Re: [ccp4bb] looking for software

2008-05-14 Thread sekar
Hi, Please try the following web based tool to get a list of the water networks in a given PDB file. http://iris.physics.iisc.ernet.in/psap/ Please click on the option "Display water Bridges". regards, Sekar > Dear all, > > I am looking for some software (computer program) that would take a

[ccp4bb] UV light source for protein xtal detection

2008-05-14 Thread Torres-Larios Alfredo
Dear all, Here's another non CCP4 question: does anyone know a cheap alternative to set up a UV source at 280 nm? I'd really like to have one :), but I really don't have the $20K Dlls needed to buy a UV/white light source from the crystallographic vendors :(. Thanks so much in advance for yo

Re: [ccp4bb] any review on protein-protein complex crystallization?

2008-05-14 Thread Jesse Sundlov
This may be obvious, but I would run a size-exclusion column on the complex first. This will give you an idea as to how well these two proteins "stick" together. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Maarten Dewilde < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear CCP4bb, > > > > Can anyone point me to good revie

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement problem

2008-05-14 Thread krish
Hi, It would be nice if you mention more clearly how you have done TLS..i.e.,domains or individual residues or molecules !! You should keep in mind that you have 2.8A data. I would do TLSANL with domains or molecules. Best regards, Krishna Ch PhD Student Hannover Medical school Germany On Wed

[ccp4bb] Position in protein crystallography, Novartis. Insts. for Biomedical Research - Emeryville

2008-05-14 Thread Bussiere, Dirksen
Please note that qualified B.S. and M.S. level research associates are invited to apply. Structural Chemistry, Structure-Based Drug Design & Discovery Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Emeryville, California Use your scientific expertise to aid us in our structure-bas

[ccp4bb] User proposal submission for Collaborative Crystallography at BCSB

2008-05-14 Thread Banumathi Sankaran
Dear Users, The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB) is pleased to announce the launch of a Collaborative Crystallography Pilot Program (CC) at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley. Through this program, scientists will be able to send protein crystals to BCSB staff researchers for d

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for "high resolution"

2008-05-14 Thread William Scott
On May 14, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Mark Del Campo wrote: At what refinement resolution or resolution ranges would you call a structure "high resolution" vs. "low resolution"? I realize that this may boil down to semantics (e.g. some may classify structures as "medium resolution"), but I wanted t

Re: [ccp4bb] While on the subject of stereo

2008-05-14 Thread Warren DeLano
Hi David, This has already been done with PyMOL. There's a video at: http://molviz.cs.toronto.edu/molviz/ and the code is downloadable. The stereo effect isn't so great with both eyes open, but I do think there is potential for use of head or object tracking as a means of controlling rota

[ccp4bb] While on the subject of stereo

2008-05-14 Thread David Roberts
OK, so we weren't on this subject, and all of you are tired of me asking. However, the following link came to me and I wanted to see some programmers opinions on this one. The thing I'm wondering is, what needs to be done on the programming end to make this something that we could use in a cl

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for "high resolution"

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Afonine
I think this is coupled with the data completeness. Say you have a data 50.0-1.0A resolution, but the completeness in say 3.0-1.0A resolution range is equal to 10%, and it is 100% complete in 50.0-3.0A. Pavel. On 5/14/2008 12:28 PM, Mark Del Campo wrote: At what refinement resolution or resolu

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for "high resolution"

2008-05-14 Thread Edward Snell
I don't think you can give a resolution range - you could argue that it depends on molecular weight, i.e. high resolution for insulin and high resolution for the ribosome are going to be very different numbers. Other than that, my answer would be that you know it when you've got it :) Cheers, Ed

[ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for "high resolution"

2008-05-14 Thread Mark Del Campo
At what refinement resolution or resolution ranges would you call a structure "high resolution" vs. "low resolution"? I realize that this may boil down to semantics (e.g. some may classify structures as "medium resolution"), but I wanted to get an opinion from the pros.

[ccp4bb] Metal-Ligand Link tag

2008-05-14 Thread Eric Salgado
Hello all, I have a structure that has a Ni coordinated by an Asp residue and the backbone of two other residues. When I try to include Link statements for this in my pdb, refmac fails and says that a new ligand has been found. I was wondering if anyone knew what proper tag for these intera

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement problem

2008-05-14 Thread Eleanor Dodson
parkash wrote: Hi, I have one structural refinement problem. I am working on a protein crystals which diffracted to 2.8 Å. But when I refine through REFMAC5, with 0.1 wt(geometry to x-ray terms), I get high B-factors around 70. But if I do TLS refinement, the R-factors lower down and B-fa

Re: [ccp4bb] looking for software

2008-05-14 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I am looking for some software (computer program) that would take a full PDB file (including waters) and that would output a list of the water networks (including the names of the atoms) at the surface of a protein. Thank you in advance, Fred. watertidy d

Re: [ccp4bb] Alternate Ligand Conformations

2008-05-14 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Kathleen Frey wrote: Hello. I am trying to refine a structure that has 2 ligand conformations as seen in the electron density. I tried to put both conformations in Coot and format the PDB similar to a residue alternate conformation and changing the occupancies to 0.50 for each conformation. This

