Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-21 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear James, your explanation is the background of the strong advice to always build as much as possible before running the next refinement cycle. I've seen directories with way more than one hundred runs of refmac and don't want to know what has been

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Tickle
John, can you give me a good reference on this? -- Ian On 21 November 2012 07:32, Jrh jrhelliw...@gmail.com wrote: Ian, yes absolutely but your very description of where the unit cells are not identical is NOT the situation where we see fractional occupancy moieties. In such cases a large

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Jrh
Dear Pavel, Also worth mentioning the obvious that the mathematical functional form of an occupancy and a B factor in its -ve exponential is very different BUT at lower resolutions they behave similarly. Thus higher resolution refinement allows an 'easier' determination of each parameter.

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Herman . Schreuder
From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Robbie Joosten Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:46 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors Hi Grant, This is part

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Herman . Schreuder
: Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors Hi Grant, This is part of the recurring side chain discussion. There is no consensus in the community about what the optimal approach is. In your current approach

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rupp
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pavel Afonine Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 3:54 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors Hi Grant, sounds like you did the right thing (as far as I can guess given the amount of information you provided). In a nutshell

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Tickle
PS: Partial occupancy is not the same as disorder. You can have well-ordered different occupancies that manifest themselves then in superstructure patterns. Common in small molecule/materials. Hello Bernhard Agree with everything you said up till this point, but I think the owners of the

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Jrh
Nomenclature hazard warning:- Ian, Thankyou for drawing attention to the nomenclature school:- Partial occupancy disorder Which I prefer to refer to as Partial occupancy order. Outside our MX field static disorder refers to what we call split occupancy order. I like the latter and dislike the

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Ian Tickle
John Having begun my crystallographic life with small molecules (organic semiconductors) and subsequently moved to PX, and having worked on SOD crystals I stand in both camps (i.e. both meanings: site-occupancy disorder and superoxide dismutase!). It seems to me that static disorder is the

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread James Holton
Something you want to be very careful with here that appears to have not been mentioned yet is phase bias. If you have built in a wrong side chain or other entity that is not actually there, but still force it to have occupancy=1 and reasonable B factors (B factor restraints might do that)

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-20 Thread Jrh
Ian, yes absolutely but your very description of where the unit cells are not identical is NOT the situation where we see fractional occupancy moieties. In such cases a large fraction of the unit cells ARE ordered. QED. John Prof John R Helliwell DSc FInstP CPhys FRSC CChem F Soc Biol. Chair

[ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread GRANT MILLS
Hello all, I'm currently working on a structure which if I stub a certain side chain phenix/coot shows me a large green blob which looks strikingly similar to the side chain, when I put it in and run another refinement the blob turns red. Basically I was just playing around and I changed the

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Grant, sounds like you did the right thing (as far as I can guess given the amount of information you provided). In a nutshell, both, B-factors and occupancies, model disorder. The difference is that occupancies model larger scale disorder (such as distinct conformations) than B-factors

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread Robbie Joosten
that would be a better model. HTH, Robbie Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:36:56 + From: gdmi...@students.latrobe.edu.au Subject: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Hello all, I'm currently working on a structure which if I stub a certain side chain phenix/coot shows me