Dear All, I want to thank all for your helpful and quick suggestions and insight.
It was a very good discussion and also helped in understanding the topic. Thanks again. -- Sonali Dhindwal “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” --- On Mon, 18/3/13, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Query regarding the use of anisotropic temperature factor and ideal rmsAngle and rmsBond length values To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Date: Monday, 18 March, 2013, 4:06 AM On 17 March 2013 13:19, Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> wrote: Small addition to Ian's comment. The value you give with 'weight auto $value' is a starting value. Refmac will gradually change it if needed (it's autoweighting after all) and your starting value does matter somewhat. Based on Ian's advice PDB_REDO uses a starting value of 2.50 which seems to do the trick most of the times. Cheers, Robbie Good point, here's an example from a Refmac log file of that happening in practice using Refmac_5.8.0031 (output redacted so not showing every iteration): Data line--- WEIGHT AUTO 0.95 Weight matrix 1.00564407E-02 Actual weight 0.94999999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 1.19658876E-02 Actual weight 0.94999999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 1.67442132E-02 Actual weight 1.2349999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 2.25313306E-02 Actual weight 1.6054999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 2.31216233E-02 Actual weight 1.6054999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 2.32296251E-02 Actual weight 1.6054999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 2.34125387E-02 Actual weight 1.6054999 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 3.04648653E-02 Actual weight 2.0871499 is applied to the X-ray term Weight matrix 3.05170882E-02 Actual weight 2.0871499 is applied to the X-ray term So here I inputted Wa = 0.95 (I deliberately chose it too small), and Refmac calculates what the equivalent value of Wm (1.00564407E-02) would have been (i.e. inputting WEIGHT MATRIX 1.00564407E-02 would have given identical results to WEIGHT AUTO 0.95). However what is actually used ('Actual weight') in the refinement calculation is Wa. Then Wa is automatically optimised according to Refmac's internal criteria, giving a final optimised value Wa = 2.09. Note that Wm changes as the model is improved even when Wa is kept fixed. Cheers -- Ian