[phenixbb] Cross-validation when test set is miniscule

Pavel Afonine pafonine at lbl.gov
Fri Dec 19 08:50:44 PST 2014


One more item I forgot to mention: if necessary you may want to do 
weight optimization.

Pavel

On 12/19/14 8:38 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> choosing 5% for free set is not a dogma. I always use 10% and that's 
> what CNS was doing for years. In your case this will make 200. Not a 
> whole lot but better than 100.
>
> You can generate several (say 10-50) different test sets and 
> independently refine the model against each of them (from the very 
> beginning). Then make a note of differences (in model, R-factors). 
> Those differences will be uncertainties likely due to different test 
> sets used.
>
> I realize it may be tedious to do 10-50 refinements per each model 
> parametrization and refinement strategy that you want to test. In this 
> case I would simply reduce choices down to most reasonable given the 
> resolution and model quality:
>
> - use individual B-factor refinement. With type of restraints we have 
> it is ok to do in most cases. Switch to group B refinement only if you 
> have strong reasons to believe that individual B refinement isn't good 
> for your case.
> - Use torsion NCS;
> - Use Ramachandran plot restraints only to keep (preserve) good 
> conformations during refinement, not to fix bad ones (outliers). That 
> is: in case of outlier, for it manually first then refine with 
> Ramachandran restraints so that it does not become outlier again.
> - If you have a higher resolution good model, you can use it as a 
> reference model, if needed.
>
> In future we will investigate using ideas recently published in Acta D 
> that suggest ways to overcome the problem of too small test sets.
>
> Pavel
>
>
> On 12/19/14 3:18 AM, Derek Logan wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Right now we have one of those very difficult Rfree situations where 
>> it's impossible to generate a single meaningful Rfree set. Since 
>> we're in a bit of a hurry with this structure it would be good if 
>> someone could point me in the right direction. We have crystals with 
>> 1542 non-H atoms in the asymmetric unit that diffract to only 3.6 Å 
>> in P65, which gives us a whopping 2300 reflections in total. 5% of 
>> this is only about 100 reflections. Luckily the protein is only a 
>> single point mutation of a wild type that has been solved to much 
>> better resolution, so we know what it should look like and I simply 
>> want to investigate the effect of different levels of conservatism in 
>> the refinement, e.g. NCS in xyz and B, group B-factors, reference 
>> model, Ramachandran restraints etc. However since the quality 
>> criterion for this is Rfree I'm not able to do this.
>>
>> I believe the correct approach is k-fold statistical 
>> cross-validation, but can someone remind me of the correct way to do 
>> this? I've done a bit of Googling without finding anything very helpful.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Derek
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