Hi everybody, it has been possible for many years to produce MTZ files from XDS data; I do that all the time, going through xdsconv (filetype CCP4, or CCP4_F, or CCP4_I depending on what type of data one wants - see the docs). This works very well. Others use the xds/pointless/scala/truncate route or the older xds/combat route or ... - as long as it works that's fine. Thus my message was not meant to discourage people from doing that. Rather I see a new possibility to go _directly_ into Phenix, which clearly may be desirable in some cases (less programs involved means less work and maybe fewer bugs), and I wanted to describe the options. If Autosol can use unmerged data (which was new to me), then going from XDS through pointless to a unmerged MTZ file should be the easiest and best way (http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/Pointless). best, Kay