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Chapter 4

Preparing the BUSTER input

Copyright © 1995-2004 by   Eric Blanc, Pietro Roversi, Clemens Vonrhein,
Gérard Bricogne and the Buster Development Group.
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Contents


Introduction

Notation: some control parameters are only visible/available if you defined yourself at the apropriate User Level: here we will use different colour coding for the levels
     Standard (or above),
     Advanced (or above),
     Expert.
 

If it is the first time you are using BUSTER on this data, filling in the input form will require some time and concentration. We will now have a closer look at the ingredients of a typical calculation in order to make you more familiar with the terminology and to describe in more practical terms what actually happens inside the programs.

This information will be presented in the form of instructions on how to prepare the input for BUSTER through the Graphical User Interface BUFFET. The graphical user interface is needed in order to impose the right hierarchical order and guide the user with on-line help (in the form of hyperlinks). In this way, you will avoid most of the logical inconsistencies and typing errors usually associated with free-format ASCII file editing.

Recall the main ingredients which specify your current "model":

  • a PDB file describing the current partial structure, for which we will use the symbol PDBFRG;
  • the fractional volume (solvent content), mean electron density and temperature factor of the solvent region.
  • the (optional) definition of NCS operators in TNT format
  • if you decide to declare the presence of some missing atoms, you need to specify their distribution and chemical composition in one of two ways:

    • with prior knowledge of the location of these missing atoms - give the chemical composition of the pool of missing atoms, and then use either
      • a PDB file specifying the envelope for the whole molecule (fragment + missing atoms), for which we will use the symbol PDBNUP, or
      • a CCP4 MAP file to compute the envelope for the whole molecule (fragment + missing atoms), for which we will use the symbol MAPNUP.

    • without any knowledge about the location of these missing atoms - just give the chemical composition of the pool of missing atoms, and select prior based "On current phases".

Besides these ingredients specifying the model, we have an MTZ file containing

  • observed amplitudes and their standard deviations
  • (optionally) some Hendrickson-Lattman coefficients describing experimental phase information
  • an integer flag value for use in cross-validation (to distinguish working and test set).

If you compute the envelope for the missing atoms from a map, it is also useful to have figure-of-merit (FOM) in the MTZ file.

Note :  all MTZ and PDB files used for BUSTER need to be present in the $BDG_datafiles directory before the input form script is called.


Field-by-field description of the input page


General

 

   Job ID

 
      

The Job ID string will be used in generating a name for the BUSTER job and a name for the subdirectory of the logfiles directory in which all relevant files and output will be placed.

A given crystallographic problem will need several runs of refinement/completion, possibly some trial-and-error model updates, etc. Our convention is to give the same name (the stem) to all these runs, and increment an ordinal number as an extension. The stem can be modified in the field following "JobID". For example, if you choose MissingLoop as your job ID, your successive runs of the MissingLoop job will be named MissingLoop.1 , MissingLoop.2 etc.


   Title

 
   

The title (limited to one line only) is there to remind you what is specific to the calculation you are currently undertaking. Keep in mind that the graphical interface makes it very easy to generate many different jobs. You will need the title to sort out which is which.

For these reasons, the first few words of the title will appear in the popups alongside with the JobID. The title will also appear in the LIST.html logfile, and also beside the <jobID>.<run number>.crd field in the list of previous runs from which new runs can be prepared through the Prepare run button.


   Comments

 
   

A box of free-format text is provided for detailed annotations pertaining to this job. It is recommended to make use of this feature to document the various BUSTER jobs, as the details may quickly fade out of memory with time.


Diffraction data

 

   Datafile

 
      

Select the MTZ file containing your data. Remember (see Preparing MTZ files for BUSTER) that all the measurement info has to be included in a multi-column MTZ file. If the file is present in the datafiles directory, if it is readable by the 'buster' account, and if it has the right extension (.mtz), it will be listed in this menu.

Compulsory columns are: structure factor amplitudes, their sigmas and FreeR_flag. Optional columns are: Hendrickson-Lattman coefficients. The labels present in the MTZ file can be chosen from the input form.


   Lower and upper resolution limits

 
   

These are used for accepting reflexions from the input MTZ file. Any reflexion outside the resolution limits input at this stage will not be used in any of the subsequent calculations.


   MTZ labels

 
   

MTZ Label for F Select the label for the column containing the
observed F's.
Make sure that it is indeed present in the MTZ file.
Default value: FP
MTZ Label for SIGF Select the label for the column containing the
observed standard deviation for the F's.
Has to be present in the MTZ file.
Default value: SIGFP
MTZ Label for FreeR_flag Select the label for the column containing the
integer flag to distinguish working and free set.
Has to be present in the MTZ file.
Default value: FreeR_flag
MTZ Label for HL A Select the label for the column containing the
Hendrickson-Lattmann A coefficient for external phase information (if any).
Optional
Default value: HLA
MTZ Label for HL B Select the label for the column containing the
Hendrickson-Lattmann B coefficient for external phase information (if any).
Optional
Default value: HLB
MTZ Label for HL C Select the label for the column containing the
Hendrickson-Lattmann C coefficient for external phase information (if any).
Optional
Default value: HLC
MTZ Label for HL D Select the label for the column containing the
Hendrickson-Lattmann D coefficient for external phase information (if any).
Optional
Default value: HLD


   FreeR_flag for the test set

 
   

Set the FreeR_flag of the subset of reflexions to be used as a test set for cross validation. Only the integer values present in the FreeR_flag column of the MTZ file are valid options. The default value is FreeR_flag=0.

If your starting point is a structure refined with CNS, you are likely to have set FreeR_flag=1. The sftools call issued at the outset will perform the change of FreeR_flag in the working MTZ file, so that the CCP4 standard FreeR_flag=0 is attributed to your free set. Just watch out for the numbers of free-/working-set reflexions in the LIST.html file, to confirm that it is correct.


Structural model

 
  This section of the input defines the structure in terms of three components:
  • The partial structure, or `fragment': this is the part of structure for which there is a PDB model and that can be subjected to refinement with TNT;

  • The missing structure: this is the part of structure for which an atomic model does not exist yet. The scattering from this part is modelled in BUSTER with real-space low-resolution distributions.

  • The bulk solvent.
 

   Partial structure

 
      

  • Fragment file

    Select the PDB file specifying the partial structure which is to be subjected to ML refinement (see Chapter 2,  Task 1), or is to be kept fixed but used as a source of phase information in a ME completion calculation (see Chapter 2,  Task 2).

    This file must reside in your datafiles directory and its name must end with .pdbfrg or simply .pdb in order to be listed in the scrolling menu for selection.

  • TNT Sequence file

    Sequence of the refined fragment in TNT format. This file can be produced during data preparation by the script: $BDG_home/bin/buster/pirToSeq.pl. The script relies on the presence of a perl version 5 in /bin/perl.

    The script is only a preliminary attempt at easing the task of setting up the TNT sequence file. It reads an ASCII sequence file in pir sequence format (pir format in a nutshell: the first line begins with >, the second line can contain anything; the one-letter code sequence follows, terminated by an asterisk).

    The script can be executed from the unix shell:

    $BDG_home/bin/buster/pirToSeq.pl <file.pir>
    		      <file.seq>
    The script will ask you to specify the number of copies of the molecule in the a.u., and the chain labels you want to give to each molecule.

    The output file file.seq is a basic TNT sequence file; you will need to inspect it visually and possibly edit it, for example when:

    • ligands (either covalently bonded to the macromolecule or not ) are present in your fragment PDB file: you will need to add a RESIDUE card for each ligand; for covalently linked residues, you will need to define the link as well;
    • there is more than one molecule of different sequence in the a.u., for example heterodimers or AB complexes with A and B different: you will need to run the script for each molecule, and paste the sequence files together;
    • you have disulphide bonds: in which case you will need to add the SS link to the appropriate Cysteine RESIDUE cards.

    Running pirToSeq.pl with the -s flag allows you to give the starting residue a number different from 1 - this is very useful if your PDB and the 1-letter sequence have a different numbering, eg. if the N-terminal residue in your PDB has sequence number -2, you go:

    pirToSeq.pl -s -2 protein.pir protein.seq

    Don't forget to move the protein.seq file to the datafiles directory.

    If you want to be able to add many molecules, e.g. solvent ones, without the need for updating the sequence file every time you add one, you can add the description of your molecule in ASSUME cards in the file $BDG_tntdata/assume.dat.

 
      
  • Fragment radius

    The radius in Å entered here is used to mask around the PDB model selected as a partial structure, when this model is to be excluded from the whole molecule mask (to obtain the missing atoms prior distribution; see  Appendix B).
 
