Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Ian Tickle
Obviously no refined parameters can ever be completely error-free, it's just that for the co-ordinates we have very accurate geometric restraints so that the relative uncertainty in the refined co-ordinates is small (but try refining co-ordinates without restraints!). For the B factors we don't ha

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Yes, it is and I like the definition of shared “trash bin”. It will have more physical meaning if we can separate those contributions into separate bins. Vaheh From: Pavel Afonine Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 1:51 PM To: Oganesyan, Vaheh Cc: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] How hi

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Pavel Afonine
Vaheh, I think coordinates are no different from B factors, occupancies, f', or f'' in this respect. Coordinates can play their "trash bin" role by adjusting to the noise at the expense of violated geometry (bonds, angles, planes, torsions, etc.). As I mentioned in my previous email, their trash b

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about PanDDA modelling and refining

2024-07-30 Thread Aline Dias da Purificacao
**Question:** After step 11 in my pandda-export folder I have the following files: File name: Remarks: 1 ensemble-model.log 2 ensemble-model.pdb Contains both bound and ground-state 3 ensemble-model-restraints.log 4 ensemble-model-restraints.phenix.params 5 ensemble-model

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Your point is taken, Pavel. However, despite resolution, you define coordinate of the atom as a geometric point with no width. Although coordinates are “refineable”, they have no capacity for “trash”. Their “trash” still goes into B-factor “trash bin”. At least this is how I see it. Thank you.

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Phil Jeffrey
“That which is not restricted will take its liberties” (Wayne Hendrickson) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969212601001873 in turn, apparently from one of the older CCP4 workshops P.A. Machin, J.W. Campbell, M. Elder (Eds) Refinement of Protein Structures, SERC Daresbury Labor

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Pavel Afonine
>From this perspective, all refinable atomic model parameters can be viewed as trash bins, with the size of these bins being proportional to the amount of prior information (restraints) imposed on these parameters. For example, coordinates have the most restraints and thus are the smallest trash bi

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Early in my Crystallography life I was postdoc with Robert Huber in Munich. We had those gatherings once a week when in very informal way we can ask and answer questions. I remember my question about B factors: how is it possible to have high resolution structure and average B-factor of 100A2. I

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Pavel Afonine
The reason why phenix.refine allows B factors to grow until they fit the map is that it uses restraints that do not only require the similarity of B factors of covalently bonded atoms, but rather the similarity of B factors of atoms located within a sphere of radius R (around 5Å). This is to accoun

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
If it hasn't already been mentioned, I would humbly like to remind everyone that a high B-factor on an atom causes it to have a small or negligible contribution to a fourier transform. Therefore, beware that modelling atoms with high B-factors could be introducing model bias by inserting atoms tha

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread James Holton
How high B factors can go depends on the refinement program you are using. In fact, my impression is that the division between the "let the B factors blow up" and "delete the unseen" camps is correlated to their preferred refinement program. You see, phenix.refine is relatively aggressive with