Indeed, centric reflections should have no anomalous signal after merging
Phil

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> On 31 Mar 2020, at 05:48, Kevin Jude <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've had two more helpful responses to this off-list. My crystal is P43212, 
> so there are large swaths of centric reflections that I was looking at. And 
> indeed, {18,1,1} is not the first reflection with anomalous differences if I 
> look more carefully. Different sorting of the outputs by phenix and aimless 
> masked that result for me. Thanks to those who responded for the help and for 
> the chance to dive into the International Tables.
> 
> --
> Kevin Jude, PhD
> Structural Biology Research Specialist, Garcia Lab
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> Beckman B177, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford CA 94305
> Phone: (650) 723-6431
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 8:20 PM Kevin Jude <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks Reza. Changing the rejection criteria didn't have any effect, but I 
>> tried xdsconv and got what looked like the same result - ie, DANO = 0. That 
>> got me started looking at more reflections, and if I make it all the way 
>> down to {18,1,1) there's suddenly a switch and anomalous differences are 
>> present for the remaining reflections (which are sorted by increasing h, k, 
>> l). It turns out the same thing was happening in aimless. This seems strange 
>> since it isn't in accord with what I saw in CORRECT.LP, namely significant 
>> anomalous signal in the lower resolution shells, and it couldn't be 
>> explained away by a wedge of missing Friedel mates.
>> 
>> Finally, I decided to see what happens if I used Phenix's reflection file 
>> editor to convert XDS_ASCII.HKL to mtz, and. . .it seems to work just fine. 
>> So I suppose my problem of getting from here to there is solved, though the 
>> puzzle remains.
>> 
>> --
>> Kevin Jude, PhD
>> Structural Biology Research Specialist, Garcia Lab
>> Howard Hughes Medical Institute
>> Stanford University School of Medicine
>> Beckman B177, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford CA 94305
>> Phone: (650) 723-6431
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 6:51 PM Rezaul Karim <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Kevin,
>>> Just a thought, guidance is left to the experts. Since the aimless reports 
>>> significant anomalous signal default anomalous rejection criteria most 
>>> likely is too strict for this run. Changing the default "reject 6 all -8" 
>>> value to loosen the rejection criteria might give some clue whether this is 
>>> the case. Another alternative is xdsconv. Any advantage of using pointless 
>>> and aimless instead of xdsconv for your purpose?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Reza
>>> 
>>> Md. Rezaul Karim (Reza)
>>> Ph.D. candidate, PhD Program in Integrated Biomedical Sciences
>>> Department of Molecular Medicine
>>> Morsani College of Medicine
>>> University of South Florida
>>> Schonbrunn lab, Moffitt Cancer Center
>>> Tampa, FL
>>> E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
>>> Phone: +1-954-937-8487
>>> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-127X
>>> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza092
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, March 30, 2020, 7:12:33 PM EDT, Kevin Jude <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am trying to merge and convert reflections from XDS_ASCII.HKL to mtz via 
>>> pointless and aimless. Everything looks good through pointless, as far as I 
>>> understand:
>>> xds reports significant anomalous correlation in CORRECT.LP
>>> 
>>> Inspection of the mtz output from pointless shows that (+) and (-) 
>>> reflections are recorded using separate ISYM flags (column 4):
>>> 
>>>  LIST OF REFLECTIONS
>>>  ===================
>>> 
>>>     0   0   7    1   902      1.68      1.43      0.91   1230.80
>>>                            1155.20    423.20      0.04      0.00
>>> 
>>>     0   0   7    2     2      1.21      1.68      0.90   1231.40
>>>                            1155.10    243.20      0.04      0.00
>>> 
>>>     0   0   8    1   902     88.18      3.70      1.00   1230.70
>>>                            1139.50    423.36      0.04      0.00
>>> 
>>>     0   0   8    2     2     85.93      3.86      0.99   1231.50
>>>                            1139.30    243.36      0.04      0.00
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> But when I run aimless as:
>>> 
>>> $ aimless hklin ds5_5_E1_pointless.mtz hklout ds5_5_E1_aimless.mtz 
>>> <<eof|tee aimless.log
>>> onlymerge
>>> anom on
>>> reso 2.5
>>> end
>>> eof
>>> 
>>> the output mtz file has identical values for IMEAN, I(+), and I(-), despite 
>>> reporting in the logfile that:
>>> Anomalous flag switched ON in input, strong anomalous signal found
>>> Estimate of the resolution limit for a significant anomalous signal  3.93A, 
>>> from the point where the fit drops below threshold 0.15
>>> 
>>> Can anybody provide me with some guidance?
>>> 
>>> Best wishes
>>> Kevin
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Kevin Jude, PhD
>>> Structural Biology Research Specialist, Garcia Lab
>>> Howard Hughes Medical Institute
>>> Stanford University School of Medicine
>>> Beckman B177, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford CA 94305
>>> Phone: (650) 723-6431
>>> 
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