Re: [ccp4bb] flow rate for cooling stream?

2020-07-02 Thread Ian Clifton
Hello Patrick, On 02/07/2020 21:03, Patrick Loll wrote: [...] Does anyone have an estimate for the flow rate one would typically use for the cold nitrogen stream passing over a protein crystal in a standard data collection? [...] A Cryostream 700 works at 5 litres per minute (gas), I believ

[ccp4bb] “Bound ligand” versus “modified residue”

2019-04-24 Thread Ian Clifton
clear examples we found to illustrate the question.) Is there any reason to prefer one of these approaches over the other? Does it just depend on what ligands are already in the PDB? Thanks, -- Ian Clifton ⚗ ℡: +44 1865 275677 Chemistry Research Laboratory ℻: +44 1865 285002 Oxford

Re: [ccp4bb] photograph of Enraf-Nonius FAST detector

2018-11-27 Thread Ian Clifton
resolution. Enjoy. Hi Pierre, Ah, memory lane! Can you remember how long the FAST was in use on 9.6? I guess it was replaced by an early Mar. -- Ian Clifton ⚗ ℡: +44 1865 275677 Chemistry Research Laboratory ℻: +44 1865 285002 Oxford University 📧: ian.clif...@chem.

Re: [ccp4bb] (arcane) How to generate complete set of indices at low res

2018-04-05 Thread Ian Clifton
I wrote: > Frank von Delft writes: > >> No, the point is: uniqueify manages to not always do this. > > The “uniqueify” script depends on the “unique” program, which seems to > contain a built‐in low‐resolution limit of 50Å. Could it be this isn’t > always low enough? No, scrub that—the low res

Re: [ccp4bb] (arcane) How to generate complete set of indices at low res

2018-04-05 Thread Ian Clifton
Frank von Delft writes: > No, the point is: uniqueify manages to not always do this. The “uniqueify” script depends on the “unique” program, which seems to contain a built‐in low‐resolution limit of 50Å. Could it be this isn’t always low enough? -- Ian Clifton ⚗ ℡: +44 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Any suggestions?

2017-07-07 Thread Ian Clifton
"Dr. Isabel De Moraes" writes: > Any suggestions regarding to the positive densities? > Your pictures didn’t seem to make it as attachments, at least as received here. BW, -- Ian ◎

Re: [ccp4bb] cif-file macro?

2016-10-25 Thread Ian Clifton
Edwin Pozharski writes: > I expect this not to exist, but is there a way to define a variable in > a cif-file (e.g. a global esd target for, say, angles)? No, I don’t think either CIF or CIF2 have such variables/macros, I’m afraid. -- Ian Clifton ⚗ ℡: +44 1865 275677 Che

Re: [ccp4bb] P3212--1's in Space Group Names?

2015-02-18 Thread Ian Clifton
Laurent Maveyraud writes: > this is explained in details in table 2.2.4.1 of vol A of > International Tables of Crystallography (p 18 in my edition). > > For trigonal/hexagonal, the primary direction is along c, along the > 3-fold (6-fold axis). It's the same in tetragonal (obviously for the > 4-

Re: [ccp4bb] question about powder diffraction

2014-07-08 Thread Ian Clifton
"Edward A. Berry" writes: > The plane will scatter, and all atoms in the plane will scatter in phase > if angle of incidence equals angle of reflection. this is how a mirror > reflects. Furthermore all the parallel planes will also reflect at this angle. > Trouble is the beams scattered from the

Re: [ccp4bb] Www

2014-06-13 Thread Ian Clifton
avinash singh writes: > wwdwwwy Wow, imagine the fluorescence from that… -- Ian ◎

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-05 Thread Ian Clifton
On 05/08/13 09:03, Tim Gruene wrote: having read Gerard Kleywegt's latest announcement on the wwPDB Workshop (1st August) made me wonder whether it is planned to introduce mmCIF as working format to users in addition to using it at e.g. the PDB, because I think that would make life unnecessarily

Re: [ccp4bb] Why the name "aimless"

2013-05-02 Thread Ian Clifton
Martyn Winn writes: > I think Phil saw something nasty in the woodshed ... > > HTH > Martyn > >> -Original Message- >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >> Roberto Battistutta >> Sent: 02 May 2013 11:07 >> To: ccp4bb >> Subject: [ccp4bb] Why the name "a

Re: [ccp4bb] compiling Fortran 77 code on a Linux box (using gfortran ?)

