LIMIt f

This keyword instructs GraphEnt to exclude all reflections with F/(F) < f from the calculation. The exclusion takes place after all processing of the data is finished (ie, taking differences, squaring, etc). It would appear that the presence of this keyword defeats the purpose of GraphEnt. This is correct with one exception : When calculating a 3D isomorphous difference Patterson function, and because the phases of and are not correlated, a small value for (F_PH - F_P) (for acentric reflections) will only contain valid information about F_H for only half of the cases. Excluding small differences from this type of calculation is not as harmful as it would be in other cases. My experience is that giving a LIMIt 1.0 gives almost identical difference Patterson functions, but in a fraction of the time that the proper (no exclusions) run would take. In some cases adding this keyword makes the difference between achieving convergence and wasting CPU time.