Re: [ccp4bb] comparing Gaussian Cube files

2025-01-16 Thread James Holton
be able to use coot to align the maps after aligning two PDB files corresponding to the coordinates of interest. Its the "Transform map by LSQ model fit ..." menu under Map Tools... Is that helpful at all?  (I should really come up with a better name for bin_stuff.) -James Holton MA

Re: [ccp4bb] Dual occupancy refinement in REFMAC5

2024-11-20 Thread James Holton
tps://github.com/jmholton/refmac_tools_jmh/blob/main/refmac_occupancy_setup.com (note that I have uploaded it into github so that it looks like I know what I'm doing) Does that help? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/20/2024 6:09 AM, Kyle Gregory wrote: Dear all, I have a 1.5 angstrom resol

[ccp4bb] NIH wants your input

2024-10-14 Thread James Holton
r a shared resource. Examples that come to my mind are: fragment screening, AI/ML data analysis, and, of course, synchrotrons. But synchrotrons already exist! They are looking for resources that are not currently on the list. -James Holton MAD

Re: [ccp4bb] Review: Linearity and Resolution in X-Ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy

2024-10-09 Thread James Holton
atulations to our latest Nobel Laurates!  But the battle for the "Last Angstrom" is far from over. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/9/2024 10:25 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: So Randy, what should we be saying/using, and where do we find it... and (not least!), /when/ in the experime

[ccp4bb] I'm hiring!

2024-10-07 Thread James Holton
sound exciting, but finding the right answers to my users questions is what made me into a MAD Scientist on this BB. https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=6495&siteid=5861&Areq=79597BR#jobDetails=3558174_5861 -James Holton M

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing the UNTANGLE Challenge

2024-10-01 Thread James Holton
ground truth of this Challenge.  Easily worth $1500. -James Holton MAD Scientsit On 1/21/2024 7:07 AM, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: Have you considered the impact of tunneling?  Your rope crossings are not perfect barriers. On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 6:09 PM James Holton wrote: Update:

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

2024-08-01 Thread James Holton
eters and try to extract the physically meaningful reality they are trying to capture. Restraints are very helpful in preventing many types of unrealistic situations, but ultimately it is up to you to decide if the fitted model makes sense. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/30/2024 11:30 AM, Ian T

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 James Holton
f chains spread out in the loopy regions you are concerned about.  This might be the way to go? You can also do ensemble refinement in the latest Amber.  That is, you run an MD simulation of a unit cell (or more) and gradually increase structure factor restraints. This would probably result in t

Re: [ccp4bb] (IUCr) The evolution of raw data archiving and the growth of its importance in crystallography

2024-06-14 Thread James Holton
here fill out that survey? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/13/2024 12:24 PM, John R Helliwell wrote: Dear Gerard, Quite so. But, as this CCP4bb has also observed in emails about a month ago, there is currently no news of proteindiffraction.org to share. Certainly detailed reports of its

Re: [ccp4bb] NIGMS Mature Synchrotron Program Evaluation

2024-06-14 Thread James Holton
E MSR.  If the beamline scientist who supported you was one of these: James Holton, George Meigs, Banu Sankaran, Scott Classen, Greg Hura, Michael Hammel, Jay Nix, Kevin Royal, Jeff Dickert, Anthony Rosalez, Daniil Prighozin, Corie Ralston, Marc Allaire, or Mark LeGros, then you used an MSR

Re: [ccp4bb] Experimental phasing Selenomethionine data collection etc. tips

2024-05-17 Thread James Holton
that brings us back to the "weak image limit".  What if instead of images we just collected a list of x-y coordinates of photon hits vs time? Anyone have a suggestion for the name to give to the program that can process such data? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/15/2024 3:28 PM, James

