[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Research Opportunity in Cryo-EM at University of Washington, in Seattle, USA

2021-09-18 Thread George Wisedchaisri
Thanks, George Wisedchaisri -- *Postdoctoral Research Position* *Senior Fellow or Instructor Appointment Level* *Structural Basis for Function and Pharmacology of Voltage Gated Sodium and Calcium Channels* *Laboratories of William A. Catterall and Ning Zheng* *Department of Pharmacology

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-17 Thread George Sheldrick
As Joel has suggested before, alphafold on an IDP would be interesting and would seem like a zero-cost starting point - perhaps one you have tried already. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 15 Aug 2021, 15:53, Scott Horowitz < scott.horow...@du.edu> wrot

[ccp4bb] American Crystallographic Association Virtual Meeting, Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases

2021-05-21 Thread George Lountos
The 71th annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting will be held virtually from July 30-August 5, 2021. A session on the Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases will be held on Tuesday, August 3. We invite scientists to submit abstracts for oral presentations i

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position in computational modeling at Rice U (special fellowship opportunity if apply by this weekend)

2021-01-12 Thread George Lu
: The Lab for Synthetic Macromolecular Assemblies <http://lulab.rice.edu/> (PI: George J. Lu) at Rice Bioengineering is recruiting a postdoc fellow with expertise on *protein structure modeling and bioinformatics*. Wet lab experience in molecular biology and biochemistry will be a

[ccp4bb] defining chiral center in .cif file for ligand atom linked to amino acid side chain

2020-11-05 Thread George Lountos
file for the ligand molecule and not sure how to add the protein Cys residue S atom to the chiral center definitions so that REFMAC can properly read the file. Any suggestions or directions would be appreciated. Thanks, George

[ccp4bb] Postdoc Positions in Protein Engineering at Rice University

2020-10-15 Thread George Lu
Dear colleagues, We have several openings for postdoctoral fellows. Please see the advertisement below. The Lab for Synthetic Macromolecular Assemblies <http://lulab.rice.edu/> (PI: George J. Lu) at Rice Bioengineering has multiple openings for postdoctoral fellow

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread George Sheldrick
This is precisely why SHELX always used the coordinates of the general position (LATT+SYMM) to define the space group rather than a name or number. George On 22/07/20 14:15, Ian Tickle wrote: Hi David The problem is that the PDB incorrectly used the H lattice symbol (without consulting any

[ccp4bb] displyaing cryo-EM map in pymol

2020-03-19 Thread George Lountos
I wanted to ask if anyone has a good reference or tutorial link for displaying and working with cryo-EM map files in pymol. Thanks, George To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement of 0.73A data in shelxl

2020-02-03 Thread George Sheldrick
confidence, I would need the .hkl and .ins files. Best wishes, George On 03.02.20 12:08, Barone, Matthias wrote: Dear ccp4 community Im having some problems solving a 0.73A structure. Spacegroup seems to be correct, data are not twinned, 95.5% overall completeness, ISa 25.6. Outer shell CC1/2

Re: [ccp4bb] RAID array

2019-11-27 Thread George N. Reeke
Then you can follow the instructions for logwatch to add this new /var/tmp/mdadm.log to the list of logs it looks at. (Or change the above script to add the mdadm info to a log logwatch already looks at.) If you have hardware RAID, the idea is the same, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Shelx and debian 10

2019-10-08 Thread George Sheldrick
lternatively I could provide both statically and dynamically linked versions. What do users think? Best wishes, George On 08.10.19 11:04, Peter Keller wrote: HI Tim, On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Tim Gruene wrote: Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:04:28 +0200 From: Tim Gruene To: Peter Keller Cc: CCP4BB@jiscma

Re: [ccp4bb] Combining MR and SIR phases

2019-07-23 Thread George Sheldrick
eling each other. This is much less of a problem for MAD or SiRAS, both of which could work for a bromine derivative. If you collected Friedel opposites you may still be able to try SIRAS. George On 23.07.19 11:43, Eleanor Dodson wrote: Well - there are lots of ways to proceed. It doesnt really m

