Hi Nav,

I wouldn't worry about this.  I don't think there is a single person
in history who has collected perfect relaxation data the first time.
If someone says they have, I definitely would not believe them!  Just
make sure you handle both temperature compensation (single-scan
interleaving and temperature compensation blocks) and temperature
control (checking every experiment on every spectrometer with
MeOH/Ethylene glycol).  Unfortunately the paper from the Gooley lab
describing this is not published yet.  But all the details are
described in the relax manual, so maybe the relax papers might be a
possible citation ;)

Regards,

Edward




On 2 May 2013 11:13, Navratna Vajpai <navratna.vaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> yes there is temperature difference on two different spectrometers. i will
> re calibrate and possibly re-do the experiments.
>
> Many thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Nav
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Edward d'Auvergne <edw...@nmr-relax.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nav,
>>
>> Martin is spot on here.  The temperature control and temperature
>> calibration has been a topic much discussed on the relax mailing
>> lists.  For example, here are some threads where you can find out more
>> information, if you wish:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/83
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/273/focus=274
>> (this is Chris MacRaild's response to a message by Seb Morin)
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/1121
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/1419
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/1368 (this one is
>> from Martin)
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/1397 (a
>> continuation of the previous thread)
>>
>> You need to click on all the messages in the thread to follow them.
>> There are many more threads on this area, but I don't have the time to
>> find them all right now.  The following message might be of
>> significant help for you:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/1419/focus=1423
>>
>> Firstly note that if you have a temperature problem, this will not be
>> solved by looking at a single field strength as it is a problem
>> between experiments on the same spectrometer.  So even if you perform
>> an analysis with data from a single field strength, the R1 data might
>> be up to 2 degrees warmer or colder than the R2, and the same problem
>> will occur to a different degree (or direction) on the second
>> spectrometer.  Any analysis using such data will be meaningless, as
>> this will have a large effect on the diffusion tensor.  Considering
>> that the diffusion tensor is the major contributor to liquid state
>> relaxation, the internal dynamics can contribute 20% or less (see the
>> original model-free papers for these numbers), then any internal
>> dynamics will be severely distorted, possibly hidden, and artificial
>> motions will appear.  I would recommend you look at this section of
>> the relax manual for more temperature related details:
>>
>> http://www.nmr-relax.com/manual/Temperature_control_calibration.html
>>
>> As for relax supporting an analysis at a single field strength, there
>> is nothing stopping you from performing such analysis.  relax is
>> designed with flexibility in mind, so you can perform your model-free
>> analysis any way you can imagine.  With the minimisation settings, you
>> can replicate the exact results from Art Palmer's Modelfree, from
>> Dasha, or from Tensor2.  However note that I have not written any
>> scripts or GUI to handle this situation, as I have no interest to.  So
>> you would need to write the script yourself.  I would then recommend
>> looking at the file 'auto_analyses/dauvergne_protocol.py' to get an
>> idea of how to implement a full model-free protocol.  It is quite big
>> because of the iterative optimisation of the model-free parameters,
>> then model elimination, then model selection, and finally diffusion
>> tensor optimisation, with convergence testing.  These steps, even for
>> single field strength data, need to be iterated until convergence.
>> This can take up to 15 iterations.  You will also need to decide how
>> to determine your initial diffusion tensor estimate - and relax can
>> perform this as well.
>>
>> But note that you should be aware of of the problems discovered by
>> Schurr et al., 1994 and Tjandra et al., 1996 of the artificial
>> motions.  For example see:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.nmr.relax.user/326/focus=332
>>
>> Korzhnev's review (I don't have the reference at hand) and my paper
>> (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b702202f, this has the Korzhnev reference
>> in it) cover all of the problems you will encounter and hopefully
>> convince you that an analysis of single field strength data would only
>> be useful for perfectly isotropic systems (which is never possible due
>> to water shell differences around the system) which have no
>> significant internal motion (but note that if you see no motion with
>> single field strength data, that does not mean that there is no
>> motion).
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 April 2013 14:48, Martin Ballaschk <ballas...@fmp-berlin.de> wrote:
>> > Hi Nav,
>> >
>> > I had similar problems in the past.
>> >
>> > The inconsistetncy has to come from somewhere. For me, it was the
>> > temperature difference between different magnets. After I figured out that
>> > we calibrated our spectrometers the wrong way, I finally got consistent
>> > data.
>> >
>> > Just try to superimpose two high-resolution spectra from your two
>> > fields. They should be identical. If you can see peaks that are not 99% on
>> > top of each other, I would recommend take a long hard stare at temperature
>> > control.