Re: [ccp4bb] Experimental phasing Selenomethionine data collection etc. tips

2024-05-15 Thread James Holton
it might be faster than the cloud. Sorry if any of this sounds gruff, I don't mean to shout down on anyone, but I want the message to be clear. This is something Gerard B and I have struggled to communicate for decades: Collecting one wavelength at a time is not MAD, but rather M-SAD. Multip

Re: [ccp4bb] Modeling Disulfide Bond Occupancies

2024-05-06 Thread James Holton
://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg51707.html -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/6/2024 12:19 PM, Liliana Margent wrote: Greetings everyone, I'm currently in the process of modeling a disulfide bond in two structures. However, when I attempt to model single occupancy for the cyst

Re: [ccp4bb] Room temperature change from 25ºC to 20ºC

2024-04-01 Thread James Holton
ting out that energy doesn't always have to come from burning carbon. Carbon doesn't even have the highest energy density.  You can see from this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Reference_Table that other fuels are much more effective. HTH, -James Holton MAD

Re: [ccp4bb] request for applications

2024-04-01 Thread James Holton
? Sent from tiny silly touch screen *From:* James Holton *Sent:* Monday, 1 April 2024 08:01 *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* [ccp4bb] request for applications Hey Everyone, It may sound like an incredibly boring thing that

Re: [ccp4bb] request for applications

2024-04-01 Thread James Holton
more carefully next time. Best of luck, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/1/2024 8:03 AM, Phil Jeffrey wrote: :: I expect to have ~ $1e12 USD on current ledgers. Presumably via the Bankman-Fried algorithm Phil On 4/1/24 3:01 AM, James Holton wrote: Hey Everyone, It may sound like an incredibly b

Re: [ccp4bb] request for applications

2024-04-01 Thread James Holton
For you, Eleanor? Of course!  I look forward to it. But do you have an "elevator pitch"? I feel that a lively exchange of short messages conveys ideas much more efficiently and effectively than an annual exchange of hyper-dense documents. Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scientist On

[ccp4bb] request for applications

2024-04-01 Thread James Holton
s in science: the intellectual and technological hurdles that money can't overcome.  I'm hoping this will be an opportunity for all of us to focus on those.  I know we're all not used to thinking on this scale, but, at least for today, let's give it a try! Looking for

Re: [ccp4bb] program to complete (or to change) side chains to specific rotamers

2024-02-06 Thread James Holton
specify a rotamer.  I say try doing that in coot and record the session.   However, if that gets too complicated, another way to do build-by-rotamer is with these awk programs that I wrote long before coot was a thing.  I still find them useful for certain tasks. I have created a git repo for them h

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing the UNTANGLE Challenge

2024-01-21 Thread James Holton
han the ground truth. This implies the "right interpretation" of correlated motion is recognizable and provable. I find that motivating. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/21/2024 4:07 AM, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: Have you considered the impact of tunneling?  Your rope crossings are

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing the UNTANGLE Challenge

2024-01-20 Thread James Holton
.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/challenge/twoconf/#tangle -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/18/2024 4:33 PM, James Holton wrote: Greetings Everybody, I present to you a Challenge. Structural biology would be far more powerful if we can get our models out of local minima, and together, I believe we can f

[ccp4bb] Introducing the UNTANGLE Challenge

2024-01-18 Thread James Holton
, and it will not only explain the data to within experimental error, and have the best possible validation stats, but it will reveal the true, underlying cooperative motion of the protein as well. Unless, of course, you can prove me

Re: [ccp4bb] Automated refinement convergence

2024-01-18 Thread James Holton
e got something cooking while I sleep... Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/18/2024 3:04 AM, Robert Oeffner wrote: Hi, I am wondering if authors of refinement programs would like to consider putting on their users wish list the ability of refinement programs to automatically terminate on

Re: [ccp4bb] what is isomorphous?

