[phenixbb] Real Space Refinement with marginal data

Rongjin guanrj at foxmail.com
Wed Apr 14 20:18:38 PDT 2010


Hi Pavel
  
 can you show me how to select some residues that are excluded from refinement?
  
 You suggested this earlier but I did not know how to do it. I looked through the
 manual and I can see how to select a chain, but do not know how to select some residues. 
  
 Thanks
  
 Rongjin 
  

   
  
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  From:  "Pavel Afonine"<PAfonine at lbl.gov>;
 Date:  Thu, Apr 15, 2010 08:08 AM
 To:  "PHENIX user mailing list"<phenixbb at phenix-online.org>; 
 
 Subject:  Re: [phenixbb] Real Space Refinement with marginal data

  
Hi Carsten,

  
I was wondering if anyone had experience/advice for real space refinement with phenix using marginal data to 3A. I just did a run (SA, real-space refinement against diff_map, 2 fold NCS, grouped APD, fix_rotamers enabled) were the resulting structure showed lots of disconnected sidechains and some broken main chains. I am just repeating the run w/o real space refinement, may be the combination of SA and real space refinement was a bit harsh,  but am wondering what kind of parameters make most sense to tweak in order to avoid having the molecules fall apart.

this could be a weight issue (weight between real-space target and restraints). In general I didn't find it too beneficial doing real-space refinement globally, although I've seen cases where it made a good difference (but at higher than 3A resolution). You may try to switch to "simple" target (to make it run much faster) and turn on the weight optimization:

  real_space_refinement {
    mode = *simple diff_map
    target_weights = value *grid_search gradients_ratio
    rmsd_max_bonds = 0.05
    rmsd_max_angles = 5
    grid_search_scales = 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2 2.5 3
  }


"fix_rotamers=true" (local real-space refinement for the residues that really need it, as determined automatically) is much better option. I thoroughly tested it up to 3A resolution and in all test cases it worked just great. Try it and see what happens for your data.

Pavel.
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