Thanks Andrew, slight feeling of embarrassment now that this was a thread
two weeks ago (though this was off the bottom of the ccp4bb folder and did
not 'google' in my defense... I guess I was also looking in the wrong
place...)

Best wishes, Graeme




On 25 November 2013 11:15, Andrew Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Graeme,
>
> There was a CCP4BB thread about this quite recently (14th Nov 2013). I've
> coped below responses from Edward Berry and Matthew Franklin.
>
> SCALA & AIMLESS have no sigma cutoffs, but TRUNCATE does. According to the
> documentation, reflections with intensities  less than minus 4 standard
> deviations are rejected. However, in the code this seems to be less than
> minus 3.7 standard deviations (rather than 4). So for data that has been
> processed by TRUNCATE, I think that the observed criterion sigma(I) is
> -3.7. This is hard-wired in the code.
>
> It is interesting (perhaps) that this number only seems to be requested
> for PDB depositions processed by RCSB, PDBe do not seem to ask for this (at
> least, not the last time I deposited).
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> Edward Berry:
> As I understand it this refers to the decision whether an observation is
> valid or not, and the default value in HKL suite is -3 sigma (note the
> negative sign). The
> denzo/scalepack manual explains that while it is important not to exclude
> observations
> that are slightly negative due to random errors of measurement, anything
> that comes
> in below -3 sigma is likely to be a fluke and should be discarded.
> I'm not sure whether this refers to measurements before adding partials,
> or to the
> summed full reflection observation.  anyway, I always put -3s for that
> value
> and haven't had any negative feedback from the annotators.
>
> Matthew Franklin:
>
> HKL2000 (Denzo/Scalepack) use I greater than -3 sigma (that's NEGATIVE 3)
> as the observed criterion, so that's what you would put down for this
> entry.  There is another place where you're asked to provide an observed
> criterion for F's used during refinement.  I always put down 0 (i.e. use
> all F's) for this one.
>
> I have no idea what Scala does.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 25 Nov 2013, at 09:21, Graeme Winter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> A xia2 user wrote in asking where to find
>
> 'observed criterion sigma(F)' and 'observed criterion sigma(I)'
>
> in the xia2 logs (i.e. from Scala or Aimless or XSCALE)... I have no idea
> what they are so will struggle to give a helpful answer ;o) and
> surprisingly google was not a lot of use coming up with
>
> *Data processing information* : high and low resolution limits, observed
> criterion sigma (F) cut-off or observed criterion sigma (I) cut-off, number
> of unique measured reflections (all and observed), percent of possible
> reflections observed, R-merge I (observed) or R-sym I (observed), details
> about the highest resolution shell
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance & best wishes, Graeme
>
>
>

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