Dear BB, or in particular Phaser developers :-)

This must be part of British humor right (or was that the Canadian influence 
Randy) ?

eLLG indicates that placement of ensemble "ensemble_1" will be straightforward
   The data are sufficient to exceed the eLLG target

The search space is finite 143 x 143 x 80 Å with 3 or 4 molecules per asu, but 
Phaser has been burning CPU cycles quite a bit, we are approaching 24h by now. 
Data extends to 1.7 Å - for MR we cut at 2.5 Å.

I can hear Garib, yes, Molrep was done in few minutes but I’m not super 
convinced about the solution either. Same with BALBES and MrBump (which took a 
few more minutes, actually also days for MrBump)

The space group appears to be P63 22 as judged by XDS, pointless, xtriage, 
however the crystals are split (at least in some areas it’s visible) but I 
thought XDS would take care of these “aliens” and eliminate them mostly. My 
graduate student, Lauren, found a nifty program called DIALS that we wish to 
explore further to rescue the “nice” data we have and hopefully solve the 
structure.

Lower symmetry space groups were tried down to P21 with increasing number of 
molecules per asu and applying twin laws if necessary. The minor problem with 
the twins is how do I really know that it is a higher symmetry space group and 
not a 50% twin in a lower symmetry ? Rwork/Rfree in this particular case do not 
seem to help at all for distinguishing between the solutions. Maps looks sort 
of right but R-factors are not reflecting what you see on the screen.

We appreciate any suggestions and ideas what else we could do.

Thanks,

Jürgen

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Jürgen Bosch
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
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