2023-12-31 Thread James Holton
like non-isomorphism will start to be overcome. No doubt borrowing from our cryo-EM friends who have been stretching, pulling and sharpening 3D images for decades. Happy New Year everyone! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/21/2023 11:37 AM, Tom Peat wrote: Hello All, I think Randy makes a ve

Re: [ccp4bb] nearestcell

2023-12-27 Thread James Holton
Are you thinking of "othercell" ? On 12/27/2023 10:38 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Dear all, I seem to remember a tool called "nearestcell", a command-line equivalent of the Oxford Nearest-Cell web server which appears to be offline. However I cannot locate that tool in CCP4 nor elsewhere. Can an

Re: [ccp4bb] solvent mask for partial ligands, addendum

2023-12-14 Thread James Holton
ng a bulk solvent mask should be? You might also want to try the Babinet inverse type of bulk solvent model. refmac supports this if you use "scale type bulk". -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/14/2023 2:40 AM, Palm, Gottfried wrote: I can only guess that the solvent at

Re: [ccp4bb] happy/sad maps

2023-04-30 Thread James Holton
trick question and that I already have a beautiful answer I'm waiting to reveal.  That is not really the case.  What I have is a handful of rather unsatisfactory solutions, and I'm wondering if I'm just not aware of an existing solution to this problem. Hope everyone had a

Re: [ccp4bb] happy/sad maps

2023-04-30 Thread James Holton
Thank you Paul.  This is interesting! I have not played with super-sampling yet.  I am assuming you mean creating a new map 8x the size? If so, did you fill the interstitial grid with zeroes? Local maximum? Linear interpolation?  Tricubic spline? And when you say "sharpen/blur" with a factor

[ccp4bb] happy/sad maps

2023-04-28 Thread James Holton
y some real-space "feathering" is called for before performing FFTs.  Same goes for masked density like that used to compute CCmask. It may also be worth looking into the digitization process of "image first" structural biology methods? My question for the BB:  can someone e

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure prediction - waiting to happen

2023-04-14 Thread James Holton
low enough to be dominated by experimental noise only.  Nevertheless, despite the phase problem being cracked by direct methods in the 1980s, your local chemistry department has yet to shut down their diffractometer. Why? Because they need it. And for macromolecular structures, the systematic e

Re: [ccp4bb] new PDB file format

2023-04-03 Thread James Holton
quot;,pre,X,Y,Z,post)}' |\ cat > roundoff.pdb   These rounded-off structures look ... weird. And yes they really do crash validation programs.  Food for thought perhaps on what "resolution", rmsd, and especially GDT_TS really mean? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/1/20

[ccp4bb] new PDB file format

2023-03-31 Thread James Holton
to protect them from the dangers of too many decimal places. -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-31 Thread James Holton
I have never met a computational chemist who did not "notice" when a side chain is modeled as more than one conformer. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/31/2023 8:31 AM, Olga Moroz wrote: Hi everyone, I always thought it is better to truncate so that biologists looking at the stru

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-30 Thread James Holton
~jamesh/trimnotrim/testdata.tgz -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/19/2023 10:02 PM, Lijun Liu wrote: Hi James: First of all, I think all those trim-or-not-to-trim practices are kind of compromises when the data did not really offer local density strong enough to model side chain relia

Re: [ccp4bb] Attention APS users - where will you go?

2023-03-28 Thread James Holton
as well as information on how to apply for beamtime. For more information, see the announcement here <http://als-enable.lbl.gov/wordpress/2023/03/14/als-enable-webinar-april-10th-2023/>. http://als-enable.lbl.gov/wordpress/2023/03/14/als-enable-webinar-april-10th-2023/ Hope to see you there, -

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-28 Thread James Holton
ight think that with enough copies in the ensemble it should be possible to fit any density with geometrically reasonable molecules, but that is not what happens in practice. This is actually quite remarkable!  So many "free parameters" and yet the tug-o-war between R factors and geometry

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-19 Thread James Holton
seeing 1-electron changes. This is because hydrogen is only 17% of a carbon.  But 3-5% error, which is a typical experimental error in crystallographic data, anything bigger than one electron is clear. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/18/2023 2:10 PM, Nicholas Pearce wrote: Not stupid, but essent

Re: [ccp4bb] binding pockets...

