On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:19:57 +0100, Joe.Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Hi Sam,
>
>Assuming the XDS_ASCII.HKL is from XSCALE. I generally run it through 
>Pointless then aimless with (a scales constant command) using something like 
>the following.
>pointless -copy xdsin XDS_ASCII.HKL hklout sorted.mtz << eof > pointless.log
>eof
>
>aimless hklin sorted.mtz hklout Scaled_1.mtz << eof > aimless.log
>run 1 all
>scales constant
>resolution 60.00 4.00
>anomalous on
>eof
>
>If the reflection file is from the CORRECT step I would remove the scales 
>constant command when running aimless.

I do hope you know that CORRECT scales the data, and when you "remove the 
scales constant command " then you scale them again in aimless. Are you certain 
that this is good for the signal in your data? 

best,

Kay

>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Regards,
>
>Joe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Horrell, Sam
>Sent: Fri 7/26/2013 1:32 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless
> 
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I've been trying to process some data using Xia2, XSCALE, Pointless and 
>Aimless. I have a large number of datasets (over 100) so have used Xia2 to 
>produce the XDS_ASCII.HKL files using the 3daii pipeline. I now want to 
>process them manually (with a script) using XSCALE and pointless to find the 
>resolution limit and finally run them through Aimless to get the merging 
>statistics. I'm not looking to solve the structures just to compare the 
>merging statistics between datasets subjected to different treatments.
>
>I've managed to put the the XDS_ASCII.HKL files through XSCALE and pointless 
>without any problems but when I try and run aimless with the output from 
>XSCALE in CCP4i I get the error message
>
>"FATAL ERROR message:
>
>ERROR in ScaleModel: run    1 has insuffient information for smooth scaling"
>
>And when trying to run it by command line Aimless won't recognize the 
>XSCALE.HKL file.
>I've tried converting the XDS file with XDSCONV to the ccp4 format but Aimless 
>still didn't like it on command line or ccp4i so I tried using sortmtz but 
>this just fails with a very uninformative message
>
>
>"SORTMTZ: *** ERROR: Program Terminating
>
>Times: User: 0.1s System: 0.0s Elapsed: 0:01"
>
>The command line I've been trying to use for aimless is
>
>"aimless hklin XSCALE.HKL hklout scaled.mtz "
>
>Running Aimless with the XDS_ASCII.HKL from Xia2 using ccp4i works fine.
>
>Is there a conversion step I'm missing when trying to run the XSCALE.HKL files 
>through Aimless?
>Maybe something I've done wrong in the XDSCONV stage or I need to get sortmtz 
>working somehow?
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Sam
>
>
>
>
>

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