Hi Sacha,
Yes, that would help.  

In parallel, to get a little more data on the practical aspects of all this, I think I will do a test to see how much difference taking out a super-test-set of reflections completely makes in overall structure determination from start to finish using fully automated structure determination with phenix.autosol and phenix.autobuild.

All the best,
Tom T

On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV wrote:

Hi, Tom, Pavel and Joe,

> I'm glad you put that option in, Pavel.  However for model-
> building it is not so straightforward. Normally we are building into density-modified
> maps. Density modification works poorly when a significant set of
> reflections is excluded, so this becomes impractical.

As I remember it was a paper (by Blanc, ..., Bricogne ? am I wrong? Ifailed to find it right now) where they faced exactly this problem.Again, as I remember they suggested to exclude the test-set reflectionsfrom the map calculation but , to minimize the map deformation, insteadof them include average Fobs for the corresponding resolution shell.

Is it a way to answer the original question / problem ?

As I understand, a similar technique Pavel already uses to calculate the maps with Fobs missed.

Best regards,

Sacha


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