[ccp4bb] Problem in refinement with ligand

2007-06-11 Thread Sampath Natarajan
Dear all, I am new to the CCP4 program for structure determination. Now I am trying to solve a complex structure with 2.5A resolution. I refined the structure with Refmac5 and built the model also using coot. Now I'm trying to insert the ligand molecule into the active site of electron den

[ccp4bb] major modeling softwares

2007-06-11 Thread Y. -F. Li
Hello, ccp4, I'd appreciate any comments on modeling softwares you would recommend particularly in these aspects: 1) the capability of modeling any given aa sequence; 2) user-friendliness; 3) cost, etc There are packages such as Modeler, Quanta, Insight II, but these are quite expensive. I have

Re: [ccp4bb] problems with phaser for MR

2007-06-11 Thread Randy J. Read
Yes, this is an inconsistency between the version of the Phaser executable and the version of ccp4i. To get around the problem that filenames, particularly in Windows, can have spaces in them, the ccp4i GUI now wraps filenames with quotation marks. But this required a corresponding change in th

Re: [ccp4bb] microscope

2007-06-11 Thread Roger Rowlett
Frank, You will get a variety of opinions here, but I really like my Olympus SZX-12. (I used many different models when I was training, and I by far preferred the Olympus scopes for their ergonomics. YMMV) For xtallography you will want a separate (cold) light source with fiber optic cable. I hav

Re: [ccp4bb] problems with phaser for MR

2007-06-11 Thread Roger Rowlett
It appears that CCP4i is accessing an older version of Phaser, which will generate this error. Phaser 1.3.3 is current for CCP4 6.0.2. I had a similar problem when I had a stand-alone install of Phaser and later upgraded to a CCP4 package that contained its own version of Phaser. I think you have t

Re: [ccp4bb] Establishing connecitivity...

2007-06-11 Thread Kim Henrick
Your ligand may well be MTQ or MTV whcih already exists in the PDB (MOLYBDOPTERIN-S,S)-DIOXO-THIO-MOLYBDENUM(V) S / \ this has the peterin Mo(S)(O2) \ / S you can download the dictionary connectivity from either

Re: [ccp4bb] Establishing connecitivity...

2007-06-11 Thread William Scott
I think you can do what you want using elbow.builder in phenix with a smiles string. You can use something like this to make the cofactor: http://www.molinspiration.com/cgi-bin/properties Then use elbow.builder to make the pdb and cif files, and do your refinements in phenix. It may be possibl

[ccp4bb] microscope

2007-06-11 Thread Frank Lee
Hi, I apologize if this has been posted here before, but I will need to buy a standard stereo microscope for viewing crystals. Could anyone give me some suggestions regarding the brand, model, and retailer? Thanks in advance! Frank - Get the

[ccp4bb] Establishing connecitivity...

2007-06-11 Thread James Pauff
Hello again all, We have a molybdopterin active site cofactor. It is a single molybdenum atom, with 2 oxygens and 1 sulfur as ligands, and coordinated to a pterin ring via 2 more sulfur atoms. The geometry of the molybdenum is very roughly square pyramidal. The issue that we are having involves

[ccp4bb] humidity dependent phase transition

2007-06-11 Thread Stephen Cusack
Dear All, We are looking for crystals to test a new device for in situ changing the humidity on the X-ray beamline. The requirements are (protein) crystals that are relatively easy to grow and that have a clear change in diffraction pattern upon change in humidity at room temperature. Any s

[ccp4bb] refinement with disorder

2007-06-11 Thread Martin Stiebritz
Dear all, we have problems in refining a structure with disorder. It is a heterodimeric protein and there are only 5 residues different between the two chains (the structure of the homodimeric wild type protein is known). The spacegroup is I4(1)22. It seems that the orientation of the dimers is s