Hi all,

I am currently refining a structure that is at a resolution of 2.1Å and 
slightly twinned. Below is the message in the aimless results:

WARNING: the L-test suggests that the data may be twinned, so the indicated 
Laue symmetry may be too high
Rough estimated twin fraction alpha from cumulative N(|L|) plot 0.209 +/-(0.015)
Rough estimated twin fraction alpha from < |L| > 0.202
Rough estimated twin fraction alpha from < L^2 > 0.192

I have been refining with twin refinement, and without, and using twin 
refinement gives better R-factors, as expected. 

When looking in the results files more carefully however, it seems that 0.1Å of 
data have been added to my data in the detwinning process! It suddenly comes 
out of refmac with a 2.0 Å in both pdb and mtz resolution, and it just suddenly 
seems to decide that for itself. I have looked for differences in my input and 
there is none other than choosing amplitude or intensity based twin refinement, 
instead of no twin refinement. Input mtz and pdb are the same, but in the log 
file of refmac it suddenly uses 2.0 Å.

This error is not captured afterwards, both Molprobity and PDBe validation tool 
finds the structure to now be 2.0Å resolution, however i can see in both refmac 
output and PDBe validation output that the completeness is lowered (which I 
guess would be expected since some data does not exist…)

So the question is, is this a bug of some sort, or should I have chosen 
something in the input of refmac? I am using the latest update of ccp4 
(7.0.021) using the CCP4i interface. I have looked back at my files ( the 
project started 2 years ago) and the problem was there as well, so it is not a 
new problem.

Sincerely,
Robert Gustafsson


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Robert Gustafsson
PhD Student
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

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