Re: [ccp4bb] Fw:[ccp4bb] on Cell & Symmetry in coot

2016-12-09 Thread Martyn Symmons
; > I would use the function new_molecule_by_symop > > e.g. > > # python > imol = new_molecule_by_symop(0, "Y,-X+Y,Z+1/6", 0,0,0) > > then do this 5 more times selecting the other symmetry operators that > generate the helix around the z axis.. > > or the attached script

Re: [ccp4bb] Fw:[ccp4bb] on Cell & Symmetry in coot

2016-12-09 Thread Martyn Symmons
Yes I would do it that way by clicking on the ones I want to see - then saving them and then reading them back in. You can change the chainids so Coot makes them different colours which might help. Things might be easier in PyMol if you want interactive control over the colours for a picture say. c

Re: [ccp4bb] on Cell & Symmetry in coot

2016-12-09 Thread Martyn Symmons
udos to Paul Emsley for this tool). all the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Smith Lee <0459ef8548d5-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > There is a pdb, once opended in coot, it was a monomer (space group P 65 2 > 2

Re: [ccp4bb] Superpose program in CCP4

2016-10-30 Thread Martyn Symmons
and can be output to a file. https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/framemav.html (You have to read your structures into Chimera before launching Multi-align viewer). hope that helps. Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Anastassi

Re: [ccp4bb] [Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] FW: New ligand 3-letter code (help-7071)]

2015-06-22 Thread Martyn Symmons
found, > I believe the depositor's code will be used if it is available, > at least one of mine was last year, so there is some use for Nigel's > utility if you want to stamp your new compound with a rememberable name. > > eab > > > On 06/21/2015 06:33 PM, Marty

Re: [ccp4bb] [Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] FW: New ligand 3-letter code (help-7071)]

2015-06-21 Thread Martyn Symmons
ot;), that looks to me an oversight by PDB. It is hard to believe that >> > PDB intended to use the 3D coordinates from one entry for the other, >> > ligand or not. In fact, the restraints as described by the ligand >> > dictionary should also be kept separate as that

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: New ligand 3-letter code (help-7071)

2015-06-19 Thread Martyn Symmons
By oversimplifying the situation here the PDB does not answer my related point about competing crystallographers: My scenario: Group A deposits structure with new drug - gets their three-letter code for example ZA3 they then get to check the coordinates and chemical definition of this ligand. Bu

Re: [ccp4bb] New ligand 3-letter code

2015-06-14 Thread Martyn Symmons
t the PDB do a switch at the last minute? Best wishes, Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Lau Sze Yi (SIgN) < lau_sze...@immunol.a-star.edu.sg> wrote: > Thanks Eleanor for relaying my question from COOT and everyone that > follows up with the thread

Re: [ccp4bb] Antw: Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic: Software to closely visualize interacting partnets in protein complex

2015-03-19 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
As this is a ccp4 bb we should mention the jsPISA server which is at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/pisa/ This is a very nice implementation of the PISA approach. Another approach is to use the Chimera clash finding approach http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/findclash/findclash.html

[ccp4bb] [ccp4] NAGging problem?

2014-12-05 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
these anomalies. I was only making a figure - but for sure someone will be trying to use the data for something more useful and quantitative. This sort of stuff will make their analysis difficult. All the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge

Re: [ccp4bb] Command line tool for RMSD calculation

2014-10-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Mentioned recently but worth mentioning again? I have used Chimera rmsd from its own command line (find the command line under the 'favorites' tab) - it is scriptable. https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/rmsd.html Must have equal number of atoms matched - use selection to make t

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot - way to move the center pointer to a specific x,y,z coordinate?

2014-09-09 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
I usually add a fiducial waters to the pdb file (chain Z - remember those?) - or otherwise heavy atoms which will come up in a distinctive colour usually... Then 'go to atom' under draw menu? Martyn Cambridge Original message >From : alejandro.virru...@yale.edu Date : 09/09/2014 - 21:17 (

Re: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation?

2014-07-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
program authors. all the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge Original message >From : f...@bernstein-plus-sons.com Date : 23/07/2014 - 16:20 (GMTDT) To : CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject : Re: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation? I agree that it would be excellent to be a

Re: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation?

