Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-23 Thread James Holton
My default MAD strategy is to do single-image inverse beam with round robin wavelength changes. That is: energy phi peak 0 peak 180 remote 0 remote 180 peak1 peak 181 remote1 etc with one image taken for each line above. I do this until a full sphere is

Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-22 Thread James Holton
Yafang, I'm afraid that just because you still have spots at the end of your dataset does not mean radiation damage was not a problem. The reactions that disorder your heavy atom sites go to completion at doses that can be as little as 1/30th of the dose required to noticeably fade your

Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-20 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Yafang, If radiation damage is not a major problem, MAD should give you more phase information than SAD, i.e. better maps, especially at low resolution. If SAD works but MAD doesn't, there are several possible explanations: 1. (most likely) your datasets are inconsistently indexed. This

Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-20 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Dear George, if #4 is correct, shouldn't he be able to get good SIRAS using the peak dataset as HA and the last collected dataset as native Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology Johns