Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
On 03/12/2014 09:02 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: The Fourier transform of electron density is a complex scattering amplitude that by the axiom of quantum mechanics is not a measurable quantity. What is measurable is the module squared of it. In crystallography, it is called either F^2 (formally eq

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Keller, Jacob
>The Fourier transform of electron density is a complex scattering amplitude >that by the axiom of quantum mechanics is not a measurable quantity. What is >measurable is the module squared of it. In crystallography, it is called either F^2 (formally equal F*Fbar) or somewhat informally diffractio

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
On 03/12/2014 04:15 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: For any sample, crystalline or not, a generally valid description of diffraction intensity is it being a Fourier transform of electron density autocorrelation function. I thought for non-crystalline samples diffraction intensity is simply the Four

[ccp4bb] Computational postdoctoral position at LBNL

2014-03-12 Thread Nicholas Sauter
Posted on behalf of Peter Zwart in the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology: Dear All, The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of computational methods aimed at improving the overall quality of

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac bond restraints across special positions?

2014-03-12 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi, > Is there a way to tell REFMAC that there are covalent bonds across asymmetric > units? Try this (example from 3gbi.pdb) for DNA: LINK PDC B 119 O3' DA B 125 1555 2555 1.61 LINK O3' DA B 125 PDC B 119 1555 3555 1.61

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Keller, Jacob
>For any sample, crystalline or not, a generally valid description of >diffraction intensity is it being a Fourier transform of electron density >autocorrelation function. I thought for non-crystalline samples diffraction intensity is simply the Fourier transform of the electron density, not it

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac bond restraints across special positions?

2014-03-12 Thread Craig Bingman
I haven’t tried this in a long time, but in the old days, we would have simply refined one strand. On Mar 12, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Oleg Tsodikov wrote: > Colleagues, > > We have determined a structure of a palindromic DNA molecule, in which one > half of the DNA is in the asymmetric unit. Is the

[ccp4bb] Refmac bond restraints across special positions?

2014-03-12 Thread Oleg Tsodikov
Colleagues, We have determined a structure of a palindromic DNA molecule, in which one half of the DNA is in the asymmetric unit. Is there a way to tell REFMAC that there are covalent bonds across asymmetric units? Without such "LINK" records in the PDB file, REFMAC treats this as a non-covalent i

Re: [ccp4bb] Help in getting source of HOLE programme

2014-03-12 Thread David Briggs
AFAIK, Dr Smart now works at Global phasing. https://www.globalphasing.com/people/osmart/ HTH, Dave Dr David C Briggs PhD http://about.me/david_briggs On 12 Mar 2014 19:46, "Appu kumar" wrote: > Hello everyone, > I request all of you to please help in getting > the

[ccp4bb] Help in getting source of HOLE programme

2014-03-12 Thread Appu kumar
Hello everyone, I request all of you to please help in getting the source of hole programme which is required to visualize the cavity running through the channel in protein structures. This programme is written by Dr. Oliver Smart. Despite of exhaustive search on various

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Jrh Gmail
Dear Jacob For a review of this topic see http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08893110310001643551#.UyCVLikgGc0 I also refer you to the more recent OUP IUCr book Chayen, Helliwell and Snell ie which includes these topics:- http://global.oup.com/academic/product/macromolecular-crystalli

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
How to approach the analysis of such a problem: For any sample, crystalline or not, a generally valid description of diffraction intensity is it being a Fourier transform of electron density autocorrelation function. There are obvious normalizations involved. For crystals, this autocorrelation fun

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Keller, Jacob
Not sure I understand why having statistical disorder makes for streaks--does the crystal then have a whole range of unit cell constants, with the spot at the most prevalent value, and the streaks are the "tails" of the distribution? If so, doesn't having the streak imply a really wide range of

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Leslie
Dear Stephen, I have seen a similar effect in the structure of F1-ATPase complexed with the full length inhibitor protein. The inhibitor is a dimer, and it actually couples 2 copies of the ATPase, but it crystallised with only one copy of the ATPase per asymmetric unit.

Re: [ccp4bb] account creation for CCP4wiki (and XDSwiki)

2014-03-12 Thread David Schuller
On 03/12/14 11:52, Kay Diederichs wrote: ... Account creation now uses a "Captcha" which is not of the boring type, but rather challenges your expertise in telling cats from dogs. I have heard that this algorithm can be fooled by cosmetic surgery. http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/No-Caption

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Zbyszek - do you have any measure of unintegrated streaks? It could be a help to at least have a rough score. Eleanor On 11 March 2014 20:04, Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: > Shape of the diffraction spots changes in the statistical disorder <--> > > twinning continuum. At both ends spots shape is l

[ccp4bb] account creation for CCP4wiki (and XDSwiki)

2014-03-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, today we re-opened account creation for CCP4wiki (and XDSwiki). It had been closed since we were hit by spammers (like e.g. PyMolwiki), but we recently discovered a method that helps to prove that the account is really created by a a human being - as opposed to a computer program th

[ccp4bb] crystallography position open at Evotec

2014-03-12 Thread McEwan, Paul
Dear All, We have a great opportunity for somebody to join the structural biology team at Evotec as a crystallographer. The closing date for applications is the 31st March. Please make applications via the website as listed in the advert below. Best regards, Paul.. Crystallograp

Re: [ccp4bb] Set up ccp4 environment

2014-03-12 Thread Uma Ratu
Dear Tim: With the commend of "source /xtal/Suites/CCP4/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/ccp4.setup-sh", I am able to run the xdsstat and f2mtz now. Thank you very much for your help! Uma On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Uma, > > y

Re: [ccp4bb] Set up ccp4 environment

2014-03-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Uma, you have to run the command source /xtal/Suites/CCP4/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/ccp4.setup-sh in the terminal from which you start xdsstat (and f2mtz etc.pp). It is best to place the above command into your file ~/.bashrc so that you do not need to ty