>> >
>> > How do you control your temperature? I found neat methanol did not work
>> > with our spectrometers with cryoprobes, see also [1]. We use d4-methanol
>> > now, the impurities give enough signal for a proper temperature calibration
>> > (between magnets, and between experiments).
>> >
>> > Another issue may be TROSY-based sequences, used on deuterated systems
>> > and cryoprobes. As described by Nils Lakomek et al, that can be the source
>> > for a lot of annoying artifacts. [2]
>> >
>> > Edward will have additional ideas, I guess.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Martin
>> >
>> > [1] Lakomek N-A, Ying J, Bax A (2012) Measurement of 15N relaxation
>> > rates in perdeuterated proteins by TROSY-based methods. J Biomol NMR 53:
>> > 209–221. doi:10.1007/s10858-012-9626-5.
>> >
>> > [2] Findeisen M, Brand T, Berger S (2007) A1H-NMR thermometer suitable
>> > for cryoprobes. Magn Reson Chem 45: 175–178. doi:10.1002/mrc.1941.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 26.04.2013, at 14:31, Navratna Vajpai <navratna.vaj...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Edward and other members in the group,
>> >>
>> >> Just briefly mentioning my concern: I have acquired 15N-backbone
>> >> relaxation data on a protein kinase on two different fields (600 MHz and 
>> >> 800
>> >> MHz). In the beginning had some difficulties in running your scripts.
>> >> Following your suggestions, I looked through the literature and developed
>> >> some understanding before running all these scripts in Relax. The scripts
>> >> seem all working for the local_tm model. However, for sphere or the 
>> >> spheroid
>> >> models, it never converged (the run continued for several days with going
>> >> upto 64 rounds). On looking through the next chapter about data 
>> >> consistency,
>> >> i thought of doing consistency tests.  Tests with J0 checks, suggests
>> >> inconsistency as described in the chapter. As i do not have access to the
>> >> third field, i do not know which data amongst the two is bad. Experimental
>> >> parameters or the sample used were same at both fields. Is there any way 
>> >> to
>> >> check this without having data for the third field?
>> >>
>> >> Do you or someone else has a script which can use data from only single
>> >> field and let RELAX do model-free analysis?
>> >>
>> >> I looked through the mailing list and have seen that this problem has
>> >> been asked and discussed several times. I know about TENSOR2 which can do
>> >> such an model-free analysis using single field but was wondering if some 
>> >> has
>> >> found a fix for the RELAX.
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks,
>> >> Nav
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Edward d'Auvergne
>> >> <edw...@nmr-relax.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi Nav,
>> >>
>> >> Welcome to the relax mailing lists!  Please see below:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > The situation:
>> >> > I have experimental data for R1, R2 and NOE at two fields (600 MHz
>> >> > and 800
>> >> > MHz) on a large protein kinase. As expected, i do not have data for
>> >> > all the
>> >> > residues in the protein sequence. on searching through Web, i have
>> >> > found a
>> >> > X-ray structure, which also have some parts missing, possibly due to
>> >> > poor
>> >> > electron density in those regions.
>> >>
>> >> This will complicate your analysis, as you don't have orientational
>> >> information about your NH vectors!  Such information is essential for
>> >> the prolate and oblate spheroidal and ellipsoidal diffusion tensors.
>> >> You will need to read the relevant literature if this is not clear
>> >> (you can find lots of references in the papers linked at
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/features.html#primary_refs, especially my
>> >> 2008a paper at http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html#dAuvergneGooley08a).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > I learnt from RELAX that one can create
>> >> > spin system solely based on sequence and then attach protons to it or
>> >> > by
>> >> > using a pdb structure.
>> >>
>> >> relax does not currently have an algorithm to automatically place
>> >> protons into the 'correct position' in 3D space.  This just allows you
>> >> to say that protons are attached - hence you will have dipole-dipole
>> >> relaxation present.  If you have a 3D structure without protons, you
>> >> will need to use Molmol, PyMOL, etc to add the missing protons
>> >> yourself prior to loading the structure into relax.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > For model free analysis possibly, i would need a pdb
>> >> > structure (not entirely sure!); as i can see, an example in the
>> >> > manual
>> >> > illustrating without the use of the structure (page 103)
>> >>
>> >> You really need to read more of the literature to understand the
>> >> reason why.  But you can perform a model-free analysis using the
>> >> protocol I developed which is hard-coded into the GUI.  But you can
>> >> only use the 'local_tm' and 'sphere' models if no 3D data is present.
