Dear BB,

Thanks for all of your helpful and useful comments

Whilst there was some agreement that simulated annealing should be enough to solve any problems, we have taken perhaps the cautious approach.
We have produced a freeR set in the bigger unit cell using reindex as suggested by Eleanor:

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This is easy to do
Reindex 2h,k,l then the cell will double; the FreeR will stay with the
reflection, and you can use those FreeRs to append to your new data in
the scala/truncate GUI.
All the unset ones (2h+1,k,l) will be given new FreeRs and the old ones
transferred.
Eleanor
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Mostly for the reasons as outlines by Ethan:

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One problem with shaking things up as you describe is that if
the original model was refined against higher resolution data
than your new data set, you will probably never get back to
the same model quality as you started with (see the ongoing
discussion in another thread).

And if the new data set is higher resolution, then you face the
same problem in reverse. If you want to take your eventual new,
higher resolution model back into the old cell you want
subsequent refinement to have unbiased Rfree on that end also.

        Ethan
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as we now have higher resolution data (than we had for the small unit cell before) for both the small and doubled unit cell - the highest resolution data is for the doubled unit cell with 4 chains, but we would like to refine in the smaller cell as well at some point for completeness.

As pointed out, there is a straight translation in the larger unit cell (doubled along a), h(odd) 0 0  reflections are weak, and Phenix Xtriage identifies the translation readily.
However, Phaser has correctly positioned 4 chains and we are happily refining in Refmac, so I think that should not be a problem.

Many thanks to all who commented on the BB and off line.

Cheers
Ed



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> Dear BB Sages,
>
> I have a problem where I think I could very easily do the wrong thing.
> And I don't really want to do that...
>
> We have solved a new structure using zinc SAD phases (1 zinc in 27kD, 2 Zn/AU - Shelx, RESOLVE, ARPwARP. Cool.).
> In p21 30 109 65 90 105 90 at 2.5A
>
> However, we have now collected 1.9A data.
> In p21...
> 60 109 65 90 107 90
>
> 4 chains per AU instead of 2 with a doubling of a.
>
> Self rotations with the new data suggest 2 two-folds, one quite near crystallographic.
> It seems that the doubling of the a edge is adding an NCS two-fold that is almost crystallographic.
>
> Now, having refined against the 2.5A data to R/Rfree of about 25/30 we would like to use that model to do MR against the new high res data (We didn't collect Zn peak data for the new crystal - didn't think we'd need it.....). I have done that and found 4 mols with Phaser in about 60 seconds. Still cool.
>
> So, we would like to transfer Free R flags to the new data to avoid refining against what had been labelled as Free R.
> My problem is - how do I do that properly?
> I am worried that some of the working data in the bigger cell will be correlated with Free data via the near crystallographic NCS.
> I clearly don't want to just copy them from the old mtz file with a0
>
> I recall some discussion about this from years ago on the BB but can't find the right threads.
>
> Can anybody point me to the correct way to do this please - I presumably want to label with Free R flags symmetry related Free R labelled reflections from the old data that are related by the new NCS 2-fold (that is close to crystallographic) in the new data. Right?? If I have worded that correctly...
> I am hoping that will make sense to somebody.
>
> I think that the solutions that were recently suggested for lower vs higher symmetry in the same unit cell do not apply here.
>
>
>
> One suggestion has been to do the MolRep, choose new free Rs,  give it all a good hard shake with high temp simulated annealing and hope that any bias is gone.
>
> I'm not sure that I am comfortable with the word "hope" here...
> But, if the consensus of opinion of the wise folk at the BB is that this will pass muster at the point where the charming and delightful referees are commenting on the extremely high impact (obviously :-) manuscript, then I will quote you all!
>
>
> I await your wise words.
>
> Free R. Again. Sorry.
>
>
> Cheers
> Ed
>
>
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> T.Edwards Ph.D.
> Garstang 8.53d
> Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology
> University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
> Telephone: 0113 343 3031
> http://www.bmb.leeds.ac.uk/staff/tae/
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