"Scale constant" in Aimless or Scala should do it. I should probably make that 
automatic. 

I should probably also add a CIF reader to Pointless. Is there a good (easy) 
C++ one out there?

Phil 

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On 12 Feb 2013, at 08:08, Jens Kaiser <kai...@caltech.edu> wrote:

> Ethan,
>  The last time I attempted similar things, I had to run rotaprep to
> convince scala of using most things that did not come directly out of
> mosflm, but that was before the pointless days. 
>  As the reflections are already scaled in P1, I would consider it safe
> to rely on the Pointless Rmerge -- but that's just a guess (and you
> can't do much with the data downstream). I would assume sftools might be
> able to merge the reindexed file output by pointless.
>   Nevertheless, if I were faced with the same problem nowadays, I would
> convert to a shelx hkl file and use xprep for the merging and statistics
> -- that's "painless".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jens
> 
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:56 -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've downloaded a structure factor file from the PDB that presents
>> itself as being triclinic.  It contains F, sig(F), and Rfree only.
>> The P1-ness of this structure is dubious, however.
>> 
>> Pointless is 99.6% sure it's orthorhombic and puts out an mtz file
>> in P212121 containing 
>>    I SIGI BATCH M/ISYM
>> 
>> where the batch numbers are all 1 and ISYM runs from 1 to 8.
>> So far so good, but now I'm stuck.  I can't persuade Scala
>> or Aimless to merge the symmetry mates and report a merging
>> R factor.    Is there a trick to this?  Some other program sequence?
>> 
>>    Ethan
>> 

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