      
  • Electron density of molecule

    The mean electron density of the molecule (about 0.425 el.s/Å3 for proteins and 0.60 for nucleic el.s/Å3 acids) given here is only used to guess a volume for the macromolecule when the envelope for the missing atoms is defined based on a map.
 

   Missing atoms structure

 

      Missing atoms chemical composition

   
       The chemical and thermal composition of the pool of "missing atoms" in the asymmetric unit must be input as follows: for each type of atom, enter on one single row:
  • the atomic symbol
  • the number of such atoms in the asymmetric unit
  • their mean B factor
  • the standard deviation s(B) of their B factor around its mean value

The mean B values should not be more than 1.5 times the average B value of the atoms in the PDB file for the partial structure. A sensible choice for the esd's of these B factors is usually 10% of the value of the average B itself.

   
       BUSTER implements four alternative techniques to calculate the prior distribution for the missing atoms. Choose one and only one of the following:
  • Uniform prior: the missing atoms are supposed to be uniformly distributed in all the volume not occupied by the partial structure. This is the preferred regime in case of refinement of almost complete structure.

  • Prior based on the current phases: a first BUSTER job is run to perform scaling with a uniform prior (as above); then a second calculation follows, with a missing atoms envelope computed from the BUSTER electron density map just computed. This is usally selected when a significant amount of scattering matter is still absent from the fragment.

 
   
      
  • PDB-based prior: the missing atoms are distributed in an envelope defined by the difference between two masks: one mask around a PDB file and another one around the partial structure( see Appendix B for more details).
 
   
      
  • Map-based prior: the missing atoms envelope is computed from an electron density read from a CCP4-format map;
 
 

      Prior based on the current phases

 
             The program will run a cycle of scaling, compute phases from a model where the missing atoms are uniformly distributed in the unit cell (but not in the fragment regions) and base the missing atoms envelope on the map obtained with these phases. A crucial parameter is the fractional solvent content which is used to assess the volume the missing atom envelope should take up.
 

      Uniform prior

 
             The program will compute a binary mask around the PDB file for the fragment, negate it to have a mask that extends in all regions but the ones occupied by that PDB, and then blur the resulting mask. The missing atoms are therefore assumed to be anywhere but where the fragment is.
 

      PDB-based prior

 
            

Select the PDB file specifying those atoms to be used in creating a binary mask for the region containing the whole molecule. This file must reside in your datafiles directory, it must be readable from the `buster' account, and its name must end with .pdbnup or simply .pdb.

The atoms in this file will typically consist of the atoms of the partial structure where reliably known, plus some possibly unreliable structure for the purpose of defining the region where uninterpretable density lies. If you specify 'None', a uniform prior will be used; this distribution is obtained from a uniform distribution in the whole unit cell, but excluding the volume around the fragment atoms.

Around each of these PDB files, a mask can be drawn; the parameters to draw the mask, and to blur it when necessary, can be selected by the user using the selection boxes next to list of availables PDB files.

The Radius is the radius in Å used to mask around the prior-defining PDB file; the Blurring factor defines the temperature factor used to blur the binary mask around the same PDB file.

For more detailed discussion of these quantities see  Appendix B.

 

      Map-based prior

 
            

If no PDB file is available for the part of structure that is missing, a mask for it can be still computed based on the electron density computed from the current phases or a user-supplied map. The technique implemented here is based on Fermi-Dirac distributions and is described in full detail in our Acta Cryst. D paper.

The map which is filtered to define the prior region can be selected by the user or can be automatically generated based on the current phases. In both cases, the parameters in this sections will be used.

 
             To select an external map for filtering, it must be in the CCP4 format, and covering the whole unit cell.specifying the electron density in the whole unit cell which is to be used to calculate the prior. The map file must reside in your datafiles directory and its name must end with .mapnup or simply .map in order to be listed in the scrolling menu for selection.
 
             The parameters to compute the mask can be selected by the user using the selection boxes next to list of availables map files. The filter parameters available to the user are:
  • The choice between rectify/square refers to the operation performed on the result of the high-pass filter; it need not be changed from its default (square).

  • High-pass filter

    Here are the input parameters to the (optional!) high-pass filtering stage used whan drawing the missing atoms envelope starting from an electron density map. Both the radius and the blurring factor can be left to the default values of zero, which amounts to base the calculation of the prior on the local values of the electron density rather than on its local fluctuation.

