Re: [ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-04 Thread Jobichen Chacko
Dear All, Some more details. I am running a Ubuntu 11.04 system. The ccp4i is recently installed. I looked into our previous posts and tried to locate the ccp4.LOCK file, but I cannot find one in my system. Also tried to reinstall the whole ccp4i but hasn't solved the issue. Also tried to delete t

[ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-04 Thread Jobichen Chacko
Dear All, I am getting the following error message when trying to execute any program. Database Access Failure This instance of CCP4i no longer has control of the current database.. It is recommending to close the interface and restart, but it is coming back with the same error even after r

Re: [ccp4bb] software for surface curvature

2011-10-04 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/05/2011 07:25 AM, Jun Liao wrote: Dear All, These days, I want to calculate the surface curvature for my proteins in a quantitative way and show the results in a graphics software such as Pymol. Does someone have a good idea of which program will do a nice job? If you are a C++ expert an

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding a sequence motif with BLAST

2011-10-04 Thread Jacob Keller
> Maybe it's just a sequencing glitch? Not so--BLAST showed there are a whole cadre of these things in various genomes. Go figure. JPK > > JPK > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jacob Keller > wrote: >> Thanks everybody, I tried using >> >> --toolkit tuebingen mpi >> --Scanprosite >> >>

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding a sequence motif with BLAST

2011-10-04 Thread Jacob Keller
Just for kicks, check out this sequence I found in the process (conjecture: maybe when the virus causes its synthesis, it uses up all the cysteines/methionines!): >sp|Q69566|U88_HHV6U Uncharacterized protein U88 OS=Human herpesvirus 6A >(strain Uganda-1102) GN=U88 PE=4 SV=1 MYVSVSVHVSVHVSVRVSVRVS

[ccp4bb] software for surface curvature

2011-10-04 Thread Jun Liao
Dear All, These days, I want to calculate the surface curvature for my proteins in a quantitative way and show the results in a graphics software such as Pymol. Does someone have a good idea of which program will do a nice job? Thanks in advance, Best, Jun Liao Dept. of Physiology UTSW medica

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Installing ccp4-6.0.99e on 64 bit Ubuntu - Bioscreencast Wiki (works for 32-bit also)

2011-10-04 Thread Folmer Fredslund
Dear all, I tend to use Google's cached versions or The web archive http://www.archive.org/web/web.php leading to http://web.archive.org/web/20100814204611/http://www.bioscreencastwiki.com/Crystallography_Howtos/Installing_ccp4-6.0.99e_on_64_bit_Ubuntu Hope this helps someone... Best regards,

Re: [ccp4bb] Overlapmap

2011-10-04 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Brigitte Ziervogel wrote: > (...) > Any suggestions or ideas of better ways to score ligand fits are > appreciated, thanks. > another alternative: phenix.model_vs_data model.pdb data.mtz comprehensive=true will list triplet of numbers: {map CC, 2mFo-DFc val

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding a sequence motif with BLAST

2011-10-04 Thread Jacob Keller
Thanks everybody, I tried using --toolkit tuebingen mpi --Scanprosite I think my regex syntax was different from the Tuebingen site's, but scanprosite worked well and found many hits, although without really hitting paydirt. I think both of these programs would do the job well, though. Thanks ve

Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of ccp4 on 64bit fedora core 13

2011-10-04 Thread Joel Tyndall
Hi folks, Anyone know if this site is temporarily down or is it more permanent? http://bioscreencastwiki.com/Crystallography_Howtos/Installing_ccp4-6.0.99e_on_64_bit_Ubuntu Cheers Joel _ Joel Tyndall, PhD Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry National School

[ccp4bb] Overlapmap

2011-10-04 Thread Brigitte Ziervogel
Hi, I am using the program Overlapmap to calculate real-space R-factors and correlation coefficients in order to find ligand conformations that fit best within the density. I'm confused by the Overlapmap output, which includes "Fobs" and "Fcalc" values that are used to calculate the R-factors

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding a sequence motif with BLAST

2011-10-04 Thread David Briggs
Hi Jacob, SCAN PROSITE http://prosite.expasy.org/scanprosite/ will do precisely what you want. C-X-C-X-C-X-C or C-X-C-X-C would be the pattern using Prosite syntax. Cheers, Dave David C. Briggs PhD Father, Structural Biologist and Sceptic =

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand

2011-10-04 Thread Brigitte Ziervogel
Thanks Ian, I'll keep posting :) Brigitte Original message >Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:19:40 +0100 >From: Ian Tickle >Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand >To: bkziervo...@uchicago.edu >Cc: Adam Ralph , CCP4 bulletin board > > > On Tue, Oct

[ccp4bb] Finding a sequence motif with BLAST

2011-10-04 Thread Jacob Keller
Dear Crystallographers, I cannot get BLAST to find all proteins with the motif cxcxcxc or at least cxcxc. It seems to think of "x" as an actual amino acid rather than a wildcard. There must be some easy way to do this? Ordinarily to find a short motif, I would just paste the sequence and get the a

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Tickle
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:14 PM, wrote: > Hi Adam and Ian, > > Thanks for your help. If I re-calculate the R-factors with the correct > absolute values I get more reasonable values. However, I'm still a bit > confused because the output given by the Overlapmap program is structure > factor value

Re: [ccp4bb] How to model this type of radiation damage?

