Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-05 Thread Eleanor Dodson
No comments on much of your message but I cannot believe you can get better 
results by cutting anisotropic 2.1A data to 3.3A!!


You MUST be throwing away valuable experimental information,, remember 
crystallography is not about getting low R factors but about getting a 
model consistent with your experiment.


eleanor


On Mar 5 2012, Rajesh kumar wrote:



Dear All, Thanks for all the suggestion. Data is anisotropic. Since 
anisotropic correction with the UCLA server didnt give any good 
Molprobity scores and didnt reduce the R/Rfree at 2.1A, I am using ~3.3A 
data for further refinement. Using Tom's suggestion of target restrains 
reduced the gap brtween R/Rfee to with in 5%. I haven't tried Pavel' 
suggestion but when I do I will post the results. I used a 2.3 A MR model 
as target to get R/Rfree 0.2209/0.2597. When I used coot real space 
refine zone to fix few molprobity outliers, most of the favored residues 
become outliers. Almost all residues changed to become outliers. I am 
wondering why all the residues are moving from favored to outlier regions 
after restrained refinement. I thought all the residues would be fixed 
(fit) to the map and wouldn't change during the coot exercise, and this 
is what I see in the 2.3 A target/model structure ( with R/Rfree 
0.1693/0.1961). I don't know if is this common for a low resolution or I 
didn't understand this whole thing of refinement correctly. Thanks for 
all the help, Regards,Raj

Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:02:51 +
From: eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Presumably your data is quite anisotropic, and low resolution, so it is 
quite likely that a TLS model will give much better description of the B 
factors than more classical refinement.


Modelling solvent at that resolotion will be tricky of course.
Elesnor



On Mar 4 2012, Joseph Cockburn wrote:

> Hi Rajesh, If you're seeing a lot of extra density coming up in the 
> map in regions where you previously added waters, is it possible that 
> this extra density corresponds to a part of your protein that you 
> previously thought was disordered and is thus missing from the current 
> model? At this resolution you wouldn't expect to see many waters. 
> Also, to the best of my knowledge, the relative weighting of the X-ray 
> and geometry terms in BUSTER is set by the program so as to produce a 
> rmsd in bond lengths equal to a target value. The default value of 
> this is 0.01 Ang (I think) but you can change this using the -r option 
> on the command line. Using a lower value will reduce the weight on the 
> X-ray term and may lower the R/R-free gap. Best wishes, Joe

>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Dear All, I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model 
>> used was wild type structure of same protein at 2.3 A. After 
>> molecular replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was 
>> 26/32.8, 27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.In the fourth 
>> round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf dropped 
>> to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
>> unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. 
>> Model fits to the map like a low resolution data with most of side 
>> chains don't have best density. I was not expecting such a sudden 
>> drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 7.2%. I am wondering if I am 
>> in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 3.3A data or in 
>> general any data if we consider the difference. I appreciate your 
>> valuable suggestions. ThanksRaj

>>
>>
>

--
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YSNL, Dept of Chemistry
University of York
Heslington YO10 5YW
tel: 00 44 1904 328259
Fax: 00 44 1904 328266
		 	   		  


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Professor Eleanor Dodson
YSNL, Dept of Chemistry
University of York
Heslington YO10 5YW
tel: 00 44 1904 328259
Fax: 00 44 1904 328266


