[ccp4bb] Warren DeLano Foundation update

2009-11-17 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear All - We are well into the 2nd round of Warren's Fund now -and the lucky Winner of the first round is: Miles Pufall, a post-doc in the UCSF Yamamoto lab. Incidentally, UCSF is where Warren did his graduate work with Jim Wells, and many there had very strong ties to him. The gross of 150

Re: [ccp4bb] converting .cv to mtz

2009-11-17 Thread martyn . winn
Your format string works for me. It's hard to say what has gone wrong without seeing how you ran it. Perhaps you could send me the complete log file? If you choose column type X X-plor Rfree, then it should convert automatically between the conventions. HTH Martyn -Original Message- Fr

Re: [ccp4bb] Bug regarding cell dimensions in autoSHARP / SCALA

2009-11-17 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hi Michele, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:28:45PM +0100, Michele Lunelli wrote: > Clemens Vonrhein wrote: > > > > > SCALA (as far as I know) gets its cell dimensions from the so-called > > batch header (since each image could have a different cell it averages > > those). So the problem isn't yet vi

Re: [ccp4bb] Bug regarding cell dimensions in autoSHARP / SCALA

2009-11-17 Thread Michele Lunelli
Clemens Vonrhein wrote: > > SCALA (as far as I know) gets its cell dimensions from the so-called > batch header (since each image could have a different cell it averages > those). So the problem isn't yet visible in your output - just do > > % mtzdmp CONVERT/F2MTZCOMBAT_peak.mtz -b > > and lo

[ccp4bb] Two-year postdoctoral position

2009-11-17 Thread Jean-Denis Pedelacq
A two-year postdoctoral position, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) is available immediately in the group of Lionel Mourey at the Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale in Toulouse (http://www.ipbs.fr). We are seeking a motivated scientist to join a research project on

Re: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano Foundation update

2009-11-17 Thread Bernhard Rupp
To all those who are flagellating themselves in public for leaving the 'h' out of my first name: It's ok, I've been called a lot worse - no more postings needed. 10 tickets to go for the first drawing! Cheers, BR -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.u

Re: [ccp4bb] Bug regarding cell dimensions in autoSHARP / SCALA

2009-11-17 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:48:31PM +0100, Michele Lunelli wrote: > I am doing SAD phasing with the latest autoSHARP and CCP4 6.1.1 (SCALA > version 3.3.9). The space > group is P21 with unit cell dimension 52.67, 28.61 and 105.16. If I give the > data as unmerged SHELX > file, it happens that th

Re: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano Foundation update

2009-11-17 Thread James Stroud
I mean "Bernhard". Apologies for the misspelling. James On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear All - sofar over 90 tickets sold in 3 days. We are getting close to drawing the first book winner - please keep going!! http://www.ruppweb.org/Garland/Warren_raffle.htm Thx, BR --

Re: [ccp4bb] Warren DeLano Foundation update

2009-11-17 Thread James Stroud
Bernard: This is an incredibly generous effort! Note that there is no easy way to buy multiple tickets without cycling through payment. The raffle might get more entries if multiple purchases were easier. James On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear All - sofar over

Re: [ccp4bb] converting .cv to mtz

2009-11-17 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: > one of many possible options to do this: > > If you have the latest PHENIX installed ( http://www.phenix-online.org/ > download/nightly_builds.cgi), then you can use "Reflection file editor" > from the main GUI to do what you want. > With

Re: [ccp4bb] converting .cv to mtz

2009-11-17 Thread Pavel Afonine
Alexandra, one of many possible options to do this: If you have the latest PHENIX installed (http://www.phenix-online.org/download/nightly_builds.cgi), then you can use "Reflection file editor" from the main GUI to do what you want. Pavel. On 11/17/09 9:49 AM, Alexandra Deaconescu wrote:

[ccp4bb] Warren DeLano Foundation update

2009-11-17 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear All - sofar over 90 tickets sold in 3 days. We are getting close to drawing the first book winner - please keep going!! http://www.ruppweb.org/Garland/Warren_raffle.htm Thx, BR - Bernhard Rupp b...@ruppweb.org http://www.rupp

[ccp4bb] converting .cv to mtz

2009-11-17 Thread Alexandra Deaconescu
Hello: I am switching from CNS to Refmac for refinement, and given that my FORTRAN classes were such a long time ago, I am having problems with the conversion. This is the format I give ccp4 (skipped the first 7 lines) '(6X,3F5.0,6X,F10.3,6X,F10.3,6X,F9.3/26X,F10.3,6X,F9.0)' and here is the b

