A predicted model (AlphaFold mmCIF, pLDDT in the B column) is trimmed at pLDDT 70, given B-factors
from the pLDDT (Oeffner et al. 2022) and placed by molecular replacement, one copy in the ASU:
- rotation function on a uniform 6 deg sampling of the point group's rotation ASU, each orientation
scored by the correlation of E^2 with the symmetry-summed |F|^2 read off the model's molecular
transform, computed once by FFT and interpolated (Navaza 1994);
- full-symmetry Crowther & Blow translation function (one FFT per orientation and group, through
MapFromFPhi/FFTW) for the 50 best orientations in every group with the merge's rotations;
- the best three placements per group through RefineRigidBody (GPU where there is one), bulk solvent
and R-free to 3 A, a C-alpha packing check against symmetry mates, Matthews, and the
random-orientation null for a placed candidate.
Decision: PLACED = TF Z >= 8, clash <= 5%, Vm in [1.5, 4), null >= 3 sd. Within the answer's merge
the placed group with the lowest R-free is chosen where it leads every other packing group by 0.03;
the twin hypothesis' merge is searched, and chosen, only where no group of the answer's merge can
hold the model at all (Matthews, packing). An enantiomorph relabels the answer as --model does;
another group goes to <prefix>_mr.mtz/.cif plus <prefix>_mr_model.pdb; the MODEL PRIOR report
section carries the table. The search runs on the CPU in both builds; without --af-model nothing
changes.
Measured (RTX 5080, MR step): 3r6o twin I41 chosen over I4122 (Matthews + clash) in 1.8 s, solution
0.09 A CA rmsd from Phaser's; 11if P41 -> P43 1.2 s; 7ris P3121 -> P3221 1.7 s; 9zmu P6122 -> P6522
4.7 s; 11if's model against 3r6o's data NOT_PLACED.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EizBKhTqrAYago9KJG3dA3