[ccp4bb] postdoc position for crystallographic methods development

2019-04-21 Thread George Sheldrick
. for sulphur-SAD phasing. Although shelxd is still used it has not been changed for decades and needs to be brought up to date. Anyone interested should contact me by email. George Sheldrick -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry University of Goettingen Tammannstr. 4s

Re: [ccp4bb] shelxe version 2019-1

2018-12-26 Thread George Sheldrick
d when the program is run without data files. Note that the previous version expires at the end of 2018. Isabel and George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or +49-5

Re: [ccp4bb] buying a cluster

2018-11-23 Thread George Sheldrick
themselves highly parallel (and also distributed with CCP4). George On 11/23/2018 12:30 PM, Thomas, Jens wrote: PHASER and SHELXE can take advantage of multiple CPUs, as can most of the Molecular Replacement pipelines such as AMPLE and ARCIMBOLDO. It does depend on whether all the CPUs have access

[ccp4bb] planar restraints definition in .cif file for refmac

2018-09-17 Thread George Lountos
I correctly format the atom id (i.e. list of atoms in the plane) after this line with the atoms so that REMFAC can properly recognize them. Thanks for your suggestions, George To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure solution - hexapeptide

2018-08-02 Thread George Sheldrick
A particularly useful command line option in SHELXT for such cases is -L15 to try all trigonal and hexagonal space groups. SHELXT is included in recent CCP4 distributions and is also available with documentation from shelx.uni-goettingen.de George On 02.08.2018 15:53, Aaron Finke wrote: Hi

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-07-05 Thread George Sheldrick
as a punishment. Best wishes, George On 04.07.2018 20:30, Bernhard Rupp wrote: I was just fascinated by the math: 800 x 3 = 2400, and given a work year of 1600 hrs this makes for 1.5 papers per hr to review… I don’t remember a reference to anyone specific - YS had only about 2000 papers – so

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-07-04 Thread George Sheldrick
n, all the fake Chinese structures in Acta E cited SHELX for their refinement. Best wishes, George On 04.07.2018 13:54, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Yes, there is a problem in general with these ‘get rich quick with user data’ facebookoid sites. Publon seems to be another one and I had what can

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

2018-07-02 Thread George Sheldrick
their approach. I am not an Apple fan either - I use a more reasonably priced native Linux laptop - but have to give Apple credit for innovation. George On 07/01/2018 06:57 PM, Patrick Loll wrote: I think what we should do is not publish in journal families where the profit is above 10 per

Re: [ccp4bb] Regarding symmetry notion in coot

2018-06-21 Thread George Sheldrick
For small molecules, programs such as SHELXT move the structure to be as near as possible to the center of the unit-cell, not the origin. Failure to do so may cause a 'checkCIF alert'. George On 06/21/2018 09:34 PM, John Berrisford wrote: From a PDB deposition point of view, I e

Re: [ccp4bb] Python3 and MTZ

2018-06-08 Thread George Sheldrick
. The resulting executables also tend to be faster than when Python is used, even when it is used to call routines written in C++. George On 06.06.2018 20:54, Robbie Joosten wrote: Right you are Kay. It would be very weird to start developing things on Python 2.7 right now. Its days are

Re: [ccp4bb] update 057

2018-05-10 Thread George Sheldrick
de in future. The shelx homepage moved to shelx.uni-goettingen.de over a year ago and was not affected. Best wishes, George On 10.05.2018 12:17, Charles Ballard wrote: Dear All This is out, and contains a fix to the nasty truncate bug detailed earlier (hat tip to GPL), it is therefore recomm

Re: [ccp4bb] According correct space group assignment...

