Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm orientation matrix and symmetry

2007-09-24 Thread Nicholas K Sauter
Bryan, I think it would be more correct to say that the orientation matrix file applies to the Bravais type (e.g., hP--hexagonal primitive). Within the Bravais type you can substitute a different space group prior to integration. Nick From: "Bryan W. Lepore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > does the m

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent content of membrane protein crystals

2007-09-24 Thread Edward Berry
Das, Debanu wrote: Hi, There are at least 4 methods to try to estimate amount of detergent in a membrane protein crystal . In summary, someone wanting to estimate amount of detergent in their crystals and have sufficiently large and numerous crystals, could try out any of t

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent content of membrane protein crystals

2007-09-24 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi, There are at least 4 methods to try to estimate amount of detergent in a membrane protein crystal which may lead to a more accurate estimation of asu content, etc. At the minimum, this may serve academic curiosity. At the best, if one obtains membrane protein crystals that do not diffract

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent content of membrane protein crystals

2007-09-24 Thread Savvas Savvides
I would like to thank Michael Caravito and Gert Van den Berg for taking the time to share their knowledge and insights on protein-detergent/micelle complexes. A series of experiments I carried out using DLS some time ago showed that the protein-detergent/micelle complex (with LDAO as detergen

[ccp4bb] mosflm orientation matrix and symmetry

2007-09-24 Thread Bryan W. Lepore
does the mosflm orientation matrix specify the crystal system and only the crystal system? i.e, given an orientation matrix from autoindexing, it would be correct to simply use keyword 'SYMMETRY SPACEGROUP' in mosflm to refine then integrate in any of the spacegroups within a given crystal sys

Re: [ccp4bb] arp/warp in p22121: what to do in Pointless

2007-09-24 Thread Winter, G (Graeme)
Hi Phil, Just in case anyone was used to the old default behaviour (and like to use the current version of Arp/wArp ;oD) could you ensure that there is an option which will allow the automatic reindexing to the old default setting? Thanks, Graeme From: CC

[ccp4bb] CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ESRF BEAMTIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC

2007-09-24 Thread Martin WEIK
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ESRF BEAMTIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC There will be beamtime available from **15th to 18th November 2007** inclusive at the ESRF for MX data collection with a setup that allows online monitoring of UV/VIS spectral changes of the crystal during the X-ray diffraction experim

Re: [ccp4bb] arp/warp in p22121: what to do in Pointless

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Evans
OK I'll try to change the default behaviour, after I've fixed the current round of bugs! Sometimes reindexing is required from the Mosflm indexing even without a reference set, if the Laue group assignment is wrong, or where there is pseudo lattice symmetry (eg we have a case which is rea

[ccp4bb] coot--saving changes

2007-09-24 Thread Patrick Loll
Posted for my post-doc...for some reason her subscription is slow in starting...any off-line replies should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Coot users out there, I am a new coot user and have tried many methods to save changes while rebuilding, short of "save coordinates". The manual says th

Re: [ccp4bb] arp/warp in p22121: what to do in Pointless

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Tickle
Phil, It also affects centred monoclinic: to avoid some cases of beta > 120 you have to use the I121 setting instead of C121 (and it is a conventional setting, see IT vol. A pp.126-7). For example the conventional (but non-standard) I121 setting: a=50 b=60 c=51 beta=90.2 would I think be re-index

Re: [ccp4bb] arp/warp in p22121: what to do in Pointless

2007-09-24 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Phil, For the record, the program XPREP - widely used by small molecule crystallographers but also useful for macromoleculess - always makes the conventional cell (in this example P 21 21 2) the default (i.e. what you get if you always hit ), and writes out new .hkl and .ins files in this sett

Re: [ccp4bb] alternate confirmations of residues

2007-09-24 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Vineet, I am not sure that you are defining things as expected in the CNS documentation. If you haven't already, please read the CNS FAQ page with description of how to define and include alternate side-chains for refinement. In any case, I summarise the steps for you- 1. Run generate.inp wi

Re: [ccp4bb] arp/warp in p22121: what to do in Pointless

2007-09-24 Thread Phil Evans
I think this is only a problem in the primitive orthorhombic system (at least I assume people don't want hexagonal axes along a, A & B centred lattices etc, although there is no reason in principle why not). Following some earlier discussions with Ian, Pointless now honours (and preserves)

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent content of membrane protein crystals

2007-09-24 Thread R.M. Garavito
Saavas and Tommi, The questions of what is the detergent content of a membrane protein crystal and how to explicitly determine the amount of detergent in a crystal are extremely difficult to address. Moreover, is it worthwhile to even attempt to correct the Matthews coefficient? I perso

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystals to go

2007-09-24 Thread Bram Schierbeek
Hi Graeme, I suppose you refer to the poster that was presented by Annette Faust, Andrea Schmidt, Victor Lamzin and Manfred Weiss from EMBL Hamburg with the title: Lysozyme crystals - ready to use. In this poster they present crosslinking of lysozyme crystals with styrene and/or glutaraldehyde a

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS setup file for bash users?

2007-09-24 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dirk Kostrewa schrieb: Dear colleagues, although not a CCP4 question, does anyone has a CNS setup file for bash users, analogous to the "cns_setup_env" file for (t)csh users? Best regards, Dirk Kostrewa. Hi Dirk, I find in $CNS_SOLVE (as distributed with CNS 1.2) both a cns_solve_env (f

[ccp4bb] CNS setup file for bash users?

2007-09-24 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear colleagues, although not a CCP4 question, does anyone has a CNS setup file for bash users, analogous to the "cns_setup_env" file for (t)csh users? Best regards, Dirk Kostrewa. *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center, A 5.07 Ludwig-Maximilians-U

Re: [ccp4bb] calculating molecular dimensions

2007-09-24 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Well - PDBSET gives you the X Y and Z dimensions. ( pdbset xyzin thismol.pdb end If you want to align the protein along its principal axes, I usually run the TABLING function of Amore. That takes a model, moves its CofM to the origin and aligns it in such a way. Eleanor Vineet Gaur wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and ramachandran troubles

2007-09-24 Thread Eleanor Dodson
You havent got an incorrect CISPEP definition lurking in the PDB file have you - COOT does NOT correct these so if you rebuild something which has been previously flagges as CISPEP ( and that can happen if a very ugly omega angle falls to 89.999 ) then it stays that way in the PDB output from C

[ccp4bb] alternate confirmations of residues

2007-09-24 Thread Vineet Gaur
Hi all Sorry for a non CCP4 question. I m using CNS for structure refinement. The structure is having few residues in alternate confirmations. i can see the density for those alternate confirmations. i m defining those alternate confirmations in the pdb but while generating the topology file, the