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On 20/07/10 20:11, Tim Stevens wrote:
>> in the NOE Contributions panel, how are the Total Weighted Combined
>> deltas calculated? Is the distance included? Can I use it a a somehow
>> "hard" criteria for the assignment? Or is it more a guideline?
> 
> This is the tolerance weighted shift delta. Distance is not included.
> 
> The actual calculation is to take the shift difference for each dimension 
> and divide by the tolerance for that dimension (normalise to be <= 1.0). 
> All dimensions are then combined by taking the square root of the sum of 
> squares, i.e. to give a "shift distance". The maximum will be 
> sqrt(numDims). As long as your shift tolerances are set appropriately it 
> can be used as a "hard" criterion.
> 
> In contrast, structure distances are included, if available, in the 
> default table rank/order but the underlying absolute value for this is not 
> especially meaningful.
> 
> T.

Thanks for the explanation, Tim.

justin

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Justin Lecher
Institute for Neuroscience and Biophysics
ISB 3 - Institute for structural biochemistry
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