Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes

2009-03-19 Thread Borhani, David
I agree with Paul: use the standard dictionary if at all possible. It's strange: I've not had any trouble with NADPH (NDP) in refmac recently---as long as I had the correct atom names. Is there a typographical error in the standard NAD dictionary entry? Dave David Borhani, Ph.D. D. E. Shaw Rese

Re: [ccp4bb] purification

2009-03-19 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, The details of the experiment are a bit sketchy. Is this a transmembrane protein or an associated one? What percentage of the structure is expected to associate with the lipid bilayer? Do you know the correct orientation of the protein with respect to the bilayer (i.e. what's inside and what's

Re: [ccp4bb] purification

2009-03-19 Thread Chun Luo
Put the His-tag at C-terminus. Remove rare codons Optimize sequence for translation You probably got truncations not degradations. Chun -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kn Ly Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:53 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAI

[ccp4bb] purification

2009-03-19 Thread Kn Ly
Hello everyone, I am expressing a 100 KDa eukaryotic membrane protein in E coli. The protein is fused to 6His-MBP in the N terminus and the resulting mass is ~ 150 KDa. However, the protein get severely degraded so after putting through a Ni-NTA column, the protein came out with a lot of contamin

[ccp4bb] Computing and X-ray Scientist- Job opening

2009-03-19 Thread Miller, Darcie
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee has an opening for a Computing and X-ray Scientist in the Department of Structural Biology. The manager would be responsible for administering computing infrastructure within the department and maintaining the X-ray facilities. The ide

Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Emsley
Eleanor Dodson wrote: Even for NAD I think I would make my own "new" dictionary. I must say that I would not (in the general case that is, there may be an argument for doing so for NAD). There will be a price to pay at deposition time. To address your particular problem (and Ignoring the p

[ccp4bb] import_scaled failed on ccp4-6.1.1 but finished on ccp4-6.1.0

2009-03-19 Thread Jun Dong
Dear CCP4 developers, The same job ImportScaled on ccp4-6.1.1 failed with /ccp4-6.1.1/ccp4i/scripts/import_scaled.script: can't read "dataset_name": no such variable but finished if run it on ccp4-6.1.0. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks, Jun

Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes - yet another question regarding ligand restraints

2009-03-19 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Is there a chance that  ThDP (TDP or TPP in the ccp4 dictionary) is restrained differently in 6.1.x than it used to be in 6.02 or even earlier versions (e.g. 5.2) ? Boaz - Original Message - From: Eleanor Dodson Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:17 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] nad

Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Edwards
Rob, Thanks for the tips of wisdom. Is the 3 letter code for NADH something different, or is it NAD as well? Ditto for FMN and its reduced form. Thomas Edwards-CCP4 bulletin board wrote: -To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UKFrom: Rob Meijers Sent by: CCP4 bulletin board Date: 03/19/2009 01:01AMSubjec

[ccp4bb] Sample shipping question

2009-03-19 Thread David J. Schuller
For your amusement/outrage: A user of our synchrotron shipped samples in a deWar from overseas. The deWar was held up by U.S. Customs, and we received the following from a FedEx employee: --- This shipment is delayed with US Customs. We need to know the amount of salt in the shipment in kilogram

Re: [ccp4bb] imosflm STARTDIR

2009-03-19 Thread Harry Powell
Hi folks The real problem here is that the "imosflm" you run by default after installing the latest CCP4 is a shell script in $CBIN (i.e. where all the compiled programs are), which doesn't actually set things up properly. This has been addressed by the guys in Daresbury and the fix will

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral and graduate positions are available at Laval University Hospital Research Center

2009-03-19 Thread mesters
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[ccp4bb] TLS refinement in 6.1.1

2009-03-19 Thread Pavol Skubak
Dear Martin, this should be fixed in the latest refmac version http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~garib/refmac/latest_refmac.html Please let us know if it is not! Pavol. -- Sent from: Leiden ZH Netherlands.

Re: [ccp4bb] images

2009-03-19 Thread Graeme Winter
Hi Frank, I would have assumed that the purpose of the experiment would have been defined in the publication associated with the deposition - not to trivialize your point, which is very important, but to put it in context. I would also assume that the sequence and ligands are as per the associated

Re: [ccp4bb] images

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew Purkiss-Trew
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:19 +, Frank von Delft wrote: > Maybe, but images without experimental context (sequence? ligands? > purification? crystallization format? -- PURPOSE OF EXPERIMENT!?!! > relationship to the other 15 similar datasets) are as good as no > images. And as far as I know,

Re: [ccp4bb] imosflm STARTDIR

2009-03-19 Thread Williams, MA (Mark)
imosflm also takes the command line switch --startdir so you could try an alias of alias imosflm='imosflm --startdir $PWD' Mark -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of William G. Scott Sent: 18 March 2009 17:17 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Re: [ccp4bb] images

2009-03-19 Thread Philippe DUMAS
Jacob, Just for the fun, and for historical exactness... I would rather invoke Laplace for such an argumentation, whereas Poincaré should better be invoked for a very strong warning against it. Therefore, ignoring the warning and following Laplace, we could even readily extend your suggestion fr

Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes

2009-03-19 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Even for NAD I think I would make my own "new" dictionary. If you go to the ebi site ( now pdbe) ask for Msdchem ( is it PDBeChem now?) Get the idealised NAD coordinates with the remediated nomenclature Submit the coordnates to the ProDrg server. Retrieve the REFMAC dictionary Use PDB and dict

Re: [ccp4bb] images

2009-03-19 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Bernhard, Thank you for this suggestion. The question is: who outside the US can be "in"? I would be most happy to contribute to arguing the scientific case (in the broadest sense) for the benefits of such an initiative, and to play whatever role I can in getting (other people to put ...

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 on Windows

2009-03-19 Thread Ingo P. Korndoerfer
I can confirm this: I see the following running times for the exact same job under linux with no other work being done on the machine: ccp4.6.1.1 Refmac_5.5.0072: End of Refmac_5.5.0072 Times: User: 176.1s System: 78.2s Elapsed: 4:15 ccp4.6.0.2 Refmac_5.4.0062: End of Refmac_5.4.

Re: [ccp4bb] nad woes

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Meijers
Hi Jan, at low occupancy (and I suppose a resolution that does not extend beyond 2.0 A), you have to rely on your restraints. I think the consensus is that the adenine ring should be planar. The pyridine ring of the nicotinamide should be flat if the ring is oxidized (NAD+), and can be distorted