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Hi Pavel,

surely technically you are right. Practically I would like to see the
face when you next hand over a set of structure factors to a
pharmaceutist or biologist with the words "please go ahead, design
your drug" ;-)

Best,
Tim

On 05/21/2014 04:47 PM, Pavel Afonine wrote:
> the R-factor is a complicated thing that depends on things like
>> weighting factors and solvent model - several things that are
>> not part of your model and that need to be adjusted by the
>> refinement program during refinement.
>> 
> 
> I think a more accurate is "are not part of your ATOMIC model". 
> Bulk-solvent contribution may account from 10 to 90% of unit cell 
> content. The fact that you don't stick it into your PDB file does 
> not mean it's not part of your model. Moreover, if you deposit 
> Fmodel - the total model structure factors Fmodel = 
> scale*(Fcalc_atoms + Fbulk_solvent + Fother), then they are your 
> model representation in reciprocal space, and in fact, are more 
> complete source of information than a bunch of points in a PDB 
> file.
> 
> Pavel
> 

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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen

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