Dear All, I have post a similar question about CNS and refmac before, now in another structure I met a similar problem. I have an almost finished structure, the Rfree of which is about 0.28 by refmac. Then I used phenix to refine it, below is the result: REMARK ******************** REFINEMENT SUMMARY: QUICK FACTS ******************* REMARK Start: r_work = 0.1970 r_free = 0.2892 bonds = 0.006 angles = 1.213 REMARK Final: r_work = 0.1917 r_free = 0.2617 bonds = 0.008 angles = 1.374 REMARK ************************************************************************ Since the map from phenix couldnot be opened by coot directly--or I donnot know how to--I used refmac to get a mtz map file. But I found that at the first several cycle of refmac the Rfree decreased, then both the R and Rfree values continued increasing and FOM decreasing. The best R/Rfree/FOM during the refinement is
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall R factor = 0.1932 Free R factor = 0.2513 Overall figure of merit = 0.8168 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And after 40 cycles the final result is: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall R factor = 0.2008 Free R factor = 0.2772 Overall figure of merit = 0.7902 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The values looks like keep going up if increase the cycles. Then which value should I take as the final result? The phenix or the best Refmac result or I have to take a converged value from refmac?