Re: [phenixbb] phaser spacegroup within phenix

Hi Nat
I don't think its a bug, just phaser getting a little bit confused. Phaser ran in both P2 and P21 using the phenix default, not P21 - the space group of the mtz. This default is probably the right thing to do if you don't know the space group of your crystal, but then you wouldn't have scaled the mtz in P21.
In my case the reason phaser failed to find a solution is that the P2 solution had a higher initial LLG than the P21 solution while finding the first copy of 4 in my A.U.. So phaser picked P2 to continue the molecular replacement and subsequently stopped due to clashes during packing.
John
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:45 AM, John M. Berrisford
Point taken - I'll move this to the main window (and label it more clearly - sorry). The result you're describing sounds like it might be a bug, though; shouldn't Phaser try P21 as well and get the full solution, instead of settling for P2? This is what I would expect for the default behavior. -Nat -- John Berrisford Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wellcome Trust / MRC Building Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY WEB: www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44 1223 252882

the P2 solution had a higher initial LLG than the P21 solution while finding the first copy of 4 in my A.U.. So phaser picked P2 to continue the molecular replacement and subsequently stopped due to clashes during packing.
I wonder how often this happens. And it worries me.. use_all_plausible_sg = False is the default in the command line version of phenix automr... was it enabled by default for the gui? F --------------------------------------------- Francis Reyes M.Sc. 215 UCB University of Colorado at Boulder gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 67BA8D5D 8AE2 F2F4 90F7 9640 28BC 686F 78FD 6669 67BA 8D5D

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Francis E Reyes
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use_all_plausible_sg = False is the default in the command line version of phenix automr... was it enabled by default for the gui?
For AutoMR, no (the GUI rarely modifies the default behavior of programs). After looking at the AutoMr code, I'm still not exactly sure what this option does, but I assume it's equivalent to either searching "all" or "hand" (which I think means the space group and its enantiomorph). For Phaser, the default is now "hand", for both the command-line version and the GUI. CCP4 is using an older version of Phaser, which I believe only used the assigned space group and didn't try anything else. -Nat
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