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-05 Thread Rajesh kumar

Dear All,
Thanks for all the suggestion. Data is anisotropic. Since anisotropic 
correction with the UCLA server didnt give any good  Molprobity scores and 
didnt reduce the R/Rfree at 2.1A, I am using ~3.3A data for further refinement. 
Using Tom's suggestion of target restrains reduced the gap brtween R/Rfee to 
with in 5%.  I haven't tried Pavel' suggestion but when I do I will post the 
results.
I used a 2.3 A MR model as target to get R/Rfree 0.2209/0.2597. When I used 
coot real space refine zone to fix few molprobity outliers, most of the favored 
residues become outliers. Almost all residues changed to become outliers. I am 
wondering why all the residues are moving from favored to outlier regions after 
restrained refinement. I thought all the residues would be fixed (fit) to the 
map and  wouldn't change during the coot exercise, and this is what I see in 
the 2.3 A target/model structure ( with R/Rfree 0.1693/0.1961). 
 I don't know if is this common  for a low resolution or I didn't understand 
this whole thing of refinement correctly.
Thanks for all the help,
Regards,Raj
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:02:51 +
> From: eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 
> Presumably your data is quite anisotropic, and low resolution, so it is 
> quite likely that a TLS model will give much better description of the B 
> factors than more classical refinement.
> 
> Modelling solvent at that resolotion will be tricky of course.
> Elesnor
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 4 2012, Joseph Cockburn wrote:
> 
> >Hi Rajesh,
> >If you're seeing a lot of extra density coming up in the map in regions
> >where you previously added waters, is it possible that this extra density
> >corresponds to a part of your protein that you previously thought was
> >disordered and is thus missing from the current model? At this resolution
> >you wouldn't expect to see many waters.
> >Also, to the best of my knowledge, the relative weighting of the X-ray and
> >geometry terms in BUSTER is set by the program so as to produce a rmsd in
> >bond lengths equal to a target value. The default value of this is 0.01
> >Ang (I think) but you can change this using the -r option on the command
> >line. Using a lower value will reduce the weight on the X-ray term and may
> >lower the R/R-free gap.
> >Best wishes,
> >Joe
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear All, I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model 
> >> used was wild type structure of same protein at 2.3 A. After molecular 
> >> replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was 26/32.8, 
> >> 27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.In the fourth round I refined 
> >> with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf dropped to 19.34/26.46. It 
> >> has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of unanswerable density in the 
> >> map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits to the map like a low 
> >> resolution data with most of side chains don't have best density. I was 
> >> not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 
> >> 7.2%. I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this 
> >> usual for 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the 
> >> difference. I appreciate your valuable suggestions. ThanksRaj
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> -- 
> Professor Eleanor Dodson
> YSNL, Dept of Chemistry
> University of York
> Heslington YO10 5YW
> tel: 00 44 1904 328259
> Fax: 00 44 1904 328266
  

Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-04 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Presumably your data is quite anisotropic, and low resolution, so it is 
quite likely that a TLS model will give much better description of the B 
factors than more classical refinement.


Modelling solvent at that resolotion will be tricky of course.
Elesnor



On Mar 4 2012, Joseph Cockburn wrote:


Hi Rajesh,
If you're seeing a lot of extra density coming up in the map in regions
where you previously added waters, is it possible that this extra density
corresponds to a part of your protein that you previously thought was
disordered and is thus missing from the current model? At this resolution
you wouldn't expect to see many waters.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, the relative weighting of the X-ray and
geometry terms in BUSTER is set by the program so as to produce a rmsd in
bond lengths equal to a target value. The default value of this is 0.01
Ang (I think) but you can change this using the -r option on the command
line. Using a lower value will reduce the weight on the X-ray term and may
lower the R/R-free gap.
Best wishes,
Joe






Dear All, I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model 
used was wild type structure of same protein at 2.3 A. After molecular 
replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was 26/32.8, 
27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.In the fourth round I refined 
with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf dropped to 19.34/26.46. It 
has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of unanswerable density in the 
map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits to the map like a low 
resolution data with most of side chains don't have best density. I was 
not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 
7.2%. I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this 
usual for 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the 
difference. I appreciate your valuable suggestions. ThanksRaj







--
Professor Eleanor Dodson
YSNL, Dept of Chemistry
University of York
Heslington YO10 5YW
tel: 00 44 1904 328259
Fax: 00 44 1904 328266


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-04 Thread Joseph Cockburn
Hi Rajesh,
If you're seeing a lot of extra density coming up in the map in regions
where you previously added waters, is it possible that this extra density
corresponds to a part of your protein that you previously thought was
disordered and is thus missing from the current model? At this resolution
you wouldn't expect to see many waters.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, the relative weighting of the X-ray and
geometry terms in BUSTER is set by the program so as to produce a rmsd in
bond lengths equal to a target value. The default value of this is 0.01
Ang (I think) but you can change this using the -r option on the command
line. Using a lower value will reduce the weight on the X-ray term and may
lower the R/R-free gap.
Best wishes,
Joe



