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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear Phenix Guys,
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<div>I have recently been trying my hand at the ensemble refinement option in phenix.refine. I generally observe an increase in rfree after performing the ensemble refinement with a well refined (using anisotropic B) structure, but the r-free increases are
fairly small. For instance, 18.53% to 18.9% (1.8 Angstrom structure) or 20.45% to 21.1% (1.9 A)...I understand what this technically means (the ensemble refined model isn't as good) but given the noise in the calculation due to the limited number of reflections
for the test set (~1000), would someone consider these rfree increases significant? My apologies if this question is a well-answered one...I can't seem to find much discussion about the range of rfrees to be expected or whether a 0.3-0.5% increase is large
enough to toss out the refinement. Normally, I would take the lower rfree but because the ensemble refinement procedure gives potentially much more information, this seemed like a relevant question to ask. </div>
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<div>Thanks so much for your time, </div>
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<div>Arjun Raman</div>
<div>Ranganathan Lab</div>
<div>UT Southwestern</div>
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