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Fred, you can do all this in PHENIX, using command line or the GUI. - GUI: from main PHENIX GUI click on "Comprehensive validation", the rest should be obvious. - also, all these values are computed and available after any phenix.refine run using PHENIX GUI. - command line: type "phenix

Re: [ccp4bb] Bug regarding cell dimensions in autoSHARP / SCALA

2009-11-17 Thread Phil Evans
It's hard to know exactly what is going on without the files. I suspect some problem in converting shelx files to mtz. The very latest Pointless (from 1.4.1, now 1.4.4) will convert ShelX input files, and work better (from our ftp site ftp://ftp,mrc-lmb.cam.ac/uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.4.4.linux

[ccp4bb] Bug regarding cell dimensions in autoSHARP / SCALA

2009-11-17 Thread Michele Lunelli
I am doing SAD phasing with the latest autoSHARP and CCP4 6.1.1 (SCALA version 3.3.9). The space group is P21 with unit cell dimension 52.67, 28.61 and 105.16. If I give the data as unmerged SHELX file, it happens that the third cell dimension become identical to the first when the data are mer

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Eleanor Dodson wrote: First you must be on the same origin There are various ways to get there - brute force method is to calculate phases from both models, combine them, and use the reflection utility phase match to move one to the other by an appropriate origin shift... Then Use the GUI m

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
First you must be on the same origin There are various ways to get there - brute force method is to calculate phases from both models, combine them, and use the reflection utility phase match to move one to the other by an appropriate origin shift... Then Use the GUI map correlation. It will

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Kevin Cowtan wrote: For residue by residue: Map and Mask utilities/Map correlation Thanks Kevin, indeed this second option was what I was looking for. And thanks for the other suggestions too. Unfortunately, I do not know all CCP4i programs by heart :-( Fred.

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
For a global CC: Reflaction Data utilities/Phase comparison For residue by residue: Map and Mask utilities/Map correlation Note that the global CC will not be the average of the residue by residue, since it also correlates over solvent, etc. Kevin Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I am

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Abhinav Kumar
How about overlapmap in ccp4? Thanks Abhinav Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Joint Center for Structural Genomics Mail Stop 99 Phone: (650) 926-2992 Fax: (650) 926-3292 Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I am writing because I have a question that concerns coot or ccp4 (

[ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Dear all, I am writing because I have a question that concerns coot or ccp4 (don't know which one). I have 2 maps and one model. One of the map is an experimental map that has not seen one inch of a model, the second map is generated after refinement of a molecular replacement model. Same mol

Re: [ccp4bb] to model or not to model, that's not the question

2009-11-17 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardia
Le 17 nov. 09 à 12:40, Morten Kjeldgaard a écrit : Tim Gruene wrote: Yes, but models that can be validated against experimental data. The defining characteristics of computational models is that they (A) are 100% dependent on the algortihm, (B) can't be validated at all. Cheers, Morten

[ccp4bb] NOT: Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-17 Thread A Leslie
This discussion seems to have moved a very long way from the original topic, and hence the reported "Subject", could this be continued as a new thread please ? Thanks Andrew On 17 Nov 2009, at 11:40, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Tim Gruene wrote: Yes, but models that can be validated again

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

2009-11-17 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Tim Gruene wrote: Yes, but models that can be validated against experimental data. The defining characteristics of computational models is that they (A) are 100% dependent on the algortihm, (B) can't be validated at all. Cheers, Morten >>> Sorry, they can be validated

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

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Gruene
I would say that any prediction that can be derived from a model and confirmed is a validation of the model and the model remains valid until replaced by a better one. The sun was orbiting the earth until evidence became too contradictorily for this model. Until then it was a good model - bette

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about - biochemistry to validate model

2009-11-17 Thread Colin Nave
>> Sorry, they can be validated to some extend using biochemical data! >You are joking, right? Perhaps a distinction has to be made between model validation and making useful predictions from the model. Something like Model Validation - testing model against data. In case of protein crystallograp

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

2009-11-17 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 17/11/2009, at 08.10, mesters wrote: Yes, but models that can be validated against experimental data. The defining characteristics of computational models is that they (A) are 100% dependent on the algortihm, (B) can't be validated at all. Cheers, Morten Sorry, they can be validated t

[ccp4bb] membrane protein crystallization book

2009-11-17 Thread Marta Martínez
Hi everybody I need some advice about a good book on membrane protein crystallization. Thanks in advance Marta Dr. Marta Martínez Júlvez Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Zaragoza Pedro Cerbuna 12 50009-Zaragoza Spain