Dear all:

I've collected a data set for my crystal, which is a two-protein complex. However, normal molecular replacement method gives no solution and thus didn't work. Right now I'm struglling with the phenix.mr_rosetta method. However, I've got several problems when reviewing it, and thus looking forward to get some advice here.

1:
There are such words "NOTE 2: If your structure contains more than one chain or requires more than one homology model to represent the structure, then you need to use mr_model_preparation and phenix.automr to place your model. Then you can start phenix.mr_rosetta with already_placed=True"  in phenix documentation page. My understanding for this sentences is: the solution derived from automr is treated as an original searching model for phenix.mr_rosetta, in which case,  we should add the command line "run_prerefine=True \  number_of_prerefine_models=1000". However, what is mr_model_preparation for? And if no solution is given by automr, what should I do? What's more important, why not endow the phenix.mr_rosetta program to be capable of dealing with data set from multi-chain protein complexes? Since I thought the idea of preliminary manipulation by the program automr would decrease the power of phenix.mr_rosetta.

2:
Two .hhr files are produced. But as displayed in the phenix.mr_rosetta documentation page, only one .hhr file like "hhr_files=bfr258e.hhr" are listed in the command line. Why?

Could somebody give me any advice on this, please?

Thank you and best regards
chen


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Cheng Chen, Ph.D. Candidate
Laboratory of Structural Biology
Life Science Building,Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084
China


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