Re: [ccp4bb] Lower b-factors with increasing T

2022-09-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
l energy which raises the b-factors and this trend is universal when > comparing datasets from different temperatures. > > Thank you and happy to supply more information if that is helpful, > Matt > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742

Re: [ccp4bb] MR solution not working

2022-03-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
B list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 ###

Re: [ccp4bb] interesting map problem

2021-12-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] A strange problem related to MR

2021-09-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
tion for it. > Please let me know if you need more information. Thank you in ahead. > > > Regards, > > Lande Fu -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 #

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] Meaning of a pdb entry

2021-06-01 Thread Ethan A Merritt
shes, > > Gergely > > > Gergely Katona, Professor, Chairman of the Chemistry Program Council > Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg > Box 462, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden > Tel: +46-31-786-3959 / M: +46-70-912-3309 / Fax: +46-31-786-3910 > Web: h

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] (R)MS

2021-05-29 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] Linux Distro for setting up workstations - Is CentOS still a good choice?

2021-02-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
rom the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing > list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are availabl

Re: [ccp4bb] Contagious, Self-Distributing "Vaccines?"

2021-02-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
lems? Is there any reason, practically, why this approach would > > > not be feasible? > > > > > > Maybe we don't really know enough to manipulate A, B, C yet? > > > > > > Or maybe it's too scary for primetime...nightmare bio-warfare > > &g

Re: [ccp4bb] Data 3 A

2021-01-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
cheers, Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link:

Re: [ccp4bb] possible solution with Phaser

2021-01-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] over-fitting? over-refinement?

2020-10-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
web site: E.A. Merritt (2012). "To B or not to B: a question of resolution?" Acta Cryst. D68, 468-477. http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/~tlsmd/ActaD_68_468.pdf cheers, Ethan > > BRS > > Sam --

Re: [ccp4bb] Best protocols to advance a low resolution twin

2020-09-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Ethan A Merritt
o be happy for product recommendations (optimally available at the > German Amazon). > > Cheers > > Matthias > > https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00XNMXYBY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_5YsoFbFQXTBP9 > > ___ > Buchmann Institute of Molecular Life Sciences > G

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-07-01 Thread Ethan A Merritt
am). That's the "destroy" part of "diffract and destroy". Since an XFEL pulse can be shorter than 10 fs, that observation does not contradict the idea that the measured diffraction occurs faster than the damage. Ethan > Cheers, > José -- Ethan A Merritt Bio

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Pseudosymmetry Effects

2020-05-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
would imagine that the same can happen for electron diffraction but I can't point to any prior examples in the literature. good luck! Ethan > Thanks in advance! > > Best, > Jessica > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Struc

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
are not uniformly licensed or available for code inspection/modification. I hope I have that right! Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester > Henry Wellcome Building > Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HB > England, United Kingdom > > Skype: roversipietro > Mobile phone +44 (0) 7927952047 > Tel. +44 (0)116 2297237 > > > > _

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
37 > > > > ############ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center,

Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-04-29 Thread Ethan A Merritt
(and the efficiency of > injecting disinfecting through the USB cable is also under discussion, > so I heard). > > One way would be to use individual keyboards, and wearing gloves for > replugging, and to use gloves for mounting crystals. > > But maybe there are other ways th

Re: [ccp4bb] Average B factors with TLS

2020-04-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
lthough only after several rounds of discussion. good luck, Ethan > > Thanks > > Nick > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 #

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-08 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:08:32 PDT Rangana Warshamanage wrote: > "The best estimate we have of the "true" B factor is the model B factors > we get at the end of refinement, once everything is converged, after we > have done all the building we can. It is this "true B factor" that is a > property

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Matthew: I think your nice summary leaves out an important point that has not been explicitly mentioned. That is the question of whether depositing hydrogens actually adds information to the model. I submit that for a typical protein refinement it does not. The model is adequately described by s

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
A > Dallas, TX 75390-8816 > diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu> > (214) 645-6383 (phone) > (214) 645-6353 (fax) > > On Feb 28, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Ethan A Merritt > mailto:merr...@uw.edu>> wrote: > EXTERNAL MAIL > > On Thursday,

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
t does use scattering factors f' and f" from the mmcif coordinate file - I have no idea what it does with twinning descriptions As a result there is often a noticeable discrepancy between the R-factors from "Depositor" and "DCC" in the validation reports. > Regards,

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
nt of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology > University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biom

Re: [ccp4bb] 1 out of 2 proteins in asymmetric unit does not fit density

2019-12-16 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ad two structures where incorrect diagnosis of tNCS prevented Phaser from finding the correct solution. If you are not using Phaser, the caveat still stands in principle. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences B

Re: [ccp4bb] Xray-dataset usable despite low completeness ?