Re: [ccp4bb] Graphics software to show epitope foot-print

2008-05-14 Thread ANSV (Anders Svensson)
Hi Liz, Yes, that's a smart solution. I will have a try on my own data. Many thanks. Anders -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liz Potterton Sent: 14. maj 2008 14:10 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Graphics software to show

[ccp4bb] Alternate Ligand Conformations

2008-05-14 Thread Kathleen Frey
Hello. I am trying to refine a structure that has 2 ligand conformations as seen in the electron density. I tried to put both conformations in Coot and format the PDB similar to a residue alternate conformation and changing the occupancies to 0.50 for each conformation. This formatting did not wor

Re: [ccp4bb] Graphics software to show epitope foot-print

2008-05-14 Thread Liz Potterton
Hi Anders and CCP4bb Would something like http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~ccp4mg/index_info_5.html (done with CCP4mg) be useful? In that image the molecule surface is coloured by electrostatics (but could be any other property) and the contact area to a ligand is indicated by dots on the surface.

[ccp4bb] Oxford cryostream 700 series to give away

2008-05-14 Thread Adriana Miele
Dear BBorders, the lab is giving away a complete and perfectly functional Oxford Cryosystems Cryostream 700 series. For more information, please contact me outside the bulletin, please. Best regards Adriana Erica Miele - Adriana E. Miele, P

Re: [ccp4bb] problem of crystallization

2008-05-14 Thread Tom Walter
A few ideas: 1) go even higher with protein concentration. Some ultra-soluble proteins may need >100 mg/mL. You may have to set up drops at higher ratios of protein:precipitant to achieve this. e.g. 3:1 or more. Use a test such as the Hampton PCT to tell you when you are in the right concentrat

[ccp4bb] looking for software

2008-05-14 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Dear all, I am looking for some software (computer program) that would take a full PDB file (including waters) and that would output a list of the water networks (including the names of the atoms) at the surface of a protein. Thank you in advance, Fred. begin:vcard fn:Fred. Vellieux (Ph.D) n

Re: [ccp4bb] pdb format

2008-05-14 Thread Nicolas Soler
Hi Raja You can use a command-line script like this one: #!/bin/tcsh sed -e "/ATOM/ s/'/*/g" -e "/ATOM/ s/O5T/O3T/" -e "/ATOM/ s/ADE/ DA/g" -e "/ATOM/ s/CYT/ DC/g" -e "/ATOM/ s/GUA/ DG/g" -e "/ATOM/ s/THY/ DT/g" <$1>refmacok_$1 cat refmacok_$1|grep ATOM|more>/dev/tty Save the script in a ne

[ccp4bb] refinement problem

2008-05-14 Thread parkash
Hi, I have one structural refinement problem. I am working on a protein crystals which diffracted to 2.8 Å. But when I refine through REFMAC5, with 0.1 wt(geometry to x-ray terms), I get high B-factors around 70. But if I do TLS refinement, the R-factors lower down and B-factors come down

Re: [ccp4bb] problem of crystallization

2008-05-14 Thread Bernhard Rupp
I would suggest to open the wells, add some hefty precipitant to the reservoir, and close the wells again. The point is to drive the equilibrium further towards high concentration by drawing more water into the reservoir. It therefore does not matter what the supplemental precipitant is. Concentra

[ccp4bb] Call for synchrotron beam time at EMBL Hamburg

2008-05-14 Thread Victor Lamzin
Dear Colleague, This is a gentle reminder of our call for beam time applications at EMBL Hamburg that we circulated a few weeks ago. We kindly ask you to complete your beam time proposal by the deadline of ---> 16 May 2008 < If you have already taken action, you can ignore this message. --

[ccp4bb] Fixing waters around metal atom

2008-05-14 Thread Jendrek
Hi, I have a structure with a metal beautifully coordinated by 3 water molecules. However, every time I run automated water picking they get removed (due to combination of being too close to metal/too deep in the density). So far I've been manually reentering them into pdb but it becomes a

[ccp4bb] any review on protein-protein complex crystallization?

2008-05-14 Thread Maarten Dewilde
Dear CCP4bb, Can anyone point me to good reviews or books which describe how to crystallize protein-protein complexes (or anyone willing to share his/her experience)? In particular I'm interested in: (1) which tests to perform on your complex before you even start thinking about crystalli

Re: [ccp4bb] problem of crystallization

2008-05-14 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
... your protein is the dream of any NMR spectroscopist. Small and ultra-soluble. Maybe just do the structure by NMR? It should be totally straightforward for any NMR lab. A. On May 13, 2008, at 18:16, Jennifer Han-Chun Tsai wrote: Hi, This topic is not related to CCP4. I am having

[ccp4bb] Graphics software to show epitope foot-print

2008-05-14 Thread ANSV (Anders Svensson)
Dear colleagues, I am looking for a graphics software program that can make the following, easily. Make a surface representation of a macromolecule. That surface should be coloured according to some property. On, or close to, that surface the outer rim of a binding epitope from a second molecul