Dear John - sorry for my ignorance but does mmCIF provide a proper LINKR
replacement?

Surely there is just as likely to be redundant LINK records as LINKR? It is
easy enough to get rid of a residue and forgetting to leave useless CISPEP
SSBOND LNK etc lines in the header...

 Eleanor

On 10 December 2017 at 19:59, John Berrisford <j...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Bernhard
>
> When we convert from PDB to mmCIF we do indeed ignore LINKR records as
> these are also present between unmodelled residues in the PDB file (or were
> when we tested).
>
> However, if you output an mmCIF file directly from refmac then the link
> records are correctly written out into _struct_conn records (mmCIF
> equivalent of LINK records) which are correctly handled by the deposition
> system.
>
> To do this simply add the keyword "pdbout format mmcif" to your refmac
> commands and it will output an mmCIF file ready for deposition.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> John
>
> PDBe
>
> On 09/12/2017 20:34, Bernhard Rupp wrote:
>
> Dear Developers,
>
>
>
> the TER issue in REFMAC seems to be fixed, but is really necessary that
> REFMAC places LINKR
>
> records instead of LINK records in the PDB header?
>
>
>
> The PDB does not recognize those, and although it’s only a minor nuisance
> to fix them in an editor,
>
> one tends to forget this between revisions…or the PDB could simply ignore
> the ‘R’….
>
>
>
> Best, BR
>
>
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