2019-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 28 November 2019 16:51:15 Jurgen Bosch wrote: > Think of completeness with an analogy to turkey. > Say you happen to find a one-legged turkey (incomplete by conventional > standard) you could still stuff it and put it in the oven and enjoy 93% of > the turkey. The 7% missing, who car

Re: [ccp4bb] Resonant Scattering Directionality

2019-07-25 Thread Ethan A Merritt
sage by mistake, please reply to this message and follow > with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the > future. > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, cli

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT over SSH

2019-06-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
gt; server running scientific linux. > > > > possibly relevant: > > > > https://mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu/pipermail/3dem/2019-February/006519.html > > > > ############ > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, c

Re: [ccp4bb] translational NCS & twinning

2019-01-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
######### > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question

2019-01-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
cribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 ###

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
> > On Nov 13, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Ethan A Merritt > > wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 11:51:55 AM PST Zhijie Li wrote: > >> If somebody is going to send these files by email, please send one to me > >> too. Thanks in advance. I actual

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
t;> Warning: Machine stamp corrupted? Assuming native format. > >>>>>>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:End of File (Error) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jisc

Re: [ccp4bb] A question related to Fe-S proteins

2018-03-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
and SAXS. > > > > > > *So, my question is, has anyone encountered such situation, > > where the As-purified Fe-S protein having a completely different oligomeric > > state compared to the in vitro reconstitution protein? * > > > > > > Looking forward to

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
itive to the order of secondary structure elements. This is relevant if you are looking for evolutionary relatedness, but not if you just want to ask "does it look like this". For the latter question, I suggest the VAST server at NCBI. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/VAST/vast.

Re: [ccp4bb] microdiffraction data assembly method

2017-11-21 Thread Ethan A Merritt
this is only a still image. In the paper you cite it was more than that, but still very small compared to "normal" data sets. Ethan > Their data improved not only in resolution, but also in the statistics. The > method seems impressive. > Thanks! > > Charles >

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
th the entire subdomain XX". This is not the same thing as saying individual B factors are higher or lower. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac output

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
- > When the Way is forgotten duty and justice appear; > Then knowledge and wisdom are born along with hypocrisy. > When harmonious relationships dissolve then respect and devotion arise; > When a nation falls to chaos then loyalty and patriotism are born. > --

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Do you want to compare B factors for different residues in the same structure, or B factors for the same residue in different structures, or something else entirely? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] CYS modification and choice of PEG

2017-05-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ess than 100% occupancy. > Any suggestions? Could it be that a cloning error introduced a Cys->Arg mutation? -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot render tool missing

2017-03-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
P4 bundle also. If render is not being found, you may have a PATH error. Is your Coot finding other CCP4 programs? Ethan > > Paul. > > p.s. Draw -> Additional Representation -> Ball & Stick makes things a > bit nicer, as does Extensions -> Representation -> Hi

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factors/Occupancies Versus "Local Resolution"

2017-03-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ould crystallographers learn from or > appropriate the concept of local resolution to good benefit, or perhaps vice > versa? Anyway, if there is a good reason for the discrepancy, fine, but > otherwise, having these different measures prevents straightforward > comparisons which would o

Re: [ccp4bb] Estimating the amount of missing electron density for a model

2017-02-22 Thread Ethan A Merritt
wants from the output of SIGMAA run from the ccp4i interface? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Estimating the amount of missing electron density for a model

2017-02-21 Thread Ethan A Merritt
bs and Fcalc can provide an estimate of how good/bad wrong/right your current model is. But that still doesn't tell you whether the current model is bad because pieces are missing or bad because existing pieces are in the wrong place. Ethan > Or am I missing somethin

