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Am 25 Aug 2006 um 10:51 hat Phil Jeffrey geschrieben:

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> Something I have never found to work to my satisfaction has been
> solvent flattening after molecular replacement where the model is
> somewhat partial (i.e. more than 20% of the new structure is not
> modeled by the MR solution).  In a case I was trying out for someone
> else a few months back I used DM with a variety of automatic and more
> manually-generated solvent masks, and this produced no significant
> gain in the phases to my eyes.  So I am left with the suspicion that
> I'm not using the best methods.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice ? - I've found Coulombe and Cygler's 1997
> paper (Acta Cryst D53, 426-433) - but I imagine that there is other
> information out there that an hour's Googling has yet to turn up.
> 
> Thanks
> Phil Jeffrey
> Princeton, NJ
> 

Dear Phil,

I made very good experiences with the solvent flattening and NCS averaging 
modules of 
CNS in a case of low resolution (3.1 A; see EMBO J. 20, 5320-5331, 2001).

Good luck!

Karsten Niefind


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