You cant exclude one resolution ring in REFMAC - there would be ways to
fudge the exclusion from your current file, but much safer to use a data
integration tool

On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 10:27, <herman.schreu...@sanofi.com> wrote:

> Dear Sam,
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> I would remove the ice ring and reprocess the data. Ice rings may wreak
> havoc with scaling so at minimum you have to redo the scaling.
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> Best,
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> Herman
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> *Von:* CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] *Im Auftrag von
> *Sam Tang
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 4. April 2019 11:01
> *An:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> *Betreff:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] High Rfree - ice ring
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> Dear Eleanor and Eric
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> Thanks for your replies.
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> Yes indeed when we looked at the plots e.g. R factor vs resln there was a
> sharp peak near 3.6 - 3.8 A which is where we visibly saw an ice ring on
> the image. Thus our first thought was to remove the ic ring. (either
> reprocess or can we bypass this resolution range during refinement?)
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> The protein is 50 kDa, two molecule in the ASU, seemingly no obvious
> density was unassigned. We got ~30000 total observations, ~15000 unique
> observations. NCS restraints was applied.
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> Best regards
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> Sam
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> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 08:57, Eric Montemayor <montemayor.e...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> That’s a rather large gap between Rwork and Rfree.  I suspect you have
> mis-assigned your space group and as a result have a large number of copies
> in your asymmetric unit.  Any structure can be solved in P1, but that does
> not mean the true space group is indeed P1. If you use P1 when it’s not
> actually P1, you will have an unnecessarily overparamerized model, hence
> the large gap between Rwork and Rfree.
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> Questions:
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> 1- how many copies in your asymmetric unit in P1?
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> 2- how many atoms in your model vs number of unique reflections?
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> 3- if more than one copy per asymmetric unit, are you imposing NCS
> restraints during refinement?
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> -Eric
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:41 PM Sam Tang <samtys0...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone again
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> Hmmm I think we have solved a structure in P1 space, to 2.5 A. However
> after refinement the Rfree stuck at 33%-35% with Rwork around 26%. The
> structure was solved by MR and current model seems to fit density well. In
> Refmac log I found that at the resolution corresponding to high R there may
> be a solvent/ice ring. Since imosflm should be able to exclude ice rings, I
> am not 100% sure whether it's the cause to high R. But if this is actually
> the case, is there a way I can exclude certain resolution bins during
> Refmac (and is it an appropriate way to do so?)
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> PS - the data is not affected by twining or pseudosymmetry as checked by
> Xtriage.
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> Many thanks!
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> Sam
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