    If you want an envelope based on the local fluctuation of the density, as is the case when the low-resolution components of the map are not to be trusted, then the high-pass filtering stage is necessary, and the radius and Blurring factor can be changed. The Radius here is the radius of the sphere used for the local averaging; make sure that the value is larger than the one chosen for the low-pass filter (see below). The Blurring factor is the one of the Gaussian used for the local averaging. Values between 50 and 100 should be appropriate.

  • Low-pass filter

    Here, the parameters that are used to draw the missing atoms envelope starting from the (optionally high-pass filtered) electron density map are entered. The Radius is the radius of the sphere used for the local averaging; use values larger than or equal to the resolution of the dataset in Å (e.g. for a 2.0 Å dataset, values of Radius >= 2.0 will do). The Blurring factor is the one of the Gaussian used for the local averaging. Values between 10 and 50 should be appropriate.

 
 

   Bulk solvent model

 
    The bulk solvent contribution is specified by its solvent fraction. The value obtained after optimisation of the solvent contents in SHARP is a good guess. Otherwise, it can be estimated from the CCP4 program matthews, or either of Bernhard Rupp's or Duncan McRee's applet servers.

An estimate of the uncertainty associated with this solvent fraction also needs to be given.

 
    By default, the fragment file is used to calculate a solvent envelope.
 
    BUSTER implements alternative techniques to calculate the distribution of the bulk-solvent scattering. Choose one and only one of the following:
  • None: no contribution from the bulk solvent to the structure factors will be calculated.

  • From a PDB: Select the PDB file specifying those atoms to be used in creating a binary mask for the bulk-solvent envelope. This file must reside in your datafiles directory, it must be readable from the `buster' account, and its name must end with .pdbnup or simply .pdb.

    This file should define the whole region of ordered atoms. It will typically consist of all ordered atoms (the partial structure) as well as atoms in the (yet) uninterpreted region. Therefore, it will be identical to either the PDB file used for tracing the missing atoms prior or (if no missing atoms are present) the fragment file.

    The parameters for blurring the solvent mask are:

    • The Radius is the radius in Å used to mask around the solvent-defining PDB file. The binary mask around the PDB model above is then converted into a smooth blurred distribution.

    • The Blurring factor defines the temperature factor used to blur the binary mask.

    For more detailed discussion of these quantities see  Appendix B.

    The blurred mask is dressed with a chemical composition which parameters are under user's control. Those parameters are:

    • Electron density of solvent [el.s/Å3]

      This is the mean electron density for the solvent (about 0.33 electron per cubic Ångstrom for water). In presence of good low-resolution data, this value can be refined by means of the scaling options below.

    • Solvent temperature factor [Å]

      A mean B factor Bsolv for the solvent atoms (typically 150 to 300 squared Ångstroms).

    The blurred mask around the solvent-defining file is than stored in the file babslv, and the Babinet principle is used to compute the bulk solvent structure factors.
 

Scaling

 
  These check boxes activate the Maximum Likelihood refinement of scaling parameters for the individual components of the BUSTER model. The various scale parameters are:
  • For the partial structure :

    • Imperfection B-factor

      An imperfection B factor will be refined for the contribution to the structure factor from the missing atoms; the parameters attenuates the structure factor from the missing atoms and increases the associated variance (see chapter5). This parameter is refined in most circumstances.

  • For the missing part :

    • Relative scale parameters

      A scale factor and an overall B factor will be refined for the contribution to the structure factor from the missing atoms. When the amount of matter declared in the chemical composition of the missing atoms is very small, the scaling of the random atoms may be unstable. In such cases, you may want to disable the refinement of the relative scale parameters for the random atoms. These parameters will adjust any initial estimates you will have made for the number and B factors of the missing atoms; it is safer to activate this refinement when the initial value for the number of missing atoms is in excess of the actual number.

      If the values of the relative scale factor for the random atoms are smaller(larger) than 1 in the scaling output file, it means that the number of missing atoms was under(over)estimated.

    • Imperfection B-factor

      An imperfection B factor will be refined for the contribution to the structure factor from the missing atoms. The parameters attenuates the structure factor from the missing atoms and increases the associated variance (see chapter5).

      You may want to turn the refinement of this parameter off when there are very little declared missing atoms, and if the scaling is unstable.

  • For the bulk solvent :

    • Relative scale parameters

      A scale factor and an overall B factor will be refined for the contribution to the structure factor from the bulk solvent region. This parameter will correct the input value for the solvent electron density. It is safe to refine this parameter if you have low-resolution data and you can trust them.

