Hi Tony,

I always feel some people are too "greedy" with the resolution they want to
> achieve. I mostly find that extremely high density is a pain to work with
> as it's usually accompanied by many dual, triple conformers, a lot of noise
> in the solvent phase that is often difficult to interpret, etc... Often you
> spend more time on a high resolution structure that clearly shows your
> protein, as opposed to a low resolution structure where it's difficult to
> interpret parts of the map. Also, in most cases you REALLY don't need a 1
> Ang map to clearly show the overall structure of your protein, ligands,
> first shell of solvent molecules on the surface of your protein, etc...
>

higher resolution typically means you have a chance to obtain a more
accurate atomic model of a crystal structure, which in turn may lead to a
more accurate interpretation of this model. I fully agree that high
resolution requires more modeling effort. There is still a great room for
software developers to provide more automation.


> Your completeness is 90% in your high resolution shell, which is fine, but
> have you checked you can clearly see most reflections for h, k and l? Maybe
> you're missing many reflections for one of them. I would at least
> try cutting your data back to 1.1 or 1.2 Ang, as it might dramatically
> improve your R factors and still show everything you want to show.
>
>
> Also, did you try TLS refinement?
>

At resolutions like 1.2A or better one normally models ADPs as anisotropic
for all atoms (except H), so no need to use TLS.

Pavel

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