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Pavel Afonine

Scientist at LBNL
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[HTML][HTML] Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix

D Liebschner, PV Afonine, ML Baker… - … Section D: Structural …, 2019 - scripts.iucr.org
Diffraction (X-ray, neutron and electron) and electron cryo-microscopy are powerful
methods to determine three-dimensional macromolecular structures, which are required to …

The Phenix software for automated determination of macromolecular structures

PD Adams, PV Afonine, G Bunkóczi, VB Chen… - Methods, 2011 - Elsevier
X-ray crystallography is a critical tool in the study of biological systems. It is able to provide
information that has been a prerequisite to understanding the fundamentals of life. It is also a …

[HTML][HTML] PHENIX: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

PD Adams, PV Afonine, G Bunkóczi… - … Section D: Biological …, 2010 - scripts.iucr.org
Macromolecular X-ray crystallography is routinely applied to understand biological processes
at a molecular level. However, significant time and effort are still required to solve and …

[HTML][HTML] Towards automated crystallographic structure refinement with phenix. refine

PV Afonine, RW Grosse-Kunstleve… - … Section D: Biological …, 2012 - scripts.iucr.org
… j, U local,i and U local,j are the corresponding isotropic ADPs and p and q are empirical
constants. By default, R, p and q are fixed at empirically derived values of 5.0 Å, 1.69 and 1.03, …

[HTML][HTML] Real-space refinement in PHENIX for cryo-EM and crystallography

PV Afonine, BK Poon, RJ Read, OV Sobolev… - … Section D: Structural …, 2018 - scripts.iucr.org
This article describes the implementation of real-space refinement in the phenix.real_space_refine
program from the PHENIX suite. The use of a simplified refinement target function …

[HTML][HTML] Iterative model building, structure refinement and density modification with the PHENIX AutoBuild wizard

…, RW Grosse-Kunstleve, PV Afonine… - … Section D: Biological …, 2008 - iucr.org
The PHENIX AutoBuild wizard is a highly automated tool for iterative model building, structure
refinement and density modification using RESOLVE model building, RESOLVE statistical …

[HTML][HTML] Decision-making in structure solution using Bayesian estimates of map quality: the PHENIX AutoSol wizard

…, RW Grosse-Kunstleve, PV Afonine… - … Section D: Biological …, 2009 - scripts.iucr.org
… probability of r 2 MODEL [p o (r 2 MODEL )] multiplied by the conditional probability [p(skew|r
2 … We calculated the conditional probability p(skew|r 2 MODEL ) in (7a [link] ) from the joint …

[BOOK][B] Automated structure solution with the PHENIX suite

PH Zwart, PV Afonine, RW Grosse-Kunstleve, LW Hung… - 2008 - Springer
Significant time and effort are often required to solve and complete a macromolecular crystal
structure. The development of automated computational methods for the analysis, solution, …

[HTML][HTML] New tools for the analysis and validation of cryo-EM maps and atomic models

PV Afonine, BP Klaholz, NW Moriarty… - … Section D: Structural …, 2018 - scripts.iucr.org
Recent advances in the field of electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) have resulted in a rapidly
increasing number of atomic models of biomacromolecules that have been solved using …

[HTML][HTML] Polder maps: improving OMIT maps by excluding bulk solvent

D Liebschner, PV Afonine, NW Moriarty… - … Section D: Structural …, 2017 - scripts.iucr.org
… These structure factors are then added together, scaled to F obs as described in Afonine
et al. (2013 [Afonine, PV, Grosse-Kunstleve, RW, Adams, PD & Urzhumtsev, A. (2013). Acta …