    • Imperfection B-factor

      An imperfection B factor will be refined for the contribution to the structure factor from the bulk solvent. The parameters attenuates the structure factor from the bulk solvent and increases the associated variance (see chapter5).

 

TNT Maximum Likelihood Refinement

 
  During refinement, BUSTER interacts with TNT (Tronrud, 1997), which provides for the stereochemical restraints, the minimiser and optionally handle Non-Crystallographic Symmetry (NCS). Some parameters are required to drive TNT modules, and are defined in this last section of the input. Additional information can be found in the TNT manual and TNT guide and in Chapter 3 of this manual

Refinement parameters are grouped in several sections: the minimisation, the weights, the structure definition files, the optional NCS and the databases for stereochemical restraints.

 

   Number of cycles

 
      

Set the number of cycles of ML structure refinement to <value>. Default is value=21, usually enough for a test of good behaviour but rarely sufficient for reaching convergence.

 

   Maximum number of short loops

 
       Set the number of cycles of TNT short loops during ML structure refinement to <value>. Default is value=6, usually enough for reaching convergence.
 

   B factor refinement

 
      

Up to choices are given to the user. Individual B factors can either be

 
      
  • or controlled by the additional commands to the TNT minimiser module SHIFT

    This latter option is provided to give a finer control of the refinement of B factors to the user: parts of the structure can be refined with individual B factors, whereas other parts maintain their B factors fixed.

 

   Occupancy refinement

 
       The occupancy refinement control is implemented as the B factor refinement described above. Turning the refinement of occupancies "on" should not be done, as it will enforce individual refinement of every atom in the structure, which is probably not what you want to do ! (Moreover, this would correlate with the overall scale factor). To refine only the occupanices of selected atoms, the user should select "From interface" and in the additional commands to the minimiser, using CONSTANT cards, fix all occupancies but those to be refined.
 

   Additional commands for the minimiser

 
       The user can input lines to set parameters for the TNT minimiser SHIFT. The user is referred to the relevant pages of the TNT manual. Some useful commands that can be inserted in this window are:
  • MAXSHIFT, which trims the parameter shifts to a given value,
  • RANGE, which is used to define an allowed range for atomic parameters. Atoms outside the allowed range of B-factors are removed from the refinement, so if you want to keep high atoms with high B, just push to upper limit higher.
  • CONSTANT, to fix selected atomic parameters.
  • COMBINE is used to perform rigid body refinements. In this case, the curvature will be descarded, as TNT doesn't use them during rigid body refinement.
 

   Weights

 
       Sets the weight of the X-ray residual (here, the log-likelihood gain). For the X-ray residual term, the default value is 3.0. Note that this weight is not at all on the same scale as that for least-squares refinement. As a guide, a weight of around a few units (say, 2 to 10) proves to be optimal, but this depends a lot on resolution, on the incompleteness of the partial structure, and on whether external phase information is available or not. The automatic adjustment of this weight has been planned but is not yet available. N.B. A lower value of the X-ray weight corresponds to tighter geometrical restraints.
 

   Non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS)

 
       NCS can be imposed as a constraint (hard NCS) or as a restraint (soft NCS). When restrained, a weight must be applied, roughly equal to the inverse of the square of the expected rms deviation between NCS-related copies. These two complementary approaches of handling NCS are not mutually exclusive: they can be used simultanously in the refinement (for example using constraints bewteen reasonably identical domains, but leaving more flexibility to the hinge region between domains, thus applying only restrained NCS to this latter region).
  • Soft (restrained) NCS

    For soft NCS, only the part of the structure to be restrained by NCS must be included, in the form of a TNT file bearing the extension .ncssoft.

  • Hard (constrained) NCS

    Constrained (hard) NCS files (with extension .ncshard) must contain the definition of the region to be constrained, but also the definition of the NCS operators in TNT format, in in TNT reference frame. Note that the TNT program ncs will produce those operators.

 
       The weights for the various classes of stereochemical restraints can also be set.,
 
 

   Stereochemical restraints libraries

 
       By default, the Engh and Huber (Engh and Huber, 1991) database, (csdx_protgeo.dat) and the TNT database for non-bonded contacts (contact.dat) and restraints on B-factors (bcorrel.dat) are  listed. Restraints for nucleic acids (nuclgeo.dat) or co-factors can be added when needed. Ligand stereochemical restraints can be created using the preliminary script $BDG_home/bin/buster/createTNTDict.sh.

Restraints databases can be fetched from the BDG distribution of TNT in $BDG_tntdata, or from the user's data files $BDG_datafiles.

