Questions on Remix tool
| Case number: | 845813-2002995 |
| Topic: | Game: Tools |
| Opened by: | gitwut |
| Status: | Open |
| Type: | Question |
| Opened on: | Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 15:34 |
| Last modified: | Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 16:43 |
I'm using Puzzle 1299 as an example and am using client: 20161006-39881adc28-win_x86.
1299_1.png shows the initial position. The remix tool gives 4 ideal loop suggestions that raise questions about how the tool works.
What's odd is that the score for the 4 ideal loops are all lower than the score for the bad loop. Why is that? Is it because of the resulting poor ideality, backbone scores for segment 25? How is it that these can be ideal loops with such bad backbone scores (particularly the bad angles)? See Images 1299_2.png through 1299_5.png for examples.
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It's a little hard to tell just from the screenshots given. The Backbone score is composed of several parts -
Rama, omega, p_aa_pp, angle/atom_pair/coordinate/dihedral/dof constraints.
My guess of what is happening here:
Rama and p_aa_pp are both give evaluations of how well your backbone angles match the sequence that has been assigned. Remix doesn't take your sequence into account when it selects a shape, so it's actually fairly likely that your new shapes will score lower on backbone *until* they are redesigned.
The shape is good, it just might not match the sequence that you already had there.
"redesigbed": do you mean mutated to other AAs (with rama map open to verify the angles)?
Yes, you will need to change your AAs after remixing for the rama maps to be correct (usually).
Interesting, that suggests we should use mutate in any script that does remix, because the remixed poses might not score well until the AAs are changed.
That sounds correct. I believe this is one of the reasons we didn't used to give you remix in prediction puzzles. We ended up doing it anyway, because Rebuild really wasn't any better.
I would appreciate feedback on this from a dev. If it is unexpected behavior, fixing it would make the tool much more useful. If expected, knowing why would be useful as well.