Re: [ccp4bb] Clarification and another question . . .

2010-05-09 Thread Jan Dohnalek
In the end it comes to the question what added value above the current approaches you could offer. If you increase the success rate of crystallizability and good diffraction data from a given protein by a factor of two or more it becomes interesting - I am afraid this is not the case for microg gro

Re: [ccp4bb] Micro-g Crystal Growth and the literature

2010-05-09 Thread Clemens Grimm
Have a look at this: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v404/n6774/full/404114a0.html Clemens Zitat von Jack Reynolds : TITLE: "Extracting trends from two decades of microgravity macromolecular crystallization history" (2005) (Judge, Snell and van der Woerd). "Significant enhancement

[ccp4bb] Micro-g Crystal Growth and the literature

2010-05-09 Thread Jack Reynolds
TITLE: "Extracting trends from two decades of microgravity macromolecular crystallization history" (2005) (Judge, Snell and van der Woerd). "Significant enhancements in structural knowledge have resulted from X-ray diffraction of the crystals grown . . . in the reduced acceleration environnmen

[ccp4bb] protein DNA complex

2010-05-09 Thread Mareike Kurz
Dear all, I am working on protein-DNA complex of which I finally got crystals, which diffract to at about 2 A. Unfortunately I wasn't able (so far) to solve the structure by MR, since the sequence identity to known homologues is very low (below 25%). By now I have successfully produced SeMe

[ccp4bb] Clarification and another question . . .

2010-05-09 Thread Jack Reynolds
--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Klaus Fütterer wrote: > Dear Jack, > > I believe your venture would enter a mature market, and, if > you were to offer growing growing crystals in microgravity, > a market characterised by very high costs and (presumably) > very low margins. I wouldn't offer crystal growth,

Re: [ccp4bb] lossy compression of diffraction images

2010-05-09 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
Dear Colleagues, The main problem with a lossy compression that suppresses weak spots is that those spots may be a tip-off to a misidentified symmetry, so you may wish to keep some faithful copy of the original diffraction image until you are very certain of having the symmetry right. That b

Re: [ccp4bb] lossy compression of diffraction images

2010-05-09 Thread James Holton
Frank von Delft wrote: Just looked at the algorithm, how it stores the average "non-spot" through all the images. What happens with dataset where the "non-spot" (e.g. background) changes systematically through the dataset, i.e. anisotropic datasets or thin crystals lying flat in a thin loop?

Re: [ccp4bb] lossy compression of diffraction images

2010-05-09 Thread George M. Sheldrick
This is a purely historical comment. In the 1970's we were faced with the problem that if, as was then the practice, the reflection data were stored on punched cards with one reflection per card, even small molecule structures could be rather heavy to carry around. One of the innovations introd

Re: [ccp4bb] lossy compression of diffraction images

2010-05-09 Thread Frank von Delft
Just looked at the algorithm, how it stores the average "non-spot" through all the images. What happens with dataset where the "non-spot" (e.g. background) changes systematically through the dataset, i.e. anisotropic datasets or thin crystals lying flat in a thin loop? How much worse is compr

[ccp4bb] Summary: freezing crystals grown in isopropanol condition

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Meier
Dear all, Thank you to all those who responded to my question about freezing crystals grown in isopropanol. To recap: - my crystals grew in 25% isopropanol, plus some citrate buffer at pH4.5 (no other ingredients). - my crystals grew at room temperature, in 1micro-litre sitting drops, in Innovap