This is purely anecdotal, but in general I have done better with testing single NMR models one by one rather than using the ensemble. I have rationalised this by saying that with luck one of the predicted structures will fit reasonably closely to the one in the crystal, whereas the average must have horrible distortions from protein gemetry..

You can compare results - obv. if the SAME solution appears several times that makes you feel very confident,

Eleanor

Jeroen Mesters wrote:

The reason(s) for obtaining (calculating) an ensemble of structures are 1) true flexibility and of course 2) lack of data! This holds true for both NMR and Xtallography. Each single model is in agreement with the data (i.e. was refined against the data) and an average model is probably the worst one of all to take. Better to use one of the models and remove the parts that differ most among all the models.

J.


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An easy alternative is to calculate the average structure and choose the 
individual model with lowest rms deviation from the average as representative 
of the ensemble. Since this is a typical task in the NMR field, this option is 
mostly found in NMR software, e.g. MOLMOL.
Of course, conclusions drawn using these two methods may differ, particularly if the 
individual models deviate a lot in certain parts of the structure. In this case, an 
energy-minimized average structure would probably be more "representative". CNS 
provides such a model_minimize input (for use without experimental data).

Oliver


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Hi guys,
I have tried AmoRe using a NMR ensemble, thus get an solution in the form of ensemble.I was informed that "a single macromolecular model derived from an ensemble of NMR models by averaging atom positions and minimizing the energy".Could you please tell me some software about this? Or any better way to convert an ensemble model into a single model? Best regards!

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