[ccp4bb] Apology

2015-03-02 Thread Jeremy Tame
Dear Judit Please allow me to apologise for my recent posting on the ccp4 bulletin board which may well have come across as slighting your own contribution. I had earlier made an innocent and good-natured comment on a thread that I felt was relevant. In fact it seems to me interesting how other f

Re: [ccp4bb] cryo protection for low salt crystallization at 4 degrees

2015-03-02 Thread Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
Thanks for all the good suggestions. I guess I really should try the non-frozen data collection first. Ursula On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Keller, Jacob wrote: > What about 4deg data collection? > > > > What about glutaraldehyde crosslinking? > > > > JPK > > > > *From:* CCP4 bulletin board

[ccp4bb] General User deadline approaching - correct date

2015-03-02 Thread Salbego, Cynthia
NE-CAT at the APS wants to let you know that the deadline for the 2015-2 run is one week away! Please get your beamtime requests in by 11:59pm March 6,2015. https://beam.aps.anl.gov/pls/apsweb/gup0005.start_page If you are looking for beamline please note that NE-CAT is a macromolecular cry

[ccp4bb] Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2015 in Hamburg

2015-03-02 Thread Sang-Kil Son
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to announce the Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2015. UXSS 2015 will take place at DESY in Hamburg, Germany in the period from June 22, 2015 to June 25, 2015. UXSS 2015 is jointly organized by the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and the PULSE

[ccp4bb] General User deadline approaching.

2015-03-02 Thread Salbego, Cynthia
NE-CAT at the APS wants to let you know that the deadline for the 2015-2 run is one week away! Please get your beamtime requests in by 11:59pm March 16, 2015. https://beam.aps.anl.gov/pls/apsweb/gup0005.start_page If you are looking for beamline please note that NE-CAT is a macromolecular c

[ccp4bb] 6th workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology

2015-03-02 Thread Meilleur, Flora
Second announcement 6th Workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology Oak Ridge, TN. June 1 - June 5, 2015 Application deadline: April 10, 2015 The workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology aims at enabling structural biologists to fully exploit the l

Re: [ccp4bb] cryo protection for low salt crystallization at 4 degrees

2015-03-02 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Ursula, unless it is too long a list, maybe you could list the cryo-protectants you have used so far? Did you try sugars (e.g. glucose), or Na Malonate, or Butanediol (either 2,5 or 1,6, I don't remember exactly)? You could also increase the pro

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position in Membrane Protein Crystallography / CryoEM in Oslo

2015-03-02 Thread Ute Krengel
An exciting Postdoc opportunity is available in Oslo, see http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1343967/64291?iso=no. Deadline: 15/3 Starting date: as soon as possible (latest 1/10) Job description: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Membrane Protein Crystallography / CryoEM (3 years) A postdoc

Re: [ccp4bb] cryo protection for low salt crystallization at 4 degrees

2015-03-02 Thread Keller, Jacob
What about 4deg data collection? What about glutaraldehyde crosslinking? JPK From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ursula Schulze-Gahmen Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 1:49 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] cryo protection for low salt crystallization

[ccp4bb] cryo protection for low salt crystallization at 4 degrees

2015-03-02 Thread Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
I know there was jut recently a discussion about cryoconditions for crystals, but I am still hoping for some new ideas for my crystals that grow from HEPES buffer pH 7.3, 0.2 M NaCl by slowly lowering the temperature from 20 to 4 degrees. These crystals are easy to grow but extremely sensitive to

[ccp4bb] March 1 version of the XDS package

2015-03-02 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, release notes of the new version are at http://xds.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/html_doc/Release_Notes.html . There are improvements in XDS for weak data and in XSCALE for serial crystallography applications. Furthermore, the multi-segment refinement was overhauled (mainly affecting the I

[ccp4bb] Aw: Re: [ccp4bb] postdoctoral position available

2015-03-02 Thread nicola horstmann
Dear Ccp4 user,   on behalf of Dr. Muthiah Kumaraswami I would like to inform you that there is a postdoc position available in the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute.   The group employs a multidisciplinary approach to dissect

[ccp4bb] Job vacancy at Diamond - VMXm micro/nanofocus MX Senior Support Scientist

2015-03-02 Thread Gwyndaf Evans
Dear All, Diamond Light Source are recruiting a Senior Support Scientist for the VMXm micro/nanofocusing MX beamline, now under construction. Details of the position and how to apply to be found by following the link below. http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Careers/Vacancies/All/DIA1008_CH.html Regard

Re: [ccp4bb] substructure solution.

2015-03-02 Thread Avisek Mondal
Thank you all for the guidance. Avisek On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Tim Gruene wrote: > Dear Avisek, > > did you try shelxd for substructure solution? I think that it tries to > avoid the Uranium solution. There are a couple of caveats with soaks, > e.g. you are not sure about the number of

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in Structural Biology at AstraZeneca, UK

2015-03-02 Thread Ogg, Derek
Postdoctoral position in Structural Biology at AstraZeneca, UK. A postdoctoral position is currently available to work on the integrative structural biology of BRD4: Regulatory Mechanism and Structural Pharmacology of a Clinically Important Bromodomain Target. Please see the link below for

[ccp4bb] Postdoc in Ciulli Lab - Structure-based targeting of PPIs of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases with small molecules

2015-03-02 Thread Alessio Ciulli
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Targeting PPIs of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases with small molecules) - LS0568 College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee - Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery Full time, fixed term for 2 years in the first instance Salary range: Grade 7 (£30,434 - £

Re: [ccp4bb] merge weak anomalous signal from multiple datasets

2015-03-02 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Charles, I have some differents suggestions, maybe it could be a good idea to reconsider the criteria for keep or discard data : Diederichs, K., et P. A. Karplus. «  Better Models by Discarding Data? ». Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 69, nᵒ 7 (1 juillet 2013): 12

Re: [ccp4bb] substructure solution.

2015-03-02 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Avisek, did you try shelxd for substructure solution? I think that it tries to avoid the Uranium solution. There are a couple of caveats with soaks, e.g. you are not sure about the number of sites and their occupancies. Occupancies are refined by shelxd, and you can test a few number of searc

[ccp4bb] ccp4 offline updates

2015-03-02 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear All update 004 included a new updater for use with off line updates. This updater is available stand alone from http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/updates/, just follow the instructions. Please report any bugs to c...@stfc.ac.uk. Many thanks for using CCP4. The CCP4 Core Team

Re: [ccp4bb] merge weak anomalous signal from multiple datasets

2015-03-02 Thread Thanh Nguyen
Hi Charles, Actually I also tried the method of Q. Liu et al and got one structure solved after merging 3 different datasets. The only thing different in my case is the Se-SAD phasing instead of Br. But the signal was also weak due to the disorder of incorporated Se in the protein crystals (I supp