You don't need twinning to invalidate the Rmerge as a criterion for the resolution cutoff, there are other reasons why you should use I/sigma instead. If you process data all the way to 3A, what's the I/sigma in the highest resolution shell?
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 11:28 +0200, fulvio saccoccia wrote: > Dear all, > I have a data set collected at 3A resolution. I processed the data but I > had to cut the resolution at 3.6A for the high value of Rmerge (at 3.6A > it is 0.18). After scaling and MR I realized that my data were twinned. > This is my question: can I reprocess all the data set using all the > reflections up to 3A resolution even if the Rmerge is very high, knowing > that data are twinned? and also, is the Rmerge invalidate by the twinning? -- "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling." Julian, King of Lemurs