This is interesting. Would it be possible to have refmac
provide some info WHICH U (i.e. atom) got negative EV ?
I did not find anything and I use monitor many per default.

Thx, BR

-----Original Message-----
From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Aaron
Oakley
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:38 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in MAKE_U_POSITIVE

If one of its eigenvalues of the ANISOU matrix is negative, the matrix is
non-positive definite
leading to the MAKE_U_POSITIVE problem.

I understand that this could indicate that an atom is sitting on a saddle
point
between two minima and that the atom could be split into two conformers. I
had this happen once.

Cheers,

a++

> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 19:26 -0700, Bernhard Rupp wrote:
> > Hi there - 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > a transient message appears during anisotropic refinement 
> > 
> > CCP4 6.1: Refmac_5.5.0071
> > 
> > Problem in MAKE_U_POSITIVE
> > 
> > that seems to have no further consequences. I guess that means that
> > some
> > 
> > elements in a U tensor lead to a divergent behavior, but 
> details evade
> > me. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Just curious....
> > 
> > BR
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Bernhard Rupp
> > 
> > b...@ruppweb.org
> > 
> > http://www.ruppweb.org/ 
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Anything is possible if you don't know 
> > 
> > what you are talking about.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
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