Perhaps Situs colores would be useful.  We use it to dock models into SAXS maps.

http://situs.biomachina.org/fguide.html


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On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:48 PM, "Oliver Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone recommend software to dock previously solved domains into a (very) 
> low-resolution experimentally phased map?
> 
> I am working on a rather marginal case where this would be useful - very 
> large assembly (500kDA per ASU), native goes to 6.9A, and the best derivative 
> goes to 8A with SAD phases from a heavy atom cluster to 11. Unfortunately no 
> NCS is present.
> 
> The map is (for the resolution!) not too bad - the solvent boundary is clear 
> after SHELXE, and I can manually place a previously solved structure and get 
> a reasonably convincing fit (and the fit I obtain agrees with that previously 
> determined using CryoEM by another group). 
> 
> There are a couple of other domains that I would like to place, and I believe 
> I have some idea of where they are, but manual fitting is somewhat 
> subjective, so I'd like an automated routine for doing the same - something 
> like the functionality that ADP_EM provides when working with CryoEM maps. 
> Does something like this exist? I tried using ADP_EM but it gives a segfault 
> when used with a crystallographic density map.
> 
> I have tried using MOLREP to look for the model in the map to no avail, and 
> PHASER didn't work either.
> 
> On another note, if anyone has any tips for density modification/phase 
> extension in this resolution range I would love to hear them - haven't had a 
> whole lot of luck with PARROT, DM, or SOLOMON, the maps seem stuck at ~10A 
> despite data going to 8. I tried using SHARP with the SPHCLUSTER tag on, but 
> it gave no improvement over what I obtain treating the cluster as a super 
> atom in SHELXD.
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> Oliver.

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