>
>
> Dear All,
> I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild
> type structure of same protein at 2.3 A. After molecular replacement,
> first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and
> 7.35/30.88 % respectively.In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS
> abd added water and the R/Rf dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7%
> difference. I also see lot of unanswerable density in the map where lot of
> waters were placed. Model fits to the map like a low resolution data with
> most of side chains don't have best density.
> I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is
> 7.2%. I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this
> usual for 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the difference.
> I appreciate your valuable  suggestions.
> ThanksRaj
>
>


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Ian Tickle
On 2 March 2012 18:01, Jacob Keller  wrote:
> Can't there be a "group of atoms?"

For sure, but doesn't a given parameter either apply to a single atom
or to a group of atoms?

Cheers

-- Ian


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Jacob Keller
Can't there be a "group of atoms?"

JPK

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Ian Tickle  wrote:

> > I'm aware of this document. Personally I prefer "ADP = Atomic
> Displacement
> > Parameters" over anything ele, because, given that Atomic Displacement
> > Parameters can be parameterized in many different ways, it makes it
> easier
> > to operate with such terms like:
> >
> > - isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (isotropic ADP);
> > - anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (anisotropic ADP);
> > - group Atomic Displacement Parameters (group ADP);
> > - group isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group isotropic ADP;
> > example: when refining one isotropic ADP per set of selected atoms);
> > - group anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group anisotropic
> ADP;
> > example TLS);
> > - ... etc, etc...
> >
> > (no intention to open another "can of worms" ! -:) )
>
> Hi Pavel, but couldn't you simplify it further by omitting the word
> "atomic" throughout?  In fact isn't "group (an)isotropic Atomic
> Displacement Parameter" a contradiction in terms?  Surely it can be
> either a group parameter or an atomic parameter but not both at the
> same time?
>
> I think the worms are already out and making good their escape :).
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>



-- 
***
Jacob Pearson Keller
Northwestern University
Medical Scientist Training Program
email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu
***


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Ian Tickle
> I'm aware of this document. Personally I prefer "ADP = Atomic Displacement
> Parameters" over anything ele, because, given that Atomic Displacement
> Parameters can be parameterized in many different ways, it makes it easier
> to operate with such terms like:
>
> - isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (isotropic ADP);
> - anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (anisotropic ADP);
> - group Atomic Displacement Parameters (group ADP);
> - group isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group isotropic ADP;
> example: when refining one isotropic ADP per set of selected atoms);
> - group anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group anisotropic ADP;
> example TLS);
> - ... etc, etc...
>
> (no intention to open another "can of worms" ! -:) )

Hi Pavel, but couldn't you simplify it further by omitting the word
"atomic" throughout?  In fact isn't "group (an)isotropic Atomic
Displacement Parameter" a contradiction in terms?  Surely it can be
either a group parameter or an atomic parameter but not both at the
same time?

I think the worms are already out and making good their escape :).

Cheers

-- Ian


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Pavel Afonine
Thanks Ian,

I'm aware of this document. Personally I prefer "ADP = Atomic Displacement
Parameters" over anything ele, because, given that Atomic Displacement
Parameters can be parameterized in many different ways, it makes it easier
to operate with such terms like:

- isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (isotropic ADP);
- anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (anisotropic ADP);
- group Atomic Displacement Parameters (group ADP);
- group isotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group isotropic ADP;
example: when refining one isotropic ADP per set of selected atoms);
- group anisotropic Atomic Displacement Parameters (group anisotropic ADP;
example TLS);
- ... etc, etc...

(no intention to open another "can of worms" ! -:) )

All the best,
Pavel

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Tickle  wrote:

> > (*) ADP = Atomic Displacement Parameters
>
> or "anisotropic displacement parameters"?
>
> See http://ww1.iucr.org/comm/cnom/adp/finrepone/finrepone.html
>
> Section 1.5 Comments about terminology
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Jacob Keller
> (*) ADP = Atomic Displacement Parameters

But aren't *isotropic* b-factors subsumed under this TLA (three-letter
acronym?)

