Dear Kay

This is a plot I sent to Eleanor yesterday, from her log file. The cumulative 
intensity plot shows I think that there are too few weak intensities, the 
opposite of twinning. I don;t know where it comes from but it’s not right!
Best
Phil

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> On 29 May 2025, at 12:03, Kay Diederichs <[email protected]> 
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> Dear Gerard,
> 
> part of the problem was probably indeed due to the use of XDS BUILT=20240712 
> (that version was used for CORRECT.LP that Janani Ganesh sent to me). I 
> obtained the raw data from Janani Ganesh and processed with both the current 
> XDS (BUILT=20250430), and the bad version from July last year. My findings:
> - with the bad version the data appear twinned, whereas with the current 
> version the data appear untwinned
> - Wilson B is 34 A^2 with the current version, and significantly (and 
> unrealistically) lower with the bad version
> 
> The structure can be satisfactorily solved and refined with data from the 
> current XDS version. With data from the bad version, average B goes down to 
> 19 and the R-values stall at high values.
> 
> This does not explain the weird B-values that were reported, though. So I 
> suspect another problem.
> 
> Best,
> Kay
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 29 May 2025 11:37:14 +0100, Gerard Bricogne <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>>    I wrote yesterday a contribution to this thread, but mistakenly
>> used a simple Reply instead of a Group Reply, so that my message did
>> not reach the BB while it intended to, as shown by the introductory
>> "Dear all". 
>> 
>>    I am including it below, as it contains a link to some material
>> that is of general interest but that we had not yet found a way of
>> disseminating to the whole community. Users of XDS, or of XDS-based
>> pipelines, please take notice and do take a close look at this link,
>> and ultimately at the BUILT= information about the exact XDS version
>> used in producing your results - it can make a lot of difference.
>> 
>> 
>>    With best wishes,
>> 
>>         Gerard.
>> 
>> --
>> Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 16:18:25 +0100
>> From: Gerard Bricogne <gb10>
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Requesting help with twin refinement
>> To: Eleanor Dodson <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>>    These kinds of anomalies (overoptimistic estimates of resolution,
>> unphysical persistence of signal at high resolution, spurious twinning
>> diagnostics) are reminiscent of what we observed with some of the
>> recent versions of XDS, as documented at
>> 
>> https://www.globalphasing.com/autoproc/wiki/index.cgi?ComparisonProcessing202504
>> 
>> and three predecessor pages referenced from within this one.
>> 
>>    Only one version is currently available from the XDS download
>> page (that we consider as being OK) but there was a succession of many
>> problematic ones going back to July 2024. Perhaps the version used to
>> process this dataset was one of the unlucky ones.
>> 
>>    Apologies if this is a red herring, but that check is worth
>> making.
>> 
>> 
>>    Best wishes,
>> 
>>       Gerard
>> 
>> --
>> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 11:05:52AM +0100, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
>>> After inspecting the log files it is obvious the problem is in the data
>>> integration. (Wilson B negative! highest resolution shell stronger than low
>>> res, etc..)
>>> I think you used XDS for that? Do you have an alternative set of integrated
>>> unmerged data, eg done with DIALS?
>>> If so I would use that, or download a new version of XDS and try again..
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 07:56, Janani Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear Martin,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your suggestion. I will try it out and let you know.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Janani Ganesh
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 27 May 2025 09:01:06 +0100, Martin Mal� <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Janani,
>>>>> 
>>>>> There has been recently a significant development in twin refinement
>>>>> algorithms in Servalcat. Could you try this program and let us know if
>>>>> it helps?
>>>>> You can find Servalcat in i2 in the most recent version of CCP4. You can
>>>>> also run it in terminal/CCP4Console:
>>>>> servalcat refine_xtal_norefmac --hklin data.mtz --model model.pdb -s
>>>>> xray --labin I,IMEAN,FreeR_flag --twin
>>>>> (Assuming your MTZ data file has columns I,IMEAN,FreeR_flag.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Full list of options:
>>>>> servalcat refine_xtal_norefmac -h
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please feel free to ask if anything was not clear.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martin
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 27/05/2025 07:00, Janani Ganesh wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I recently collected diffraction data and I was able to do the data
>>>> processing upto 1.88 �. I observed the R-merge remained the same throughout
>>>> the resolution bins. I could solve the structure using Phaser in the space
>>>> group P32 2 1 (no. 154). But when I refined the structure the R-factors
>>>> remained ~ 35 % even after several cycles of refinement and model building.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Then I looked for twinning in my data using Xtriage, Detwin, Pointless,
>>>> etc which indicated twining. Subsequently, I started twin refinement with
>>>> Refmac using twin law (-h, -k, l). The R-factors came down to ~25%.
>>>> However, the B-factors refined to 0.5 for all the atoms.  I tried redoing
>>>> the data processing at lower symmetry space groups, P3, P31, P32, followed
>>>> by twin refinement but the issue with the B-factors persisted.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would appreciate any suggestions and advice towards resolving this
>>>> problem.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Janani Ganesh
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