Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Randy John Read
Hi Huw, When I was at the workshop, I have to admit that after ccp4i2 refused to do it I switched to Phenix and used phenix.reflection_file_converter! It would be better if i2’s reindex or change spacegroup task didn’t refuse, and I guess this might improve after the overly-zealous consistency

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Huw Jenkins
Hi Randy, > On 23 Feb 2024, at 11:49, Randy John Read wrote: > > Why would we want to impose an arbitrary restriction on users for this > relatively common scenario. If the user has the unmerged data this can be imported into CCP4i2 via the data reduction task and merged in P1. How would you

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Ian Tickle
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:58 AM Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) < 6a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > While I get where you are coming from, it is still from a mathematical > standpoint correct to consider e.g. a tetragonal crystal as monoclinic - > P21 is a subgroup of P43212

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread David Waterman
Hi Harry, I remember the C222/P622 confusion from some of Phil's old slides, and I thought that was an impressive case! It probably appears in a few places on the internet, but one I found just now is slide 15 of this presentation: https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/DLS-2015/course_material/Datareduct

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread David Waterman
Hi Huw, This is tricky because in certain situations the cell parameter esds can get lost. For example if best_unit_cell= has been passed during scaling or merging with DIALS. Or, if cell parameter refinement was done using the LFBGS engine, in which case the esds are not calculated. Cheers David

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Randy John Read
In the recent crystallography workshop in Thailand, we had at least 3 cases brought by participants where we had reason to suspect that the data had been over-merged because of undetected twinning. Often there is more than one possible twinning operator and (as potentially in one of the cases br

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Huw Jenkins
> On 23 Feb 2024, at 09:58, Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > <6a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > so strictly it is possible and correct - if experimentally unlikely - to > have the situation we are discussing here occur. I believe this is only technically possible bec

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Harry Powell
Hi Graeme (I may well have mentioned this when we shared an office) et al I’ll add something from my small-molecule crystallography days, when we used point detectors - so this would be pre-1996 which was the last time I used one of these machines. I don’t remember which structure it was (feel

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
Hi Huw (first: thank to Phil for picking this up; it caused much confusion) While I get where you are coming from, it is still from a mathematical standpoint correct to consider e.g. a tetragonal crystal as monoclinic - P21 is a subgroup of P43212 (say) so strictly it is possible and correct -

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-23 Thread Huw Jenkins
Hi Graeme, > On 21 Feb 2024, at 16:52, Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > <6a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Processing a data set in lower than necessary symmetry e.g. tetragonal as > monoclinic you _cannot_ import the merged MTZ file into i2 because it is > impossible

Re: [ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-21 Thread Phil Evans
That looks like an unnecessarily severe test buried in the i2 library, which maybe should just be a warning. I can probably have a look at it Phil Sent from my iPad > On 21 Feb 2024, at 16:52, Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > <6a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > >  > CA

[ccp4bb] i2 won't accept 90 degree angles in moniclinic

2024-02-21 Thread Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
Tried reporting to i2 dev list but it got bounced - feels like something others may hit so don’t feel _too_ bad sending to the bb with a tiny attachment [cid:CA3CE9EB-841D-41A3-A41E-F79714492B21] Hi Folks Helping someone out with some rather specialist data processing challenges and she hit a