Re: [ccp4bb] replacing B-factor column and color accordingly

2025-01-13 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
I don't know how many people still use it, but doesn't CNS give you that capability? In the bgroup.inp script, I think you can easily specify which atoms or residues to include in each overall B-factor. Daniel ____ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Principal, Himmel Sci Med Com, L

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
). Daniel ____ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Principal, Himmel Sci Med Com, LLC E-mail: danielmhim...@gmail.com URL : https://himmelscimedcom.com Member, American Medical Writers Association You can also find me at https://www.talusfreelance.com On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM James Hol

Re: [ccp4bb] Combating disinformation in science and other areas

2024-02-14 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
20th and 21st centuries, not eons ago. So, my humble request: Can we stick to crystallography and allied fields of structure determination on this e-mail list, and not digress into divisive politics, please? Respectfully submitted, Daniel Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Principal, Himmel

Re: [ccp4bb] Autoinduction Medium

2023-10-03 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Another recommendation: Increase the concentration of your pH buffer, if possible, for better results (possibly a larger yield). I agree that some components, especially the sugars, should not be autoclaved and should be filtered instead. Daniel Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Principal

Re: [ccp4bb] High Temperature Factors with TLS

2023-08-02 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
sulfate instead of phosphate)? Daniel ___ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Principal, Himmel Sci Med Com, LLC E-mail: danielmhim...@gmail.com URL : https://www.HimmelSciMedCom.com On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 10:42 AM Thomas, Leonard M. wrote: > Hello All, > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexey Vagin

2023-03-26 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
I had the pleasure of editing and accepting an article that Alexei Vagin and his colleague Alexei Teplyakov submitted to the International Tables for Crystallography Volume F (2nd edition) on the Molrep software. I'm sorry to hear the news and extend my condolences to all who knew him. Sincerely,

Re: [ccp4bb] Energy minimization and explicit solvent model

2020-06-28 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
The Schrodinger software suite may also have a module that you can use (https://www.schrodinger.com/platform#product-list-collapse). You can contact technical help for advice. Daniel On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 7:54 PM Andre LB Ambrosio wrote: > Dear Sorin, many thanks for this. Very useful. > >

Re: [ccp4bb] New phasing approach

2020-04-01 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
That's fascinating! Can such an interferometer actually be constructed for an X-ray beam line or is this still in the realm of the theoretical possible? Daniel ___ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. E-mail: danielmhim...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:01 PM Bernhard Rupp

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Dear colleagues, Since when does being a structural biologist make us experts in climatology, and isn't it a breach of basic ethical practice and professionalism as scientists to sign on as authors to an article for which we have neither contributed research nor intellectual content of the ma

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poor, but maybe it's a starting point. -Daniel On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > Dear CCP4BB-ers, > > Once agai

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] AW: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Extra density close to phosphate bound to Zn2+

2019-08-05 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
-- Forwarded message - From: Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Extra density close to phosphate bound to Zn2+ To: Pentagonal phosphate geometry would be a transition state, except that three oxygens

Re: [ccp4bb] Importance of temperature during initial crystallization screening

2019-08-01 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
acilitates crystallization at higher temperatures). Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. E-mail : danielmhim...@gmail.com URL : http://www.DanielMhimmel.com/index_Xtal.html <http://www.danielmhimmel.com/index_Xtal.html> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 5:24 AM Sergei Strelkov wrote: > Dear all, > > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Michael Rossmann (1930-2019)

2019-05-15 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
During the few years that I had the opportunity to work with Michael Rossmann, I found him to be not only a great scientist but a fine and humble gentleman, who will be missed. -Daniel On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:13 PM Hasan, Syed Saif wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > It is with profound sadness

Re: [ccp4bb] Is there any alternative to siliconized glass coverslips for crystallization?

2019-01-31 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Fisher Scientific makes 22 inch square plastic cover slips, which are labeled "Fisherbrand Unbreakable Cover Slips". I and my colleagues have used them for over 15 years instead of siliconized glass coverslips. Just dip each one in ethanol to clean before use, dry with an air blower, and use it to

Re: [ccp4bb] high B factor

2018-11-11 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
(try especially > >> to improve > >> your Ramachandran Plot). Use MolProbity to help in identifying errors > >> and clashes. > >> If a few rounds of simulated annealing and model building don't improve > >> things, try some > >> refinement

Re: [ccp4bb] high B factor

2018-11-10 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
By the way, I would recommend running simulated annealing with each composite omit map you generate to help in overcoming model bias. -Daniel On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 9:31 PM Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. < danielmhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anandhi, > > Assuming the data reduction

Re: [ccp4bb] high B factor

2018-11-10 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
to another model and then correct the geometry in Coot. If B-factors don't come down no matter what you do, you could be in the wrong space group or have problems with the original data that need to be addressed. I hope this helps. Daniel _______ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. URL:

Re: [ccp4bb] collective term for hydrogen bonds and salt bridges

2018-09-20 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
esult from weak overall attractions between the protons in the nucleus of one atom and the electron cloud of another atom and therefore increase as the atomic number of the atoms increase. -Daniel On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. < danielmhim...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [ccp4bb] collective term for hydrogen bonds and salt bridges

2018-09-20 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
rgy > for the formation of the interface. > > > Sheila > > > > -- > *De:* Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. > *Enviado:* terça-feira, 18 de setembro de 2018 15:10 > *Para:* sheila_bore...@hotmail.com > *Cc:* CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk > *Assunt

