Hi Dhanas,

I would suggest this for the greater scientific worth of the data as
well ;)  Remember to use temperature calibration with MeOH or DSS for
every single experiment.  And to use temperature compensation or
single scan interleaving for acquisition.

Regards,

Edward


On 1 February 2012 17:33, Dhanasekaran Muthu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Edward,
>
> Thanks so much for your detailed mail regarding the steps involved in 
> model-free analysis using single magnetic field data. To harness the 
> potential of relax-GUI, I am seriously considering doing the experiments in 
> another field.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
> with best regards,
>
> Dhanas Muthu
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
>
>> Dear Dhanas,
>>
>> Welcome to the relax mailing lists.  Thank you, but note that this
>> program is the work of a number of relax developers.  You are correct
>> that you cannot use the GUI for single field strength data.  For such
>> data, you have to revert to the ancient methodology in the Mandel,
>> Akke, and Palmer 1995 paper.  This will require scripting, but
>> fortunately most of the scripts are already there for you, just not
>> fully automated.
>>
>> To perform this old-style analysis, this will require an initial
>> diffusion tensor estimate which you can obtain from relax by setting
>> all spins to model m0 and optimising the diffusion tensors (once for
>> spherical diffusion, for the prolate spheroid, the oblate spheroid,
>> and the ellipsoid).  This approximates the R1/R2 ratio methods, but
>> has the advantage of not having to convert between the >2000 Euler
>> angle conventions/symmetries, etc. which are different between
>> Modelfree4, Tensor2, Dasha, and relax.  Note you cannot simply take a
>> tensor from one program and use it in another, as all programs use
>> different Euler or spherical angle notations.  There is no sample
>> script for this, so you will need to write it yourself.
>>
>> The next part is iterative.  You need to fix the diffusion tensor and
>> optimise the model-free models (i.e. the mf_multimodel.py script).
>> Then you need to select the best model (the
>> sample_scripts/model_free/modsel.py script).  And finally you have to
>> optimise the diffusion tensor again (this will require your own script
>> as there is no equivalent sample script).  Using this final diffusion
>> tensor as a starting point, you need to repeat all the steps of
>> model-free model optimisation, model selection, and tensor
>> optimisation until convergence (identical chi-squared values for the
>> final optimisation).
>>
>> What you'd like to do will require script editing and writing on you
>> behalf.  You will need extensive use of the user function
>> documentation in the manual.  I do not believe anyone has used relax
>> to perform such an analysis for a long, long time (I could be wrong
>> though).  Most scripts for this would be for the old relax version
>> 1.0.x or earlier, so they cannot be used with modern versions of
>> relax.  This Mandel et al methodology is heading towards being two
>> decades old - it is a very ancient technique with many known and
>> documented problems which you will need to be very aware of!  I
>> suggest starting with my review:
>>
>> d'Auvergne E. J., Gooley P. R. (2007). Set theory formulation of the
>> model-free problem and the diffusion seeded model-free paradigm. Mol.
>> Biosyst., 3(7), 483-494. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b702202f)
>>
>> Or my paper:
>>
>> d'Auvergne, E. J. and Gooley, P. R. (2008). Optimisation of NMR
>> dynamic models II. A new methodology for the dual optimisation of the
>> model-free parameters and the Brownian rotational diffusion tensor. J.
>> Biomol. NMR, 40(2), 121-133.
>> (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-007-9213-3).
>>
>> The review covers most of the problems, and the 2008 paper shows an
>> example where such methodology clearly fails.  To perform a single
>> field strength analysis, you need to be acutely aware of these
>> problems.  If you have any problems with all of the scripting, please
>> don't hesitate to ask on the mailing list.  I hope this helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
>> P. S.  Collecting data at 2 or more field strengths (essentially with
>> both per-experiment temperature calibration and temperature
>> compensation) will allow you to avoid scripting and use the automated
>> analysis via the GUI.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 January 2012 19:53, Dhanasekaran Muthu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> First, I wanted to thank for creating such a wonderful program for 
>>> mode-free analysis. Using the recent version with GUI, I was able to get 
>>> T1, T2 and NOE values without much effort. But I am not able to proceed 
>>> further to do the mode-free analysis because the relax needs more than one 
>>> filed frequency data. My problem is that I have data from only one 
>>> frequency and I do not know the sequence of steps involved in running the 
>>> relax.  I learned from the forum that this has been asked several times and 
>>> answered several times. I am also aware of problems with single frequency 
>>> data. But I have to work with only one frequency data for the time being.  
>>> Even after reading the forum and well-detailed manual,  I am not able to 
>>> understand what are the steps I should be doing to get model-free data. My 
>>> understanding so far is i) first run mf-multimodel.py and then ii) 
>>> modesel.py after removing the models M4 to M9. It would be nice if some one 
>>> post the details of how to use relax for single frequency data, if they 
>>> were successful already running the calculations. I would like to connect 
>>> with those people who are in my situation and created successful code for 
>>> running relax.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dhanas Muthu
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