IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Issues (see e.g. this CCP4BB
discussion thread: click "By Topic: Next" to follow the thread)
were found in XDS builds 20240712, 20240723, 20241002, 20250119,
20250224, 20250320 and 20250409 (check the header of the HKL format file
from XDS for the exact version used). A full analysis in
chronological order is available here
(autumn 2024), here,
here
(early 2025) and here.
It is recommended that any jobs run with these versions of XDS should be
rerun.
We are also recommending that going forward, the file from INTEGRATE
(INTEGRATE.HKL) with the corresponding XDS.INP file be used instead of
the XDS_ASCII or XSCALE outputs as formerly recommended, or one of the
other options detailed on the data entry page.
- NEWS
Last updated May 2026:
- The SA_flag column that is used by BUSTER to indicate
observed reflections (i.e. with a statistically significant
expectation) and observable reflections (not measured but likely to be
significant if they had been, and therefore candidates for DFc
completion by BUSTER) is now also added to the output MTZ file when
test-set (Rfree) flags are present in the merged input MTZ file.
- Previously, the SA_flag column had been inadvertently omitted
from the output file which, under the specified conditions only, would
have disabled DFc fill-in of 2mFo-DFc 'aniso-fill' maps computed from
subsequent BUSTER runs. Note that autoPROC does not output a merged
MTZ file from AIMLESS containing test-set flags so would not have been
affected.
- Observable reflections are no longer added beyond the spherical
diffraction limit (since they are not used for DFc fill-in by BUSTER
anyway).
- Unmeasured systematic absences inside the cut-off surface
are no longer output whether or not they are present in the input file
(since in that case they have no conceivable utility).
Measured systematic absences inside the cut-off surface are still
output since they may be needed for MR runs in alternate space groups.
- The 'merged-aniso' MTZ and mmCIF files (from anisotropic scaling
of merged data) are no longer output for unmerged data
input. However this step is still performed because the
corresponding mask file is still needed for image scaling and merging
with an anisotropic cut-off, i.e. the 'aniso-merged' MTZ and
mmCIF output files which are now the only definitive outputs from
unmerged data. The outputs from merged data input are
unchanged, i.e. the 'merged-aniso' MTZ and mmCIF output
files.
- About
ANISOTROPY
- About this
server
- Advice
on PDB deposition of reflection data
- Tool for output of
anisotropy addendum to Table 1
- About twinning tests
- STARANISO Frequently Asked
Questions
- PDBpeep server (analysis of datasets
deposited with PDB entries)
- Diffraction data
quality metrics of PDB entries harvested from archived mmCIF
files
- Gallery of results obtained from
the STARANISO server contributed by our users
If you have some results that illustrate some beneficial effect of
using the server on your data, and that you are happy to share with the
community, please email the contact address at the bottom of the page.
- RETRIEVE RESULTS OF A PREVIOUSLY-SUBMITTED JOB
Either link to a saved bookmark, or enter here the 16 or 18-character
job ID that was assigned on submission:
- SUBMIT DATA TO THE SERVER
- JOB COUNTER @Fri Jun 12 19:50:45 2026 -0000
Total of 32853 successful STARANISO runs since
the server went public!
Monthly breakdown:
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| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ
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| 2016
| 101
| 93
| 75
| 47
| 75
| 44
| 91
| 26
| 103
| 77
| 77
| 54
| 863
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|---|
| 2017
| 86
| 68
| 81
| 100
| 184
| 210
| 204
| 213
| 152
| 226
| 201
| 176
| 1901
|
|---|
| 2018
| 216
| 268
| 197
| 263
| 208
| 271
| 290
| 311
| 152
| 253
| 273
| 294
| 2996
|
|---|
| 2019
| 275
| 253
| 203
| 307
| 316
| 243
| 330
| 394
| 236
| 316
| 306
| 337
| 3516
|
|---|
| 2020
| 190
| 317
| 354
| 410
| 501
| 249
| 354
| 178
| 237
| 308
| 376
| 264
| 3738
|
|---|
| 2021
| 231
| 373
| 415
| 296
| 323
| 494
| 289
| 259
| 238
| 303
| 405
| 434
| 4060
|
|---|
| 2022
| 328
| 327
| 390
| 276
| 395
| 279
| 254
| 187
| 234
| 383
| 353
| 342
| 3748
|
|---|
| 2023
| 355
| 314
| 353
| 350
| 206
| 340
| 248
| 393
| 227
| 326
| 287
| 197
| 3596
|
|---|
| 2024
| 288
| 312
| 143
| 186
| 339
| 275
| 292
| 194
| 248
| 427
| 322
| 374
| 3400
|
|---|
| 2025
| 229
| 272
| 276
| 306
| 398
| 246
| 455
| 237
| 235
| 242
| 302
| 150
| 3348
|
|---|
| 2026
| 211
| 298
| 304
| 377
| 292
| 205
| | | | | | | 1687
|
|---|
- CREDITS
This software has been developed at Global Phasing Ltd. thanks to
funding from the Global Phasing Consortium.
The following have all contributed to the development of the
STARANISO server in various ways too numerous to attribute individually,
whether it be ideas, code, tools or testing:
| Ian J. Tickle* | Andrew Sharff
|
| Claus Flensburg | Oliver Smart
|
| Peter Keller | Clemens Vonrhein
|
| Wlodek Paciorek | Gérard Bricogne
|
|
- REFERENCE
Tickle, I.J., Flensburg, C., Keller, P., Paciorek, W., Sharff, A.,
Vonrhein, C., Bricogne, G. (2016). STARANISO (http://staraniso.globalphasing.org/cgi-bin/staraniso.cgi).
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Global Phasing Ltd.
