RE: [ccp4bb]: molecular replacement woes!

[Harry Powell <harry@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>]

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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Frank Vondelft wrote:

> Here's the old wisdom, passed from supervisor to student through the
> ages (or was there somebody that said it first?  Anybody?):
>
> 	"The spacegroup is a hypothesis, confirmed ONLY once the
> structure has 	been fully refined."
>
> (And sometimes not even then.)

I'd suspect it was W.L. Bragg :-)

Harry
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