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12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
5:04 p.m.
Dear Colleagues, I am refining a 2.15 A structure that was previously refined with refmac by someone else. Without changing anything in the refmac-refined model and using all the default phenix.refine settings, I am getting pretty much the same R and Rfree (from 19.3%/21.7% to 18.9%/21.8%), with an ML estimated error of 0.22 A. In the refmac-refined pdb file, the estimated error is much lower: 0.16 (based on R), 0.144 (based on Rfree), and 0.096 (based on ML). I am using phenix.refine version 1.6_289, but also tried 1.5_2 with the same result. Is there an underlying reason for this difference? Thank you very much for your insightful opinions in advance. Cheers, Ling