability of a third party server to enable
viewing the map, it would be a much cleaner solution if authors just
deposited their own maps in the PDB.
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