The PDB provides structure factors as .sf.cif files, whilst autoBUSTER requires .mtz files.

The script collect.pl will (assuming that you have the CCP4 tools on your path - it needs cif2mtz, truncate and scala to be able to produce MTZ files which autoBUSTER can use when the sf.cif files contain Friedel pairs) collect a PDB file from the www.rcsb.org server with a simple

perl collect.pl 3ckm

producing a directory 3ckm containing 3ckm.pdb and 3ckm.mtz. It has been developed over a number of years to cope with some of the many idiosyncrasies in PDB structure factor depositions; if it fails, this will often be because there's something seriously wrong with the deposition.

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