Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Bernhard Rupp
It is also the color of F-centers (electron holes) in crystals such as Fluorite CaF2 -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of William G. Scott Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:47 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] video tha

[ccp4bb] tr: RE: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Frederic VELLIEUX
Dear All, I received this from Bernhard Rupp. I thought that the bb should be consulted. The only (small) thing I could do is to post this video on my Facebook profile with a link to the Warren DeLano Memorial web site. Fred. > Message du 13/11/09 23:44 > De : "Bernhard Rupp" > A : "'Frederi

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning

2009-11-13 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear All, following the twinning threads as well as the refmac manual it is not quite clear to me yet whether refmac finds the twin operator and fraction, detwins the data, and refines against those detwinned data, or refines against the original twinned data like (I believe) phenix and shelxl.

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread William G. Scott
On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Vellieux Frederic wrote: > but also shows what we crystallographers have known for a long time, since > the first colour E&S graphics workstations in fact, that the electron are blue That is the color of electrons dissolved in liquid ammonia (thus allowing the viewe

Re: [ccp4bb] edit mtz cell in header?

2009-11-13 Thread Ed Pozharski
You may be able to open mtz files in a primitive text editor such as nano (I just did). It's a little awkward, as there are no line breaks. MTZ header is in the end of the file and it is plain text, so should be easy to edit manually - just make sure you don't introduce extra space. There are ple

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear All, About a year ago I made a short demo video, only intended to illustrate how robotics figure in drug target crystallography. It is biased and somewhat out of date of course, but shows some nice crystal growth, harvesting and data collection. Material credits are at the end. Fo

Re: [ccp4bb] edit mtz cell in header?

2009-11-13 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Matt The problem may be that SFTOOLS is changing the wrong cell, because different cells may be associated with dataset identifiers in the file. You can convert the file to ASCII using mtztona4, edit all the cells you see (DCELL and CELL) and convert back to MTZ using na4tomtz. Cheers -- Ian

[ccp4bb] edit mtz cell in header?

2009-11-13 Thread Matt Warkentin
Howdy folks I'm having an infuriating problem with an mtz file and sftools. I'm sure this is an easy fix. Here's the situation: phaser gave me an mtz and pdb file with bad cell information. It's I213, but the cell is listed as 168.981 168.981 168.982 i.e. NOT cubic - this creates an error wi

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:26:27PM -0600, Kevin Anderson wrote: > While we're on the subject, I notice that imosflm has a convenient > environment variable for specifying the location of wish. Is there a > similar means of specifying the location of bltwish for ccp4, or am I > obliged to dump it i

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Pete Meyer
While we're on the subject, I notice that imosflm has a convenient environment variable for specifying the location of wish. Is there a similar means of specifying the location of bltwish for ccp4, or am I obliged to dump it in /usr/bin ? CCCP4I_TCLTK in include/ccp4.setup-[bash|csh]. -Kevin

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, etc -> EasyXtal crystallisation plates

2009-11-13 Thread Frederic VELLIEUX
Just one precision concerning the QIAGEN EasyXtal crystallisation plates: there are 2 types, one with white O rings (these were shown on the video) where there is evaporation through the O ring as in greased hanging drop plates, and one with black O rings, where there is far less evaporation th

[ccp4bb] [Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about]

2009-11-13 Thread Narayanan Ramasubbu
Just thought this will be of interest to all. Subbu --- Begin Message --- Narayanan Ramasubbu wrote: Vellieux Frederic wrote: Narayanan Ramasubbu wrote: Hi: Could someone point out the name and where to get these crystallization plates used in the video? By the way, this is a wonderful vide

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Anderson
I see. While we're on the subject, I notice that imosflm has a convenient environment variable for specifying the location of wish. Is there a similar means of specifying the location of bltwish for ccp4, or am I obliged to dump it in /usr/bin ? -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kevin

Re: [ccp4bb] looking for a computer program called Biomatx

2009-11-13 Thread Jürgen Bosch
How about Laskowsky et al. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/33/suppl_2/W89?ijkey=0EJWHewQp1zaEeJ&keytype=ref http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/ProFunc/ Jürgen On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I have heard (really heard, nothing seen in print

[ccp4bb] looking for a computer program called Biomatx

2009-11-13 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Dear all, I have heard (really heard, nothing seen in print so far) about a computer program called Biomatx (I think). Computer program that "might" be used to search for structural motifs in amino acid sequences (here might is in between quotes because I haven't seen anything in print, and a

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Christian Biertuempfel
Thank you Dr. Sauter for making such an awesome movie. I am sure it will be very valuable for teaching as well as for showing the general public what we do. Definitely try to have the DVD ready for Christmas shopping... Best regards, christian claude sauter wrote: > Narayanan Ramasubbu a écrit :

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Fairman
The crystallization plates with the screw caps shown 8 minutes into the film can be purchased from Qiagen (They used to be made by a company called Nextal but Qiagen bought them out a few years ago). I've been using these plates for years and love not having to deal with the vacuum grease. Here i

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread claude sauter
Narayanan Ramasubbu a écrit : mb1pja wrote: Dear Fred A really nice video that would be great for giving non-crystallographers (including colleagues and 1st year students, and perhaps also friends and family) an overview of what we do. Thank you for pointing it out - and of course very many

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Vellieux Frederic wrote: Hi, I think the plates are Greiner bio-one plates. We use them on the nanodrop crystallisation robot at PSB-EMBL (https://htxlab.embl.fr). Will check with Jean-Luc Ferrer from IBS (if he has not gone home already, it is late on a Friday...). Fred. And the plates wi

