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. 2017 Dec 5;25(12):1916–1927. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2017.10.009

Table 1.

Key Validation Metrics Reported in the wwPDB Structure Validation Reports and Used for Percentile Rank Calculation

Metric Details Software Package and References
Rfree cross-validation of goodness of fit between the model and the experimental diffraction data not used for refinement. Applicable to crystallographic structures DCC (Yang et al., 2016)
Clashscore number of too-close contacts in an entry normalized per 1,000 atoms MolProbity (Chen et al., 2010)
Ramachandran outliers fraction of polypeptide residues deemed to have very unusual backbone conformation (<0.5% of those observed in a high-quality reference set) MolProbity (Chen et al., 2010), Maxit (Z.F., https://sw-tools.rcsb.org/apps/MAXIT)
Side-chain outliers fraction of polypeptide residues in non-rotameric side-chain conformations (<0.5% of those observed in a high-quality reference set) MolProbity (Chen et al., 2010)
RSRZ outliers fraction of polypeptide and/or polynucleotide residues that do not fit the electron density well when compared with other instances of the same residues in structures at similar resolution. Applicable to crystallographic structures EDS (Kleywegt et al., 2004)
RNA backbone average score over all RNA nucleotides in the entry indicating the quality of the observed RNA backbone conformation MolProbity (Chen et al., 2010)