It is internally consistent, though not necessarily correct

On 7 Dec 2012, at 16:23, Alan Cheung wrote:

> Related to this, I've always wondered what CC1/2 values mean for low 
> resolution. Not being mathematically inclined, I'm sure this is a naive 
> question, but i'll ask anyway - what does CC1/2=100 (or 99.9) mean? Does it 
> mean the data is as good as it gets?
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/12/2012 17:15, Douglas Theobald wrote:
>> Hi Boaz,
>> 
>> I read the K&K paper as primarily a justification for including extremely 
>> weak data in refinement (and of course introducing a new single statistic 
>> that can judge data *and* model quality comparably).  Using CC1/2 to gauge 
>> resolution seems like a good option, but I never got from the paper exactly 
>> how to do that.  The resolution bin where CC1/2=0.5 seems natural, but in my 
>> (limited) experience that gives almost the same answer as I/sigI=2 (see also 
>> K&K fig 3).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2012, at 6:21 AM, Boaz Shaanan <bshaa...@exchange.bgu.ac.il> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm sure Kay will have something to say  about this but I think the idea of 
>>> the K & K paper was to introduce new (more objective) standards for 
>>> deciding on the resolution, so I don't see why another table is needed.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>           Boaz
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
>>> Dept. of Life Sciences
>>> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
>>> Beer-Sheva 84105
>>> Israel
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Douglas 
>>> Theobald [dtheob...@brandeis.edu]
>>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 1:05 AM
>>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: [ccp4bb] refining against weak data and Table I stats
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I've followed with interest the discussions here about how we should be 
>>> refining against weak data, e.g. data with I/sigI << 2 (perhaps using all 
>>> bins that have a "significant" CC1/2 per Karplus and Diederichs 2012).  
>>> This all makes statistical sense to me, but now I am wondering how I should 
>>> report data and model stats in Table I.
>>> 
>>> Here's what I've come up with: report two Table I's.  For comparability to 
>>> legacy structure stats, report a "classic" Table I, where I call the 
>>> resolution whatever bin I/sigI=2.  Use that as my "high res" bin, with high 
>>> res bin stats reported in parentheses after global stats.   Then have 
>>> another Table (maybe Table I* in supplementary material?) where I report 
>>> stats for the whole dataset, including the weak data I used in refinement.  
>>> In both tables report CC1/2 and Rmeas.
>>> 
>>> This way, I don't redefine the (mostly) conventional usage of "resolution", 
>>> my Table I can be compared to precedent, I report stats for all the data 
>>> and for the model against all data, and I take advantage of the information 
>>> in the weak data during refinement.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Douglas
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
> 
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