Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-15 Thread Keller, Jacob
I think a summary is that: Background levels and errors thereof can be estimated very precisely as a percentage of the level, but as an absolute number, it nevertheless swamps out the signal contained in a Bragg peak. For example, if background = 10^6 photons +/- 1000 (very good estimate as a p

[ccp4bb] Phenix - Research Scientist Position

2015-01-15 Thread Paul Adams
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Career-track Research Scientist Job ID: 80447 Division: Physical Biosciences Date Opened: 1/14/2015 https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=80447 Summary: A research scientist position is available to work on developing new methods for macromo

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-15 Thread Keller, Jacob
-Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dom Bellini Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:25 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?) Dear Jacob, To add one

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-15 Thread Dom Bellini
Dear Jacob, To add one more thing to the many ones from James, despite air scattering noise being flat and easily subtractable over time, that noise wont be the same if you take images with and without the sample. Since some of the photons will be absorbed and diffracted by the crystal, the air

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-15 Thread James Holton
Jacob, Background subtraction is unfortunately not as forgiving as you think it is. You can subtract the background, but you can't subtract the noise. This is because noise (by definition) is never the same twice. Yes, the "average" or "true" background under a spot may be flat, but any give

Re: [ccp4bb] Density modification tips

2015-01-15 Thread Artem Evdokimov
If your density is good enough (i.e. some SS elements at least are clear) and the resolution permits (generally 3A or better, but sometimes even 3.3-3.5A) then my favorite strategy is to autobuild parts of the model, hand-validate the builds (i.e. prune the autobuit model such that only high confid

[ccp4bb] Incorporación postdoc application (thesis defended 2010-2012)

2015-01-15 Thread Maria Sola i Vilarrubias
Dear CCP4ers, We are looking for a highly motivated PostDoc that defended the thesis between January 1st 2010 and December 31st 2012 to apply for a Juan de la Cierva - *Incorporación *2-years contract at the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BOE 5 Diciembre 2014, Sec III, pág 10053

[ccp4bb] Free X-ray diffraction setup

2015-01-15 Thread Randy Read
Dear all, We are disposing of an old data collection system comprising a Rigaku RUH3R rotating anode X-ray generator, a Mar345 image plate detector and Osmic Blue optics, which was installed in 1999 but is still in working order. If anyone is interested in it, either as a working setup or as a

Re: [ccp4bb] rebuild by coot

2015-01-15 Thread Folmer Fredslund
Dear Dialing, You can use Rotate/Translate zone ( https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/web/docs/coot.html#Rotate_002fTranslate-Zone) to do that, just clicking twice on the same residue to chose a zone of one. mvh Folmer 2015-01-15 14:45 GMT+01:00 Dialing Pretty < 03f1d08ed29c

[ccp4bb] rebuild by coot

2015-01-15 Thread Dialing Pretty
Dear All, If I rebuild a 4-residue peptide, and the first 1 is leu. When I rebuild the first one, the sidechain of leu occupies the electron density of the first 3 residues. Can you tell me the method to turn the side chain of Leu from position of the first 3 residues to its sidechain position i

[ccp4bb] PhD position in crystallography/biochemistry available (HIPS, Germany)

2015-01-15 Thread Jesko Koehnke
Hi, The newly established group Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes is looking to recruit a PhD student. The position is available at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland in Germany. Details (in German) can be found here: http://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/de/karriere/jobp

[ccp4bb] Density modification tips

2015-01-15 Thread Nicolas Soler
Dear all, There are many tutorials out there about how to use the different density modification programs but less about people's preferred strategy. I have a MIRAS solvent-flattened map from Sharp+Solomon. Alternatively running RESOLVE density modification on the phases obtained after my la

[ccp4bb] early-stage postdoc Spanish call, methods development

2015-01-15 Thread Isabel Uson
The call for early-stage PostDoc *Juan de la Cierva - Formación* 2-year contract from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BOE 5 Diciembre de 2014 Sec III pág. 100556) is now open. We seek for an early-stage postdoc to carry out a project development of computing methods in Structur

[ccp4bb] 1st CSSB International Symposium

2015-01-15 Thread Clayton, Michaela
Dear All We would like to inform you about our upcoming 1st CSSB International Symposium "Systems in Infection Biology - From Molecules to Organisms" to be held in Hamburg, 9-11 April 2015. Further information can be found at www.cssb-symposium2015.de. Following the symposium, we will hold