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Low-resolution molecular replacement using a six-dimensional search.

Qun Liu·Arthur J Weaver·Tao Xiang·Daniel J Thiel·Quan Hao
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A parallel-aware program MPI_FSEARCH has been implemented to perform molecular replacement using an exhaustive six-dimensional search. In particular, the program can be used to deal with diffraction data at very low resolution (d > 10 A) that would normally not be appropriate for other molecular-replacement programs such as AMoRe and CNS. Although an envelope constructed from a PDB (Protein Data Bank) file was tested in the present study, the program can be used to perform low-resolution molecular replacement with an envelope derived from various sources such as electron microscopy or small-angle solution X-ray scattering.

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Qun Liu, Arthur J Weaver, Tao Xiang, Daniel J Thiel, Quan Hao. 2003-05-23. Low-resolution molecular replacement using a six-dimensional search.. https://doi.org/10.1107/s090744490300739x

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