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi, I think the plates are Greiner bio-one plates. We use them on the nanodrop crystallisation robot at PSB-EMBL (https://htxlab.embl.fr). Will check with Jean-Luc Ferrer from IBS (if he has not gone home already, it is late on a Friday...). Fred. Narayanan Ramasubbu wrote: mb1pja wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
The Linux i386 version works on Fedora and Ubuntu. Not tried RHEL. ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/Tcl-Tk++-linux-i386.tar.gz Kevin Anderson wrote: I'm not sure which package there you're referring to. I downloaded the BLT source from http://blt.sourceforge.net . (It seems to finally

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Anderson
I'm not sure which package there you're referring to. I downloaded the BLT source from http://blt.sourceforge.net . (It seems to finally be working now; I just had to compile it on a 32-bit machine.) -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote: > Did you try here? > ftp://ft

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Did you try here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/ Kevin Anderson wrote: I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually Scientific Linux 5.3) and have run into the apparently-familiar problem of not having bltwish. Specifically, while I can download blt-2.4-21.z.el5.i386.r

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread Narayanan Ramasubbu
mb1pja wrote: Dear Fred A really nice video that would be great for giving non-crystallographers (including colleagues and 1st year students, and perhaps also friends and family) an overview of what we do. Thank you for pointing it out - and of course very many thanks to Dominique Sauter for

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread mb1pja
... and thanks also to Ines Kahlaoui who pointed it out to you! On 11 Nov 2009, at 09:44, Vellieux Frederic wrote: > Dear all, > > Thought I'd share this with you: > > I located this through Ms Ines Kahlaoui, from the Beja Higher Institute of > Biotechnology in Tunisia (Ines has to teach and

[ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Anderson
I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually Scientific Linux 5.3) and have run into the apparently-familiar problem of not having bltwish. Specifically, while I can download blt-2.4-21.z.el5.i386.rpm from the EPEL repository, it does not contain bltwish. I have also tried downlo

Re: [ccp4bb] Fab fragments and their stability

2009-11-13 Thread Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra
Dear Colleagues, In the proper buffer (e.g. PBS) and after sterile filtration (possibly, also upon addition of 0.02 % NaN3) Fab fragments can be stored at 4 oC and stay functional over more than a year. For long term storage they should be shock-frozen in liquid nitrogen and may be kept at -20

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule soaking screening

2009-11-13 Thread Amit Gandhi
Dear Rongjin, In addition to all suggestions, you would also want to check 2007 proceedings of CCP4 study weekends about crystallography of complexes. http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4course.php I also liked following papers that give you so much information about crystallization of protein-ligand com

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule soaking screening

2009-11-13 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Additional to all other suggestions you can also mix your ligand at low concentration to lots of low concentrated protein and then concentrate your protein over time. The advantage, ligands with low solubility can bind to your protein while you are concentrating it. And then I would attempt

Re: [ccp4bb] arpwarp improve maps

2009-11-13 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Sorry, it's a bugg. Go back to a mode for autobuilding, turn off sequence docking,then back to map improvement and it will work. A. Sent from my iPhone On 13 Nov 2009, at 13:23, Tommi Kajander wrote: Hi, the latest arpwarp via ccp4 6.1.2 GUI on Mac OS X 10.5 something does not work

[ccp4bb] arpwarp improve maps

2009-11-13 Thread Tommi Kajander
Hi, the latest arpwarp via ccp4 6.1.2 GUI on Mac OS X 10.5 something does not work, it wants a sequence file which isnt an option in the GUI... (you put in the coordinates and update them thats all right?) i just want to improve the maps if possible. also the model if possible.. flex-warp didn

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXL eating REFMAC5 waters - whom to trust?

2009-11-13 Thread Martin Hallberg
Hi Wulf, For your waters that move slightly out of the centre of density I think SHELX FAQ #27 would apply: Q27: Some Waters are moving away from the centre of density toward the corner of the density. What is going on ? George: We have sometimes seen atoms move to the edge of density in a hi

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-13 Thread mb1pja
Dear Fred A really nice video that would be great for giving non-crystallographers (including colleagues and 1st year students, and perhaps also friends and family) an overview of what we do. Thank you for pointing it out - and of course very many thanks to Dominique Sauter for making it. I am

Re: [ccp4bb] Blast from the past

2009-11-13 Thread James Stroud
On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Vellieux Frederic wrote: Hi James, Could not understand much. Can you explain? If anyone out there has a program in circulation/for sale that was written more than 10 years ago, please change the headers and recompile it to take advantage of modern computers.

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXL eating REFMAC5 waters - whom to trust?

2009-11-13 Thread Pavel Afonine
A few remarks: I still believe that this is related to the max. likelihood vs. conjugated gradients and FFT vs. full summation Fourier and bulk solvent treatment in those programs. - "max. likelihood" is a refinement target function, and "conjugated gradients" is an optimization method. -

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule soaking screening

2009-11-13 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Rongjin, In addition to what the others said, I would do the following: 1) check your apo-structure to make sure the putative ligand binding is not blocked by a crystal contact and also check that there is a channel leading to the binding site. You may not get hits in your cocrystallizatio

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXL eating REFMAC5 waters - whom to trust?

2009-11-13 Thread Jan Dohnalek
Dear Wulf, I have had a similar experience recently when water treatment in SHELXL became a nightmare - as you say they started shifting away even if those were clear water sites. I have not found a final solution to this but I was not worried by those where density "disappeared" - those were the w