Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Smith
Hi Ed, Yes, the entire core line is great for crystallography setups. As has been mentioned, there are often issues with AMD processors as the occasional binary that is distributed has been compiled with intel CPU optimizations. I'm particularly fond of Dell's entry level servers with Quad-cor

Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-03 Thread Bernhard Rupp
A peripheral note: If you plan to use the CPUs for some image recognition or so using openCV, it and probably some other open source libraries with intel-connection use the IPP (Intel Performance Primitives) for top speed. Problems running on AMD chips have been reported, and my intel executables

Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-03 Thread David Schuller
On 06/03/10 17:08, Edward A. Berry wrote: A colleague is interested in purchasing computers for structural biology. On the CCP4 wiki Kay reports good results with core i7 940 processor in Dell desktops. Is i7 still a good choice? is it worth upgrading now to i7 960 (3.2 GHz vs 2.66, for + $467)

[ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-03 Thread Edward A. Berry
A colleague is interested in purchasing computers for structural biology. On the CCP4 wiki Kay reports good results with core i7 940 processor in Dell desktops. Is i7 still a good choice? is it worth upgrading now to i7 960 (3.2 GHz vs 2.66, for + $467) or i7 980 (3.33 ghz and more L2 cache for +

Re: [ccp4bb] Memory size issue in UPPSALA MAPMAN

2010-06-03 Thread Hailiang Zhang
Dear Nat: Fixed, and thanks a lot! Hailiang > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Hailiang Zhang wrote: > >> Not sure why, but sometime when I run it, it says >> "Max nr of points in map :4194304", >> >> some other times, it says >> "Max nr of points in map : 5000". >> >> All t

Re: [ccp4bb] Memory size issue in UPPSALA MAPMAN

2010-06-03 Thread Nat Echols
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Hailiang Zhang wrote: > Not sure why, but sometime when I run it, it says > "Max nr of points in map :4194304", > > some other times, it says > "Max nr of points in map : 5000". > > All the runs are on the same machine, and I hope the latter ca

[ccp4bb] Memory size issue in UPPSALA MAPMAN

2010-06-03 Thread Hailiang Zhang
Not sure why, but sometime when I run it, it says "Max nr of points in map :4194304", some other times, it says "Max nr of points in map : 5000". All the runs are on the same machine, and I hope the latter can happen more frequently (unfortunately only occasionally:-(.

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Ian Tickle
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Hailiang Zhang wrote: >   sigmaa HKLIN in.mtz HKLOUT out-sigmaa.mtz << eof >   title tt >   labin  FP=FP SIGFP=SIGFP FC=FC PHIC=PHIC >   labout  DELFWT=DELFWT FWT=FWT WCMB=WCMB >   symmetry $spcgrp >   END > eof > # >  I think the output

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I'm not quite clear what your aim is here, but if you want to reproduce Wan'g method exactly, DM can't do it as it has a whole lot of more recent stuff built in (gamma correction, masking algorithms etc). If you really want to implement Wang's method (and I'm not sure quite why you would, beca

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Eleanor Dodson
One or two more comments. There is a later paper by Andrew Leslie showing that the WANG real space averaging can be carried out very simply and much faster in reciprocal space - and this is the method used by all subsequent programs. density modification using calculated phases is somewhat fr

[ccp4bb] RES: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: hollow protein crystals

2010-06-03 Thread Andre Ambrosio
Thanks to all those who kindly answered my original message, both to the board and private. It seems that hollow crystals are rather common and as most people pointed out, may be due to fast growth. Indeed, ours grew overnight from a initial screening at room temperature and with very high protei

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Oh dear - I havent used SIGMAA for a long time . If you use REFMAC to calculate your SFs then it generates FC PHIC and FOM in the output. That is the easiset approach to getting started.. Isnt there a GUI task to do just this? Eleanor Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi, I wanted to do solvent flatten

[ccp4bb] Postdoc Postions at Cold Spring Harbor Lab

2010-06-03 Thread Hiro Furukawa
Postdoctoral positions at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are available immediately for highly enthusiastic individuals with strong interest in utilizing structural, electrophysiological, and biochemical approaches to study fundamental problems in ion and substrate transports and enzymatic

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: hollow protein crystals

2010-06-03 Thread Jan Dohnalek
Many times. Jan Dohnalek On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Andre Ambrosio wrote: > Dear all, > > > > We have recently obtained crystals from a small protein, and interestingly, > at least for me, they are hollow trigonal rods (please see pictures > attached). > > Just out of curiosity, has anybody

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: hollow protein crystals

2010-06-03 Thread Emmanuel Saridakis
Dear Andre, Yes, hollow crystals are not very uncommon. We have recently also solved a structure at very high resolution using long hollow crystals. Initially the walls were very thin; we managed to make them thicker (and the hole correspondingly smaller) by standard fine-tuning of conditions.

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Keller
Hi Kevin, Paul and others, On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Kevin Cowtan wrote: My understanding from Gerard K is that the next version of the PDB format will also use unjustified atom names. Unfortunately, following mmdb, I also backed the wrong horse and assumed space-padded atom names were here to sta