This is good to know indeed.
Will improve my teaching now, I also did not know this is now done
automatically. Thanks for pointing it out.

Jan


On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 9:44 PM Kay Diederichs <
kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

> Dear Eleanor,
>
> Thanks for pointing out that CCP4 FreeRflag selects the test set in the
> highest possible symmetry for the crystal class! I didn't know that.
>
> The following sentences (which are somewhat difficult to understand for
> me) in https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/freerflag.html appear to document that:
> "The FreeR_flag is randomly and uniformly distributed
> reflexion-by-reflexion, but, additionally, if the keyword NOSYM is not set,
> all reflections that are equivalent by the symmetry of the point group of
> the twin lattice (assuming the data is twinned), obtain the same flag. This
> includes both the possibility of merohedral and pseudomerohedral twinning.
> In the latter case, the obliquity parameter can be set using the keyword
> OBL."
>
> I wonder since which CCP4 version (or date) this is the default behaviour.
>
> best wishes,
> Kay
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:28:23 +0100, Eleanor Dodson <
> eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >Back to FreeR factors - Phenix, and I believe FreeRflag now select FreeRs
> >in the highest possible symmetry for the crystal class - eh P6/mmm for a
> >trigonal crystal, and expand the set to fill the actual space group. This
> >means the Free R assignment is suitable if later the crystal symmetry is
> >reassigned. But this was not always done in the past so if you are trying
> >to reuse free/work assignments from an old project there are possibilities
> >of not getting this. Maybe the best solution is to just generate a new
> Free
> >R set ?
> >Eleanor
> >
> ...
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