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Clifton
Hi Fred, vellieux writes: [...] > I get errors (at run time) of the type: > > At line 138 of file program.f (unit = 6, file = 'stdout') > Fortran runtime error: Missing initial left parenthesis in format > [...] Mmm, that kind of error rings a bell … is the relevant format a string rather th

[ccp4bb] How to make an unnatural amino acid ligand?

2013-01-09 Thread Ian Clifton
I need to make dictionaries for a ligand that includes an unnatural amino acid (D chirality, and unnatural side‐chain) amongst a short sequence of natural amino acids. Sounds easy, but how to do it? I’m thinking of first making my unnatural amino acid in isolation, then using an editor to fix up th

Re: [ccp4bb] Today ...

2012-12-21 Thread Ian Clifton
Tom Murray-Rust writes: > Hi Juergen, > > Your scheme as printed has two J's - so January and July are > indistinguishable! I would suggest the letters should instead be > JFMAYULGSOND. > > Happy apocalypse! > > Tom > > On 21 Dec 2012, at 01:52, "Bosch, Juergen" wrote: > > > May I introduce

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 install

2012-11-09 Thread Ian Clifton
王瑞 writes: > I'm sorry for a little off-topic! I want to install HKL2000 on > ubuntu11.10 32bits, but it produces a file named "info" not "cr_info" > after run the access_prod program.And when I put "info" to > > /usr/local/lib directory and typing"HKL2000" in terminal, it display: > root@

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position - University of Edinburgh

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Clifton
"Froehlich, Chris" writes: > is there any program enclosed in CCP4 to convert a *.brix file or a > *.mrc file into a CCP4.map file? > > If not, is there any other way to do so?` MAPMAN from Uppsala (http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/) can read BRIX (and write CCP4), not sure about .mrc format though. --

Re: [ccp4bb] Question on Symmetry Axis Notation Convention

2012-06-15 Thread Ian Clifton
Ethan Merritt writes: > On Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:06:13 pm James Stroud wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I would like to discuss symmetry axes, but I'm not sure what the >> notation convention is. For example, I'd like to say something about >> a 2(1) along the x-axis, but the phrase "the 2(1) sym

Re: [ccp4bb] problem in mtz2various

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Clifton
g F(+) AND FP - incompatible *** [...] This just means you have to choose one of the sets {FP, SIGFP, DP, SIGDP} or {F(+), F(-) SIGF(+), SIGF(-)} — you can’t have both. -- Ian Clifton ⚗ Phone: +44 1865 275677 Chemistry Research Laboratory Fax: +44 1865 285002 Oxford University

Re: [ccp4bb] How to build N-terminal PCA?

2011-07-27 Thread Ian Clifton
Huayue Li writes: >I have got a problem on building the N-terminal pyroglutamic acid >(PCA). > > >I'm afraid I have successfully defined *.top, *.param and *.link files >of PCA; and also successfully output *.mtf and *.pdb files. > >Everything seems right! I can not find any p

[ccp4bb] Plain‐text posting (was: Re: [ccp4bb] APBS)

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Clifton
for everything as a default, I don’t like! Remember Homer Simpson’s web page? Of course purists would say the most universal email format is US-ASCII, format=flowed… -- Ian Clifton ⚗ Phone: +44 1865 275677 Chemistry Research Laboratory Fax: +44 1865 285002 Oxford University ian.clif...@chem.ox.ac.uk Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3TA UK

Re: [ccp4bb] Generating a PDB file for a known ligand

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Clifton
On 15/03/11 12:57, A Leslie wrote: … > > I then try using LIBCHECK standalone to get the PDB file. I get the > same error if I use the FILE_CIF input keyword and give it the > filename for ADN.cif, no surprise, as this is (I assume) what COOT does. > > I then copy over ADN.cif to my local dir

Re: [ccp4bb] Reporting average B values for solvent, chain, ligand etc

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Clifton
ogram/option I can use to calculate the B factors for parts of > the model? There’s BAVERAGE in CCP4—in CCP4i it’s under the “Structure Analysis” tab. It should work as long as your different components are separate chains in the PDB file. -- Ian Clifton Phone: +44 1865 2756

Re: [ccp4bb] adding gaussian noise to an mtz data column

2011-02-04 Thread Ian Clifton
On 04/02/11 12:40, Vellieux Frederic wrote: > Before re-inventing the wheel... > > Is there anywhere some software (freely available software, I mean) that > can add some Gaussian noise to data. The data is currently stored in a > data column in an mtz (not phase data, but "amplitudes", "sigma