Take a look at this part of a script, I added your NCS operators in two options. So you are working on GroEL ?
Good luck, Jürgen #!/bin/csh -f set prevVer = 01 set prevRun = 00 set currVer = 02 set currRun = 04nolig set currData = my_latest_structure # set xyzin = omitted_ligands.pdb set xyzot = v{$currVer}r{$currRun}_{$currData}.pdb # #XDS processed data set hklin = v02r02_Pf_Cmp24.mtz set hklot = v{$currVer}r{$currRun}_{$currData}.mtz # set log = v{$currVer}r{$currRun}_{$currData}.log # refmac5 \ HKLIN $hklin HKLOUT $hklot \ # LIBIN Cmp24.cif \ # TLSIN tls_def.tlsin TLSOUT tls.out \ XYZIN tmp.pdb XYZOUT $xyzot \ <<EOF >> $log MAKE HYDRogens ALL MAKE CHECK 0 MAKE CISP N BUILD Y LABI FP=FP SIGFP=SIGFP FREE=FreeR_flag REFI TYPE RESTrained RESOlution 25 1.7 #option # 1 over the whole chain #NCSRestraints NCHAins 7 CHAIns A B C D E F G #or option #2 two domains per chain #for definitions of restrain codes # RTFM # http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/refmac5/keywords/restraints.html#ncsr NCSRestraints NCHAins 7 CHAIns A B C D E F G NSPANS 2 2 135 1 136 190 1 REFI RESI MLKF #BFACtor SET_to 90 #REFI TLSC 10 REFI BREF ISOT ! Refine overall B-values WEIG MATR 0.1 DAMP 0.5 0.5 SCALe TYPE BULK SCALe LSSCale SCALe LSSCale ANISotropic SCAL MLSC NCYC 10 TEMP 1.0 4.0 6.0 6.0 10.0 MONI MANY DIST 4 TORS 4 ANGL 4 CHIR 4 VDWR 3 NCSR 4 PLAN 4 NCSR 4 BFAC 4 BINS 10 EOF - Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ On Sep 9, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Hailiang Zhang wrote: > Hi there: > > The REFMAC manual give me a hard time to define the NCS during refinement. > Can anybody give a first time user a sample script based on the following > PDB header (NCS part only is ok, but please include how todefine tight > restrant only for both positional and B ref, for both NCS groups)? Thanks > a lot! > > Best Regards, Hailiang > > REMARK 3 NCS RESTRAINTS STATISTICS > REMARK 3 NUMBER OF DIFFERENT NCS GROUPS : 2 > REMARK 3 > REMARK 3 NCS GROUP NUMBER : 1 > REMARK 3 CHAIN NAMES : A B C D E F G > REMARK 3 NUMBER OF COMPONENTS NCS GROUP : 2 > REMARK 3 COMPONENT C SSSEQI TO C SSSEQI CODE > REMARK 3 1 A 2 A 135 1 > REMARK 3 1 B 2 B 135 1 > REMARK 3 GROUP CHAIN COUNT RMS WEIGHT > REMARK 3 TIGHT POSITIONAL 1 A (A): 1806 ; 0.092 ; 0.050 > REMARK 3 TIGHT POSITIONAL 1 B (A): 1806 ; 0.131 ; 0.050 > REMARK 3 TIGHT THERMAL 1 A (A**2): 1806 ; 0.192 ; 0.500 > REMARK 3 TIGHT THERMAL 1 B (A**2): 1806 ; 0.228 ; 0.500 > > REMARK 3 > REMARK 3 NCS GROUP NUMBER : 2 > REMARK 3 CHAIN NAMES : A B C D E F G > REMARK 3 NUMBER OF COMPONENTS NCS GROUP : 2 > REMARK 3 COMPONENT C SSSEQI TO C SSSEQI CODE > REMARK 3 1 A 136 A 190 1 > REMARK 3 1 B 136 B 190 1 > REMARK 3 GROUP CHAIN COUNT RMS WEIGHT > REMARK 3 TIGHT POSITIONAL 1 A (A): 1806 ; 0.092 ; 0.050 > REMARK 3 TIGHT POSITIONAL 1 B (A): 1806 ; 0.131 ; 0.050 > REMARK 3 TIGHT THERMAL 1 A (A**2): 1806 ; 0.192 ; 0.500 > REMARK 3 TIGHT THERMAL 1 B (A**2): 1806 ; 0.228 ; 0.500