2018-04-25 Thread George Sheldrick
publish it in Acta E.). Best wishes, George On 20.04.2018 15:30, Rafal Dolot wrote: Dear CCP4BB, I've recently collected data for 11mer build of DNA (9xG, 2xT). XDS, and DIALS gave me similar solution - SG: I2(1)2(1)2(1) or I222, with cell dimension 20.65, 22.96, 43.37, 90, 90, 90, wh

[ccp4bb] New SHELX versions and email address

2018-03-13 Thread George Sheldrick
n its last legs and is subject to power outages caused by building work. *Please also note my new email address gsheldr (at) uni-goettingen.de !* George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-

Re: [ccp4bb] coot shelxl problem

2017-11-02 Thread George Sheldrick
continuation lines (see the documentation on the shelx homepage). Best wishes, George On 11/02/2017 03:34 PM, Abhishek Anan wrote: Dear all, I am trying to shelxl module from within coot after adding a few waters but get the following error. Is there a work around? ** INPUT INSTRUCTION HH1A

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: Another troublesome dataset (High Rfree after MR)

2017-10-16 Thread George Sheldrick
erion than a weighted or unweighted R2 (i.e. based on intensities). Best wishes, George On 10/16/2017 05:02 PM, James Holton wrote: If you suspect that weak data (such as all the spot-free hkls beyond your anisotropic resoluiton limits) are driving up your Rwork/Rfree, then a good sanity

Re: [ccp4bb] Risk assessment for heavy atom soaking - examples?

2017-09-12 Thread George Sheldrick
Over 50 years ago, a Toepler pump that I had glass-blown myself developed a crack that caused several kilos of mercury to hit tha ceiling and give me a shower. Fortunately I did not then know how poisonous it was and suffered no ill-effects George On 12.09.2017 19:46, James Holton wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] New version of SHELXE

2017-08-28 Thread George Sheldrick
l of their pipelines to take advantage of the new tracing features such as -Q, -B3 and -a (without a number) that are a significant improvement at lower resolution. See 'recent changes' on the shelx homepage for details. Best wishes, George On 08/28/2017 03:40 PM, Carlos CONTRER

Re: [ccp4bb] "reset" a structure before re-refinement

2017-08-17 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Graeme, The WIGL instruction in SHELXL does exactly that, and has some useful options. http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/SHELX/shelxl_html.php#WIGL Best wishes, George On 08/17/2017 05:17 PM, Graeme Winter wrote: Dear All, Is there a protocol out there to gently perturb atomic positions so

Re: [ccp4bb] New version of SHELXE

2017-08-13 Thread George Sheldrick
extra command line parameters, please read /recent changes/ before trying it. George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or +49-5594-227312

Re: [ccp4bb] New versions of shelxl and pdb2ins

2017-07-01 Thread George Sheldrick
questions about the other shelx programs to me. The 32-bit Linux versions are no longer supported, but 32-bit Windows versions are still provided except for pdb2ins. George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, G

Re: [ccp4bb] how to run shelx C/D/E using CCP4 GUI on windows

2017-05-09 Thread George Sheldrick
PHASER and other modern programs. George On 05/08/2017 01:19 PM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: I cant say anything about Windowssystems - jobs are MEANT to run on either. But re Intensities - you will have intensities in an mtz file somewhere - all data processing outputs both amplitudes and

Re: [ccp4bb] radiation damage-induced phasing (RIP) tutorial

2017-04-29 Thread George Sheldrick
phases, but this is not true of SIR and RIP, However using the anomalous signal as well (RIPAS) helps, similar to SIRAS. Best wishes, George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or

Re: [ccp4bb] radiation damage-induced phasing (RIP) tutorial

2017-04-29 Thread George Sheldrick
27; you will also find a useful account of RIP phasing by Max Nanao from last year's ACA Meeting. Best wishes, George On 04/28/2017 09:16 PM, Murpholino Peligro wrote: That's more like a tutorial for XDS :P (thanks though) The problems: 1) It uses autorickshaw (which is a black box

Re: [ccp4bb] Proper way to handle multiple conformations of ions/waters

2017-02-21 Thread George Sheldrick
shelx.uni-goettingen.de Best wishes, George On 02/21/2017 07:13 PM, Paul Paukstelis wrote: We've been working on a high resolution (1.0 A) DNA structure that has several coordinated magnesium ions that have complete octahedral geometry via water or phosphate oxygens but are clearly in mul

Re: [ccp4bb] Parallelization?

