Re: [ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hi Kristof - I think that you are overlooking at the fact that you do not know what the hydrogen bond lengths are between the base pairs. You should make sure that the covalent geometry is correct (tighten or loosen the matrix as you do!) and then when you have a well refined structure, analy

Re: [ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Kristof AFAIK there's no attractive H-bond term in Refmac, only a repulsive one, and even that is probably between the N/O atoms not between the H atoms themselves, which only 'ride' on their parent atoms (again this is to my knowledge). This is all related to the fact that H atoms don't scatt

[ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Kristof Van Hecke
Dear, When (trying) to refine a DNA-structure (resolution 2.5) using Refmac_5.5.0072 (CCP4 6.1.1), some of the H-bonds between Watson- Crick bases are becoming too large. Reducing the Matrix weighting term to tighten the geometry, doesn't effect these H-bond distances much. Reducing the "