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Tables for Crystallography Volume F Crystallography of biological macromolecules Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 11.4, p. 233
Section 11.4.9. Global refinement or post refinement
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UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9038, USA, and bDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, 1300 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA |
The process of refining crystal parameters using the combined reflection intensity measurements is known as global refinement or post refinement (Rossmann, 1979![[link]](/graphics/greenarr.gif)
; Evans, 1993). The implementation of this method in SCALEPACK allows for separate refinement of the orientation of each image, but with the same unit-cell value for the whole data set. In each batch of data (a batch is typically one image), different unit-cell parameters may be poorly determined. However, in a typical data set, there are enough orientations to determine all unit-cell lengths and angles precisely. Global refinement is also more precise than the processing of a single image in the determination of crystal mosaicity and the orientation of each image.
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