Even I have the same problem my crystals get processed in to P212121 as
well as P4212 and I am currently analysing the data but not able to
conclude the space group. Any idea? Both structure while refining is giving
around same R/Rfree. Any help will be appreciable.

Dhaval Patel
PhD Student,
Bioinformatics &
Structural Biology
Indian Institute of
Advanced Research
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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:57 PM, frazao <fra...@itqb.unl.pt> wrote:

> On 05/21/2015 05:23 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote:
>
>> I can process my 3.8 A dataset in either P4 or P422 point groups.
>>>>
>>> Do the scaling statistics look similar for both? If so, go with P422.
>>> Trying to enforce an incorrect symmetry operator would blow up your
>>> stats.
>>>
>> ...But in the case of twinning, lower space groups can masquerade as
>> higher ones. I say try out P4 with twin refinement, see how your stats go.
>>
>> JPK
>>
> Or eventually even to further lower symmetry... I had once an example of
> true P21212 crystals that processed nicely as P4212, due to a twinning
> two-fold axis parallel to the a,b diagonal
>
> Carlos
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