Re: [ccp4bb] Crick-Magdoff and anomalous

2009-03-24 Thread Marc SCHILTZ
Ethan Merritt wrote: Please also have a look at A Olczak, M Cianci, Q Hao, PJ Rizkallah, J Raferty, & JR Helliwell (2003). "S-SWAT (softer single-wavelength anomalous technique)" Acta Cryst. A59, 327-334. in which the authors show several derivations for the estimated anomalous signal, base

Re: [ccp4bb] Crick-Magdoff and anomalous

2009-03-23 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 23 March 2009 14:34:24 Peter Zwart wrote: > Hi, > > > > If we then require that the rms change in intensity be greater than the > > average noise, then we can write down the requirement: > > sigma(I_P) < rms(deltaI) > > > . > > I_P/sigma(I_P) > 1.3*sqrt(MW/N_H)/fpp > > one can actually r

Re: [ccp4bb] Crick-Magdoff and anomalous

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Zwart
Hi, > > If we then require that the rms change in intensity be greater than the > average noise, then we can write down the requirement: > sigma(I_P) < rms(deltaI) > . . . > I_P/sigma(I_P) > 1.3*sqrt(MW/N_H)/fpp one can actually require that abs(delta I) > 3 sigma(delta I) Using eq. 13 from Ac

[ccp4bb] Crick-Magdoff and anomalous

2009-03-22 Thread James Holton
I have had several people now ask me where the heck my "Crick-Magdoff" equation came from. So it looks like brevity has once again conquered clarity. So, those of you you enjoy my long emails read on. Those of you who do not, I direct you to the "Delete" button that should have come with you