JPK




On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Ian Tickle  wrote:

> > (*) ADP = Atomic Displacement Parameters
>
> or "anisotropic displacement parameters"?
>
> See http://ww1.iucr.org/comm/cnom/adp/finrepone/finrepone.html
>
> Section 1.5 Comments about terminology
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>



-- 
***
Jacob Pearson Keller
Northwestern University
Medical Scientist Training Program
email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu
***


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Ian Tickle
> (*) ADP = Atomic Displacement Parameters

or "anisotropic displacement parameters"?

See http://ww1.iucr.org/comm/cnom/adp/finrepone/finrepone.html

Section 1.5 Comments about terminology

Cheers

-- Ian


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi,

At 3.3A I would recommend trying a TLS model _instead_ of refining
> individual B factors.



may be it is implementation/software/mindset dependent, but in
phenix.refine refining TLS+individual ADP or simply individual ADP(*) is a
better option most of the time at low resolution.
For details see pages 30 and 31 here:
http://phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2010_07.pdf

Pavel

(*) ADP = Atomic Displacement Parameters


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Rajesh kumar

Dear All,
Thanks for all the suggestions. Lot to learn when its low resolution.
I have few more details5th round of refinement gave R/Rfree 0.2016/0.2767 
after reducing waters and fixing some outliers and difference has gone up to 
7.5%
I have used  Buster 2.10.0 for refinement. First round after molecular 
replacement I used Refmac for refinement. There after I used Buster with 
autoncs_noprune and sim_swap_equiv_plus as it was low resolution in 2nd and 3rd 
round. Fourth round I used -autoncs and -TLS options. Here are the details of 
NCS and  TLS paprameters.
REMARK   3   SIMILARITY.
REMARK   3NCS.  
REMARK   3 NCS REPRESENTATION : RESTRAINT LSSR (-AUTONCS)   
REMARK   3TARGET RESTRAINTS.
REMARK   3 TARGET REPRESENTATION : NONE 
REMARK   3 TARGET STRUCTURE : NULL  
REMARK   3  
REMARK   3  TLS DETAILS.
REMARK   3   NUMBER OF TLS GROUPS  :2   
REMARK   3  
REMARK   3   TLS GROUP :1   
REMARK   3SET : { A|* } 
REMARK   3ORIGIN FOR THE GROUP (A):  -40.7570   45.89640.0654   
REMARK   3T TENSOR  
REMARK   3 T11:0.6834 T22:0.5325
REMARK   3 T33:   -0.6079 T12:   -0.0436
REMARK   3 T13:   -0.1033 T23:0.0313
REMARK   3L TENSOR  
REMARK   3 L11:1.6212 L22:0.8001
REMARK   3 L33:6.4728 L12:0.0460
REMARK   3 L13:0.0051 L23:0.7670
REMARK   3S TENSOR  
REMARK   3 S11:   -0.2854 S12:0.5434 S13:0.0788 
REMARK   3 S21:   -0.5270 S22:0.3608 S23:0.0731 
REMARK   3 S31:   -0.7141 S32:0.2459 S33:   -0.0754 
REMARK   3  
REMARK   3   TLS GROUP :2   
REMARK   3SET : { B|* } 
REMARK   3ORIGIN FOR THE GROUP (A):  -29.9645   52.6711   27.6973   
REMARK   3T TENSOR  
REMARK   3 T11:0.5441 T22:0.5948
REMARK   3 T33:   -0.6079 T12:   -0.0298
REMARK   3 T13:   -0.0992 T23:   -0.0084
REMARK   3L TENSOR  
REMARK   3 L11:1.7807 L22:1.1381
REMARK   3 L33:4.5990 L12:0.7938
REMARK   3 L13:0.4959 L23:1.3513
REMARK   3S TENSOR  
REMARK   3 S11:   -0.2911 S12:   -0.0941 S13:0.1302 
REMARK   3 S21:   -0.3180 S22:0.1719 S23:   -0.0989 
REMARK   3 S31:   -1.2554 S32:0.5321 S33:0.1192
I deleted Lot of waters on Ethan's suggestion and now have only 12 of them. I 
am refining now and it takes a while for a buster run in our computer and I 
will let you know the results.
So, I would appreciate if you could suggest what NCS restrains are needed and 
where they were needed and why,  if the above method is not a systematic 
approach use NCS after obtaining a solution. And I have same question for the 
TLS. I guess this would benefit many people like me who are dealing with their 
first low resolution data.
Many thanks to Francis for pointing good reference.Let me know if I need to 
give more information.I appreciate all the suggestions and your valuable time.
Thanks,RajDate: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:45:04 +
From: twom...@globalphasing.com
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK




On 2 Mar 2012, at 16:02, Regina Kettering wrote:Rajesh;
I am not sure that you have a high enough data:refinement parameters ratio to 
refine TLS.  It just adds more parameters to refine that can lead to 
over-refinement of your model, especially at the 3.3 A.

Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Francis E Reyes
I've found the following article  to be useful in defining suitable refinement 
strategies at a particular resolution. 

1.  Mueller, M., Jenni, S. & Ban, N. Strategies for crystallization and 
structure determination of very large macromolecular assemblies. Curr Opin 
Struct Biol 17, 572–579 (2007).

It can  be used as a rough guide line at the start of your refinement 
(incomplete model, fresh off of molecular replacement) with slow increase of 
refinement parameters the better your model becomes (and as Rfree permits). 


F
 





On Mar 2, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Friday, 02 March 2012, Regina Kettering wrote:
>> Rajesh;
>> 
>> I am not sure that you have a high enough data:refinement parameters ratio 
>> to refine TLS. 
>> It just adds more parameters to refine that can lead to over-refinement of 
>> your model, 
>> especially at the 3.3 A. 
> 
> I'm afraid you've got this completely backwards.
> TLS uses very few parameters, and is especially useful at low resolution.
> At 3.3A I would recommend trying a TLS model _instead_ of refining
> individual B factors.
> 
> NCS restraints also help a lot at low resolution.
> 
> So the drop is believable, but...
> 
> You should first worry about "lots of waters were placed".
> It's there that many extra parameters have been added, perhaps leading
> to over-fitting.  I would not expect 3.3A data to justify placement of
> more than a handful of waters at most.
> 
> If you're parameter counting, you might note that 5 water molecules add 
> more parameters than 1 TLS model.  But the TLS model may improve the model
> everywhere, whereas the waters will only suppress a few local difference
> density peaks.
> 
>   cheers,
> 
>   Ethan
> 
> 
>> 
>> HTH,
>> 
>> Regina
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: Rajesh kumar 
>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
>> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:54 AM
>> Subject: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear All, 
>> 
>> I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild 
>> type structure of same protein at 2.3 A.
>> 
>> After molecular replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  
>> 26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.
>> In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf 
>> dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
>> unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits 
>> to the map like a low resolution data with most of side chains don't have 
>> best density.
>> 
>> I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 
>> 7.2%. 
>> I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 
>> 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the difference.
>> I appreciate your valuable  suggestions.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Raj



-
Francis E. Reyes M.Sc.
215 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Womack

On 2 Mar 2012, at 16:02, Regina Kettering wrote:

> Rajesh;
> 
> I am not sure that you have a high enough data:refinement parameters ratio to 
> refine TLS.  It just adds more parameters to refine that can lead to 
> over-refinement of your model, especially at the 3.3 A. 

TLS only adds twenty parameters per chain; so it's a really parsimonious thing 
to do at low resolution.

I'd say that adding lots of waters at 3.3A (at four parameters per added water) 
was much more likely to be the cause of a very wide R/Rfree gap.

