Hi, If you send more details on MRC to MTZ problem to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> then we can have a look. cheers Martyn From: Collaborative Computational Project in Electron cryo-Microscopy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chiara Rapisarda Sent: 14 May 2018 14:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ccpem] 3D refinement times/ mrc to mtz crash Dear all, we are using relion to do a 3D refinement of asymmetric particles with box size 400 with a pixel size of 1.15 Å and the iterations with 30k particles take 30-45 minutes, while with 120k particles they take 17 hours or more. Is there something that we are doing wrong? It seems like a disproportionate amount of time for just 3 times the number of particles. Does anybody have any tips to speed things up? Also when trying to do convert class-001.mrc to mtz on ccpem, the program crashes and I cannot find in the output a reason why. Can anybody help? Thanks, Chiara Rapisarda Post doc Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, INSERM [log in to unmask] Tel. +33 (5) 4000 3617 Institut européen de chimie et biologie 2, rue Robert Escarpit 33607 Pessac, France www.iecb.u-bordeaux.fr