Hi,

What I meant is that the solution that showed the TFZ-equivalent score for the 
second component should have been the one with the highest LLG after adding the 
second component, and it wasn't in your example.  That's why I thought you must 
have made it up.

Randy

On 31 Jul 2013, at 12:30, Chen Zhao <chenzhaoh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Prof. Read,
> 
> Thank you for your detailed explaination. I think now I am clear about what 
> each set of scores represent. But what do you mean by what the .sol should 
> show? I did "make it up" by selecting two solutions sets from two different 
> runs, and I am sorry for not making it clear at the begining.
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Chen
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Randy Read <rj...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Chen,
> 
> For each component that is placed, Phaser reports the Z-scores for the 
> rotation function (RFZ) and translation function (TFZ), along with the number 
> of packing clashes (PAK) at this point and the LLG.  For the top solution at 
> that point in the search, Phaser also reports the TFZ-equivalent (TFZ=) 
> score, which is what the Z-score would have been for the translation search 
> if the refined orientation from the rigid-body refinement had been used.  We 
> introduced the TFZ-equivalent to eliminate the dependence of the TFZ on the 
> quality of the orientation used for the particular translation search that 
> (after refinement) ended up giving the best solution.  However, it takes some 
> CPU time to compute a random sampling of translations for that orientation, 
> so we only do it for one solution after adding each component.
> 
> Your .sol file doesn't quite make sense in terms of what it should show.  Did 
> you make it up to illustrate your point?  What you might see is that, for the 
> top solution, the first LLG value (from placing the first component) is lower 
> the the corresponding LLG value for a solution lower in the final list.  
> However, you might see a TFZ== entry immediately after the first LLG for 
> whichever solution had the highest LLG at that point in the search.  If a 
> solution that was worse after placing the first component ends up with the 
> top LLG after adding the second component to that solution, then there will 
> be a TFZ== entry after the second LLG value (corresponding to the LLG after 
> placing the second component.
> 
> I hope that helps!  There's also an explanation on our Phaser Wiki: 
> http://www.phaser.cimr.cam.ac.uk/index.php/Molecular_Replacement#Annotation, 
> which gets into some even more obscure aspects of this annotation line.
> 
> Randy Read
> 
> On 31 Jul 2013, at 01:24, Chen Zhao <chenzhaoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I am sorry for my new-comer question, but I am not clear what the multiple 
>> RFZ, TFZ, PAK and LLG scores belong to after each solution set in the phaser 
>> output (eg. .sol) file. My bet is that each of them corresponds to each of 
>> the solutions listed below, but I am not sure. Also I know that TFZ== 
>> represents the TFZ score based on the refined orientation, but why does it 
>> sometimes appear in the middle instead of at the end? 
>> 
>> One example could look like this: 
>> 
>> SOLU SET RFZ=5.4 TFZ=3.6 PAK=0 LLG=67 TFZ==1.8 RFZ=2.2 TFZ=5.1 PAK=3 LLG=91 
>> LLG=102
>> SOLU SPAC XXX
>> SOLU 6DIM ENSE ensemble1 EULER X X X FRAC X X X BFAC X
>> SOLU 6DIM ENSE ensemble1 EULER X X X FRAC X X X BFAC X
>> SOLU ENSE ensemble1 VRMS X
>> SOLU ENSE ensemble2 VRMS X
>> 
>> SOLU SET RFZ=4.2 TFZ=2.8 PAK=0 LLG=51 RFZ=3.1 TFZ=5.1 PAK=1 LLG=71 LLG=86 
>> TFZ==5.3
>> SOLU SPAC XXX
>> SOLU 6DIM ENSE ensemble1 EULER X X X FRAC X X X BFAC X
>> SOLU 6DIM ENSE ensemble1 EULER X X X FRAC X X X BFAC X
>> SOLU ENSE ensemble1 VRMS X
>> SOLU ENSE ensemble2 VRMS X
>> 
>> Thank you so much!
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Chen
> 
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> 

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Cambridge Institute for Medical Research      Tel: + 44 1223 336500
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