[phenixbb] Refining with NCS
Pavel Afonine
PAfonine at lbl.gov
Mon Aug 25 11:57:47 PDT 2008
Hi Kate,
one can endlessly talk about this matter and there is a number of good
papers out there.
At some point I spent significant amount of time trying to address the
questions you mention below. I selected all structures from PDB for
which NCS is available and re-refined them with and without NCS. My goal
was to answer this question: given a model and data, can I tell for sure
if I need to use NCS or it's better to refine without using NCS. In the
end I couldn't derive any reliable formula to be able to decide if I
need to use NCS or not. All I re-discovered was the old and well known
fact: if have have NCS, then lower the resolution, more likely you want
to use NCS -:) Obviously, at ~1.5A resolution the use of NCS was only
damaging. And ~2.0A is kind of "gray area".
So this is why I wrote in my previous email that it is much easier,
quicker and reliable to just try both ways and see which one works
better, rather than waste time on speculating -:)
Cheers,
Pavel.
On 8/25/2008 11:33 AM, Kate Kavanagh wrote:
> I was wondering if there a consensus of when it is mandatory to use ncs
> in refinement. Is is dependent on:
>
> 1. resolution?
> 2. data-to-parameter ratio?
> 3. difference between Rcryst & Rfree?
> 4. something else...
>
> Or does one just do as Pavel states and try both ways ?
>
> Regards,
> Kate
>
>
>
> Pavel Afonine wrote:
>
>> Hi Francis,
>>
>>
>>
>>> Also if anyone has a paper/protocol for NCS refinement, I'd love to
>>> check it out (to figure out which map to fit to).
>>>
>>>
>> Just something to keep in mind... I always prefer to run two refinements
>> in parallel with and without using NCS. It's resolution (and
>> data-to-parameters ratio) dependent. I've seen a number of cases where
>> using the NCS is very beneficial and similar number of cases where it's
>> better to not use NCS (mostly at resolutions ~2-2.5A).
>>
>> I would also check manually the NCS groups that are found by
>> phenix.refine automatically. I have some cases where automatic detection
>> did not yield a good selection.
>>
>> Pavel.
>>
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