Hi In addition to what Poul and Graeme have said, it may be worthwhile attending one of the fine protein crystallography schools that are run, where you will hear lectures on integration & scaling etc that attempt to explain the basics of what's being done, and probably have a couple of practical sessions where you get to use the programs under the watchful eye of an expert. Or you could ask someone who has taught on (or attended) one of these schools if you could see their lecture slides and notes...
"to read is to forget, to write is to remember, to do is to understand" . On 17 Feb 2012, at 11:31, Theresa H. Hsu wrote: > Dear crystallographers > > I would like to get some opinion. For someone beginning to learn basic > crystallography including indexing, scaling ..., should I start with > automated tool like Xia2? Or is manual method for each step better for > learning? > > Thank you. > > Theresa Harry -- Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH
