Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Grant, This is part of the recurring side chain discussion. There is no consensus in the community about what the optimal approach is. In your current approach you are adding a model parameter (occupancy) to improve the fit with the experimental data (remove negative difference density). You

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Grant, sounds like you did the right thing (as far as I can guess given the amount of information you provided). In a nutshell, both, B-factors and occupancies, model disorder. The difference is that occupancies model larger scale disorder (such as distinct conformations) than B-factors (smear

[ccp4bb] occupancy vs. Bfactors

2012-11-19 Thread GRANT MILLS
Hello all, I'm currently working on a structure which if I stub a certain side chain phenix/coot shows me a large green blob which looks strikingly similar to the side chain, when I put it in and run another refinement the blob turns red. Basically I was just playing around and I changed the oc

[ccp4bb] ctruncate/scapepacktomtz : terminate called after throwing an instance of clipper::Message_fatal

2012-11-19 Thread hari jayaram
Hi All, I am running the latest ccp4 ( auto-updated using the new autoupdate tool built into ccp4i) I was running what should be a routine scalepack to mtz conversion and I got an error which I have never seen before with ctruncate. When I run the same job with old truncate it succeeds. Any id

Re: [ccp4bb] coot, shelx res files and R32 (H32)

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Emsley
Hi Petr, Thanks for noting this - yes it has existed for a while, sad to say. (I was using the standard space group name to convert between clipper symmetry and mmdb symmetry - that was a mistake - I should have been using the Extended Hermann–Mauguin symbols). Fixed in r4489. Paul. On 19

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Has anyone experienced problems with Apple laptop battery expansion?

2012-11-19 Thread Engin Özkan
To add another datapoint, a couple of weeks ago, I saw a friend's MacBook Pro (probably 2007) had a battery case open up just like that. My 17-inch MacBook Pro (2008) case is also bent in a million different ways, and I have already had to change the bottom case once (for $130, and at no labor

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: heterologous co-expression in yeast

2012-11-19 Thread Pascal Egea
Hi Andre, There is set of plasmids allowing coexpression in yeast they are described in the following article Constructionand characterization of bidirectional expression vectors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Aimin Li1,2, Zengshan Liu1, Qianxue Li2, Lu Yu1, Dacheng Wang2 & Xuming Deng 1,2 in FE

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: heterologous co-expression in yeast

2012-11-19 Thread Andre Luis Berteli Ambrosio
Hi, We have been thinking of implementing recombinant protein expression in S. cerevisiae in our lab, and I would like to ask if there is a choice of vector designed for co-expression of any two intracellular binding partners, similarly to the pETduet-1 vector for E. coli. If you feel this is no

Re: [ccp4bb] CONECT Records

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Emsley
On 19/11/12 11:12, Jenny Harmer wrote: Thank you for the information. They are only coordination bonds between the atoms, which I wouldn't personally class as a physical bond. I am also using WinCoot which does not have the option for Make Link under the Modelling tab in Extensions. Is this a

Re: [ccp4bb] coot, shelx res files and R32 (H32)

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Emsley
On 19/11/12 13:13, Petr Leiman wrote: Dear Developers of Coot, I believe that coot has never been able to display the crystallographic symmetry of a R32:H shelxl .res file. As a result, water picking does not work properly for such a file. Everything else seems to work fine. This is not a hug

[ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography Beamline Scientist Position at NSLS-II

2012-11-19 Thread Miller, Lisa M
Beamline Scientist Position for Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines at NSLS-II The Photon Sciences Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory is seeking an experienced scientist to support the development of a Microfocusing Macromolecular Crystallography Beamline (FMX) and a Highly Auto

Re: [ccp4bb] coot, shelx res files and R32 (H32)

2012-11-19 Thread Petr Leiman
Dear George, Thank you very much for your continuing development of the shelx suite. A lot of users (yours truly included) are happy to continue using .res files in coot. It's just the "stupid" R32/H32 spacegroup that causes coot to misbehave a little. And I am simply very surprised of why this