2023-01-03 Thread James Holton
PanDDA ? On 1/3/2023 7:14 AM, Harry Powell wrote: Hi folks I was wondering what people’s favourite program is to find binding pockets in proteins. I’ve had a look at a couple but each has its own idiosyncrasies. HNY Harry ##

[ccp4bb] Future Diffraction Methods

2022-12-16 Thread James Holton
re many more questions, and better suggestions.  I look forward to enlightening discussions!  GRCs have always been about discussion, and I hope to keep that tradition alive in this community. -James Holton MAD Scientist To uns

Re: [ccp4bb] xds crashes

2022-11-28 Thread James Holton
rmal.  This tends to prevent these mysterious "Killed" errors. HTH? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/28/2022 7:44 AM, Demetres D. Leonidas wrote: Dear all, I do not know if this is the right list and I would like to apologize if it is not. We have repeatedly experienced xds cras

Re: [ccp4bb] outliers

2022-11-08 Thread James Holton
ption used is that it can be potentially infinitely large. It still is a decent metric I think. P P On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 3:25 PM James Holton wrote: Thank you Ian for your quick response! I suppose what I'm really trying to do is put a p-value on the "geometry&q

Re: [ccp4bb] outliers

2022-11-08 Thread James Holton
l has a finite probability of occurring by chance), as would be finding no deviations > 3 sigma (for a reasonably large sample to avoid sampling errors). Cheers -- Ian On Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 22:22 James Holton wrote: OK, so lets suppose there is this bond in your structure that is

[ccp4bb] outliers

2022-11-08 Thread James Holton
count as 1000 deviates together? Or separately? I'm sure the more mathematically inclined out there will have some intelligent answers for the rest of us, however, if you are not a mathematician, how about a vote?  Is a 3-sigma bond length deviation significant? Or not? Looking forward to

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 occupancy group by residue name

2022-09-13 Thread James Holton
s_occ.txt" that you can import into your refmac run.  Possibly using the "@" keyword? HTH -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/13/2022 6:59 AM, Evgenii Osipov wrote: Dear CCP4 community, I am refining several structures of multimeric protein-ligand complexes and I wanted to

Re: [ccp4bb] Quantifying electron density inside of a given volume

2022-08-25 Thread James Holton
plain a given blob I don't think is solved. But I imagine this would make for a good AI project? Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

Re: [ccp4bb] Quantifying electron density inside of a given volume

2022-08-16 Thread James Holton
One might even want to compare integrated density to occupancy-refined recovered electron count?  There is the old adage that "a person with two thermocouples never knows what temperature it is", but personally, I'd rather know the error bars. And the overall accuracy? I doubt it w

Re: [ccp4bb] Quantifying electron density inside of a given volume

2022-08-15 Thread James Holton
t to the masked-off difference map before doing the "new Fobs" structure factor calculation. Include these same atoms in the new refinement. They won't move, but they will keep the scale stable. Oh, and don't forget to turn off the bulk solvent correction!  The bulk solvent has

Re: [ccp4bb] Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology - Gordon Research Conference - in-person! - July 24-29, 2022

2022-07-01 Thread James Holton
Venue%20Information%20.pdf Looking forward to a safe and productive GRC! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/7/2022 10:11 AM, James Holton wrote: One more thing: Some may also recall that in 2020 we were accepting tax-deductible donations to help attendees from underrepresented groups overcome the

Re: [ccp4bb] Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology - Gordon Research Conference - in-person! - July 24-29, 2022

2022-07-01 Thread James Holton
o miss you! If you need help paying for registration please do reach out to me off-list and I will let you know what kinds of assistance are available.  In some cases a financial need itself can qualify. Cheers, and hope to see you there, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/3/2022 7:35 AM, Ja

