Read MTZ files, compute and display real-space density

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From: Airlie McCoy <>
Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] Crystallographic symmetry
Date: September 6, 2016 at 12:41:00 PM PDT
To: Tom Goddard

Dear Tom,

I am glad to see that my email was able to pass the moderators!

Yes, I mean that the cell and symmetry can be read from a pdb file or from an mtz file, and used to generate coordinates/density - and for that matter any other graphical object - anywhere in the visible area. If you are doing this, what library would you use? cctbx? It tends to be rather challenging to patch symmetry into a system once it is built, which is why I ask about the chimeraX plans.

Thank you,

Airlie