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a. "To use XPLORE one need a license..."
Attributed to Harrison-Wiley laboratory folklore.
b. Another matter: for how many other data sets, for how many years
and by how many crystallographers misterious faulty home-made program
was used?
The name of the program should be stated as many of us her and there
are using programs still from our postdoctoral times which can go
back as far
as 25 - 30 years and maybe luck of "sky-rocket" careere for many of
us is due to use of such software.
Dr Felix Frolow
Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor
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On Jan 7, 2007, at 4:25 AM, Charlie Bond wrote:
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Following the ABC transporter discussion, I thought I'd mention for
those who are not very experienced how easy it is to process data
in the wrong hand. It does not require faulty home-made programs,
but is quite possible with many established data processing
programs. All it takes is an error in maybe one of those parameters
which you don't normally change (something like YSCALE -1, for
example).
Often at the synchrotron one is in a tired hurry to get an image
indexed and processed. If the wrong parameters are used (eg the
ones from the home lab with a bit of editing), a dataset in the
wrong hand can be quickly produced.
Increasingly beamlines automatically prepare the correct parameter
files for you, but it is cases where images are difficult to
process (low resolution, disorder) that processing may occur later
at home and the details of the beamline may be disregarded.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the deposition of images would
not help this as the critical information is the geometry of the
beamline set up which is probably not recored with the images.
Cheers,
Charlie
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