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-27 Thread James Holton
agine it is not an uncommon situation where you might want help from more than just the reviewers on how to revise your application. I know I always try to get all the help I can get. Might even be able to use biorxiv to do it?  Or am I missing something? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/27

Re: [ccp4bb] arginine sidechain planarity issues

2022-06-27 Thread James Holton
lps. Not as good as using CDL, but it helps. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/27/2022 8:38 AM, SUBSCRIBE CCP4BB rkrishnan wrote: I am refining a structure at 2.2A resolution. I find that all my arginines show distortion after refinement with refmac5 even though they fit into the density really

[ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-22 Thread James Holton
community thinks. Please share your views!  On- or off-list is fine. -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&

Re: [ccp4bb] Attention APS users - where will you go?

2022-06-13 Thread James Holton
cks do you use? For many beamlines you may have to buy different ones. Looking forward to the June 21 APS/U town hall discussions, as well as the ACA's "Bridging the APS dark period" session.  We will definitely be discussing this at the Diffraction Methods GRC, which is July 24

[ccp4bb] Dave Case gives John Lawrence Seminar- starting now!

2022-05-10 Thread James Holton
starting now: Dave Case on simulating macromolecular crystals with AMBER : https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/99255547757?pwd=TWozZm9NNDBZZFpIZER6U0JmMmYvQT09 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.

[ccp4bb] Attention APS users - where will you go?

2022-05-09 Thread James Holton
her on- or off-list is fine. I expect this community will be interested in the digest. -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.

Re: [ccp4bb] Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology - Gordon Research Conference - in-person! - July 24-29, 2022

2022-05-07 Thread James Holton
they may qualify please self-identify to me, off-list, in an email. It is my goal to bring as many diverse backgrounds and points of view as possible into this meeting, because that is what makes for the most productive discussions. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/2/2022 12:35 PM, James

[ccp4bb] Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology - Gordon Research Conference - in-person! - July 24-29, 2022

2022-05-02 Thread James Holton
g toward a brighter future, will inspire even more visionary and collaborative ideas for the role structure will play in that future. I can't imagine a better theme of discussion for this next meeting. -James Holton MAD Scientist and Chair of the 2020/2022 Diffract

Re: [ccp4bb] sftools

2022-04-05 Thread James Holton
I have found I usually need to run an mtz through "CAD" in order to sanitize it after doing things in sftools and other programs that . CAD is kind of my "make it a cannonical mtz again" program. HTH -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/5/2022 6:47 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] SHELXD - Limit Number of CPUs?

2022-03-16 Thread James Holton
running shelxd. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/16/2022 5:21 PM, Jessica Bruhn wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if there is a way to limit the number of CPUs that can be used by SHELXD. It seems that this program uses all that are available until it hits the NTRY you specified or it finds a

Re: [ccp4bb] freezing in ethane / propane - unipucks ?

2022-01-26 Thread James Holton
?  If you don't have a working N2 gas stream and are on a budget they are not that hard to build: https://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889894006357 Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/26/2022 9:25 AM, Guenter Fritz wrote: Dear Dom, thanks a lot. Yes, this might work sending a combipuck alon

Re: [ccp4bb] Validation of structure prediction

2022-01-15 Thread James Holton
With x-ray data in hand, I've been multiplying this whole thing by Rwork and trying to find clever ways to minimize the product.  Rfree is then, as always, the cross-check. Or does someone have a better idea? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/13/2022 11:14 AM, Tristan Croll wrote: Hard

Re: [ccp4bb] Validation of structure prediction

2022-01-13 Thread James Holton
ut alternatives. I.E. What if we could train an AI to predict Rfree by looking at the coordinates? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/21/2021 9:25 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Reza, If you think about it this way... Validation is making sure that the model makes sense, data make sense and

