[phenixbb] Anisotropic B-factors with Trucated Data
Pavel Afonine
pafonine at lbl.gov
Sat Aug 1 09:23:19 PDT 2015
Dear John,
> 1.7 Angstrom resolution seems to me awfully low for thinking about anisotropic protein model refinement! Ie in terms of number of diffraction data to model parameters.
in refinement we use restraints that contribution is added with variable
weights:
Ttotal = Tdata + w * Trestraints .
One can think of Trestraints being "observations" added to the actual
data in different amounts depending on choice of the weight w.
This is exactly why we can still refine individual coordinates or
isotropic B-factors at "macromolecular" resolutions like 2-6A or so. If
we think of this in terms of data/parameters ratio counted as
Nreflections vs Natoms*(4xyz+1B) (that is without restraints) that would
be impossible but restraints do the trick.
Likewise, we can still refine anisotropic B-factors at resolutions
beyond 1-1.2A. I agree 1.7A is a bit low(ish) but in favorable cases
(data is very good and comes from a crystal that can diffract to a
higher resolution) might be worth a try.
All the best,
Pavel
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