Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Sanishvili, Ruslan
Folks, Don't take this as an argument with software people - I have a side note about structures. Back in the day when I used to solve Structural Genomics structures, we almost always knew substitution rate from masspec and Se always refined to lesser occupancy. Could it be the decay instead? C

Re: [ccp4bb] a question about procheck

2007-08-10 Thread Jiamu Du
Thank you all. I think i know the difference. This is quite a interesting case. On 8/10/07, Paul Emsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I may expand on what Eleanor said. > > The issue is not the atom labels, but that the atom labels are in the > right place (i.e. the refer to the right ato

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Mike S
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. I'd like to provide a few more details since I'm also interested in the practical ramifications of the theoretical arguments presented thus far. 1. density map at 3.2 A resolution was used to refine a model that had already been built and refined at 2.

[ccp4bb] Covalent link

2007-08-10 Thread Scapin, Giovanna
Hello there How do I tell Refmac that I have an inhibitor covalently bound to a Ser residue? I am using the ccp4i interface and this is what I've came up with (looking through the archives) but it does not seem to work 1) I made the inhibitor mon_lib.cif 2) I made the following mon_link.c

[ccp4bb] Real & reciprocal space refinements

2007-08-10 Thread Michael S. Chapman
The discussion is converging, but let me clarify a few points. I suspect that a new generation of crystallographers has come to the fore since the last material discussions of real-space refinement in the mid 1990's. So with apologies to the grey-haired (like me) set who may find the following co

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Dale Tronrud
If you treat the amplitude and phase as a complex number and follow the math I believe it turns out that real space and reciprocal space refinement are identical... If there are no uncertainties. Any model of the uncertainties can also be expressed in either space, but a model that is simp

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Pavel Afonine
Yes, agree overall. What I plan to implement in phenix.refine and then play with at some point is that loop I wrote before: for cycle in cycles (until convergence): - do real space refinement (minimize T = Exray*weight +Egeom w.r.t. model params); - do reciprocal space refinement (minimize T

Re: [ccp4bb] Spam: Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
On 10 Aug 2007, at 20:12, Pavel Afonine wrote: Anastassis Perrakis wrote: On 10 Aug 2007, at 18:59, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Mike, the best is to do both in a loop: for cycle in cycles: - do real space refinement; - do reciprocal space refinement Well - thats what we all do - right ? T

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Dear George, > I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character > hain IDs PDB file columns 21 and 22, right justified) when I next update > HELXL. Of course I will need to do some programming because of the SHELX > zero dependency' philosophy, but it seems to me to be str

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Pavel Afonine
Anastassis Perrakis wrote: On 10 Aug 2007, at 18:59, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Mike, the best is to do both in a loop: for cycle in cycles: - do real space refinement; - do reciprocal space refinement Well - thats what we all do - right ? The real space refinement can be done either with th

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
On 10 Aug 2007, at 18:59, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Mike, the best is to do both in a loop: for cycle in cycles: - do real space refinement; - do reciprocal space refinement Well - thats what we all do - right ? The real space refinement can be done either with the tools from Chapman at al

Re: [ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Mike, the best is to do both in a loop: for cycle in cycles: - do real space refinement; - do reciprocal space refinement Have a look at this very nice paper: Acta Cryst. (1999). D55, 835-845 Critical initial real-space refinement in the structure determination of arginine kinase G.

[ccp4bb] real-space vs. reciprocal space refinement

2007-08-10 Thread Mike S
Dear CCP4 experts, Recently, I was debating a colleague on the pros/cons of refinement done in reciprocal space compared to refinement in real space. I always thought reciprocal space refinement was preferable since measured amplitudes will be more accurate than calculated phases (unless good exp

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday 10 August 2007 04:53, Clemens Vonrhein wrote: > It should be trivial to put this into REFMAC too > (Garib!): just add cards like > > FPRIme > > so that a user can do > > FPRIme Se -4.5 > > REFMAC then corrects C by the difference f'(CuKa)-(-4.5) (after > reading the f'(CuKa) fro

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Warren DeLano
> Actually, everything proposed [will] break some software. Breaking some is far better than all, and there is a very important principle being followed here: The notion behind these minimalist improvements is that they will only break in cases where the PDB format itself breaks. For example,

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Ethan Merritt
> > Behalf Of Santarsiero, Bernard D. > > > > Can I ask a dumb question? Just curious... > > > > Why are we now limited to 80 "columns"? In the old days, that > > was a limit with Fortran and punched cards. Can a "record" > > (whatever it's called now) be as long as we wish? Instead of > > com

[ccp4bb] libcheck question

2007-08-10 Thread Mark A Saper
I'm new to using LIBCHECK. I'm trying to make an appropriate library for the MSO ligand. I have a .cif file that I downloaded from Gerard's site. When running LIBCHECK, if I use MON MSO and FILE_CIF then the error is " ERROR: reading title of input file". If I don't use the MON record, t