[ccp4bb] Elspeth Garman speaking at ALS Colloquium in 3 hours

2022-01-12 Thread James Holton
u have the time! Free and open to all, and be sure to mute your mic. Here is the link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91028154433 -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following l

Re: [ccp4bb] Erica Saphire speaking at ALS Colloquium - recording available

2021-12-09 Thread James Holton
Thank you everyone for your interest in Erica's talk, which went great!  Not up on the website yet, but here is a quick gdrive link to the video.  enjoy! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uyCJpOkJxE77l5jsMzgfEp_BNBPdhxTI/view -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/8/2021 9:06 AM, James H

Re: [ccp4bb] Erica Saphire speaking at ALS Colloquium in 10 minutes!

2021-12-08 Thread James Holton
Starting in 10 min! https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97680529569 On 12/8/2021 9:06 AM, James Holton wrote: Greetings all! At 3pm PST Dec 8, 2021 (California time), I managed to get Erica Saphire to speak about her recent work at the ALS Colloquium.  It is a forum for users and staff of the Advanced

Re: [ccp4bb] Erica Saphire speaking at ALS Colloquium in 6 hours

2021-12-08 Thread James Holton
Good news!  Erica's talk will be recorded!  I will update on this thread when the link is up. Goodnight Europe, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/8/2021 11:16 AM, Gerlind Sulzenbacher wrote: Dear James, thank you so much for putting into place all these outstanding seminars. Here a

Re: [ccp4bb] Erica Saphire speaking at ALS Colloquium in 6 hours

2021-12-08 Thread James Holton
Thank you all, I appreciate the convenience if it can be recorded.  I know Jennifer Doudna's talk was recorded, but there seems to have been some delay getting it hosted. I will provide updates ASAP.  Hopefully before Europe falls asleep tonight. -James Holton MAD scientist On 12/8/20

[ccp4bb] Erica Saphire speaking at ALS Colloquium in 6 hours

2021-12-08 Thread James Holton
ht be of interest if you have the time! Free and open to all, and I'm not sure if this is being recorded or not.  Here are the links: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97680529569 https://als.lbl.gov/news-events/seminars/ -James Holton MAD

Re: [ccp4bb] what would be the best metric to asses the quality of a mtz file?

2021-11-04 Thread James Holton
ree started to take a turn for the worse, and you can do this without ever looking at Rfree! Of course, it is always better to not put in bad waters in the first place, but sometimes its hard to tell. Anyway, I suggest using a watershed-ed model as your reference. Hope that is helpful in som

Re: [ccp4bb] what would be the best metric to asses the quality of a mtz file?

2021-11-01 Thread James Holton
just the right compression ratio I could get slightly better Rfree. But that is not something I'd recommend as a good idea. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/1/2021 2:22 AM, David Waterman wrote: Hi James, What you wrote makes lots of sense. I had not heard about Rsleep, so that

Re: [ccp4bb] what would be the best metric to asses the quality of a mtz file?

2021-10-29 Thread James Holton
just being processed in different ways, first make a choice about what you are interested in, and then optimize on that.  just don't optimize on Rfree! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/27/2021 8:44 AM, Murpholino Peligro wrote: Let's say I ran autoproc with different combinations

Re: [ccp4bb] ALS Colloquium Seminar Tomorrow - Jennifer Doudna Lecture

2021-10-27 Thread James Holton
Hello all, Jennifer Doudna Lecture starting in 30 minutes!  3 pm CA time (PDT). Zoom link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/96095492358 See you there, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 26 Oct 2021, at 22:19, James Holton wrote: Greetings all, This year I have the honor of co-organizing the ALS

[ccp4bb] ALS Colloquium Seminar Tomorrow - Jennifer Doudna Lecture

2021-10-26 Thread James Holton
ntibody Therapeutics and Stabilized Spike" See you in the zoom! -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-19 Thread James Holton
t me if I'm getting something wrong.  And the community benefits from the discussion. Thank you for your thoughtful and thought-provoking insights! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/19/2021 2:05 AM, Gergely Katona wrote: Dear James, I am sorry to nitpick, but this is the answer to "wh

