[phenixbb] default treatment of Intensities and structure factors in phenix.refine

[fn1 at rice.edu]

Does your input mtz file have both intensities and structure factors?  
If yes, you could set xray_data.labels="FP SIGFP" to ask phenix to use  
the structure factors.

fengyun

Quoting Yarrow Madrona <amadrona at uci.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> I recently noticed from reviewing the phenix.refine log file that phenix
> is scaling the input intensities using the French-Wilson Method. However,
> I have already run Truncate in CCP4 and have structure factors in my MTZ.
> So it appears that Phenix.refine ignores structure factors and uses
> intensities regardless.
>
> The reason I am concerned is that Nat recently mentioned that the default
> for the sigma I cutoff is zero. However, The default in Truncate I thought
> was -3. If I understand correctly, the treatment in truncate allows weak
> reflections to be scaled and converted to structure factors. It seems that
> setting the I sigma cutoff to zero would cause you to loose some useable
> data. Currently, the sigma_fobs_rejection_criterion and
> sigma_ibos_rejection_criterion = None. This is the default I guess which
> would be 0. So my questions are:
>
> 1. Will setting:
>
> sigma_iobs_rejection_criterion = -3
>
> result in Phenix using a sigma I cutoff of -3?
>
> 2. How do I tell phenix to use the structure factors created by Truncate?
>
> Thanks for your help. I apologize  if I have some misconceptions as I am
> still relatively new to crystallography.
>
> -Yarrow
>
>
> --
> Yarrow Madrona
>
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> Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Dept.
> University of California, Irvine
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> Irvine, CA 92697
>
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