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 install

2012-11-19 Thread David Schuller
On 11/18/12 20:48, 王瑞 wrote: > OK,thank you all of you. I have installed one copy of HKL2000 on our > desktop computer. But for my notebook's low 1366*768 resolution, the > HKL2000 can't work ! So what could I do to resolve it ? > http://www.pcworld.com/article/261763/samsung_shows_off_series_9_lap

Re: [ccp4bb] coot, shelx res files and R32 (H32)

2012-11-19 Thread George Sheldrick
shelxl-2012 does include the space group in a way that Coot understands when it writes a .pdb file. This version is in the final beta-testing stage with a lot of new features (mainly for small molecules) and no known bugs, so I hope to release it soon. If anyone would like to try it now please

[ccp4bb] coot, shelx res files and R32 (H32)

2012-11-19 Thread Petr Leiman
Dear Developers of Coot, I believe that coot has never been able to display the crystallographic symmetry of a R32:H shelxl .res file. As a result, water picking does not work properly for such a file. Everything else seems to work fine. This is not a huge problem, but it would be nice to be ab

Re: [ccp4bb] CONECT Records

2012-11-19 Thread Jenny Harmer
Thank you for the information. They are only coordination bonds between the atoms, which I wouldn't personally class as a physical bond. I am also using WinCoot which does not have the option for Make Link under the Modelling tab in Extensions. Is this a function of the Linux version?

Re: [ccp4bb] CONECT Records

2012-11-19 Thread Paul Emsley
On 19/11/12 10:32, Jenny Harmer wrote: I would like to add CONECT records to my pdb file to indicate interactions between protein side chains and a co-factor (all of the related proteins contain them). I don't think CONECT records are the canonical method to specify such a think (if you mean

Re: [ccp4bb] alpha lactose in COOT

2012-11-19 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Rex, which monomer do you refer to? LBT.cif loaded by coot looks very similar to LACTOS03 in the CSD, doesn't it? Regards, Tim On 11/19/2012 11:22 AM, Rex Palmer wrote: > Does anyone know why the ligand alpha lactose in COOT has at least > on

Re: [ccp4bb] Temperature and crystallization

2012-11-19 Thread Esko Oksanen
Dear Acoot, There is a paper by Monika Budayova-Spano (http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?fw5105) on using temperature as a crystallisation variable that also has a number of useful references. HTH, Esko _ Esko Oksanen, PhD Instrument Scientist - Neutron Macromol

[ccp4bb] CONECT Records

2012-11-19 Thread Jenny Harmer
I would like to add CONECT records to my pdb file to indicate interactions between protein side chains and a co-factor (all of the related proteins contain them). I am using Coot to refine the structure but have access to other programs. Is there a program to introduce these records into the pdb

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Has anyone experienced problems with Apple laptop battery expansion?

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Richardson
On 18 Nov 2012, at 00:28, William G. Scott wrote: > I'm trying to get a sense for how frequently this sort of thing occurs: In recent months we had two of the early MacBook Airs that suffered from the same problem with the case bulging alarmingly. We've also had a mid-2007 MacBook Pro battery

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 install

2012-11-19 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Rui Wang, the window size of the main HKL2000 window is indeed fixed. One relatively simple workaround is to use a virtual screen size, provided you use X11. Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add an entry, say, 'Virtual 1400 1024' in the Displ

Re: [ccp4bb] Temperature and crystallization

2012-11-19 Thread Emmanuel Saridakis
Dear Acoot, In the website of the company Centeo, you can find the slides of a short presentation I had given three years ago on temperature and macromolecular crystalllisation. You may find some info there: http://www.centeo.com/_fileupload/Temperature%20Control%20in%20PXTL.pdf There is a lot

[ccp4bb] alpha lactose in COOT

2012-11-19 Thread Rex Palmer
Does anyone know why the ligand alpha lactose in COOT has at least one sugar ring that is not fully symmetrical. The CCDC deposited alpha lactose molecule has both rings perfectly symmetrical chairs. Rex Palmer http://www.bbk.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/emeritus-staff http://rexpalmer2010.homestead