Hi Ed,

Thanks for the comments.  So what do you recommend?  Refine against weak data, 
and report all stats in a single Table I?

Looking at your latest V-ATPase structure paper, it appears you favor something 
like that, since you report a high res shell with I/sigI=1.34 and Rsym=1.65.  


On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Edward A. Berry <ber...@upstate.edu> wrote:

> Another consideration here is your PDB deposition. If the reason for using
> weak data is to get a better structure, presumably you are going to deposit
> the structure using all the data. Then the statistics in the PDB file must
> reflect the high resolution refinement.
> 
> There are I think three places in the PDB file where the resolution is stated,
> but i believe they are all required to be the same and to be equal to the
> highest resolution data used (even if there were only two reflections in that 
> shell).
> Rmerge or Rsymm must be reported, and until recently I think they were not 
> allowed
> to exceed 1.00 (100% error?).
> 
> What are your reviewers going to think if the title of your paper is
> "structure of protein A at 2.1 A resolution" but they check the PDB file
> and the resolution was really 1.9 A?  And Rsymm in the PDB is 0.99 but
> in your table 1* says 1.3?
> 
> Douglas Theobald wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I've followed with interest the discussions here about how we should be 
>> refining against weak data, e.g. data with I/sigI<<  2 (perhaps using all 
>> bins that have a "significant" CC1/2 per Karplus and Diederichs 2012).  This 
>> all makes statistical sense to me, but now I am wondering how I should 
>> report data and model stats in Table I.
>> 
>> Here's what I've come up with: report two Table I's.  For comparability to 
>> legacy structure stats, report a "classic" Table I, where I call the 
>> resolution whatever bin I/sigI=2.  Use that as my "high res" bin, with high 
>> res bin stats reported in parentheses after global stats.   Then have 
>> another Table (maybe Table I* in supplementary material?) where I report 
>> stats for the whole dataset, including the weak data I used in refinement.  
>> In both tables report CC1/2 and Rmeas.
>> 
>> This way, I don't redefine the (mostly) conventional usage of "resolution", 
>> my Table I can be compared to precedent, I report stats for all the data and 
>> for the model against all data, and I take advantage of the information in 
>> the weak data during refinement.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Douglas
>> 
>> 
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