 
 

   TNT connectivity file

 
       You can point here to a local, customised TNT connectivity file, containing TNT CONNECT cards. The file defines the link type between a given pair of residues, based on their residue type. The default is the connect.dat file distributed with TNT.
 

   TNT conversion file

 
       You can point here to a local, customised TNT label conversion file. The file contains TNT CHANGE cards that are used to change the type of an atom, residue, or chain to some other type. Typically, it helps redefining the metal ion name labels. The default is the pdb_fixup.dat file distributed with TNT.
 

Maximum Entropy Completion

 
  The Maximum Entropy Completion will create details within the broad envelope defined by the prior. It is useful to complete partial model, and should only be used when the residual maps on and around the partial structure are reasonably devoid of features, i.e. the partial structure model is reasonably good.
 
  The user can provide the following parameters :
  • Resolution limits

    These resolution limits are used in ME completion in order to restrict the active use of Lagrange multipliers to a lower resolution than that of the full dataset. It usually a good idea not to use all the reflexions in the dataset, but to limit the MaxEnt maps to a lower resolution (default is cutoff at 1.25*high resolution limit of the data). The upper resolution can then be gradually extended towards the maximum resolution of the dataset as you grow more confident of your phases.

 
 
  • FOM Threshold

    The reflexions used during Maximum Entropy completion are also filtered according to their figure of merit:all reflexions whose FOM is higher than the FOM threshold are included in Maximum Entropy completion (under the condition, of course, that they fall into allowed resolution limits).


Keywords

 
  Here you can enter more detailed control information as strings of the form
  keyword
or
  keyword=value
(no internal blank spaces in the last form!) separated by blank spaces:
 
 
BSSTHR=<value> The stopping criterion for the iterative Bayesian Score maximisation to compute the distribution for the missing atoms is the Bayesian Score fractional change: when this quantity falls below the threshold the calculation stops. The default threshold value is set using this keyword, to <value>*0.001. The default value is set to 5, giving a threshold of 0.005 - this is a value chosen empirically on the basis of test runs.

You might want to change the threshold if you notice that the Bayesian Score in the file unimod<shell#>.html starts decreasing at some point: a smaller value of BSSTHR (say, 1) will carry the fitting further. You can check at what value to set it by reading the value of the Bayesian Score fractional change at cycle for which the Bayesian Score reached its maximum.

 
BYPORI This option bypasses the automatic origin definition. It should always be present.
 
MLNORM This option triggers extra output from the scaling
 
NOABCD You might select this for instance in order to compare the results of ML refinement with and without experimental phase information. For a production run, of course, you would not normally select this option.
 
NOBREF This keyword should be there when the refinement of individual B factors for the atoms in the partial structure is set "on": NOBREF will then inhibit the refinement of the overall B.

If the refinement of individual B factors in the partial structure is switched off (e.g. when performing rigid body refinement or refinement with low-resolution data only), then this keyword is absent, and an overall B factor is refined and used to correct the individual B's of the partial structure at each cycle.

 
USESIG This option tells BUSTER to add the sigma(Fobs) from the MTZ file to variance computed from the error model for each reflexion. You should normally have this keyword on, unless:
  1. the (Fobs,Fobs+sigma) correlation coefficient curve shows a great loss of correlation due to noise in the data at high resolution

      - AND -

  2. the loss of correlation (Fcalc,Fxpct) larger than the (Fcalc,Fobs) at high reolution.
If both these conditions are met you might profit from switching USESIG off.
 
FILTER This keyword switches on debugging messages from the BUSTER code.
 
SILENT This keyword switches on verbose output from the CCP4 map and mtz handling routines.
 
NOJAVA All plots (in PLOTMTV format) will be linked directly, without making use of the (JavaScript driven) selection of Java applet versus PLOTMTV. If you get p-roblems looking at the various plots from within your browser it might be a good idea to include this keyword here.
 

Job submission

 
  Once all the required information has been entered, you choose to Submit the calculation, or just to save the contents of the form (card files); in this case, you can submit the calculation using the Restartoption from the main control panel. On the contrary, upon submission a hyperlink will be displayed, leading you straight to the newly created subdirectory of your logfiles directory which will contain the output from this BUSTER job.

The user can select a cleanup script to be run after a successful run of BUSTER. This will remove many output files of lesser importance. The selection of files to be deleted can be done under user's control, from the preferences panel.


References

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