Mandar,

It would also be helpful if you could share the statistics in the highest
resolution shell. But to me (which is admittedly a bit subjective), as
noted by Eleanor, the R-merge seems a bit high and the your I/sigma and
CC1/2 seem a bit low. Which doesn’t really matter if you can build a
reasonable, high quality model from the data.

What specifically is your concern? Your R-factors (again, in my opinion)
seem “ok” for the resolution. The largest issue I see in your statistics is
a high percentage of Rakmachandran outliers.

More help can be provided depending on what you’re specifically looking to
improve.

Best,

Nick Clark

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 6:57 AM Eleanor Dodson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Well - you probably could use data to a higher resolution  I/SigI and CC
> 1/2 are quite high.
> The better the resolution the better the model usually.
>
> On the other hand your Rmerge is high-ish. Hard to comment without seeing
> the data processing results. Look at the plots of 2nd moment, wilson plot,
> Rmerge v Batch, and read the report carefu;ly.  Is there serious
> radiation damage, should some batches be excluded etc, etc?
> You may be able to check the anomalous difference maps to see if
> "waters" are CL or some other metal ..
>
> Good luck Eleanor
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 08:14, Mark J. van Raaij <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mandar,
>>
>> - you may be able to find some more, less well-ordered, waters by looking
>> at (difference) maps. These will probably refine to have higher B-factors,
>> pushing your average up.
>> - some of your best-ordered water molecules may in fact be metal ions,
>> you can check the coordination. Modeling these as metal will then remove
>> some waters with likely very low B-factors, also leading to a higher
>> average B-factor for the remaining water molecules. Check My Metal may be
>> useful: https://cmm.minorlab.org
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>> But:
>> - it shouldn't really be a goal to increase the B-factor of the solvent,
>> but to find and model all the water molecules (metal ions, protein and
>> everything else) with reasonable density and hydrogen bonds.
>> - when you write "improve the data", I assume you mean "improve the
>> model".
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Mark van Raaij
>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas, lab 20B
>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
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>>
>>
>> On 2 Nov 2023, at 08:24, Mandar Bhutkar <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I am working on one of the x-ray diffraction data. Refinement details are
>> given below. My solvent b factor is 18.44. Can anyone pls suggest me how to
>> improve the data?
>> Thank you.
>> --
>> Mr. Mandar Bhutkar,
>> Ph.D. student,
>> Molecular Virology lab,
>> IIT Roorkee.
>>
>> Resolution range
>>
>> 23.06–2.60
>>
>> Space group
>>
>> P 2 21 21
>>
>> Unit cell dimensions: a b c (Å)
>>
>> α, β, γ (°)
>>
>> 51.6  60.7 184.36
>> 90      90   90
>>
>> Completeness (%)
>>
>> 99.3
>>
>> Rmerge a
>>
>> 0.372
>>
>> I/σ(I)
>>
>> 2.67
>>
>> CC(1/2)
>>
>> 0.773
>>
>> Refinement
>>
>> Reflections used in refinement
>>
>> 10011
>>
>> Reflections used for R-free
>>
>> 924
>>
>> R-workb
>>
>> 0.231
>>
>> R-freeb
>>
>> 0.273
>>
>> Wilson B-factor (Å)
>>
>> 28.9
>>
>> Number of non-hydrogen atoms
>>
>> 4302
>>
>> Macromolecules
>>
>> 4086
>>
>> Ligands
>>
>> 94
>>
>> Solvent
>>
>> 124
>>
>> Protein residues
>>
>> 508
>>
>> RMS (bonds) (Å)c
>>
>> 0.01
>>
>> RMS (angles) (˚) c
>>
>> 1.89
>>
>> Ramachandran Plot
>>
>>
>> Favored (%)
>>
>> 97.83
>>
>> Allowed (%)
>>
>> 1.38
>>
>> Outliers (%)
>>
>> 0.79
>>
>> Average B-factor (Å)
>>
>> 28.0
>>
>> macromolecules (Å)
>>
>> 28.65
>>
>> ligands (Å)
>>
>> 48.98
>>
>> solvent (Å)
>>
>> 18.44
>>
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