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Not all cases of NCS undermine Rfree: There are many where the NCS axis is roughly parallel to an xtal symmetry axis - e.g. P61 with a non-xtal twofold running nearly parallel to the xtal 6fold screw, so that NCS-related reflections are already xtal-symmetry - related. I don't see how the NCS can affect Rfree in such cases?

        Phoebe

At 02:49 PM 12/29/2006, Jan Abendroth wrote:
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A way to avoid biasing Rfree values is to choose the test set in thin resolution shells whenever NCS is present. Currently, this precaution is often ignored. It should become a de facto standard for publication of structures containing NCS.

Hi all,
btw - it would be fantastic and certainly would encourage us to use it more often if the assignment of free reflections in resolution shells was incorporated in a ccp4 program. Yes, one can for instance go through shelxpro, however if one wants to go back to ccp4 this route is a bit painful.

Cheers
Jan

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