2017-02-09 Thread George Sheldrick
lt to make parallel because you have to know what you have already traced. The talk I gave at the 2016 Computing School in Freudenstadt on the subject may be downloaded from the SHELX homepage shelx.uni-goettingen.de Best wishes, George On 09.02.2017 22:08, Kay Diederichs wrote: Hi Bernhar

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXL refinement with TYR on special position

2017-01-24 Thread George Sheldrick
Luebben's PDB2INS. Best wishes, George On 01/24/2017 11:09 PM, Francis Reyes wrote: Hi all I'm trying to refine a structure with a tyrosine sitting on a special position , or maybe it's some disorder.. or Suggestions? https://i.imgsafe.org/7cfbf83a38.jpg Using just FLAT, CHIV

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXE update

2017-01-03 Thread George Sheldrick
It seems that I uploaded the wrong 64bit Linux version of shelxe on Dec, 3rd. I have now replaced it with the correct version 2016-3. The versions on shelx.uni-goettingen.de for other operating systems should already be correct. Apologies, George On 01/03/2017 03:28 PM, Tim Gruene wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD phasing

2016-12-28 Thread George Sheldrick
ch" resolution-extended data. Best wishes, George Sheldrick On 28.12.2016 11:43, 张士军 wrote: Dear Kay You mean after convert .phs to .mtz ,use the .mtz file refine the initial structure model? By the way , what's the difference between this density map with the density map modifi

Re: [ccp4bb] New version SHELXL 2016/6 and PDB2INS

2016-10-26 Thread George Sheldrick
wishes, George CC Anna On 10/26/2016 05:12 PM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Hi Phil, the error message occurs because your glibc is too old for this binary. The glibc cannot easily be updated, it is tied to the distribution, in your case RHEL6. A newer kernel does not change this, nor would an update

[ccp4bb] New version SHELXL 2016/6 and PDB2INS

2016-10-25 Thread George Sheldrick
an be generated automatically and no changes are needed to run SHELXL. George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or -33068 Fax. +49-551-39-22582

Re: [ccp4bb] Structural biology software that does not run on Windows or gives important Windows-specific problems

2016-10-14 Thread George Sheldrick
and simply compile for the other platforms. George On 10/14/2016 06:43 PM, Harry Powell wrote: Hi On this point, I have (for many years) built my Windows executables on a Mac with a cross-compiler; it is possible to install MinGW on a Windows box and have gcc, g++, gfortran available. If you

Re: [ccp4bb] Hi

2015-05-26 Thread George Devaniranjan
I would suggest biopython. http://combichem.blogspot.com/2013/08/aligning-pdb-structures-with-biopython.html On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Dimitry Rodionov wrote: > Dear Vijay, > > Your problem sounds like a job for LigAlign: > http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/LigAlign > > Regards, > Dm

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-19 Thread George Reeke
your colleagues to try it--I did even though I was sure I didn't want to learn Latex. I use it in Linux, where you do one of those configure-make-install-from-source- code installs. Here is the online info for using it on a mac: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac George Reeke On Mon, 2015-05-18 at

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

2015-04-23 Thread George Devaniranjan
Isn't the only criteria for EDS that calculated R (by EDS) is +/- 5% of reported R? On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Misbah ud Din Ahmad wrote: > Dear Gert, > I just did that and I wonder how these structures end there !!! > > @ Sabine: I was talking about Ramachandran outliers. I had learnt th

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread George Sheldrick
wo or three copies in the asymmetric unit. Best wishes, George On 04/22/2015 06:56 AM, Dale Tronrud wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are having a problem with AMPLE and hope someone can help. The protein is about 70 amino acids long and we suspect it forms a c

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELX expired?