[ccp4bb] TLSMD server down with disk problems

2017-01-26 Thread Ethan A Merritt
> > It has been refusing connections for already two days? > > Perhaps a mirror exists somewhere ? > > > Best > > > Carlos > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Anisotropy and temperature

2017-01-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ers, Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Diffraction as a Single-Photon Process; was RE: [ccp4bb] Twinning Question

2015-11-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
t; object > > were "in phase" or "out of phase" and the narrator pointed that out, but > neither > > state is a general phenomenon. I think. But maybe I'm confused. > > > > Ethan > > > > > > > Of course this is trying

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Diffraction as a Single-Photon Process; was RE: [ccp4bb] Twinning Question

2015-11-04 Thread Ethan A Merritt
uch that many photons > are in some sense in the crystal at once? Or maybe this is a red herring. > But, to change topics a bit: part of the reason I am wondering about this is > anomalous scattering. Since the resonance energy of an atom is a fixed > amount, how can one photon provide that energy simultaneously to the > requisite number (at least thousands, I would think) of resonant scatterers? > Something's very funny here. > Or, come to think of it, perhaps resonant scattering is no worse than normal > scattering: if the energy is divided up between the all the > normally-scattering electrons, you even have a problem with the one-photon > picture, since the emerging radiation is still of the same energy. You want > to have everything being scattered with a certain energy, but you also want > all the scatterers to scatter. The concept of "energy" seems to get strange. > Does one then need two terms, in which "energy" is just a characteristic of > radiation, like a color, and then there is some other attribute like > "probabilistic intensity," which describes how much "photon" is there? > It is striking to me how much depth these everyday occurrences really have > when one starts wondering about them. > Jacob > > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: mapping PDB to mmCIF data quantities

2015-07-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
en the two formats ? (I don't expect there to be a data > field in the PDB header for everything in mmCIF but I do for the reverse > case). > > > Thanks > Phil Jeffrey > Princeton -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned data refinement

2015-06-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
e any suggestions of how to > refine this twinned structure, such as softwares to use, tricky strategies > to choose, etc. I really appreciate any recommendations you would come up > with my situation! > > Thank you in advance! > > Best, > Mengbin > > -- Ethan

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Rmeas in space group determination

2015-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ood that the Laue group is P2 even though the Rmeas is horrible. Ethan > Thanks a lot, > Chen > > > > On May 13, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Ethan A Merritt > > wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday, 13 May, 2015 17:51:59 Chen Zhao wrote: > >> Hi all, >

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Rmeas in space group determination

2015-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
> IDXREF. > > You inputs are really appreciated! > > Sincerely, > Chen -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] [RANT] Reject Papers describing non-open source software

2015-05-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ample, > >> you are expected to share and "make widely available and usable" software > >> and inventions created under a grant (section VI.D.4. of the Award and > >> administration guide). I don't know how enforceable that clause is, > > however. > >> > >> The funding shouldn't matter. I suggest that a publication that has the > > purpose > >> of describing non-open source software should be summarily rejected by > >> referees. In other words, the power is in our hands, not the NSF's. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] 3BDN, 16.5% Ramachandran Outliers!!!!!

2015-04-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
oot and > > checked for Ramachandran outliers, the results are: > > In preffered region: 58.04% > > In allowed regions: 19.78% > > Outliers: 22.17% ! > > > > With an R-free of 37.4% at 3.9 A resolution, could you please tell me how > > rel

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia quadro Update for Linux

2015-04-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
; > Driver "nvidia" > > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Screen0" > > Device "Device0" > > Monitor"Monitor0" > > DefaultDepth24 > > Option "UBB" "1" > > Option "Stereo" "10" > > Option "AllowDFPStereo" "1" > > SubSection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > EndSubSection > > EndSection > > > > Section "Extensions" > > Option "Composite" "Disable" > > EndSection > > -- > > > > > > cheers, > > lukasz > > > > > > > > > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Structure with high B-factor

