[phenixbb] Group ADP refinement restraints
Pavel Afonine
pafonine at lbl.gov
Tue Nov 26 11:44:26 PST 2019
Hi Taylor,
you are correct, in group B factor refinement overall B factors of
adjacent residues are restrained to be similar (or not too different). I
will fix the documentation, thanks for pointing this out.
There isn't much validation done to B factors, so dropping restraints
can indeed lower R-factors but it isn't necessarily clear whether
refined B factors are going to be meaningful. I guess you can try both
and see what produces more meaningful B factors.
Pavel
On 11/25/19 16:34, Taylor Stevens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently refining a low-ish resolution structure (through the
> phenix.refine GUI) with phenix version 1.14 and had some questions
> about the use of restraints in group ADP refinement. In the
> phenix.refine documentation
> (https://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/refinement.html#refinement-of-atomic-displacement-parameters-adp-or-b-factors)
> it is stated that “Group isotropic ADP or TLS refinement do not use
> any restraints”, however, this does not seem to be the case. If I look
> in the log file I can see the following lines of text which I believe
> indicate that the restraints are being applied:
>
> |-group b-factor refinement (macro cycle = 0; iterations = 0)————————|
> | r_work = 0.3331 r_free = 0.3717 target = 5.823062 restraints weight
> = None |
> |——————————————————————————————————————|
> |-group b-factor refinement (macro cycle = 1; iterations = 22)————————|
> | r_work = 0.3331 r_free = 0.3717 target = 5.823062 restraints weight
> = 821.871|
> |——————————————————————————————————————|
> |-group b-factor refinement (macro cycle = 2; iterations = 22)————————|
> | r_work = 0.3331 r_free = 0.3717 target = 5.823062 restraints weight
> = 821.871|
> |——————————————————————————————————————|
> |-group b-factor refinement (macro cycle = 3; iterations = 22)————————|
> | r_work = 0.3331 r_free = 0.3717 target = 5.823062 restraints weight
> = 821.871|
> |——————————————————————————————————————|
>
> If I manually set the wu parameter to 0 under “Refinement target
> weights" nothing changes, however, if I navigate to "All parameters >
> ADP settings > Group B-Factors" in the GUI there is a “Use restraints”
> box that is checked by default. If I uncheck this box, there are no
> longer any restraints being applied according to the log file, and in
> the case of the structure I am refining, there is a substantial drop
> in the rfree/rwork. Is this an issue with the program or
> documentation? Or am I misunderstanding how the program is supposed to
> work? Is it generally a good idea to use group ADP refinement without
> restraints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Taylor
>
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