Dear xia2 users on the CCP4bb,
While we of course welcome any recognition of the use of xia2 in structure depositions and publications, we would like to gently remind users that xia2 uses other software *on your behalf* for example but not limited to XDS, pointless, aimless, mosflm, DIALS, CCP4. Please could you also include the citations for these packages in your publications and depositions, so that the software used on your behalf gets appropriate recognition :)
This is made slightly easier for you as xia2 writes out appropriate citations for the packages it has used as illustrated here
http://xia2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/xia2-citing-software-xia2-has-used.html
If you have found xia2 *and* XDS useful (say) in a PDB deposition where the processing was performed with xia2 -3d, then appropriate text could be
REMARK 200 INTENSITY-INTEGRATION SOFTWARE : xia2/XDS
REMARK 200 DATA SCALING SOFTWARE : xia2/XSCALE
or
REMARK 200 INTENSITY-INTEGRATION SOFTWARE : xia2/MOSFLM
REMARK 200 DATA SCALING SOFTWARE : xia2/AIMLESS
since this would recognise the contributions of the program authors while making it clear that the "blame" for any poor choices made in the processing belonged to xia2.
We appreciate in some cases (not limited to Diamond Light Source) the MTZ file from your data may appear "by magic" and you may not have run the software yourself - even in this case it should be straightforward to find out from the log file, which should be looked at, which packages were used.
We appreciate your help with this, it makes our relationship with other program authors *much* easier.
Thanks & best wishes Graeme
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