Hi Qing,

just want to add that it also may depend on the redundancy of the data. While good MAD experiments were performed with low redundancy (best to use a strategy for data collection) a successful SAD experiment often depends on high redundancy.

Best Regards,
Georg


Am 30.08.2010 20:58, schrieb Phoebe Rice:
Dear Qing,
   Many structures have been solved that way.  Make sure you try solvent 
modification (flattening / flipping) on your map.  This is because SAD will 
give two equally-probably estimates for the phase.  The initial, unmodified map 
will use the average of the two, but solve modification should be able to break 
the amibiguity.
   It sounds like you're new to crystallography - do you have a local advisor 
to get help from?
      Phoebe

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---- Original message ----
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:32:26 +0200
From: CCP4 bulletin board<[email protected]>  (on behalf of Jane 
Bailey<[email protected]>)
Subject: [ccp4bb] About SAD phasing
To: [email protected]

   Hi, All

   I would like to ask whether is it possible to
   allocate the Se site and obtain the phase by just
   using the SAD data set (no native dataset used)?

   Thanks,
   Qing

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