2015-03-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
used other MR programs, but > still it still continues to be in the same range. > > I will look forward to any suggestions. Thank you. What was the Wilson B factor reported by Aimless or Truncate? What is the resolution of the data? -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center,

Re: [ccp4bb] Basic Anomalous Scattering Theory

2015-03-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 12 March, 2015 10:41:46 Ethan A Merritt wrote: > On Thursday, 12 March, 2015 13:11:10 Keller, Jacob wrote: > > >If projects a middle-C-tone into a piano, do all of the lower notes > > >resonate as well, according to the Kramers-Kronig relation? > > If you

Re: [ccp4bb] Basic Anomalous Scattering Theory

2015-03-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
it may actually happen in the mammalian cochlea's travelling wave, but > is it completely general to resonance phenomena? > > Just interested, and have wondered these things for a long time in the > background of my mind... > > Jacob Keller > > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Absence of contact between layers in a crystal

2015-02-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
h > >>>> > >>> > >>> - -- > >>> - -- > >>> Dr Tim Gruene > >>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > >>> Tammannstr. 4 > >>> D-37077 Goettingen > >>> > >>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > >>> > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > >>> > >>> iD8DBQFU1IWVUxlJ7aRr7hoRAmZHAJ4+6wREnwkFN0EhfErAA0tPSopKKwCgiLdi > >>> j0JFZac4kAh8twpov71MG84= > >>> =XN57 > >>> -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > Mark J van Raaij > > Lab 20B > > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas > > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC > > c/Darwin 3 > > E-28049 Madrid, Spain > > tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 > > http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij <http://www.cnb.csic.es/%7Emjvanraaij> > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] How to apply NCS restraint to a ligand in refmac?

2015-01-30 Thread Ethan A Merritt
not tried this. Yes, but that doesn't actually help. It restrains the ligand copies to look like each other internally, but does not restrain their binding pose relative to the surrounding protein. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg M

[ccp4bb] How to apply NCS restraint to a ligand in refmac?

2015-01-30 Thread Ethan A Merritt
e the same in all 3 copies"? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Continuous-Single Versus Coarse-Multiple Sampling

2015-01-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
multiple sampling? > > This general math/science concept must have been discussed somewhere--can > anyone point to where? > > JPK > > *** > Jacob Pearson Keller, PhD > Looger Lab/HHMI Janelia Research Campus > 19700 Helix Dr,

Re: [ccp4bb] Normal mode refinement

2014-10-20 Thread Ethan A Merritt
t gone back to look again at the published example structures since the advent of jellybody refinement. But note that jellybody is primarily useful when you already have a high-qualityl, good geometry, starting model. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health S

Re: [ccp4bb] monitoring refmac refinement

2014-10-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
relative to changes in the model > and I've been unable to determine which restraints/weights are responsible. > Thanks for any pointers, > Alastair Fyfe > UCSC -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

[ccp4bb] ccp4 ligand tools + wwPDB validation = bug reports?

2014-06-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Earlier this year for the first time I got back a validation report from the PDB for a deposited structure that included wwPDB validation of a ligand. This is great stuff. I approve. I am happy. Unfortunately the validation check reported problems with my ligand. This is bad. I am unhappy. What w

Re: [ccp4bb] Hosed-Up X-Ray Structures: A Big Problem

2014-06-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
0:27 AM, Tim Gruene > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I hope that the contents of this section is obvious to most readers of > > the ccp4 bulletin board. > > > > Cheer, > > Tim > > > > > > On 06/10/2014 03:40 PM, Jeffrey Bell wrot

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-11 Thread Ethan A Merritt
astromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ** -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
agment that has been > >>> extracted and then modified (changed the Phi and Psi) from the native. > >>> > >>> > >>> I have the original MTZ and MAP. > >>> > >>> > >>> Is it even possible to calculate these values without inserting the > >>> extracted fragment back into the rest of the PDB (the unmodified part)? > >>> > >>> > >>> I am reluctant to do that since I have many such fragments I have > >>> extracted and modified and wish to compare with the native. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> > >>> George > >>> > >> > >> > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Bfactors too high after TLS refinement