2015-04-18 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Tom, Please go to the SHELX homepage (Google knows where that is) and 'register'. You will then immediately receive an email with downloading instructions (free for academic use). Sometimes this email lands in the trash folder. Best wishes, George On 04/18/2015 11:40 AM

Re: [ccp4bb] Absorption correction in small molecule crystals

2015-03-03 Thread George Sheldrick
that the crystal is uniformly bathed in the beam, which is unlikely to be the case with highly focussed beams. Why don't you use the PSI PRIGO goniometer to scan about several axes?! Best wishes, George On 03.03.2015 17:35, Finke Aaron (PSI) wrote: Dear comrades, This is slightly off-

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Ligand Crystallization

2015-02-06 Thread George
concentration (solubility) of the ligand is not high enough. You need a ligand solubility (concentration) approximately 10xKd +[protein] Kd = dissociate constant of protein-ligand complex [protein]= Total protein concentration added in solution George -Original Message- From: CCP4

Re: [ccp4bb] extracting PHENIX structures

2015-01-26 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear George and Patrick, It is particularly tricky to do such a search for SHELX because there are different ways of referencing it for refinement (SHELX, SHELX-76, SHELXL, SHELXL-97, SHELXL-2014 etc.) and there are other ways of using SHELX, in particular SHELXD for finding the heavy atom

Re: [ccp4bb] extracting PHENIX structures

2015-01-25 Thread George Devaniranjan
I did the same search as above (Patrick). I am confused how with SHELX you can get 320 (when using SOFTWARE) and then when using TEXT only 130. I get the same no's. If the word SHELX exists as follows SOFTWARE USED: SHELX the same "word" (SHELX) will be picked up when we do a text search as wel

[ccp4bb] SHELX for Macromolecules Course

2015-01-23 Thread George Sheldrick
Immediately after the DGK Meeting in Goettingen, there will be an "IRTG Methods Course on Macromolecular Applications of SHELX" there on the afternoon of Thursday March 19th. See: http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/SHELX/workshops.php for details. George -- Prof. George M. Sheldric

Re: [ccp4bb] .raw file from SAINT to pointless

2015-01-06 Thread George Sheldrick
I would be interested to hear which important 'merging statistics' are output by Phenix but not SADABS+XPREP. Best wishes, George On 01/06/2015 01:41 AM, Georg Mlynek wrote: Dear George and Phil, thanks a lot for the fast answers. Things are unfortunately a bit more complicated and the usu

Re: [ccp4bb] .raw file from SAINT to pointless

2015-01-05 Thread George Sheldrick
you need further help you may contact me directly. Best wishes, George On 01/05/2015 06:07 PM, Georg Mlynek wrote: Dear all, I have collected 2 datasets (space group P1, resolution 1.4) on a bruker machine using Proteum2 v2014.9-0 software. I integrated both datasets with SAINT and would

Re: [ccp4bb] Intensities and amplitudes

2014-12-03 Thread George M. Sheldrick
etter) maximum likelihood criteria for use with I rather than F? Best wishes, George On 12/02/2014 10:26 PM, Randy Read wrote: > Dear Mohamed, > > At the moment, a lot of programs require amplitudes, but I believe that they > should all eventually be updated to use intensities. In f

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of Iron-sulphur clusters

2014-10-14 Thread George M. Sheldrick
probably too small. Best wishes, George > > The dictionaries I sent have values that are obtained from an analysis of > small > molecule crystal structures in the CSD (by "hand" with conquest). For > instance > the Fe-Scluster-Fe angle has a mean of 73.4 degree with a s

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group numbers

2014-10-04 Thread George Sheldrick
being, and secondly SHELXL and other programs check them for internal consistency. Best wishes, George On 10/03/2014 07:58 PM, Ian Tickle wrote: (a) The IUCr has, in its wisdom, decided to use the */Hall space group symbols/* to settle the matter. See International Table

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group numbers

2014-10-03 Thread George Sheldrick
p symmetry unambiguously, in conventional settings or otherwise. Ian's argument that there could be too much to type in for cubic space groups is irrelevant, because the list is always generated by a program (e.g. XPREP or its clones). George On 10/03/2014 05:13 PM, Ian Tickle wrote: Hi

Re: [ccp4bb] monitoring refmac refinement

2014-10-02 Thread George Sheldrick
shelxl would be welcome, it is clearly inadequate. Since shelxl can now input partial structure factors using a/.fab/ file, this might be a good way of testing other solvent models. Best wishes, George On 10/02/2014 09:07 PM, Alastair Fyfe wrote: I would be grateful for any advice on how to

