Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread James Stroud
On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Eric Bennett wrote: > [woz:~] bennette% > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python pytest.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "pytest.py", line 2, in >number = int(example_string) > ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Eric Bennett
On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: >> Why are you dis-ing python? Seems everybody loves it... > > I'm sure you can google for many "reasons I hate Python" lists. > > Mine would start > 1) sensitive to white space == fail > 2) dynamic typing makes it nearly impossible to verify pr

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand geometry obs. vs. ideal

2012-09-13 Thread Anna Gardberg
I second Tim Gruene's suggestion of SHELXL; it's perfect for this. However, there is a steep learning curve, so I strongly urge you to pay close attention to the SHELXL (and SHELXPRO) manuals. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Yuri Pompeu wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am trying to show that a ligand

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Eric Williams
Another option that could be cheap or free (if your university offers license deals, as mine does) is SPSS. It has a lot of the quick and dirty spreadsheet functionality of Excel, is much faster than Excel with large tables, has lots of good analysis tools, has its own scripting language, and is co

Re: [ccp4bb] Series termination effect calculation.

2012-09-13 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi, pointers listed here may be of help: 1) CCP4 Newsletterhttp://www.ccp4.ac.uk/newsletters/newsletter42/content.html On the Fourier series truncation peaks at subatomic resolution Anne Bochow, Alexandre Urzhumtsev 2) https://www.phenix-online.org/presentations/latest/pavel_maps.pdf 3) Central

[ccp4bb] Series termination effect calculation.

2012-09-13 Thread Niu Tou
Dear Colleagues, I am trying to repeat a series termination effect calculation displayed as figure 2 in a publihsed paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12215645). Formula (1) was used to implement this calculation. Since f(s) is not defined in detail in this paper, I used formula and paramet

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Jacob Keller
> > It turns out that the syntax and semantics of all reasonable programming > languages are very similar, or fall into only a few classes (e.g. C-like, > S-expressions, etc.), so once you are "fluent" in one from a class, it's > easy to pick up the others. This can't be said of natural languages,

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread James Stroud
On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Patrick Shaw Stewart wrote: > Like most computer users and many scientists I don't write scripts to > organize or analyse my data unless I get desperate. I've used both Python > and Perl a few years ago, but it would take quite a lot of time and effort > and starin

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Gildea
In my opinion, the Python equivalent of your pseudo-code is fairly close to how you would write the instructions logically. But then maybe not everyone thinks in the same way that I do :-) for x in range(1, 10): if age_of_person(x) > 50: print name_of_person(x), "is an old man (or woman)" O

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Like most computer users and many scientists I don't write scripts to organize or analyse my data unless I get desperate. I've used both Python and Perl a few years ago, but it would take quite a lot of time and effort and staring at on-line tutorials to get back into either of them right now. So

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread James Stroud
On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: > I have the impression that > python programmers spend a lot of effort in trying to convince others > that python is a "good" choice. Why bother rather than let people make > their own decision? Someone asked. Plus, python programmers put no more

[ccp4bb] Postdoc Position in Grenoble, France

2012-09-13 Thread prenesto
Dear Colleagues, Please find attached announcement about a postdoc position at the UVHCI, Grenoble.Could You please communicate to anybody who might be interested? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Patricia *Patricia Renesto, PhD UVHCI UMI 3265 CNRS-UJF-EMBL 6, rue Jules Horowitz 38042 Grenob

[ccp4bb] Off Topic: Maltose Binding Protein Purification

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Pegan
CCP4, I will be doing some MBP fusion purification in the near future and I was wondering if anyone knew what the most cost effective MBP trapping resin to use. So, far I have seen the following two products, are there any others I should consider? GE* Healthcare MBPTrap HP ColumnsNew England Am

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
After this religious debate concludes, I propose we return to the old standby - vi versus emacs. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Tim Gruene Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:25 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand geometry obs. vs. ideal

2012-09-13 Thread Patel, Joe
Hi Yuri, If you have access to mogul you can get an understanding of what your geometry should be based on the small molecule database. Of course not everything is well represented so if your ligand is unusual this will flag up in lower statistical significance. Mogul will allow you to unders

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand geometry obs. vs. ideal

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Yuri, at 1.18A resolution you can also refine using shelxl. It's basically your choice on a per-atom-basis what properties you wish to restrain and which to leave unrestrained. With L.S. refinement and given enough RAM it can print esds of your

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi James, I don't read "blaming" in George's words, just reasoning for a personal decision. Maybe I suffer from similar prejudice: I have the impression that python programmers spend a lot of effort in trying to convince others that python is a "good

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread David Waterman
Another vote for R. huge (100s MB) tables of tab-delimited data on which I would like to do > some math (averaging, sigmas, simple arithmetic, etc) as well as some > sorting and rejecting This is precisely what R is meant for. It was mentioned that it isn't so good at really large datasets, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland. The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "How odd. Scottish sheep are black." "No, no, no!" says the physicist. "Only some Sc

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and Pointless

2012-09-13 Thread A Leslie
It is possible to force Pointless to select a particular solution, using the "Find or match Laue group" option in CCP4i. The default option here is "Determine Laue group" but if you select the "Choose a previous solution" checkbox you can specify the solution you want Pointless to select,