I do have a data is at very low resolution, so only possible to
do rigid body refinement.
it depends what you call "low resolution". In small molecule
crystallography ~1A resolution is "low resolution" (Acta Cryst. (2007).
D63, 160-170). So, without knowing what the resolution of your data is
I can't really tell whether you need to refine individual anisotropic
B-factors or the whole model as just one TLS group.
Anyway, if by "low resolution" you mean what comes to my mind this very
minute, you can still try:
Coordinates:
- Simulated Annealing refinement in torsion angle space;
- Highly restrained refinement of individual coordinates;
- Optimize weights against Rfree.
- You may need to use secondary-structure restrains (available in
recent PHENIX versions).
ADP:
- combined refinement of TLS+individual or group B-factors;
- Highly restrained individual ADP refinement;
- Simple group ADP refinement (where the size of groups depends on
resolution or/and data-to-parameters ratio)
- Optimize target weights.
NCS:
- use if available.
Bulk-solvent:
- optimize mask parameters (r_solvent and r_shrink) using
optimize_mask=true (this is will done automatically in future versions
of phenix.refine).
Multi-Start SA:
- people find it useful (Andrei Korostelev, Martin Laurberg, and Harry
F. Noller "Multistart simulated annealing refinement of the crystal
structure of the 70S ribosome". PNAS 2009 106:18195-18200).