Dear Eleanor
There was a whole CCP4BB thread "[ccp4bb] Problem of data reprocessing with
XDS" on this last week (started by Yimin Hu on Oct 2).

Cheers

-- Ian


On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM Eleanor Dodson <
0000176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:

> Maybe we need the two BBs to cross fertalise?
> E
>
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 17:52, Rafael Marques <rafael_mmsi...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eleanor,
>>
>> I have been seeing complaints about the new XDS software quite a lot,
>> although I do not remember exactly where. If my memory is not failing me,
>> it is on the phenixbb. They even released a correction for the updated XDS.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>>
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>> *De:* CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> em nome de Eleanor
>> Dodson <0000176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
>> *Enviado:* terça-feira, 8 de outubro de 2024 17:46
>> *Para:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> *Assunto:* Re: [ccp4bb] a twinning question..
>>
>> I think Gerard has probably hit the jackpot. The data was sent to me by a
>> student and here is a bit of the header:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * OPENED INPUT MTZ FILE  Logical Name: HKLIN   Filename:
>> 105456487_mx32736v69_xGSTPBBRETLGHA00BA54831_scaled_unmerged.mtz  * Title:
>>  From XDS file SCALED_SAD_SWEEP1.HKL, XDS run on 19-Sep-2024 from image*
>>
>>
>> I will check what version of XDS was used then but I suspect it is the
>> one recently updated!
>> The structure solves quite well in P212121 and refines to ~ 23%
>> Not good data - not a perfect structure but probably NOT twinned.
>>
>> Can someone warn the community about this?
>>
>> Eleanor
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 17:38, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> PS you'll find a link to a description of all the twinning tests it runs
>> on the server home page.
>>
>> I.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 4:20 PM Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear Eleanor
>>
>> Try submitting it to the STARANISO server?  That does a whole slew of
>> twinning tests (so you can take your pick from sometimes totally different
>> twin fractions from the various tests!).  Also it gives you the twin
>> fraction rather than having you understand how to use the tests!  But I
>> agree that the L test is one of the best, and the server uses a variant of
>> it which gives more accurate estimates of the twin fraction.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> -- Ian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 4:01 PM Eleanor Dodson <
>> 0000176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I have always had great faith in the L test and other statistics to
>> detect twinning..
>> But now I have a puzzling data set.
>> Seems to be orthorhombic with a, b and c  all different
>> One molecule/asymm unit and no NC translation..
>> BUT clear indication of twinning given by second moments, etc..
>>
>> I have seen this before when the spacegroup was actually monoclinic and
>> the pointless analysis of the two fold axes along a b or c showed one was
>> better than the other two and in fact the crystal proved not to be twinned
>> when the data was processed as monoclinic..
>>
>> But in this case no amount of reprocessing gets rid of the twin indicator
>> ..
>> Does anyone have any suggestions of why this might be?
>> ( The data quality isnt great - 2.5A but the Rmerges are reasonable..)
>> Eleanor
>>
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