Dear All,

There has been much discussion of XDS efficiently reading HDF5 data - this is 
of course highly desirable though not sufficient for the correct processing of 
the data.

One thing which I think could very much help the community would be to have 
data published from beamlines where Eiger detectors are in use, including the 
following:

 - a *photograph* of the beamline showing the orientation of the detector and 
principle rotation axis
 - a single rotation scan e.g. of thermolysin or some other 
easy-to-solve-by-SAD structure 

Between these there is sufficient information to ensure that the geometry of 
the experiment described in the headers (master file) is correct.

While XDS does not use this, and many beamline systems generate an XDS.INP 
file, in the future this record of the experiment in the master file may be all 
that remains and so ensuring that this is correct seems like a very good idea.

So - beamline people - how do you feel about the above? Clearly this will also 
help with software people making sure data from your beamline process correctly!

Thanks & best wishes Graeme


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