The incorporation of the new peakness-enhancing fast Fourier transform compatible
ipp procedure (
ipp = inner-pixel preservation) into the recently published
SM algorithm based on |
ρ| [
Rius (2020). Acta Cryst A76, 489–493] improves its phasing efficiency for larger crystal structures with atomic resolution data. Its effectiveness is clearly demonstrated via a collection of test crystal structures (taken from the Protein Data Bank) either starting from random phase values or by using the randomly shifted modulus function (a Patterson-type synthesis) as initial
ρ estimate.
It has been found that in the presence of medium scatterers (
e.g. S or Cl atoms) crystal structures with 1500 ×
c atoms in the
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c = number of centerings) can be routinely solved. In the presence of strong scatterers like Fe, Cu or Zn atoms this number increases to around 5000 ×
c atoms. The implementation of this strengthened
SM algorithm is simple, since it only includes a few easy-to-adjust parameters.