Hi Saleem I can strongly recommend reading and digesting this paper (open access from the IUCr website, so you don't need a subscription) -
Dauter, Z., Acta Cryst. (1999). D55, 1703-1717 - Data-collection strategies http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/1999/10/00/ba0020/ba0020.pdf Once you've read it, the issues that you should take into account when devising your strategy shuld be apparent. Of course, all the best integration programs also have strategy options built into them as well if you decide not to do it manually after all.... On 26 Mar 2013, at 12:25, saleem raza wrote: > How to calculate data collection strategy manually. I was wondering if any > one can answer this, if we have to calculate data collection strategy > manually? regards Saleem Harry -- ** note change of address ** Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic Computing)