ExcitedStates / qfit-3.0

qFit: Automated and unbiased multi-conformer models from X-ray and EM maps.
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Implement maxpool sampling #420

Closed stephaniewankowicz closed 2 months ago

stephaniewankowicz commented 2 months ago

To reduce the number of conformers needed to sample, we implement an initial round of spare sampling, maxpool the map and model and then sample more finely around the chi angles directed by maxpooling.

We tested this on all individual residues in the test dataset looking for RMSD changes > 0.5 and RSCC changes > 0.2. We only found 4 such examples.

Additionally, the Rfree stays almost exactly the same with 51% of structures having improved Rfree.

One nice feature is that we often end up modeling fewer altlocs per residue.

This will allow us to 1) speed up aromatic sampling (speeds this up by 100x) , 2) start to think about how to implement improved backbone sampling (and still allow extensive sampling in the side chain), 3) allow for this to be implemented with water sampling.

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