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-18 Thread James Holton
le prior distribution is Poissonian with mean=variance= N/F/Q photons/pixel ? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/17/2021 11:30 PM, Frank von Delft wrote: Thanks, I learnt two things now - one of which being that I'm credited with coining that word!  Stap me vittals... If it's s

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-18 Thread James Holton
pixel case: Iobs = 1 sigIobs = 1 but in both cases the distribution is NOT Gaussian, but rather exponential. And that means adding variances may not be the way to propagate error. Is that right? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/18/2021 7:00 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Hi James, I'

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-17 Thread James Holton
Bayesian perspective then this will not help, unfortunately. Best wishes, Gergely -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: den 16 oktober 2021 21:01 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right? Thank you everyone for yo

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-17 Thread James Holton
currently aware of. I am confident a solution exists, but only recently started working on this.  So, I figured ... ask the world? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/17/2021 1:51 AM, Frank Von Delft wrote: James, I've been watching the thread with fascination, but also the confusion of

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-16 Thread James Holton
mple and loop in microns exposure = exposure time in seconds flux = incident beam flux in photons/s 1.2e-5 = 1e-4 cm/um * 1.2 g/cm^3 * 0.2 cm^2/g (cross section of oxygen) If you don't know anything else about the sample, you can at least know that. Or am I missing something? -James Holto

Re: [ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-15 Thread James Holton
s, but I think at least two of those are incorrect, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/13/2021 2:34 PM, Filipe Maia wrote: I forgot to add probably the most important. James is correct, the expected value of u, the true mean, given a single observation k is indeed k+1 and k+1 is also the mean sq

[ccp4bb] am I doing this right?

2021-10-12 Thread James Holton
r than one, but these days with small crystals and big detectors N=1 is no longer a trivial situation.  I look forward to hearing your take on this.  And no, this is not a trick. -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe fro

Re: [ccp4bb] ALS Colloquium Seminar - starting now!

2021-09-29 Thread James Holton
Talk on laser plasma x-ray light sources starting in 5 min! Here's the zoom link. Open to all. https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95338327083 On 9/29/2021 12:24 PM, James Holton wrote: Greetings all, This year I have the honor of co-organizing the ALS Colloquium Seminar series. This is norma

[ccp4bb] ALS Colloquium Seminar today! - in 2.5 hours

2021-09-29 Thread James Holton
antibody technology from all over the world together to fight SARS-CoV-2. I think we've got a pretty good lineup! -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Antwort: Re: [ccp4bb] chain on 2-fold axis?

2021-09-01 Thread James Holton
ack One final run through "cad" to clean things up and make sure you have the right asymmetric unit. That's what I do, anyway, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/31/2021 3:04 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: Espec. Jan & Kay, I had better check this out - ville wrote the code I

Re: [ccp4bb] Some questions on tools for CCP4i2cloud: pdbset, pdbcur, coordconv, sftools

2021-08-30 Thread James Holton
I use pdbset, coordconv and sftools a LOT.  Usually for things no other programs do, like converting to fractional coordinates, and performing math operations on mtz data. Always from command line scripts. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/26/2021 3:29 AM, Robbie Joosten wrote: Dear CCP4

[ccp4bb] pdb2ins "cannot open self"

2021-06-28 Thread James Holton
ny help or advice is much appreciated. Thank you for maintaining pdb2ins ! -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP

Re: [ccp4bb] Looking for proteins for undergraduate biochemistry lab

2021-06-18 Thread James Holton
What about proteins where the crystals don't diffract well?  I've found in my teaching experience that students take your advice much more seriously when they see it work on 3.5A data than they do when they see it work on 1.5 A data. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/17/2021 7:40

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with peakmax

2021-06-10 Thread James Holton
ely, both bash and tcsh recognize "|" in the same way. Unfortunately, they differ on how to re-direct output to a file. Oh, and that magic little "#!" that you put at the start of the first line of the script is called a "shebang". -James Holton MAD Scientist

Re: [ccp4bb] How can I refine the occupancy with Refmac?

