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Well roared, Lion!

Just one question:

> also, at lower resolution you expect your model to have more 
> outliers than at higher resolution, so having zero 
> ramachandran outliers is not a goal you should be pursuing in 
> the first place. see for instance:
> - http://xray.bmc.uu.se/cgi-bin/gerard/reprint_mailer.pl?pref=65
> - http://xray.bmc.uu.se/cgi-bin/gerard/reprint_mailer.pl?pref=39
> - http://xray.bmc.uu.se/cgi-bin/gerard/reprint_mailer.pl?pref=29


The Ramachandran plots you used to define outliers, do they predate the
Richardson-Richardson ones?  Because, invoking WWW:  without the resolution,
how can you justify Ramachandran outliers?  (The old procheck Rama plot
hasn't been updated since 1991, I gather...)



 
> as for the discussion on "desirable" rmsds - i thought we 
> (the community) had agreed many years ago that the lower the 
> resolution, the tighter your restraints *must* be. (in the 
> limit of zero reflections: use constraints) sure, you can 
> tune the restraints to get an "atomic resolution rmsd" of 
> 0.02 A or whatever, but you are unable to determine the 
> individual bond lengths with an accuracy that warrants it. so 
> you get the "right" distribution, but for the wrong reasons. 
> i seem to remember (but my memory is write-only nowadays, so 
> don't take my word for it!) that ian tickle wrote the 
> definitive posting about this on ccp4bb a couple of years back.

He certainly did, it's a longish thread.  Go read it.

phx.

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