Just looked at the algorithm, how it stores the average "non-spot"
through all the images.
What happens with dataset where the "non-spot" (e.g. background) changes
systematically through the dataset, i.e. anisotropic datasets or thin
crystals lying flat in a thin loop? How much worse is compression for that?
Cheers
phx
On 07/05/2010 06:07, James Holton wrote:
> Ian Tickle wrote:
>> I found an old e-mail from James Holton where he suggested lossy
>> compression for diffraction images (as long as it didn't change the
>> F's significantly!) - I'm not sure whether anything came of that!
>
> Well, yes, something did come of this.... But I don't think Gerard
> Bricogne is going to like it.
>
> Details are here:
> http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/lossy_compression/
>
> Short version is that I found a way to compress a test lysozyme
> dataset by a factor of ~33 with no apparent ill effects on the data.
> In fact, anomalous differences were completely unaffected, and Rfree
> dropped from 0.287 for the original data to 0.275 when refined against
> Fs from the compressed images. This is no doubt a fluke of the excess
> noise added by compression, but I think it highlights how the errors
> in crystallography are dominated by the inadequacies of the electron
> density models we use, and not the quality of our data.
>
> The page above lists two data sets: "A" and "B", and I am interested
> to know if and how anyone can "tell" which one of these data sets was
> compressed. The first image of each data set can be found here:
> http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/lossy_compression/firstimage.tar.bz2
>
> -James Holton
> MAD Scientist
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