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Thanks to everyone who replied. I managed to get this far in life without
straying into P1 before now.

As a side benefit, I learned what a Niggli cell is, which is one of my
proudest vocabulary acquisitions since learning the term "Papal Nuncio"
during the US invas^H^H^H liberation of Panama in 1989.

The new cell works great.

Kris Tesh wrote:
> Bill,
> This is no problem.  And if you look at it closely, it is what others have
> suggested...namely, l -h -k!
> Good luck and happy building.
> Kris
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:37 PM
> To: Kris Tesh
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: P1 cell conventions
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> That works.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> William G. Scott
>
> Contact info:
> http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Kris Tesh wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>> I don't know why Microsoft Outlook removed some of the zeros, but I
>> saw it
>> as it shipped it out to you.  I will try again to include the matrix.
>>
>> " 0  0  1"
>> "-1  0  0"
>> " 0 -1  0"
>>
>> Kris
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kris Tesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:15 PM
>> To: 'William Scott'
>> Subject: RE: [ccp4bb]: P1 cell conventions
>>
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> By now you should have had several responses, but if not, here you
>> are.  If
>> you take your cell and multiply by the following matrix you get the
>> cell
>> 27.93  53.03  71.96  74.57  81.27  75.61.
>>
>>  0   1
>> -1  0
>>  0 -1  0
>>
>> Try this and see if it helps you.  The problem is that there are 2
>> standard
>> conventions for triclinic cells which are both accepted by some but
>> not all.
>>
>> Kris
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of
>> William Scott
>> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:28 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [ccp4bb]: P1 cell conventions
>>
>>
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>>
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> I was attempting to run eden on a dataset collected in P1.  I got the
>> following error message:
>>
>> ERROR: By convention, crystallographic angles should all be <= 90 or
>>> = 90.
>>
>>
>> The cell I have been using is the following:
>>
>> CRYST1   53.030   71.963   27.926  98.63 104.39  74.57 P 1
>>
>> Neither CNS nor any CCP4 program I have used thus far has complained
>> about this cell, but now I am worried.
>>
>> Is it in fact a problematic cell?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> William G. Scott
>>
>> Contact info:
>> http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/
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