title: Automatic multiple-zone rigid-body refinement with a large convergence radius.
abstract: Rigid-body refinement is the constrained coordinate refinement of one or more groups of atoms that each move (rotate and translate) as a single body. The goal of this work was to establish an automatic procedure for rigid-body refinement which implements a practical compromise between runtime requirements and convergence radius. This has been achieved by analysis of a large number of trial refinements for 12 classes of random rigid-body displacements (that differ in magnitude of introduced errors), using both least-squares and maximum-likelihood target functions. The results of these tests led to a multiple-zone protocol. The final parameterization of this protocol was optimized empirically on the basis of a second large set of test refinements. This multiple-zone protocol is implemented as part of the phenix.refine program.
authors: Pavel V
authors: PV
authors: Afonine
authors: Ralf W
authors: RW
authors: Grosse-Kunstleve
authors: Alexandre
authors: A
authors: Urzhumtsev
authors: Paul D
authors: PD
authors: Adams