Dear Randy,
Thank you for your quick response. Obviously, you have given this a lot
of thought.
I would like to have the HL coefficients in the phaser output file for
downstream compatibility with density modification programs such as
resolve.
Thank you,
Petr
On 07/03/2013 10:46 AM, Randy Read wrote:
> Dear Petr,
>
> Presumably you're just talking about Phaser for molecular replacement, because Phaser still produces HL coefficients for SAD phasing.
>
> There were two major reasons we made this change. First, the presence of HL coefficients can fool some programs into thinking that you have experimental phase information that is independent of your model, which is not true for phases from molecular replacement. Second, for unimodal sources of phase information like model phases, the HL coefficients are redundant and can be generated from the phase and FOM, e.g. by using the HLCONV command in sftools.
>
> We could easily put this option back in, controlled for instance by setting the VERBOSE flag, if there were a compelling reason. No-one else has complained since we made this change a year ago, but maybe they have been suffering in silence! Could you let us know why you find this feature extremely useful?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Randy Read
>
> On 2 Jul 2013, at 18:41, Petr Leiman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I have just found out that phaser v. 2.5.2 in ccp4 6.3.0-021 does not
>> output columns with HL coefficients. I cannot find a combination of
>> buttons in CCP4i GUI to enable this extremely useful feature. This is
>> the first time I tried phaser in the latest CCP4 release and I am
>> shocked this problem has not been discovered and fixed already. If there
>> is a reason to this new output column behavior, it would be very useful
>> to hear this reason.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Petr
>>
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