Hi

It's possible (though Garib has told me you shouldn't do it...) to integrate 
using anisotropic limits with Mosflm - it's pretty straightforward. Some users 
have told me it really helped.

On 12 Nov 2014, at 21:26, Robert Keenan wrote:

> 
> 
> I have three datasets of varying quality collected from different regions of 
> a single crystal. In each case, the data are anisotropic (from Aimless using 
> CC1/2>0.5):
> 
> Dataset 1:  3.5, 3.5 5.5 A
> Dataset 2:  4.2, 4.3, 4.8 A
> Dataset 3:  3.7, 3.9, 4.4 A
> 
> I initially took a simple-minded approach and processed each dataset at the 
> appropriate resolution limit (set 1: 3.5A; set 2: 4.2A; set 3: 3.7A) using 
> XDS/XSCALE as implemented in xia2. The resulting merged dataset seems fine 
> (albeit with ugly stats in the high-res bins because of the anisotropy), and 
> it allowed me to solve the structure (Rfree/Rcryst ~31/26).
> 
> Now I am wondering if I can improve the maps further by first applying an 
> ellipsoidal truncation (using the UCLA diffraction anisotropy server) and 
> then scaling/merging the three datasets together. However, it seems that the 
> UCLA anisotropy server only allows input of one dataset at a time, and it 
> outputs merged amplitudes. 
> 
> Is there some way to obtain the elliptically truncated but unmerged data for 
> each of the three datasets? 
> 
> More generally, are there preferred strategies for dealing with strongly 
> anisotropic data?
> 
> Bob
> 
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> 

Harry
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