On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Pavel Afonine <pafon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
>
> I'm trying to 'measure' the density in a region of my structure by
>> integrating the electron density there (notwithstanding errors in F000).  I
>> understand that both overlapmap and phenix.real_space_correlation compute
>> density surrounding individual atoms for their calculations.  Is there any
>> way to get that info out of either of them?
>>
>
> do you want to get electron density maps used in calculation of map CC? If
> so, then phenix.maps can compute any map defined as [p][m]Fo+[q][D]Fc, where
> p and q are any user-defined numbers. For example: 2Fo-Fc, 2mFo-DFc,
> 3Fo-2Fc, Fo-Fc, mFo-DFc, Fc, Fo etc...
>

What I want is the density 'inside' each atom in the map, so that I can make
quantitative comparisons of "how much stuff" is present in a blob (modeled
or not).


>
>
> Are the per-residue "Fo" and "Fc" columns in the output of
>> phenix.real_space_correlation actually what I am looking for?
>
>
>  I'm not sure what you mean... Could you please explain? If you want to get
> electron density value (in sigma or e/A**3) computed at each atomic center
> (or any specified point in space), then phenix.map_value_at_point would do
> it.
>

Well the output of phenix.real_space_correlation has 'Fc' and 'Fo' columns
like so:

i_seq :   PDB_string      element   occ      b      CC   Fc   Fo  No.Points
FLAG
    0 : " N   SER C1002 "       N  1.00  28.79  0.9871   2.58   2.75   52
    1 : " CA  SER C1002 "       C  1.00  29.56  0.9945   2.67   2.58   58
    2 : " C   SER C1002 "       C  1.00  31.68  0.9966   3.28   3.22   56
    3 : " O   SER C1002 "       O  1.00  28.79  0.9971   3.51   3.55   55
    4 : " CB  SER C1002 "       C  1.00  36.38  0.9531   2.06   1.80   56

Does the 'Fc' column mean that 2.58 is the average  density in atom number 0
(based on F_calc)?  If so is this in sigma? or e/A**3?  Is this the average
density in some sphere surrounding the atom (like SFALL/OVERLAPMAP)?

Perhaps these are exactly the numbers that I would obtain from
phenix.map_value_at_point, in which case I've already got what I want.


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>> If so what are the units and how is F000 handled?
>>
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> It is not included.
>
> Pavel.
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>

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