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group numbers

2014-10-02 Thread George Sheldrick
have counted correctly). George On 10/02/2014 11:50 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: I second that! The default should be symmetry based... cells stretch and shrink, but symmetry is harder to change. (i.e. from crystal to crystal.) (I thought all CCP4 programs have supported this for ages.) On

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating anomalous Fourier maps

2014-08-29 Thread George Sheldrick
ged" (as a processing option under "Integration"). Then you can run AnoDe by: anode name which produces a file that Coot can display as a map plus a lot of useful information about the anomalous density. George On 08/29/2014 08:43 PM, Alexander Aleshin wrote: Could anyone r

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning in space group Pc

2014-08-13 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Kristof, Have you tried to solve it with the new SHELXT? You can force it to consider only chiral (Sohnke) space groups by putting -c on the command line. Best wishes, George On 13.08.2014 11:00, Kristof Van Hecke wrote: Dear, I’m struggling with the following (small molecule

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] RMSD between structures of homologous proteins

2014-08-13 Thread George Devaniranjan
Thanks to the mailing list I came across this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167157 The C code to compute is available on the link mentioned in the paper. Best wishes, George On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Eugene Krissinel < eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > It is probab

Re: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation?

2014-07-23 Thread George Sheldrick
Best wishes, George On 07/23/2014 05:20 PM, Frances C. Bernstein wrote: I agree that it would be excellent to be able to associate alternate conformations (beyond the individual residue) but when we defined the "PDB" format we had an 80-column limitation per atom and so only one column

[ccp4bb] AMoRe

2014-07-15 Thread George Devaniranjan
Hi, Has anyone tried the tutorial on the CCP4 website for AMoRe? http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/examples/tutorial/html/mr-tutorial-amore.html I am trying to learn how to use the package in CCP4 and it fails and I am wondering if the tutorial has become outdated? Thank you, George

Re: [ccp4bb] [phenixbb] So what is unique?

2014-07-15 Thread George Sheldrick
I think that 'observed' goes back to whether it was possible to see a reflection (and estimate its intensity by eye) on the photographic FILM. In small molecule crystallography it is usually understood to mean F>4sigma(F) (or I>2sigma(I)). George On 07/15/2014 07:02 PM,

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] Shelxc failure

2014-06-20 Thread George Sheldrick
ot, or use Buccaneer to do this automatically. shelxe does however currently require native data to relatively high resolution (at least 3A and better 2A). Best wishes, George On 06/20/2014 05:54 PM, Roberto Valverde wrote: Hi CCP4BB, First time posting here, greetings! I have two questions: Que

Re: [ccp4bb] refine an ion atom with different status

2014-06-20 Thread George Sheldrick
calculated scattering factor for an isolated ion in the gas phase is not really appropriate for the environement of an ion in the crystal anyway. George On 06/20/2014 07:18 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Bernhard, phenix.refine makes use of charge if specified in PDB file (rightmost column

Re: [ccp4bb] DATAMAN/RAVE alternatives

2014-06-12 Thread George Devaniranjan
40 AM, George Devaniranjan < devaniran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at the Kleywegt et al paper from 2004 'The Uppsala Electron > Density Sever' > > and I was trying to follow the steps outlined in the paper (section 3) > 'Generating the maps'

[ccp4bb] DATAMAN/RAVE alternatives

2014-06-12 Thread George Devaniranjan
no longer supported. Could someone suggest an alternative I could use? I know this is not strictly a CCP4 question so I apologize for taking advantage of the mailing list. Thank you, George

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-11 Thread George Devaniranjan
Thank you Gerard for your suggestion. I will look into the paper you suggested and MAPMAN too. I am "idealizing" fragments of PDB and while this would not agree when compared with the well refined structure, my goal really is seeing if these "ideal" fragments can still be identifiable when I lo

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-10 Thread George Devaniranjan
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 June, 2014 19:13:57 George Devaniranjan wrote: > > Thank you Ian. > > To clarify, I actually want to compare the new PDB file to the old MTZ > > file to see how well the residues fit. This is why I ment

