> Why does RasMol show the residues as being
> connected if there are two missing between the atom set
> of data?
If I understand you correctly, this might depend on the way that
the display program decides whether two atoms are covalently bonded or
not. IMO, programs should do this by "calculating" covalent bonds
from the relative positions of atoms (it's not a difficult computation).
However, some programs assume the connectivities from the order in
which atoms occur in the PDB file. In these cases, you can get
incorrect covalent bonds drawn both between residues, and also within
the residue itself.
-- Simon
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