User talk:Morten Grøftehauge

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Welcome to Proteopedia! We hope you will contribute much and well. You will probably want to read the help pages. Again, welcome and have fun! Eran Hodis 13:02, 1 June 2008 (IDT)

Dear Morten: regarding your wishlist item on MSE, what is it exactly that you don't like now? I like the fact that MSE is treated as "ligand", hence listed under LIgands, and its full name displayed along with 3D locations when clicked. According to the PDB format, MSE must be HETATM, hence "ligand" in the PDB sense. I don't see any need to change this. Sincerely, -Eric Martz, PLEASE REPLY TO emartz@microbio.umass.edu -- please give me your email address (maybe put it in not plain text on your use page?) so I can copy in the rest of the Proteopedia team more easily on this discussion.

I can see why modified residues such as a thioester or the chromatophore of GFP should be displayed as ligands even though they are a part of the polypeptide but I feel that seleno-methionine doesn't have a functional difference from methionine and displaying them in space fill implies that there is a functionality. Proteopedia should in my opinion by accessible even to people who don't know the role of seleno-methionine in crystallography and the defaults settings confuse more than they help.