Dear Shantanu, Unfortunately it is well documented that to reliably extract the global parameters, data at 2 or more field strengths is required. For a good review on this, see: d'Auvergne E. J., Gooley P. R. (2007). Set theory formulation of the model-free problem and the diffusion seeded model-free paradigm. Mol. Biosyst., 3(7), 483-494. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b702202f) Or the Korzhnev 2001 review. The problem is that the analysis has trouble distinguishing between the anisotropic and rhombic parts of the diffusion tensor and internal motions, specifically chemical exchange (see Tjandra, 1995) and nanosecond motions (see Schurr, 1994). For the problems you are seeing of the spins being deselected, this looks like structural data from the PDB has not been loaded for that spin. This set up would not work though because when the diffusion tensor is optimised (fixed=False), then the size or dimensionality of the optimisation problem is the sum of diffusion tensor parameters and the model-free parameters for each spin. This is incredibly large, and a grid search would probably only complete after the end of the universe. To reliably obtain the ellipsoid tensor using only single field strength data, you may need to develop new methodology or come up with a new type of data to use in the analysis. This is one reason Modelfree4 from Art Palmer cannot handle an ellipsoid tensor, the program was originally designed with single field strength data in mind. The best option though, if you really cannot collect the full data set, would be to try with an initial diffusion tensor estimate and then perform an iterative optimisation procedure, similar to that described in: d'Auvergne, E. J. and Gooley, P. R. (2008). Optimisation of NMR dynamic models II. A new methodology for the dual optimisation of the model-free parameters and the Brownian rotational diffusion tensor. J. Biomol. NMR, 40(2), 121-133. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b702202f). Some literature research would have to be done for the technique. So more references that go into these problems are given at http://www.nmr-relax.com/refs.html. I'm sorry if this was not of much help. Regards, Edward On 27 May 2011 09:37, Shantanu S. Bhattacharyya Mr <shantanu01@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, I am sorry if my question is too basic but I am trying to get the global parameters to describe the dynamics of my protein and I am not really looking for any spin specific parameters. I have data only at 600 MHz. I thought I could run the model-free.py script using diffusion_tensor.init((9e-8, 0.5, 0.3, 60, 290, 100), fixed=False) But then I get : Over-fit spin deselection. RelaxWarning: The spin ':0' has been deselected because of missing structural data. RelaxWarning: The spin ':1' has been deselected because of missing structural data. RelaxWarning: The spin ':2' has been deselected because of missing structural data. RelaxWarning: The spin ':3' has been deselected because of missing structural data. RelaxWarning: The spin ':4' has been deselected because of missing structural data. RelaxWarning: The spin ':5' has been deselected because of missing structural data. and so on for all my 75 residues. I dont think I can use #diffusion_tensor.init(10e-9, fixed=false) because it complains of a very massive grid search which cannot be run. Is there an easier way to optimise the tm or is there an entirely different approach to get the global parameters for a molecule ? Any guidance will be helpful. Thanks for your time. -- Shantanu S. Bhattacharyya Grad Student, Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University url : http://esesbee.com _______________________________________________ relax (http://nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-users mailing list relax-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-users