Hi,

How about this:

1. Expand solution A to fill an unit cell
2. Expand solution B to fill 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 unit cells
3. Superpose 1 to 2 en bloc
   Now we have a common origin,
   because components of the origin shift vector is within -1 to 1.
4. Delete everything outside the ASU
5. Match chains if necessary

Best regards,

Takanori Nakane

On 2014-09-11 12:56, Seijo, Jose A. Cuesta wrote:
Correction: that won’t fix any origin issues, only cell and
assymetric unit.

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FROM: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] ON BEHALF OF
Eleanor Dodson
 SENT: Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:44 AM
 TO: [email protected]
 SUBJECT: [ccp4bb] making sure related molecules occupy the same space


Here is a very common scenario for me.

You run several MR jobs, say to search for 2 mols/asymm unit , maybe
with different models or using different programs..

You get several solutions, probably on different origins and/or
related by some symmetry operator.

How best to overlap them?

My way is this:

Use PISA to assemble all solutions from each run into a compact
molecule (It does this by applying allowed symmetry operators.)

Calculate SFS from each solution, combine them and use PHASEMATCH to
find the origin shift .

Move solution two to the same origin as solution one.

Now check for fitting - remembering that if both solutions have chains
A B there is no guarantee that A2 maps to A1 and B2 to B1.

So I superpose A2 onto A1, A2 onto B1 etc till I find a transformation
matrix that is indeed a symmetry operator..

 (You can do this in coot providing you can find the output matrix on
the screen!)

Then apply that symmetry to move A2 B2 to overlap A1 B1 ( or maybe B1
A1) as appropriate..

Obviously this is a pain in the neck!

Does anyone have a neater solution??

eleanor

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