I'm a bit worried that a user working at low resolution on a protein with more 
than one chain per ASU is not using NCS from the very beginning; that's another 
good way of adding more restraints and effectively getting the 
parametersto-data ratio down (because the 'parameters' in that ratio is really 
'parameters minus K * number of restraints'; there is scope for a lot of debate 
as to the right value of K, it clearly depends on the strength of the 
restraints)

If he's using the Global Phasing refinement software, I would strongly suggest 
that Rajesh use targetting to the initial molecular replacement result 
throughout the refinement, as yet a third way of adding more restraints.

Tom Womack (Global Phasing)

> 
> HTH,
> Regina
> 
> From: Rajesh kumar 
> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:54 AM
> Subject: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
> 
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild type 
> structure of same protein at 2.3 A.
>  
> After molecular replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  
> 26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.
> In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf 
> dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
> unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits 
> to the map like a low resolution data with most of side chains don't have 
> best density.
> 
> I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 
> 7.2%. 
> I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 
> 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the difference.
>  I appreciate your valuable  suggestions.
> 
> Thanks
> Raj
> 
> 
> 
> 



Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, 02 March 2012, Regina Kettering wrote:
> Rajesh;
> 
> I am not sure that you have a high enough data:refinement parameters ratio to 
> refine TLS. 
> It just adds more parameters to refine that can lead to over-refinement of 
> your model, 
> especially at the 3.3 A. 

I'm afraid you've got this completely backwards.
TLS uses very few parameters, and is especially useful at low resolution.
At 3.3A I would recommend trying a TLS model _instead_ of refining
individual B factors.

NCS restraints also help a lot at low resolution.

So the drop is believable, but...

You should first worry about "lots of waters were placed".
It's there that many extra parameters have been added, perhaps leading
to over-fitting.  I would not expect 3.3A data to justify placement of
more than a handful of waters at most.

If you're parameter counting, you might note that 5 water molecules add 
more parameters than 1 TLS model.  But the TLS model may improve the model
everywhere, whereas the waters will only suppress a few local difference
density peaks.

cheers,

Ethan


> 
> HTH,
> 
> Regina
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: Rajesh kumar 
> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:54 AM
> Subject: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild type 
> structure of same protein at 2.3 A.
>  
> After molecular replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  
> 26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.
> In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf 
> dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
> unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits 
> to the map like a low resolution data with most of side chains don't have 
> best density.
> 
> I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 
> 7.2%. 
> I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 
> 3.3A data or in general any data if we consider the difference.
>  I appreciate your valuable  suggestions.
> 
> Thanks
> Raj


Re: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Regina Kettering
Rajesh;

I am not sure that you have a high enough data:refinement parameters ratio to 
refine TLS.  It just adds more parameters to refine that can lead to 
over-refinement of your model, especially at the 3.3 A. 

HTH,

Regina




 From: Rajesh kumar 
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:54 AM
Subject: [ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree
 

 

Dear All, 

I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild type 
structure of same protein at 2.3 A.
 
After molecular replacement, first three rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  
26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % respectively.
In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and the R/Rf 
dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits to 
the map like a low resolution data with most of side chains don't have best 
density.

I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 7.2%. 
I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 3.3A 
data or in general any data if we consider the difference.
 I appreciate your valuable  suggestions.

Thanks
Raj

[ccp4bb] sudden drop in R/Rfree

2012-03-02 Thread Rajesh kumar


Dear All, 
I have a 3.3 A data for a protein whose SG is P6522. Model used was wild type 
structure of same protein at 2.3 A. After molecular replacement, first three 
rounds of refinement the R/Rf was  26/32.8,  27.1/31.72 % and 7.35/30.88 % 
respectively.In the fourth round I refined with TLS and NCS abd added water and 
the R/Rf dropped to 19.34/26.46. It has almost 7% difference. I also see lot of 
unanswerable density in the map where lot of waters were placed. Model fits to 
the map like a low resolution data with most of side chains don't have best 
density.
I was not expecting such a sudden drop in the R/Rfree and a difference is 7.2%. 
I am wondering if I am in right direction. I am not sure if this usual for 3.3A 
data or in general any data if we consider the difference. I appreciate your 
valuable  suggestions.
ThanksRaj