Hi Mahesh, if you use Refmac, then you can tell it to refine the twin fraction, no need to tell it the twin law as Refmac will figure it out. If you use phenix, you explicitly tell it the twin law and refine then with it. You can get the possible twin laws by running phenix.xtriage and looking at the log file.
For a 1.7 Å dataset you should see excellent holes in the Phe and Tyr, even though your Rfactors are high. If that is the case then you are likely correct with the twin (if nothing else is wrong, Cbeta, Ramas etc). And you did add some waters to your structure already right ? if not the go water picking via Coot. Have you been converted to XDS now ? Welcome to the club. Jürgen On Aug 25, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Mahesh Lingaraju wrote: Hello everyone, I collected a dataset which looked like it is twinned ( or a really long axis in the cell) and did not process in HKL2000 and MOSFLM but with some of help and suggestions from CCP4BB, XDS was able to process it. The data looks good upto 1.7 Å. However, the rfree is stuck at 0.34 even though my model is almost complete. I am beginning to wonder if the data is really twinned as it has the characteristics of non- merohedral twinning: In the images some of the reflections are sharp while some are split and one of the axis in the cell is usually long ( the cell is a= 46.78 b= 46.78 c= 400.34; 90 90 90) is there anyway to work around this ? or collecting better data is the only solution ? Any help is deeply appreciated Thanks Mahesh ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://lupo.jhsph.edu