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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">Hi Everybody,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">I encountered a problem recently in converting my PDB file to mmcif</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">using the pdb_extract tool in rcsb. It simply writes out an empty</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">file!! I wonder if any of you have faced such a problem before and</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">know the solution!! I carefully examined the PDB file header and I</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">couldn’t really find a reason why this PDB failed to be converted. I</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">only use PHENIX for molecular replacement and refinement. I used the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">default TLS refinement so I assume the whole structure will be refined</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">as a group. I hope somebody is familiar with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">this can help me out.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Courier New">Thank you very much, Mohd</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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