2011-10-04 Thread Roger Rowlett
At first glance, it looks like it could be modeled by a partially reduced carboxylate (to aldehyde or carbonyl radical). Is there any precedent for such a radiation-induced photoelectron reduction? Like you, I only remember seeing decarboxylations of Asp and Glu.

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Thank you all. I had forgotten about checking pdb record formats.. Eleanor It works when you follow the rules! On 10/04/2011 05:05 PM, Frances C. Bernstein wrote: I checked back and the 1992 format decscription did not use columns 77 - 80 for ATOM/HETATM records. But the 1996 document did use

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Frances C. Bernstein
I checked back and the 1992 format decscription did not use columns 77 - 80 for ATOM/HETATM records. But the 1996 document did use them. I then checked the old Newsletters and the proposed use of columns 77 - 80 was discussed in April 1995. Frances ===

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Tickle
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > OK > > So the ATOM TYPE has ZN O C S etc in column 77/78 and the +2 etc in 79/80 > > Is there any documentation for this? > > E Yes, see: ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/doc/format_descriptions/Format_v33_A4.pdf Though this has been the forma

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Garib N Murshudov
I think it is a pdb rule. Here are some of the rules: http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format33/sect9.html Charges (confusingly) could be 2+ etc. Regards Garib On 4 Oct 2011, at 16:41, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > OK > > So the ATOM TYPE has ZN O C S etc in column 77/78 and the +2 etc in 79/80

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Eleanor Dodson
OK So the ATOM TYPE has ZN O C S etc in column 77/78 and the +2 etc in 79/80 Is there any documentation for this? E On 10/04/2011 03:56 PM, Garib N Murshudov wrote: If you will put element names in correct positions then refmac may have a chance to find it. Here is corrected positions: AT

[ccp4bb] CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ESRF BEAM TIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC 30th Nov. to 4th Dec.: deadline 21st Oct

2011-10-04 Thread David Flot
*CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ESRF BEAM TIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC* Proposal Deadline *21st October 2011* There will be beam time available at the ESRF for MX data collection with a setup that allows online monitoring of UV/VIS absorbance or fluorescence spectral changes of the crystal during the X-

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Garib N Murshudov
If you will put element names in correct positions then refmac may have a chance to find it. Here is corrected positions: ATOM 1893 O HOH A 258 -8.934 52.268 49.467 0.00 66.53 O ATOM 1894 ZNZN B 1 -10.456 38.580 26.267 1.00 57.36 ZN+2 ATOM 1895 O

[ccp4bb] How to get formfactor for Zn +2.

2011-10-04 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Can anyone advise me how to get the Zn+2 formfactor from atomsf.lib The input coordinate is given atom type ZN+2 but the formfactor is that for Zn: I changed the atom name to Zn+2 but that made no difference... ATOM 1893 O UNK A 258 -8.934 52.268 49.467 0.00 66.53 O ATOM 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Tickle
Ooops (.03+.01+.01+.01)/(.19+.01+.09+.09) = .16 -- Ian On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Ian Tickle wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Adam Ralph wrote: > >> Dear Brigitte, >> >> >> Looking at the formulae it could be possible to get those results. >> Take an example >> below >> >>

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Tickle
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Adam Ralph wrote: > Dear Brigitte, > > > Looking at the formulae it could be possible to get those results. > Take an example > below > > > Rho_cal = -0.11, 0.0, 0.05, 0.05 > Rho_obs = -0.08, 0.01, 0.04, 0.04 > > > R-fac = 0.02/0.0 = undefined

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate real-space R-factor/corr coeff for ligand

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Ralph
Dear Brigitte,      Looking at the formulae it could be possible to get those results. Take an example  below     Rho_cal = -0.11, 0.0, 0.05, 0.05     Rho_obs = -0.08, 0.01, 0.04, 0.04     R-fac = 0.02/0.0   =   undefined     Correl =      0.0032 - (-0.0025*0.0025)                    -

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Beryllium chloride

2011-10-04 Thread chen c
Beryllium chloride is very toxic. More care is needed when preparing it. 在 2011年10月4日 上午7:35,Peter Hsu 写道: > Sorry for the very off topic and dumb question, but does anyone know if BeCl2 > needs to be prepared fresh for use (making BeF3) or can it be stored as a > solution stock at room temp