But at higher resolution you would like to release the restraints and introduce 
more parameters in refinement, such as anisotropic Bs - ideally keeping the 
observation/parameter ration more or less constant...

On 3 Nov 2013, at 12:50, Edward Berry wrote:

> Looking at it from the other side- suppose we say for a robust refinement we 
> need a certain number of reflections- say 4 times the number of atoms, maybe 
> less, I don't know. Any more than that is not really going to affect the 
> structure, So if you have high resolution you can afford to use a large 
> percentage of free reflections, and the cross-validation and maximum 
> liklihood will go really well, even with thin shells. On the other hand at 
> low resolution, well, sorry, you really can't spare any reflections for 
> cross-validation. (I have no idea whether this makes sense or not, but it 
> would be another way of looking at it).
> 
> >>> Mark van Raaij <mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es> 11/01/13 7:39 PM >>>
> the limit of 2000 reflections I guess is just because it would be a waste to 
> "throw away" more reflections for refinement, once the statistical minima for 
> calculating a reliable Rfree have been met. I.e. if you have 100.000 
> reflections, it would be a waste to use 5 or 10% of the reflections instead 
> of just 2%. I'd rather use as many as possible reflections for refinement.
> 
> On 31 Oct 2013, at 20:21, Pavel Afonine wrote:
> 
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > flags should be selected such that there is enough of them in each 
> > relatively thin resolution shell (thin enough so ML target parameters can 
> > be considered constant in each such shell). Lower end is about 50 
> > reflections per shell. All in all this usually translates into about 10% 
> > overall.
> >
> > Yes, there is a limit parameter set to 2000 by default. I don't know what's 
> > the rationale for having it, may be someone can explain.
> >
> > Pavel
> >
> > On 10/31/13 12:10 PM, Joseph Noel wrote:
> >> Hi All. I think I have asked this before but forgot. Old age. What is
> >> the appropriate number / percentage of reflections to flag for a
> >> statistically appropriate Free-R calculation? If I am correct, the
> >> reflection file editor in Phenix chooses by default either 10% of the
> >> measured reflections or 2000 whichever comes first.
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