>> >> If this is not clear why, then you have a lot more reading to do ;)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > The problem:
>> >> > When i tried doing it by creating spin systems using amino acid
>> >> > sequence
>> >> > alone, the system never got executed. However, when i started doing
>> >> > it with
>> >> > structure as an input., it did run but then gave me an error message
>> >> > for all
>> >> > the spins as follows:
>> >> > for spins with all six data parameters:
>> >> > spin YYY deselected due to absence of any relaxation mechanisms
>> >>
>> >> This means that you have not specified the relaxation mechanisms.
>> >> Note that if you are looking at 15N backbone data - importantly with
>> >> no 13C labelling - then two major relaxation mechanisms are present.
>> >> These are the dipole-dipole and CSA interactions.  You will need to
>> >> tell relax that these are active, and what the physics for these
>> >> interactions should be.  The reason why you have to do this is because
>> >> relax can be used for RNA, DNA, or organic molecules.  And even in
>> >> proteins, this simple 2 mechanism relaxation may not always be the
>> >> case.  For example 15N bb relaxation with 13C labelling, you have 3
>> >> direct dipole-dipole relaxation mechanisms, and you have to also take
>> >> interference into account.  Or for natural abundance 13C CO relaxation
>> >> where only CSA relaxation is present.  relax allows you to handle
>> >> these different cases.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > and for spins with no data:
>> >> > spin YYY deselected due to absence of any data.
>> >> >
>> >> > the second one is understandable but not sure about the first one .
>> >>
>> >> Did you follow the tutorial in the relax manual about using the GUI
>> >> for model-free analysis, specifically the section on setting up the
>> >> relaxation interactions
>> >>
>> >> (http://www.nmr-relax.com/manual/d_Auvergne_protocol_GUI_mode_relaxation_interactio.html)?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > To check whether something is wrong with the complete data sets,
>> >> > i created new data files for only first two residues with structural
>> >> > coordinates extracted for these two residues. In this case, the
>> >> > program
>> >> > worked well.
>> >>
>> >> You can perform a full analysis using the protocol I developed.  If
>> >> this is not clear what this protocol is, please see my 2007 and 2008
>> >> papers:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html#dAuvergneGooley07
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html#dAuvergneGooley08a
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html#dAuvergneGooley08b
>> >>
>> >> For residues which have 3D data, you can perform this analysis.  For
>> >> missing residues, you may have to use the concept of global model
>> >> hybridisation:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html#Horne07
>> >>
>> >> This will allow you to combine the local tm models for residues
>> >> without 3D data with the results from the analysis with 3D data.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Questions from me:
>> >> > 1) Does that mean the absence of data for certain spins, loaded
>> >> > either from
>> >> > sequence or structure, causes this problem?
>> >>
>> >> No, this is just an indication that you have not set up your active
>> >> relaxation mechanisms in relax.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > 2)  Can i do the whole analysis just by using the sequence.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, see above.  But it would be much better if you use the 3D info
>> >> that you already have, assuming that structure is correct.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > 3) Does the software actually need minimum six values (R1, R2 and NOE
>> >> > at two
>> >> > fields) for this analysis or it can work with >= 3 values?
>> >>
>> >> Please read my 2007 and 2008b papers about this!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > As for some
>> >> > residues, i have < 6 data values. I am currently ignoring those
>> >> > residues
>> >> > with < 6 data values as i wasn't sure if model free analysis would be
>> >> > able
>> >> > to handle that.
>> >>
>> >> Again, my publications cover this and what the minimum is and why.
>> >> But note that model m8, as I have defined it, has 5 parameters.
>> >> Therefore you will require minimally 5 data points.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > 4) I am still unclear with the initialization of diffusion tensor. In
>> >> > the
>> >> > GUI mode the first row asks for The diffusion tensor parameters:
>> >> >  I have tried to understand what is written in the manual, but i am
>> >> > not sure
>> >> > if i understood it correctly.
>> >>
>> >> This is also discussed in full detail in my 2007 and 2008b papers as
>> >> to why my protocol, which is what you are using when accessing the
>> >> relax GUI, requires no initial diffusion tensor.  These papers also
>> >> explain the concept behind this protocol and the inversion of the
>> >> problem of simultaneously finding the interlinked global diffusion
>> >> tensor and spin specific internal motions.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Would you be able to guide/suggest me on this. Any suggestions from
>> >> > your end
>> >> > is highly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> One other very useful reference which contains the answer to all your
>> >> questions (apart from the missing relaxation interaction setup) is my
>> >> PhD thesis which you can find at:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.nmr-relax.com/features.html#primary_refs
>> >>
>> >> I hope some of this information helps, but you do have quite some
>> >> reading ahead of you!
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Edward
>> >>
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