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
If you want to give it a try, I switched the buttons to an alternate server. It is slower than the one we were using, but it will give you the idea. Try http://biomol.dowling.edu/WPDB/ put in a PDB id code in the box near the top of the page and click on "CLICK HERE for WPDB version ..." The c

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
Actually, everything proposed with break some software. The real question is one of how much value the community gains from how much of a change. mmCIF was one proposal that would "solve" the problem, but which met a lot of resistance. The change in atom serial numbers to strings is another possi

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Warren DeLano
That's easy: Backward compatibility, both in terms of old programs and old data. The idea is to maintain as much interoperability as possible. > -Original Message- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Santarsiero, Bernard D. > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2

[ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Santarsiero, Bernard D.
Can I ask a dumb question? Just curious... Why are we now limited to 80 "columns"? In the old days, that was a limit with Fortran and punched cards. Can a "record" (whatever it's called now) be as long as we wish? Instead of compressing a lot on a PDB record line, can we lengthen it to 130 columns

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Warren DeLano
Correction: Scratch what I wrote -- the PDB format does now support a formal charge field in columns 79-80 (1+,2+,1- etc.). Hooray! Thus, adoption of the CONECT valency convention is all it would take for us to be able to convey chemically-defined structures using the PDB format. I'll happily

[ccp4bb] New buccaneer...

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
A couple of buccaneer releases have gone by since I last made an announcement: release 0.7.2: - new 'correlation mode' gives better results after MR or when completing an initial model. - sequenced fragments are now renumbered to match the position in the final sequence. release 0.7.3:

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Actually, this isn't quite right yet - since the tabulated values in atomsf.lib are for f0: so you just need to add f' to C (no need to adapt it for the value at CuKa). Thanks to Claus Flensburg for pointing that out to me. Clemens On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Clemens Vonrhein wrote:

[ccp4bb] technical position: protein expression for structural biology

2007-08-10 Thread Emsley Jonas
Research Technician (Fixed-term) Protein expression for Structural Biology Applications are invited for the above post from highly motivated individuals with a strong interest in eukaryotic protein expression, protein biochemistry and protein purification. The research project is funded by the

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I support CCP4 adopting the hybrid36 and 2 char chain id extensions too. If no-one else steps up to do it, I'll try and patch mmdb to support it when I get time. Kevin George M. Sheldrick wrote: I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character chain IDs PDB file colum

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:32:21PM +0100, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > Sorry - Clemens is right. > > Eleanor Hi Eleanor, phew - I was starting to wonder that what I put into (auto)BUSTER wasn't right. It should be trivial to put this into REFMAC too (Garib!): just add cards like FPRIme so that

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Dear Ralf, I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character chain IDs PDB file columns 21 and 22, right justified) when I next update SHELXL. Of course I will need to do some programming because of the SHELX 'zero dependency' philosophy, but it seems to me to be straigh

Re: [ccp4bb] a question about procheck

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Emsley
If I may expand on what Eleanor said. The issue is not the atom labels, but that the atom labels are in the right place (i.e. the refer to the right atoms). There is an IUPAC convention on the torsion of CB-CG-CD-OE1 (for GLU). The torsion should be between -90 and +90. Yours is not. Therefor

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hi Eleanor, On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:27:16AM +0100, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > If you have significant anomalous scatterering and are using you > need to modify the scattering factor for that atom appropriately. > > Here is an extract from $CLIBD/atomsf.lib > Se >34342

Re: [ccp4bb] a question about procheck

2007-08-10 Thread Jiamu Du
Dear Eleanor: But in my structure, the atom labelles are all right. Such as GLU A 15 : ATOM 55 N GLU A 15 -59.930 -39.249 -9.123 1.00 30.10 N ATOM 56 CA GLU A 15 -60.573 -38.776 -7.889 1.00 30.54 C ATOM 57 CB GLU A 15 -61.533 -37.599 -8.146 1.00 31.08 C AT

[ccp4bb] a question about procheck

2007-08-10 Thread Jiamu Du
Dear All: I have refined a structure. When I run procheck, a messege apears in the log file as below: Average value of CA-N-C-CB angle is 33.83 Standard deviation is 1.85 * Side chain atoms swapped for residues: * GLU A 15 ARG A 24 TYR A I have checked the density and the geometry of the

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-10 Thread Eleanor Dodson
ping sun wrote: Thanks for your answer. I guess I did not make it clear. I used the data file for refinement which is also used for phasing (peak_anomalous.hkl). Traditionally, people will reprocess the same set of data for refinement (rescale it in hkl2000 without using the option "anomalous

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac problem in running arp/warp

2007-08-10 Thread Tommi Kajander
Quoting Anastassis Perrakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Aug 9, 2007, at 15:02, Tommi Kajander wrote: > > > so, a) WHAT IS GAMMA?? > > gamma is possibly the letter of the greek alphabet that has had most > abuse from scientists. thats what i thought... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_%28di