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Re: Helix Classification

Dale Tronrud (DALE@osmium.uoregon.edu)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 8:03:31 -0700 (PDT) 

 yaya@aip.org (herbert_bernstein) writes:

>Could the PDB please consider adding the following additional HELIX
>types to the HELIX class field (columns 39-40) of the HELIX record,

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>Suggested additional classifications:
>
>  11.  helix with handedness and type not specified (protein)
>  12.  helix with handedness and type that do not
>       conform to an accepted category (protein)
>  13.  right-handed helix with type not specified (protein)
>  14.  right-handed helix with type that does not
>       conform to an accepted category (protein)

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	   I have just a minor quibble.  Using the term "accepted category"
	implies that the converse is, in some sense, unacceptable.  I
	suggest you use the phrase "established category" instead.

						Dale Tronrud
						dale@uoxray.uoregon.edu
						University of Oregon