Re: [ccp4bb] collective term for hydrogen bonds and salt bridges

2018-09-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Sorry. I may have been unclear. H-bonds are actually a subset of dipole interactions. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:57 PM Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. < danielmhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > By the way, distinguishing between dipole and ionic (salt bridge) > interactions could > be a

Re: [ccp4bb] collective term for hydrogen bonds and salt bridges

2018-09-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
By the way, distinguishing between dipole and ionic (salt bridge) interactions could be a slippery slope, because which one you have sometimes depends on the protonation state of the protein(s), which is pH dependent. -Daniel On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:31 PM Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. < danielm

Re: [ccp4bb] collective term for hydrogen bonds and salt bridges

2018-09-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Sheila, Hydrogen bonds, ionic (i.e. salt bridge), and polar (dipole) interactions are often collectively called electrostatic interactions. Note that dipole interactions involve partial charges. If you want to exclude dipole interactions, you have say so specifically in your manuscript. Non-bond

Re: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

2018-08-14 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Dear JL, Years ago, this was a common problem when I was crystallizing myosin constructs for my doctoral work. Some of the most beautiful crystals I got showed little or no diffraction. Often this occurs when there is a very large water content in the asymmetric unit and in proteins that have a

Re: [ccp4bb] Normalization of B-factors

2018-08-10 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Just be careful when drawing conclusions from B-factors. If you look at the mathematical way that a B-factor modifies a structure factor, you can see that as a B-factor's numerical value increases, the corresponding structure factor's contribution to a calculated diffraction pattern is reduced. I

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
If I may jump in, I wonder if there are any hardware configurations (monitor, 3D glasses, graphics cards, etc.) that allow 3D graphics with a MacIntosh OSX platform. -Daniel On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Wim Burmeister wrote: > I answer a bit late, but I repost a message on 3D graphics from M

Re: [ccp4bb] What's happened over the last five years with high-throughput protein crystallization screening?

2018-04-26 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
I skimmed your paper, and overall it looks like a good overview of high-throughput protein crystallization. However, I was surprised that no mention was made of Formulatrix Rock Maker software, which is an excellent computer-aided graphical tool for designing crystallization screens rapidly. This

Re: [ccp4bb] determining the point group and the space group

2018-04-19 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
it-cell parameters. (these are XFEL > data so indexing wouldn't give the point and space groups). I checked the > PDB, but no luck the PDB structures have the different space group > assigned, no definitive answer > hopefully, somebody can point me in the right direction > > Best, &

Re: [ccp4bb] determining the point group and the space group

2018-04-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Gihan, The best way, in my opinion, to choose a suitable (and correct) space group is to combine your own understanding and knowledge with the available software tools. I’ve never indexed XFEL data, so I don’t know if this data can be sampled and run through hkl2000/3000 or Mosflm to get some f

Re: [ccp4bb] ?lsqkab?

2018-04-16 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Have you tried using the CNS script rmsd.inp? You can explicitly list the atoms to superimpose and set "coord_fit=true;". -Daniel On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Carter, Charlie wrote: > I think I’ve asked this question before and I was pointed in a number of > unsuitable (for various reason

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Oliviero, We published a paper in 2003 in which we normalized B-factors to do a comparison of relative mobility or flexibility. The reference is: Gourinath et al. Structure 11:1621-1627 (2003). The jargon we used for Bave of the protein is . In our case, to be conservative in our interpretatio

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Diffraction pattern! Protein/DNA complex or DNA alone crystal?

2018-03-12 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
(or try combination of PEG 400 and PEG 200), or vary the MPD concentration. Good luck. I hope this helps. -Daniel [image: RnNZfQn2o2xpggJQqefCOervMbPIci5mujDPJnvl43kv6Rtxjyh5gHN_JKVzeU-aaGz3pePFgxfoAAtZJZNx8mveVTc-11j98EfuAJVcumUenA=s0-d-e1-ft.gif]Daniel M. Himmel, Ph

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown density

2018-03-07 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Oops. I meant to say that Ca2+ usually has seven coordinating atoms. Mg2+ usually has six. Sorry for the error. -Daniel On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. < danielmhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rajesh, > > Ca2+ usually is coordinated by five atoms, whereas

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown density

2018-03-07 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Rajesh, Ca2+ usually is coordinated by five atoms, whereas Mg2+ usually is coordinated by six. I've seen that a lot in structures that I've determined. -Daniel On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Eleanor Dodson < 176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > You just calculate a anom ma

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] suggestions on a microscope for Crystallography

2018-03-06 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. Date: Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] suggestions on a microscope for Crystallography To: Chandramohan Kattamuri My best experience was with Leica microscopes, such as the S6E. Leica microscopes have

[ccp4bb] 3-D Coot Capable Computer Monitor/Glasses for Mac Laptop?

2018-03-02 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
I'm looking for some computer hardware advice. I have a MacBook Pro with a "Retina" screen and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB graphics card, running OS X 10.11.16 ("El Capitan"), and I would like to view structures in 3-D in Coot. Which computer monitors and which 3-D glasses brands would allow

Re: [ccp4bb] looking for a link between diffraction resolution and order within the crystal

2017-11-28 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
ment about what type of structural element is always ordered. I hope this helps. -Daniel ____ Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D. On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:44 AM, vincent Chaptal wrote: > Hi, > > I've been searching but can't find what I am looking for so I thought I > ask special