OK, thanks to everyone.

The MTZ file can be used, but without the IMEAN and SIGIMEAN entries
included. I could have tried that too.

The SHELX unmerged file option works as well.

Thanks again.

Bernie



On Wed, March 7, 2007 9:58 am, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
> But SOLVE will read an mtz file?
>
> I dont think you need to do this..
> Eleanor
>
> Santarsiero, Bernard D. wrote:
>> Not purely a ccp4 question, but an MTZ file is involved, so stick with
>> me.
>>
>> I've collected a SAD data set, and processed with XDS. I can use XDSCONV
>> to generate an MTZ, SHELX, and CNS file. I chose the MTZ file since it
>> keeps the intensities. SHELX does too (the F**2), but has separate lines
>> for (h,k,l) and (-h,-k,-l). The MTZ file has hkl,IMEAN, SIGIMEAN, I+,
>> SIGI+, I-, SIGI-.
>>
>> I used mtzdump (or could use MTZVARIOUS) to convert this file to a
>> simple
>> ASCII file, and then extracted just the hkl, I+, SIGI+, I-, SIGI-. Since
>> CCP4 fills in all of the reflections in an ASU, I removed those
>> reflection
>> entries with SIGIMEAN = -999.0.
>>
>> I have a file with has some entries with -999 (for the non-measured
>> value), especially those in the centric zones.
>>
>> For SOLVE, does it identify entries with a value of -999 as a
>> placeholder,
>> or should I entirely removed those from the data file? I used the
>> options
>>
>> PREMERGED
>> READFORMATTED
>> READ_INTENSITIES
>>
>> in SOLVE. What if I measured I- but I+? That's why I left them all in.
>>
>> Suggestions on what is best for the solve run? I'm concerned that it's
>> interpretting the -999 as a real measurement.
>>
>> Bernie Santarsiero
>>
>>
>>
>

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