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-10 Thread George Devaniranjan
This means you have to supply exactly the same >> complete PDB file that you used to run the refinement job. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- Ian >> >> >> On 10 June 2014 19:52, George Devaniranjan >> wrote: >> >>> HI, >>> >>>

[ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-10 Thread George Devaniranjan
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

[ccp4bb] : MTZ for a protein fragment and R factors, Masking and Maps

2014-06-05 Thread George Devaniranjan
the result is a map and not a MTZ file (the format I need for the next step SFCheck) I tried using NCSMask but it did not work out. Could someone suggest where I am going wrong in trying to calculate R for a small part of the protein? Thank you, George

Re: [ccp4bb] correct pdb encoding for split-personality solvent HETATM?

2014-05-14 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Alastair, As you point out, SHELXL allows atom names, RESIdue numbers and PARTs (=Altlocs) to be used in any combination. The only rule is that no two non-hydrogen atoms may have the same settings for all three. Other refinement programs may be more restrictive. Best wishes, George

Re: [ccp4bb] Confusion about space group nomenclature

2014-05-02 Thread George Sheldrick
In my program documentation I usually call these 65 the Sohnke space groups, as defined by the IUCr: http://reference.iucr.org/dictionary/Sohnke_groups George On 05/02/2014 02:35 PM, Jim Pflugrath wrote: After all this discussion, I think that Bernhard can now lay the claim that these 65

Re: [ccp4bb] ligand occupancy

2014-04-18 Thread George Kontopidis
binding site and get accurate refined occupancies. George From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Monica Mittal Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 1:04 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] ligand occupancy Dear all I have a protein which is dimer having

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD Pattersons (previously space group problem)

2014-04-01 Thread George Sheldrick
onger positive peaks, other reasons in the case of SAD are the missing reflections in centrosymmetric projections and possible incomplete coverage of Friedel pairs. Best wishes, George On 04/02/2014 04:16 AM, Chen Zhao wrote: By the way, I have another question related to the number of sites. I

Re: [ccp4bb] difference between polar angle and eulerian angle

2014-03-29 Thread George Sheldrick
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Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread George Sheldrick
using frames significantly wider than the reflections, they also have a higher background noise level. This applies equally for small molecules and macromolecules, though for a strongly diffracting small molecule a higher background can be tolerated. George On 03/25/2014 09:55 AM, Tim Gruene wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] occupancy of Metal

2014-03-23 Thread George Kontopidis
What is the mean B-factor of atoms that making interactions with each metal ion? Use those means values as B-factors for each Mg2+ ion respectively. Adjust manually the occupancies, in order the B-factors for each Mg2+ to stay after refinement close to the above values. George From

Re: [ccp4bb] density near Histidine

2014-03-09 Thread George Kontopidis
Rotate chi2 bond (CB-CG) and have two alternative conformations for the His. Add two water molecules (50% occupancy) each making a H-bond with the NE2 atoms (alternative 1 and 2) of the His. George From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of SD Y Sent

[ccp4bb] Biophysics faculty position at Milwaukee

2014-02-28 Thread George Sheldrick
Abbas Ourmazd who is physics professor at Milwaukee has asked me to post this job advert on CCP4bb: http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/325225/assistant-or-associate-professor-in-biophysics/ George -- Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-14 Thread George Sheldrick
de into a wiki. George On 02/14/2014 09:15 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: Seems it's worth thinking about this as an experiment that has actually been done: BB and wiki have been available in parallel for many years now; so where has all the activity happened, where do people go for informa

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-12 Thread George Sheldrick
It would be so nice to have a 'sister CCP' for questions aboud wet-lab problems that have nothing to do with CCP4 or crystallographic computing, The is clearly a big need for it, and those of us who try to keep out of wet-labs would not have to wade though it all. George On 02/12/

[ccp4bb] Call for Speakers, 2014 ACA Meeting, Industrial Research from Young Scientists

2014-01-28 Thread George Lountos
from Young ScientistsOrganizers: George Lountos, Pete Wood An industrial environment can provide invaluable research and career experience for students and other young scientists. At the same time a short or long term research placement can provide an industrial partner with the opportunity to

Re: [ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction?

