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process_hkl - data scaling and merging program
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This program takes as input the data stream from "indexamajig".  It merges the
many individual intensities together to form a single list of reflection
intensities which are useful for crystallography.

Typical usage is of the form:

$ process_hkl -i mypatterns.stream -o mydata.hkl -y mypointgroup


How to choose the point group
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One of the main features of serial crystallography is that the orientations of
individual crystals are random.  That means that the orientation of each
crystal must be determined independently, with no information about its
relationship to the orientation of crystals in other patterns (as would be the
case for a rotation series of patterns).

Some Laue classes are merohedral.  This means that the orientation will have an
ambiguity, but this time more serious.  The two (or more) possible
orientations could be called "twins", but the mechanism of their formation is
somewhat different to the conventional use of the term.  In these cases, you
will need to merge according to the point group corresponding holohedral Laue
class.

The document twin-calculator.pdf contains more detailed information about this
issue, as well as tables which contain all the required information.