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    <pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in">Dear phenix-development Team,

when is it advantageous to use automatic linking over supplying a .params file with the link parameters defined to refine links?

I thought that automatic linking will recognize the kind of link by itself and then look for the restraints itself. But it seems not to do, 
because it is not complaining that there are still hydrogens in the sugar moeity which should not be there after the link has formed.


This brings me to my second questions. Is there a way to automatically remove the hydrogens which should not be there anymore after the bond has formed.  Or tell reduce that it should not add hydrogens at the link?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards 
Georg.


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      <font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><a
href="http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/refinement.html#id47"><span
              style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
                  style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Verdana,
                    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span
                        style="font-style: normal">Automatic
                        linking</span></font></font></span></font></span></a></span></font></h2>
    <p class="western"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
          color="#000000"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial,
            sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span
                style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                  normal">phenix.refine
                  has an automatic option for generating links&nbsp;</span></span></font></font></font></span><em><span
          style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
              face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
                style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span
                  style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
                    normal">within
                    the same chain</span></span></font></font></font></span></em><span
        style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><font
            face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
              style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:
                normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">.
                  It will look for carbohydrate links, both within the
                  sugar polymer
                  and linking to the protein. Covalent bonded ligands
                  can also be
                  linked with this option.</span></span></font></font></font></span></p>
    <p class="western" style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;
      font-weight: normal">
      <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
          style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">automatic_linking.link_all
          = True</font></font></p>
    <p class="western" style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;
      font-weight: normal">
      <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
          style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">There
          are a number of parameters that allow the tailoring of the
          various
          bond class cutoffs.</font></font></p>
    <pre class="western" style="font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal">automatic_linking {
  <span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">metal_coordination_cutoff = 3.5</span></span>
  <span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">amino_acid_bond_cutoff = 1.9</span></span>
  <span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">rna_dna_bond_cutoff = 3.5</span></span>
  <span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">inter_residue_bond_cutoff = 2.5</span></span>
  <span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">carbohydrate_bond_cutoff = 1.99</span></span>
}</pre>
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      font-weight: normal">
      <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
          style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">There
          are also options within the automatic_linking scope for
          various bond
          length cutoffs.</font></font></p>
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