Dear Carlos and Phoebe,
the B-value describes the movement of an atom at first order approximation,
i.e. as a harmonic motion. It's very unlikely that an atom that is not visible
in density, discribes a harmonic motion.
It never occurred to me, but modelling disorder by strong B-factor restraints
and refining the occupancy seems quite a good idea and would be a much better
model than an explosion of B-factors.
Coot marks atoms with reduced occupancy, hence there is no extra work required
to visualise reduced occupancy. I am aware that some people use graphics
rendering machinery to work with PDB files instead of a dedicated program like
Coot, but you can never suit everyone.
Best,
Tim
On Monday, October 17, 2016 09:35:02 AM Carlos CONTRERAS-MARTEL wrote:
> Even that occupancy refinement seems to be very interesting for
> crystallographers, I complete agree with Phoebe.
>
> On 10/14/16 17:38, Phoebe A. Rice wrote:
> > Interesting way to look at it. But those loop residues are really in
> > the crystal with an occupancy of 1, so wouldn't letting the B factor
> > fly give a clearer description of what's in the crystal? Especially
> > as many people know to color the structure by B factors to get a feel
> > for which bits are wiggly, but they'll never think to color it by
> > occupancy.
>
> Let them fly ... at least for protein atoms ...
>
> Carlos
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* CCP4 bulletin board [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of
> > Matthias Barone [[log in to unmask]]
> > *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2016 8:00 AM
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> > *Subject:* [ccp4bb] Antw: Re: [ccp4bb] High B factor
> >
> > Picking up the mail of Pavel, Phenix refines occupancies..
> > If you expect the loops to be disordered, did you try to lower the
> > occupancy of these residues, following Ethan Merritt statement that
> > "general uncertainty [...] is represented better by occupancy <1
> > rather than an arbitrary large B factor" (To B or not to B,
> > doi:10.1107/S0907444911028320).
> > If this attempt does not bring the B-factors down, it will surely make
> > the model more accurate, as the atom coordinates of the loops may not
> > be correct at all, no?
> >
> > matthias
> >
> > >>> Pavel Afonine <[log in to unmask]> 14.10.16 9.36 Uhr >>>
> > >>>
> > If you are still worry about your Bfactor, you could try TLS,
> >
> > Or NCS, but SA with MLHL might be better.
> >
> > (A joke).
>
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