[phenixbb] picking Rfree set

Peter Zwart PHZwart at lbl.gov
Tue Jan 22 09:31:42 PST 2008


btw3: the lattice symmetry is taken into account when choosing an free
set in phenix.refine (unless specified otherwise). If all NCS
rotational operators are approximately parallel to twin laws, you
should be fine.

P





2008/1/22, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rwgk at cci.lbl.gov>:
> > Does phenix.refine take NCS into account when picking the Rfree set?
> > Thin shells, or other strategy...
>
> The short answer is no.
> We had long internal discussions about this without reaching a final
> conclusion. In the long run we may integrate alternative R-free set
> distributions in phenix.refine; in the meantime you have to use
> an external program (e.g. dataman or sftools).
> BTW 1: just to prove that we have thought about this subject, we have a
> simple tool for "visualizing" distributions of R-free flags:
>   iotbx.r_free_flags_accumulation your.mtz
> It writes a file with x,y pairs which you can plot with e.g. Excel
> or any other 2D plotting program.
> BTW 2: The free reflections aren't as free as one may think. When
> using a maximum likelihood target (any program), the free reflections
> are used in the estimatation of the error model. This estimation
> becomes more tricky if the reflections are distributed in thin
> shells. I.e. if you go to thin shells you may in fact account to some
> degree for the NCS, but at the same time you compromise the error
> model estimation.
> Ralf
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