Hi Boaz, I'm looking for one or several XDS keyword(s) to configure, in order to find the same unit cell that Mosflm found. Thanks, Nicolas On 23/09/2013 15:04, Boaz Shaanan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'configuring XDS the same way', do you mean that you tried to use the results from Mosflm as input to XDS? > If not, it's worth trying. > > Cheers, > > Boaz > > Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. > Dept. of Life Sciences > Ben-Gurion University of the Negev > Beer-Sheva 84105 > Israel > > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan > Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710 > > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: CCP4 bulletin board [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Nicolas Soler [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 5:04 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ccp4bb] tNCS: indexing and EP problems > > Dear experts, > > I am dealing at the moment with a case involving translated NCS copies > of my asymmetric unit along one axis of the unit cell (3 clear > non-origin peaks in the native Patterson). > > I could get Mosflm to find the corresponding big unit cell only after > restricting the "max deviation from integral hkl" parameter to 0.1 and > thus get the majority of the spots under prediction boxes (although the > cell parameters don't look very accurate sometimes). > > I have 2 questions about it : > > 1) Do you know whether it would be possible to configure XDS the same > way, to make it find this enlarged unit cell ? (no success so far...) > > 2) Are you aware of any experimental phasing program making use of the > information provided by the Patterson for finding the substructure? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Nicolas -- Nicolas Soler Roger Williams group MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge CB2 0QH United Kingdom phone : +44(0) 1223 26 76 20 mail : [log in to unmask]