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That is a fantastically low Rmerge ! What are the actual numbers?
You might expectslightly higher Rmerge for stronger reflections? i.e. at
low resin..
Eleanor

On 27 February 2015 at 20:40, Veronica Pillar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a data set from a large room-temperature lysozyme crystal
> consisting of 6 90-degree sweeps, each taken from a fresh spot on the
> crystal. When I scale & merge the first sweep by itself, the R[meas/merge]
> vs. resolution trace as reported by aimless looks fairly normal (lowest
> values in the 6-2.5 A range and steadily increasing at higher resolution).
> However, as I look at the subsequent sweeps individually, the traces get
> progressively stranger until the final sweep's R vs. resolution trace looks
> like a smiley face, lowest around 2.5 A and about the same in the lowest
> and highest resolution bins. The overall Rmeas is about the same for all
> sweeps (3.0-3.2%). Do you have any ideas on what has happened (either
> during data collection or data processing) to cause this?
>
> Thanks,
> Veronica
>