Re: [ccp4bb] Obtaining relationships between two cross rotation solutions?

2009-02-03 Thread Doug Ohlendorf
If you can calculate the transformation between the 2, the rotation (kappa) that relates them is found using the formula: 2 cosine (kappa) + 1 = Trace (transformation) where Trace = sum of diagonal elements. Doug -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk

Re: [ccp4bb] putting in methionines for SeMet crystals

2009-02-03 Thread Charlie Bond
We had success substituting an Arg to Met. It might seem counterintuitive (basic -> hydrophobic), but the underlying reason was that this Arg was involved in DNA-binding and the mutant was designed to effectively clip off the guanidino group while leaving the rest of the sidechain intact. It

[ccp4bb] ccp4 6.1.0 with macbookpro

2009-02-03 Thread Choel Kim
Hi all, I was trying to install the newest CCP4 on my macbook pro and got this error message. I could not save anything and create new project. ERROR unable to make logging file /Users/home/.CCP4/dbclientapi.log Traceback (most recent call last): File "/sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.1.0/share/dbccp4

[ccp4bb] problem with ccp4 6.1.0 installation

2009-02-03 Thread Witek Kwiatkowski
Hello, After installation I tried Graphical View of Project and I got: dotgraph_render: error: "graph 1.000 5.861 0.528 node Job1 0.472 0.264 0.945 0.500 "1: autoSHARP\nautoSHARP" filled box black #9DD05B node Job2 1.667 0.264 0.945 0.500 "2: autoSHARP\nautoSHARP" filled box black #9DD05B

Re: [ccp4bb] correlation length - reloaded

2009-02-03 Thread Nave, C (Colin)
James and other enthusiasts First of all, to help James with his identity crisis, he is not a biologist or a physicist. He is a biophysicist. A noble pursuit. It also has the advantage that you can impress your biology friends with your knowledge of physics and impress your physics friends with

Re: [ccp4bb] Obtaining relationships between two cross rotation solutions?

2009-02-03 Thread James Stroud
I forgot to mention that I think the only fail-safe direct approach will involve converting both rotations into quaternions, "subtracting" (inv(A)*B) said quaternions, then converting the difference into an axis-angle pair. James On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Francis E Reyes wrote: I have

[ccp4bb] 'Sticky Crystals' on ccp4-wiki

2009-02-03 Thread Savvas Savvides
Dear colleagues, I have just deposited an entry on the ccp4-wiki that summarizes input/ideas on dealing with 'sticky crystals'. Please feel free to edit it further as necessary. http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Crystals#Crystal _handling best wishes Savvas Savvas

Re: [ccp4bb] Obtaining relationships between two cross rotation solutions?

2009-02-03 Thread James Stroud
Transform a molecule according to the two transformations in which you are interested and then use dyndom to see the hinge axis that relates the two transformed molecules. On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Francis E Reyes wrote: I have trouble with visualizing things in three dimensions so I'm

[ccp4bb] TeachSG workshop Expertise in Macromolecular Structure Refinement in Prague April 3-4

2009-02-03 Thread Jan Dohnalek
A two-day workshop focused on both the basics and the current development in macromolecular single crystal structure refinement techniques will be held in Prague on April 3-4 2009. The workshop is organized within the TeachSG project of the EC (tightly connected with the project Spine2-Complexes

Re: [ccp4bb] putting in methionines for SeMet crystals

2009-02-03 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi Amit, Based on the original analysis of M. Dayhoff (PAM matrix, Dayhoff substitution probability, Dayhoff, et. al 1978), introduction of Leu->Met would be the best choice for production of Se-Met derivatized protein. It would be best to consider a multiple sequence alignment of yo

[ccp4bb] Obtaining relationships between two cross rotation solutions?

2009-02-03 Thread Francis E Reyes
I have trouble with visualizing things in three dimensions so I'm trying to figure out the relationship between two cross rotation functions (given as theta1, theta2, theta3). Is there a program or webapp that'll tell me whether two rotation solutions are related by a 180/90/60/whathaveyo

Re: [ccp4bb] PHENIX & BSS refinement

2009-02-03 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Jose, We have seen that the recent versions of phenix (1.3) the structure refinement ends with a bulk solvent correction step, something I found quite unusual (absent in other refinement programs and in older versions of phenix, 1.24.1). - the software is evolving and gets better over t

Re: [ccp4bb] correlation length - reloaded

2009-02-03 Thread James Holton
Re my previous post of this title: Harry Greenblatt just pointed out that I should have said that it is the reciprocal cell edges a* and b* that are non-equivalent in P4, not the real-space cell edges a and b. Hope that didn't confuse too many people. -James Holton MAD Scientist

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray photon correlation length

2009-02-03 Thread James Holton
Hey Dirk, You're wrong. ;) Well, actually, it depends on what you mean by "intensity". As Colin pointed out the word "intensity" is practically useless unless you are sure that you are comparing "apples to apples". In crystallography, you get beam intensity in flux (photons/s) but the inte

Re: [ccp4bb] putting in methionines for SeMet crystals

2009-02-03 Thread Andreas Förster
Hey Amit, as your protein is tiny, maybe you can calculate a molecular replacement model as described in Acta Cryst. (2009). D65, 169–175. This might take longer than engineering a few methionines, though. I'd mutate leucines. Andreas amit sharma wrote: Dear All, I have a 9-kDa prote

[ccp4bb] putting in methionines for SeMet crystals

2009-02-03 Thread amit sharma
Dear All, I have a 9-kDa protein that crystallizes well. Since there is no structural homologue for this molecule, I intend to make Se-Met derivative of the protein. The molecule has no Met/Cys residues in its sequence. I wanted to know where in the sequence should I mutate, so that the folding/c

[ccp4bb] PHENIX & BSS refinement

2009-02-03 Thread Jose Casasnovas
We have seen that the recent versions of phenix (1.3) the structure refinement ends with a bulk solvent correction step, something I found quite unusual (absent in other refinement programs and in older versions of phenix, 1.24.1).  We have also seen that the B factor jumps up in this last step (

Re: [ccp4bb] difficult MAD dataset

2009-02-03 Thread Stephen Graham
> > > Chi2 is unusually high at lower resolution (Chi2 is >3 from 3.5A as > shown > > > below) and there is a relatively high percentage of rejections (>1.5 %). > > > > > > > Chi^2 in Scalepack *must* be adjusted by changing the expected errors to be > about 1. > Until then, I would not reject

Re: [ccp4bb] difficult MAD dataset

2009-02-03 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hello - Sorry if some of my suggestions are redundant since I jumped in late in this thread. A couple of additional comments after struggling with a similar albeit not identical case. With a pseudo translation vector like that the SG could be any of the 8 orthorhombic SGs; P222 P21 22

[ccp4bb] correlation length - reloaded

2009-02-03 Thread James Holton
Thanks Colin, Yours is one of several lessons I have received on coherence and optics in the past few days. I do appreciate all effort and the input. However, as I mentioned before I am a biologist and I don't so much care about the fundamental nature of the universe as I do about how it re

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray photon correlation length

2009-02-03 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear James, what an interesting discussion! Am 30.01.2009 um 19:42 schrieb James Holton: ... I think the coherence length is related to how TWO different photons can interfere with each other, and this is a rare event indeed. It has nothing to do with x-ray diffraction as we know it. No