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Tables for Crystallography Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 3.6, pp. 163-164
Section 3.6.6.3.2. Groups of reflections
P. M. D. Fitzgerald,a* J. D. Westbrook,b P. E. Bourne,c B. McMahon,d K. D. Watenpaughe and H. M. Bermanf
a
Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA,bProtein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA,cResearch Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0537, USA,dInternational Union of Crystallography, 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England,eretired; formerly Structural, Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacia Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, and fProtein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA |
The data items in these categories are as follows:
The bullet () indicates a category key. Where multiple items within a category are marked with a bullet, they must be taken together to form a compound key. The arrow (
) is a reference to a parent data item. Items in italics have aliases in the core CIF dictionary formed by changing the full stop (.) to an underscore (_) except where indicated by the
symbol.
Data items in the REFLNS category of the core CIF dictionary can be used to summarize the properties or attributes of the complete set of reflections used in refinement (Section 3.2.3.2.2
). The mmCIF dictionary adds a number of data items to this category, including the formal category key required by the DDL2 data model. There are also data items for describing the data-reduction method and recording any relevant details about data reduction, and for giving an estimate of the overall Wilson B factor for the data set.
A number of the new data items relate to the issue of how reflections are flagged as being observed and are thus used in the refinement. In the core CIF dictionary, the criteria used to consider a reflection as being observed are given using the data item _reflns.observed_criterion. This is a free-text field so is not automatically parsable. Therefore it is supplemented in the mmCIF dictionary by data items that can be used to stipulate the criterion in terms of the values of F, I or the uncertainties in these quantities (Example 3.6.6.13). The percentage of the total number of reflections that meet the criterion can be recorded.
Example 3.6.6.13. The data set used in the refinement of an HIV-1 protease structure (PDB 5HVP) described using data items in the REFLNS and REFLNS_SHELL categories.
Data items are also provided for describing the selection of the reflections used to calculate the free R factor, and for giving the Rmerge values for all reflections and for the subset of `observed' reflections. Data items in the REFLNS_SCALE and REFLNS_SHELL categories are used in the same way in the mmCIF and core CIF dictionaries, and Section 3.2.3.2.2
can be consulted for details.
As with the related categories DIFFRN_REFLNS_CLASS and REFINE_LS_CLASS, the core dictionary category REFLNS_CLASS was introduced after the release of the first version of the mmCIF dictionary. It provides a more general way of describing the treatment of particular subsets of the observations, but it is not expected to be used in macromolecular structural studies, where partition by shells of resolution is traditional.