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This is generally a good idea, but removal of residues is a subjective process, and a little trial and error.  If your sequence searching finds multiple search models you can superimpose them and systematically remove the poorer fitting regions based upon RMSD.  We have built a server for this at http://pxgrid.med.monash.edu.au:8080/mustangserver/
Also see the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010048

This can generate A LOT of search models, so you need a way of testing them all, and possibly varying other parameters (eg in PHASER varying RMSD, space groups to test, clashes).  This can generate >100 runs, so best to be able to use a compute cluster, and some way of queing the jobs (eg MrBump, BALBES etc.  Another solution is here:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010049

hope that helps
Ashley

On 25/05/2010, at 2:52 AM, Jürgen Bosch wrote:

> You've also applied BRAIN 2.0 ?
> 
> I mean looked at homologous structures, superimposed them and decided which parts are to be removed ?
> Never trust programs :-) There could be a flexible alpha helix which if you removed it would have given you in all programs a solution.
> 
> it's Monday,
> 
> Jürgen
> 
> 
> On May 24, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Paul Lindblom wrote:
> 
>> The last molrep job just finished and it found only an odd solution. So I think I will try to get my phases elsewhere. But I am somewhat astonished that there are still enough cases you can't solve by MR.
>> 
>> Thanks to all who replied. Here is a list of servers/programs to find a MR model:
>> 
>> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe-srv/view/
>> 
>> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/fasta33/index.html
>> 
>> http://meta.bioinfo.pl/submit_wizard.pl
>> 
>> XtalPred
>> http://ffas.burnham.org/XtalPred-cgi/xtal.pl
>> 
>> Balbes  http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~fei/balbes/
>> 
>> use the OCA browser for FASTA searches of the PDB
>> 
>> Modeller or Rosetta (both also available as web servers)
>> 
>> ensemble of many proteins with Phaser
>> 
>> FFAS server maintained by the Godzik lab
>> 
>> generate some models using the "Phyre" server   ( http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/~phyre/ )  and feed the best .pdbs into Mr Bump.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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