2021-06-07 Thread James Holton
cupancy group alts incomplete 10 occupancy group alts incomplete 11 #-- Where, for this last one I demonstrate how you can select for various things by making a scratch PDB file that contains only the atoms you want to occupancy-refine. Hope this helps! Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scien

Re: [ccp4bb] How can I refine the occupancy with Refmac?

2021-06-07 Thread James Holton
et" as a second command-line argument. You can then perhaps copy-and-paste this to the relevant GUI window. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/7/2021 3:35 AM, Marina Gárdonyi wrote: Hi, I didn't know that I can also enter keywords without a file! That is a good note, thank you!! Best regar

Re: [ccp4bb] (R)MS

2021-05-28 Thread James Holton
why leave the mean variation squared?  I expect it is because it is supposed to be proportional to temperature. Hence the name "temperature factor". -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/27/2021 11:09 AM, Gergely Katona wrote: Dear Jonathan, In 1D sd may be intuitive, but in 3D it

Re: [ccp4bb] The oldest science

2021-03-31 Thread James Holton
Shiny! On 3/31/2021 10:36 AM, David Schuller wrote: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-somebody-in-the-kalahari-had-a-crystal-collection-105-000-years-ago-1.9670735 Somebody in the Kalahari Had a Crystal Collection 105,000 Years Ago -- ===

Re: [ccp4bb] External: Re: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?)

2020-12-11 Thread James Holton
. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/11/2020 4:42 AM, Phil Evans wrote: Alpha-fold looks great and is clearly a long way towards answering the question “this is the sequence, what is the structure?” But I’ve always thought the more interesting question is “this is the structure, what does it do

[ccp4bb] when does non-isomorphism become a habit?

2020-12-08 Thread James Holton
rystal form" or different "crystal habit"?  Or is it the same form, and just really non-isomorphous? Opinions? -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: htt

Re: [ccp4bb] SARS-CoV-2 test on a smartphone

2020-12-07 Thread James Holton
a favorite trick for this? And in general, any suggestions or comments, or best of all home experiment results would be great to hear.  I believe that if we collectively work the problem we will inspire more breakthroughs like the Fozouni et al. paper below, and that will have a strong positi

Re: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?)

2020-12-04 Thread James Holton
ou have to distort the geometry.  Turn the geometry weight up too high and your R factors blow up.  Turn the X-ray weight up too high and you get badly distorted geometry. I think we've all experienced that? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/3/2020 8:29 PM, Jon Cooper wrote: Hello James

Re: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?)

2020-12-03 Thread James Holton
turn the X-ray weight term down to zero ... the molecule blows up in my face? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/3/2020 3:17 AM, Isabel Garcia-Saez wrote: Dear all, Just commenting that after the stunning performance of AlphaFold that uses AI from Google maybe some of us we could ded

Re: [ccp4bb] Contouring Patterson map?

2020-10-10 Thread James Holton
I use mapslicer -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/8/2020 2:21 PM, Gloria Borgstahl wrote: What is the best way to display Harker sections... these days? To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link

[ccp4bb] virtual ACA meeting - Ronglie Award presentation

2020-08-06 Thread James Holton
I think if we work together this might actually work.  Please do let me know if I missed anything! -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bi

Re: [ccp4bb] real real-space-refinement

2020-07-31 Thread James Holton
ein, but flatten the solvent. You can get this map out of refmac using the MSKOUT feature. You then smooth it in reciprocal space by applying refmac's best-fit solvent B factor using sfall and fft, then finally scale it with mapmask. I should admit, however, that I have not tried this in a

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