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Hi Bernhard,

That's right, the definition is not in the PDB, but REFMAC sensibly
handles it this way. It is certainly a short-coming if not bug in the
PDB (definition).

Best,
Tim

On 07/23/2014 04:49 PM, Bernhard Rupp wrote:
> ?? Refmac knows because of the group definition, otherwise I cannot
> force grouped occupancy refinement. There is no definition in PDB
> that eg ALTLOC A (of whatever residue) belongs to ALTLOC A of
> (whatever) residue/water.
> 
> BR
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Tim Gruene
> [mailto:t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de] Sent: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2014
> 15:38 To: b...@hofkristallamt.org; CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re:
> [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation?
> 
> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> do you refer to the PDB who, according to Martyn, remove the altloc
> indicator? That's certainly a serious bug that should be fixed as
> quickly as possible.
> 
> Within refmac the preservation is fine and as you would expect it
> to be: altA only sees atoms in altA and those witout altLoc, etc,
> which makes sure you PDB file is interpreted correctly by refmac5.
> That's how I refmac works.
> 
> Best, Tim
> 
> On 07/23/2014 03:26 PM, Bernhard Rupp wrote:
>>> I would probably make the two waters alternates of each other.
> 
> 
> 
>> Quite possible, but the group definition, i.e. to which alt
>> conf. side chain they belong,
> 
>> would need to be preserved, too.
> 
> 
> 
>> BR
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Cheers, Robbie
> 
>> Sent from my Windows Phone
> 
>> _____
> 
>> Van: Bernhard Rupp Verzonden: 23-7-2014 10:19 Aan: 
>> CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Onderwerp: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate
>> confs - validation?
> 
>> Hi Fellows,
> 
> 
> 
>> something that may eventually become an issue for validation and
>>  reporting in PDB headers:
> 
> 
> 
>> using the Refmac grouped occupancy keyword I was able to form and
>>  refine various networks of correlated
> 
>> alternate conformations - it seems to works really well at least
>> in a 1.6 and 1.2 A case I tried.
> 
>> Both occupancy and B-factors refine to reasonable values as 
>> expected/guessed from e-density and environment.
> 
>> Respect & thanks for implementing this probably underutilized
>> secret.
> 
> 
> 
>> This opens a question for validation: Instead of pretty much
>> ignoring any atoms below occupancy of 1, one
> 
>> can now validate each of the network groups  geometry and density
>> fit separately just as any other
> 
>> set of coordinates. I think with increasing data quality,
>> resolution, and user education such refinements will become more
> 
>> frequent (and make a lot more sense than arbitrarily setting
>> guessed independent hard occupancies/Bs
> 
>> that are not validated). Maybe some common format for
>> (annotating) such correlated occupancy groups might
> 
>> eventually become necessary.
> 
> 
> 
>> Best, BR
> 
> 
> 
>> PS: Simple example shown below: two alternate confs of residue
>> 338 which correlate with one
> 
>> water atom each in chain B, with corresponding partial occupancy 
>> (grp1: A338A-B5 ~0.6, grp2: A338B-B16 ~0.4).
> 
> 
> 
>> occupancy group id 1 chain A residue 338 alt A
> 
>> occupancy group id 1 chain B residue 5
> 
>> occupancy group id 2 chain A residue 338 alt B
> 
>> occupancy group id 2 chain B residue 16
> 
>> occupancy group alts complete 1 2
> 
>> . more similar
> 
>> occupancy refine
> 
> 
> 
>> AfaIct this does what I want. True?
> 
> 
> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> 
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> 
>> Bernhard Rupp
> 
>> k.-k. Hofkristallamt
> 
>> 001 (925) 209-7429
> 
>> b...@ruppweb.org
> 
>> b...@hofkristallamt.org
> 
>> http://www.ruppweb.org/
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