PLATON Manual
The Treatment of Disorder
The program attempts to manage the problems that are encountered with several types of disorder. Only two-fold
disorder is allowed. Populations higher than 0.5 are understood as major disorder components and those less than 0.5 as minor
disorder components. The usual transformations on input coordinates are restricted. In general it will be necessary to
supply disordered molecules as connected sets. The calculation of distances and angles etc. will extend only to entities involving
the major disorder component or the minor disorder component but not both.