On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:10 PM, "Pavel Afonine" <
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> Hi Jeff,
>
>> This is a great point. There should probably be NCS output in the PDB header.
>>
>
> yes, it's definitely good to have, but can we really say more than something like:
>
> REMARK 3 NCS RESTRAINTS: TYPE TORSION
>
> ?
>
>> > 2. What is difference between NCS type, global and torsion angle, and when they are preferred over the other?
>>
>> Global NCS uses Cartesian-based restraints, which force the matching chains to be identical.
>>
>
> Just a minor correction: what you described are NCS *constraints*, and we don't have them in phenix.refine yet. NCS restraints force the coordinates and B-factors (residual B-factors if TLS is used) of NCS related copies to be *similar* (but not necessarily identical). The degree of similarity is determined by a parameter, and this parameter cannot be set such that NCS restraints become NCS constraints.
>
> All the best,
> Pavel
>
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