Hi Eric, I've been trying to run Phenix.model_vs_data on the whole PDB. That program > requires MTZ format, >
not true, you can give it reflection date in CIF format as you get it from PDB. > I've tried (with multiple versions of Phenix) to use Phenix.cif_as_mtz to > perform the conversions, but that's been a less than satisfying experience. > It runs rather slowly, > I just tried it myself on one of the largest data sets, and it took a few seconds. Is that the time scale that you call 'slow'? > and for reasons I haven't yet deciphered, it fails to convert in about 50% > of cases. It's not clear to me how much of the problem is rooted in the > program vs. my own mistakes. Regardless, I can't afford to lose more time > fighting with cif_as_mtz, > At the time I was writing phenix.model_vs_data paper I was able to convert more than 95% of entries... (I guess 97% or so to be precise). I would say that troubles you face are a good reason to talk to developers of respective problems (off list). Good luck, Pavel
