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Results analysis

Aria result analysis (version 2.3)
Two types of analysis are performed during an ARIA run. The NMR restraints are analyzed at each iteration, and the obtained conformers are analyzed at the end of the last in vacuo

iteration and at the end of the water refinement step. The restraint and conformer analyses are described below.

 

Analysis of the NMR restraints

 

They are performed at each iteration by CNS, because the sorting of the NMR restraints are based on statistics on the restraints violations. In ARIA, each restraint is the sum of contributions, each contribution beging applied between a pair of nuclei or equivalent nuclei.

At each iteration, the violations and the violation RMS of distance restraints are analyzed, and the most often violated contributions are discarded (see the page Project  to learn more about how to control this process), and new lists of ambiguous and unambiguous distance restraints are produced. During the analysis of the restraints, spectrum peaks having the same contributions are merged. The list of merged peks is an output file of the iteration.

A report file is produced, as well as several files noe_restraints.*, which have the following content:

noe_restraints.ambig  list of ambiguous peaks
noe_restraints.assignments         
 list of all assignments
noe_restraints.merged  list of merged peaks
noe_restraints.rms  NOE restraint RMS violation
noe_restraints.unambig list of unambiguous peaks
noe_restraints.violations list of the distance restraint violations
 noe_restraints.network  list of network-anchoring scores

Each of these file has a header containing more precise information about their content. All files are located into the itxxx directory, where xxx is the iteration number.

 

The report file contains general statistics about the restraints, given for the whole set of restraints as well as for each analyzed spectrum. In particular, for each spectrum, the histogram of the contribution to each peak is given. An example of report file can be found here

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In the directory graphics contained in each directory it, one can find several encapsulated postscript files. The file contents are the following:


rms_analysis.ps  
the complete analysis of the RMS violation per residue.

If the Network-Ancoring as been use, additional files can be foud:

network_dist.ps  
Distributions of the network anchoring scores.
network_2D.ps  2D plot of the network anchoring scores.

 

For the last iteration and the water refinement, profile of Whatifs scores along the residue sequence can be found in:

whatif_profiles.ps

 

 

The floating chirality assignment is used to assign the chemical shifts of the two substituents of a prochiral center stereospecifically. In proteins, these are the two methylene protons or the methyl protons of the isopropyl groups of valine or leucine. A resonance matching one of the chemical shifts in the proton dimensions potentially involves either of the two prochiral substituents. ARIA compensates this lack of information by testing both alternatives during structure calculation. For each calculated conformer conf.pdb, the energetically preferred options are written to a file conf.float

, which is located in the corresponding structure/itxxx directory.

 

 

Analysis of the conformers by CNS

 

An analysis of the conformer geometry and of the restraint violation is performed by CNS for the last iteration in vacuo, on the best-energy conformers. The number of selected conformers is an input of the project. The results files are stored in the directory analysis of the last iteration, and the CNS output files are stored in the directory analysis/cns.

The .viol files contain the analysis of the violation per restraint for each conformer analyzed. The .pdb files are the conformers superimposed to minimize the RMSD, and the ave.pdb file is the mean conformattion.

The .disp files contain the analysis results:

cop.disp circular order parameter
couplings.disp violation statistics on J coupling restraints
dihedrals.disp
violation statistics on dihedral restraints
energies.disp empirical energies
geom.disp geometry analysis
noe.disp violation statistics on NOE restraints
enerms.disp ensemble RMSD as a function of the number of structures sorted in increasing (total or restraint) energies. calculated on all conformers of the iteration.
rmsd.disp two-by-two RMSD on all conformers of the iteration.
print_dist_all.disp violated distance restraints
print_dist_hbond.disp violated hbond distance restraints on each selected conformer.
print_noe_all.disp violation statistics on NOE distances
print_noe_ambig.disp violation statistics on ambiguous NOE restraints
print_noe.disp violated NOE distances
print_noe_unambig.disp           
violation statistics on unambiguous NOE restraints
ramachandran.disp
ramachandran plot for each selected conformer
rmsave.disp coordinate RMSD value between selected conformers
rmsdseq.disp sequential RMS differences between coordinates
sani.disp violation statistics on residual dipolar couplings

Analysis of the conformers quality

 

 

For the last iteration, and for the refinement step in water, in addition to the restraint analysis, quality analyses of the conformers are performed. According to the specifications in the project file, quality analyses can be performed using PROCHECK, WHATIF or PROSAII. The files obtained with the programs are processed in order to obtain synthetic reports:

 

 

quality_checks Summarization of all quality analyses
quality_checks.tex Summarization of all quality analyses: latex file
quality_checks.procheck Concatenation of the files .sum obtained for each analyzed conformer
quality_checks.whatif Deviation of the WHATIF parameters from their standard values encountered in crystallographic structures
quality_checks.whatif_fulchk           
Full WHATIF report
whatif_profiles Profiles of WHATIF parameters along residue number: mean values, standard deviations, lower and upper bounds for each residue.

From the file whatif_profiles, ARIA produces graphics whatif_profiles.ps, which are located in directory graphics and contain profil plots.

 

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