2014-06-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
grams use it. Math, charts, and example demonstrations of the too-large Beq are reported in "Some Beq are more equivalent than others". Acta Cryst. A67, 512-516. E. A. Merritt (2011). Ethan > > > Thanks in advance, > > Carles Palanca. > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Observations-to-parameter ratio in Refmac

2014-06-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ee: "To B or not to B: a question of resolution?" Acta Cryst. D68, 468-477. http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444911028320 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone

2014-05-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
till reply to defend their > > structure, and it may encourage some people to even correct their > > errors. > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] High B-factors

2014-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
uld.bmsc.washington.edu/parvati/ Among other things, it will create a nice picture of your 3 chains colored by B factor. Ethan > > Best Regards, > > Oarabile Kgosisejo > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] EDS server - R-value

2014-04-04 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday, 04 April, 2014 10:44:18 Nat Echols wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Alastair Fyfe wrote: > > > Reconstructing the refinement may be necessary in some cases but there > > are other applications (pdb-wide map statistics, development of map > > analysis tools, quick model vs map

Re: [ccp4bb] SO4 geometry

2014-03-31 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Monday, 31 March, 2014 19:01:33 Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote: > Colleagues, > > Sorry to bother for something really minor. The Refmac usually always > recognizes tetrahedral SO4 groups and there were no problems related to its > geometry. Two attached files demonstrate SO4 geometry before and afte

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot Performance on Intel HD Graphics 5000

2014-03-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday, 28 March, 2014 12:35:57 mesters wrote: > The OpenGL performance is rather poor on intel HD chips up to and > including the HD 4600 My experience differs. I have not seen dramatically different performance in practice between coot running on nvidia and the same program version runnin

Re: [ccp4bb] Weird MR result

2013-11-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 14 November, 2013 18:58:27 Niu Tou wrote: > Dear Phil, > > I used PHASER to do the task. I have double checked and both files have > the same prefix, so they are from the same output. I have also checked the > headers again, they have the same spacegroup. Actually I was trying to > s

Re: [ccp4bb] Problematic PDBs

2013-10-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 17 October, 2013 10:51:08 Lucas wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been lecturing in a structural bioinformatics course where graduate > students (always consisting of people without crystallography background to > that point) are expected to understand the basics on how x-ray structures > a

Re: [ccp4bb] how to cut back resolution of a well-refined model

2013-10-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 10 October, 2013 22:44:34 Jim Pflugrath wrote: > Please tell me why Rpim should be looked at. Cannot one have meaningless > data and have lots of multiplicity to drive Rpim lower without any real > benefit? Under what conditions is Rpim useful? > And suppose one looks at (and no

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] expanding reflections from C2221 to P21

2013-10-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Wednesday, 02 October, 2013 17:31:06 wtempel wrote: > Tim, > I agree with your statement. > Consider this situation: > Macromolecular sample MA produces crystal CA. Data scale well in C2221 and > refinement proceeds smoothly to give stuctural model SA. > Slightly modified macromolecular sample M

Re: [ccp4bb] tricky mr problem

2013-09-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Monday, 23 September, 2013 22:01:32 RHYS GRINTER wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been attempting to find a MR solution for a low resolution data set > (3.9A), with pretty poor merging stats of a 22 strand membrane beta barrel > I'm working on. > > I've created a trimmed poly-alanine from a struc

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic, visualization

2013-09-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ingle clipping value along Z. That is, you cannot rotate the sliced object to view the same slice from some other angle. Ethan > > 2013/9/5 Ethan A Merritt > > > On Thursday, 05 September, 2013 13:30:21 Arthur Glasfeld wrote: > > > I am hoping to create som

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic, visualization

2013-09-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 05 September, 2013 13:30:21 Arthur Glasfeld wrote: > I am hoping to create some images of protein cross-sections where the atoms > are depicted as spheres, and the spheres that are "cut" by the slab are shown > as solids with the same color as the surface. An example of what I'm aft

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know of an accurate way to mine the PDB for what percent of total X-ray structures deposited as on date were done using molecular replacement? I got hold of a pie chart for the same from my Google search for 2006 but I'd l

Re: [ccp4bb] Against Method (R)

2010-10-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Frank von Delft wrote: So, since the experimental error is only a minor contribution to the total error, it is arguably inappropriate to use it as a weight for each hkl. I think your logic has run off the track. The experimental error is an appropriate weight for the Fobs(

Re: [ccp4bb] cross-section view of (protein) molecules in pymol?

