On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:54:28 +0100
Martin Malý <[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually I would be quite interested what is your best practise when
> you want to reset a structure model to not be biased towards any test 
> reflection set.
Dear Martin,

according to Ian Tickle, the idea or 'resetting' the structure is the
wrong understanding, and if you notice model bias, there was a mistake
in the approach. You can safely build your model and refine against all
data all the way to the end. When you are interested in Rfree, you pick
any random set and refine to convergence, i.e. until the target function
does not drop any further. Refinement removes bias. (see Ian's emails
on this topic, quite some years back)

'shaking' the model coordinates and/or adps is no good. I remember in
one case when I worked on Rcomplete, there was a side chain the
flipped into a different rotamer from shaking. This is a different
model, and you cannot average R-values from different models (see
sections "Effect of Parameter Perturbation." and "Influence of
Parameter Perturbation on Convergence Rate" and Figures S4 /S5 in
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502136112 /
https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.1502136112/suppl_file/pnas.1502136112.sapp.pdf

Best,
Tim



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Faculty of Chemistry
University of Vienna

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