Dear Crystallographers, Having been repeatedly chagrinned about the continued use and reporting of Rmerge rather than Rmeas or similar, I thought of a potential way to promote the change: what if merging programs would completely omit Rmerge/cryst/sym? Is there some reason to continue to report these stats, or are they just grandfathered into the software? I doubt that any journal or crystallographer would insist on reporting Rmerge per se. So, I wonder what developers would think about commenting out a few lines of their code, seeing what happens? Maybe a comment to the effect of "Rmerge is now deprecated; use Rmeas" would be useful as well. Would something catastrophic happen?
All the best, Jacob Keller ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller, PhD Research Scientist HHMI Janelia Research Campus / Looger lab Phone: (571)209-4000 x3159 Email: kell...@janelia.hhmi.org<mailto:kell...@janelia.hhmi.org> *******************************************
