Re: [ccp4bb] iMosflm 1.0.0

2008-11-17 Thread Jan Abendroth
Hi Luke, the new imosflm is really wonderful with its easy access to mosflm, its plenty graphic diagnostics and the quick pointless/scala access. A couple of questions that came up using it during data collection: - Is there any imosflm-specific documentation? - Is there a possibility to read

Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray versus NMR Structure

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Meyer
Robbie, Thanks, this looks like it was pretty close to what I was looking for. Pete R.P. Joosten wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Well, with Yasara NMR (not freeware) you can render all the distance > constraints and colour them by violation. If you are really interested, > I can ask one of the NMR guys h

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread Roger Rowlett
Anna S Gardberg wrote: Dear list, I haven't seen the "crystallographic computing platform" thread come up for a while, and I've got a chance to upgrade my desktop to a workstation, so I thought I'd ask the CCP4BB for advice on: 1. Mac vs. Linux (which flavor?) vs. Windows 2. Graphics cards 3

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 13:47 Mon 17 Nov , William G. Scott wrote: > I'd recommend Mac OS X or Linux over Windows as operating systems > compatible with crystallographic software. Linux flavors are a matter of > taste, but Ubuntu is popular (and free), and Gentoo is another one worth > looking at. When choosin

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread David Roberts
A few years back I built 6 machines for $8000 total, and it should be as cheap if not cheaper now.  I bought my video cards on ebay (there are lots of people who part out old leased machines and so it is very cheap really, and I haven't had a card fail yet, knock on wood).  I'll try to itemize

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Dear Anna, Here's my personal list of preferences for a fast and pretty inexpensive Linux workstation for crystallography. I can provide exact specs if desired. This assumes that you or someone in your group has basic computer hardware skills to put the workstation together*. Dual or quad c

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread William G. Scott
Hi Anna: I'd recommend Mac OS X or Linux over Windows as operating systems compatible with crystallographic software. Linux flavors are a matter of taste, but Ubuntu is popular (and free), and Gentoo is another one worth looking at. Mac OS X uses a variant of FreeBSD unix, and you can pre

[ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-17 Thread Anna S Gardberg
Dear list, I haven't seen the "crystallographic computing platform" thread come up for a while, and I've got a chance to upgrade my desktop to a workstation, so I thought I'd ask the CCP4BB for advice on: 1. Mac vs. Linux (which flavor?) vs. Windows 2. Graphics cards 3. Displays 4. Processors - mu

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic: soft crystals?

2008-11-17 Thread deliang
Thanks for all the suggestions. If I would try to accelerate the formation of the crystals by microseeding, do you think these soft/non-diffractionable crystals can help? Deliang - Original Message - From: Sanishvili, Ruslan To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday, November 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling of intensities

2008-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
I think it is just chosen to keep the numerical range reasonable, and to be easy to remember.. There is no signifance in any scale at the truncate stage - it will only be properly given when the model is refined.. Eleanor Pete Meyer wrote: Eleanor, Any ideas if the 0.01 in truncate is just be

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling of intensities

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Meyer
Eleanor, Any ideas if the 0.01 in truncate is just being used as "arbitrary small number to prevent overflow", or if it's serving another purpose? I wasn't sure from reading truncate.f. Thanks, Pete Eleanor Dodson wrote: > Truncate doesnt "truncate" intensities or modify them in any way except

Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray versus NMR Structure

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Meyer
> dipolar couplings (NMR). But even then one should always look at the > structure model in the context of the experimental data. High Is there an easy way to do this for NMR data? For x-ray data, it's relatively straightforward to re-calculate a map using the deposited model and amplitudes, whic

Re: [ccp4bb] Reading the old literature / truncate / refinement programs

2008-11-17 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Marc Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you on this, I've had it on my mind for a while that your comments deserved a response, but you raised many interesting points and it seemed that the objections that you raised to what I was doing required that I think more carefully about the sta

[ccp4bb] Rigaku X-ray system for sale.

2008-11-17 Thread Moore, Jeremy
Rigaku X-ray system for sale. Due to the acquisition of new X-ray crystallography equipment Imperial College London has a complete X-ray diffraction setup available at an extremely reasonable price. The specification is as follows: Rigaku RU-H3RHB rotating anode generator Osmic blue optics MAR

Re: [ccp4bb] difficult MR in R32(H32)

2008-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Answer is NO to difficulty; H32 is no easier or harder in principal than any other SG.. However do you have a NCS translation? or twinning? Is your model likely to be an oligomer? Eleanor Shane Atwell wrote: I'm struggling with a molecular replacement. Its a kinase, for which we have the str

Re: [ccp4bb] low B factors

2008-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
This scaling is a real pain.. However If you look at the plot of v ( a loograph under Rfactor v resolution plots) it often gives a clue. I think it is usually due to poor estimation of the bulk solvent correction, espec if the model is incomplete. (We could discuss that if there was any inter

Re: [ccp4bb] Warning!!! Problems with space groups: P212121 to P22121 conversion example

2008-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
I have just come back from a meeting where the following problem reared its ugly head MOLREP was used to test a set of SGs and found a good solution in one of them; P2 21 2 for example. But the refinement against the original data stuck.. The explanation is this: Although the MOLREP wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling of intensities

2008-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Truncate doesnt "truncate" intensities or modify them in any way except to apply a guesstimate of the absolute likely scale based on the no of residues in the asymmetric unit. Truncation is only applied to the amplitudes for negative or very weak intensities. Obv. you cant take the square roo