2009-03-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
mallish number of mouse clicks in Coot or PyMol or ccp4mg that feed the information to Raster3D for rendering. But nothing is currently in place that would allow a label "no actual brains were consumed in producing this figure". Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Cen

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS refinement

2009-03-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
calculations - oops! > > > > Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote: > > > Among non-runnable programs in CCP4 there is the sc program that indeed > > does not run. > > > > Sorry, I didn't see the rest of your post. > I had sc running and producing meanin

Re: [ccp4bb] scaling a SAD data set

2009-02-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
a, and feed the unmerged intensities from both datasets into the SAD phasing program. Let it do the scaling jointly. Better yet would have been to collect the data in smaller wedges using "inverse beam mode". -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] structure (factor) amplitude

2009-01-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Bernhard Rupp wrote: > Dear All, > > I am getting conflicting comments on the use of > 'structure factor amplitude' > vs. just > 'structure amplitude' > for |F|. ??? That's just... odd. |F| is the amplitude of F. But no

[ccp4bb] A primer on linux shared libs [was: ccp4-6.1.0: iMosflm libtermcap.so.2 error - SOLVED]

2008-12-22 Thread Ethan A Merritt
0.0, 16th October 2008 (requiring Mosflm 7.0.4) > >> > >> iMosflm cannot run "usr/local/xtal/ccp4/ccp4-6.1.0/bin/ipmosflm": > >> > >> /usr/local/xtal/ccp4/ccp4-6.1.0/bin/ipmosflm: error while loading  > >> shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file:  > >> No such file or directory > >> > >> Please configure iMosflm with the correct executable. > >> > >> I searched for libtermcap.so.2 and couldn't find it in my computer. > >> > >> Help please and thank you > >> > >> Victor Alves > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Depositing coordinates with riding hydrogens

2008-12-18 Thread Ethan A Merritt
program. Perhaps there should be a registry of the parameters associated with each version of each refinement program, and the PDB file could refer to the appropriate parameter set by name rather than including it in-line in each individual PDB entry. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-11 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ight back to your original question. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] RNA Torsion Angle Measurement Error

2008-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday 28 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 16:04 Fri 28 Nov , Ethan A Merritt wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008, Ben Akiyama wrote: > > > I am measuring and comparing torsion angles in several solved > > > crystal structures of RNA helices using

Re: [ccp4bb] RNA Torsion Angle Measurement Error

2008-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
y an interesting question, but I don't have any intuitive feel for the answer. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to fill unitcell randomly

2008-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Uniform distribution of neighbor-neighbor distances? Uniform fractional coodinates? Must the placement conform to space group symmetry? It is probably impossible to satisfy all of the above jointly. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Choosing TLS groups.

2008-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
e a > decision, I systematically tried both possibilities, and the best result > was to apply the restraints to residual B-factors. I hesitate to suggest it, but... might this be pointing to a coding error rather than to a flaw in the rationale? > The NCS restraints are applied to re

Re: [ccp4bb] half occupancy question-further information

2008-10-18 Thread Ethan A Merritt
cular Crystallography Laboratory > Howard Hughes Medical Institute > California Institute of Technology > Division of Biology > 1200 E. California Blvd. MC 114-96 > Pasadena, CA 91125 > 626-395-2453 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.br.caltech.edu/cmclab > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] high tempterature factor refinement problem

2008-10-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
h > temperature factor for further refinment? By "fix", do you mean "correct" or do you mean "not refine"? The high average value is quite possibly correct already, but it is true that you should probably not be refining individual B factors at that resolution. -

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: GPU accelerated crystallographic calculations

2008-09-18 Thread Ethan A Merritt
in essence it's "déjà vu all over again". Whether the cloud computing fad will extend to crystallography remains to be seen. Note that distributed ("cloud") data storage has been seriously proposed as a possible solution to the problem of archiving raw diffraction images. --

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