2014-01-13 Thread George Kontopidis
fluorescence needs very low concentration of protein (nM to microM) george From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Acoot Brett Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 3:09 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction? FRET, CD

Re: [ccp4bb] How to config CPU to run ccp4 with multi-processor

2013-12-18 Thread George Sheldrick
y atom location for experimental phasing) I was able to achieve a 27 times speedup on a 32 core machine. However for my other openmp programs the gain was much more modest. For some of them there is little advantage in using more than about 4 cores, primarily because of Amdahl's law. Georg

Re: [ccp4bb] How to config CPU to run ccp4 with multi-processor

2013-12-17 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Chang, As far as I know, most CCP4 programs are single-CPU and would need extensive changes to make them patallel. Examples of multiple-CPU programs are XDS, SHELXD, SHELXL and (in part) PHASER. Best wishes, George On 12/17/2013 06:51 AM, Chang Qing wrote: Dear all I just installed

[ccp4bb] ACA 2014, Industrial Research from Young Scientists

2013-12-16 Thread George Lountos
from Young ScientistsOrganizers: George Lountos, Pete Wood An industrial environment can provide invaluable research and career experience for students and other young scientists. At the same time a short or long term research placement can provide an industrial partner with the opportunity to

[ccp4bb] Industrial Research from Young Scientists, 2014 ACA Meeting

2013-11-26 Thread George Lountos
from Young ScientistsOrganizers: George Lountos, Pete Wood An industrial environment can provide invaluable research and career experience for students and other young scientists. At the same time a short or long term research placement can provide an industrial partner with the opportunity to

Re: [ccp4bb] the f' and f'' of heavy cluster

2013-11-21 Thread George M. Sheldrick
porated it will probably be disordered. Best wishes, George On 11/21/2013 07:29 AM, LISA wrote: > Dear All, > > I am running autosharp with a single wavelength data soked with Ta6Br12. > This data collected at the wavelength of 1.254A. I told the autosharp > the f' -20 and

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] shelx anamalous data

2013-11-16 Thread George Sheldrick
this gives excellent maps! Best wishes, George * On 11/16/2013 11:16 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: It is easy enough if you still ant to do it. I would feed both into f2mtz separately to make a mysadIplus.mtz and a mysadImin.mtz then use CAD to combine and change the default labels to something like

Re: [ccp4bb] shelx anamalous data

2013-11-14 Thread George Sheldrick
homepage (Google knows where it is). George On 11/14/2013 10:09 PM, Yarrow Madrona wrote: I'm sorry, I have not used shelx before and didn't realize in my last post that the anamolous data is kept separate. I am planning on converting both the mysad.phs and mysad.pha to mtz files

Re: [ccp4bb] observed criterion sigma

2013-11-14 Thread George M. Sheldrick
a(I). This is actually quite useful, if the first of these is appreciably larger than the second - say 10% and 3% - then the data must be weak. Best wishes, George On 11/14/2013 12:27 PM, Mark J van Raaij wrote: > It used to be common to only include reflections for which I > x si

Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-20 Thread George Sheldrick
ather than canceling. 4. You have severe radiation damage and only the first (peak) dataset is usable. Best wishes, George On 08/20/2013 11:05 PM, Yafang Chen wrote: Hi All, I have three datasets of SeMet-incorporated protein at peak, infl and high wavelength respectively. SAD with peak da

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-07 Thread George Sheldrick
committee had changed many of the names. George meantime the COMCIFS committee of the IUCr had changed many of the names. On 08/07/2013 10:02 PM, Nat Echols wrote: On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:54 PM, James Stroud <mailto:xtald...@gmail.com>> wrote: All that needs to happen is that the

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: (a bit) shelx(pro)

2013-06-17 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Peter, i am planning to produce a new pdb2ins containing several improvements, but until this is ready please continue to use the old shelxpro. Best wishes, George On 17.06.2013 16:57, Peter Moody wrote: At the risk of (more) people pointing at me and laughing... I used to use

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