On the fate of disordered side chains

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Your model contains a disordered side chain, i.e. there is no density to support a particular conformation of some atoms in the residue. Choose what you believe is the right action. To get more information on what crystallographic community thinks (not like you need more of that if you came here), check this from 2007 at ccp4bb
https://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg29150.html
and, more recently, this on phenixbb
http://phenix-online.org/pipermail/phenixbb/2011-March/005523.html

What should be done to disordered side chains?

Delete the atoms

Set occupancy to zero

Let refinement take care of it by inflating B-factors

Other:

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