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?

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