2014-07-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
ptable. I think there are cases where water alternate positions make sense so they should be allowed I would argue. All the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge Original message >From : robbie_joos...@hotmail.com Date : 23/07/2014 - 10:05 (GMTDT) To : CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-12 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Is n't the danger here that you are just fitting to noise generated by the rest of the Unit Cell that you are ignoring. So it is easy to do a 'good bit' of modelling in a specific region. Just like some tennis players have very good serves but do not win matches.  _

Re: [ccp4bb] experimental phasing at low resolution

2014-06-03 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
differences to work with. You could then work in the anomalous as a sort of SIRAS solution.   SeMet as isomorphous has been used previously in many structure solutions. All the best   Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge  From: vijay srivastava To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.

Re: [ccp4bb] Sea Urchin like crystals

2014-05-21 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear V.   are you sure these are crystalline? - I have had similar growth from 'spherulites' that I thought was promising. But then when I went in with a needle to break them for seeding, it turned out they were fibrous not crystalline. This made me think they were a product of denatured protein

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

2014-05-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
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Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone

2014-05-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
I agree some forum for community annotation and commenting would be a good thing for users of structural data.  There was an attempt to do that with the pdbwiki project which was a community resource for the bioinformatics community. Unfortunately pdbwiki has now folded (see http://pdbwiki.org/)

Re: [ccp4bb] Renumbering of water molecules during deposition

2014-04-10 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
I had thought that after discussion on this bulletin board we could find no rational scientific reason why the PDB renumbers waters from the N to the C term of the polypeptides (and 5' to 3' of nucleic chains?).  https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1311&L=CCP4BB&D=0&P=12314 I think

Re: [ccp4bb] Convert DSSP to PDB format

2014-03-02 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
at the PDB will clarify - when I ask them specific questions as an individual then they don't bother replying - but if the bulletin board shows sufficient interest then we usually get at 'Public Service Announcement' of some kind ;)  All the best   Martyn  Martyn Symmons Cambridge

Re: [ccp4bb] MSA with starting amino acid numbers

2014-02-03 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Hi Dilip    the numbering can be given for the top and the bottom sequence only in ESPRIPT    you enter the command to produce these in the SPECIAL COMMANDS AND CHARACTERS BOX. You only get this box on the server input page if you select the  ADV  version in the header - this is the ADVANCED ver

Re: [ccp4bb] resubmission of pdb

2014-02-03 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Yes, thanks Robbie That is just my point - a structure submitted and then validated for paper reviewers by the PDB can be changed almost completely after the paper is accepted. The data can be changed too and only stipulation seems to be that it cannot be new data i.e. it has to have a date of c

Re: [ccp4bb] resubmission of pdb

2014-02-01 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
I have recently had the same problem. But generally, the PDB will usually allow a further 6 months hold for review or modifications to an already submitted paper. But what I wanted to say was that the correct term is 'withdrawal' if the entry is removed pre-release - 'retraction' carries a pej

Re: [ccp4bb] How to show the ligands (both as sticks and sphere) as shown here in Pymol

2014-01-20 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Not a pymol approach but I've noticed this dual mode display with transparency is the default in Molsoft ICM browser if you toggle on  ball and sticks together with spacefill for the same atoms. Molsoft ball-and-stick also shows the bond order or aromaticity of ligand atoms - which I guess is a

Re: [ccp4bb] Problematic PDBs

2013-11-17 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
s not obsoleted. Sincerely, Rachel Green Rachel Kramer Green, Ph.D. RCSB PDB kra...@rcsb.rutgers.edu     Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/buildmodels Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RCSBPDB   On 10/21/2013 6:28 AM, MARTYN SYMMONS wrote: As a post

Re: [ccp4bb] Comparison of Water Positions across PDBs

2013-11-04 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
id at least that issue?   Thx, BR   From:CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of MARTYN SYMMONS Sent: Montag, 4. November 2013 15:17 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Comparison of Water Positions across PDBs   Thank you for that, Rachel   Even though the to

Re: [ccp4bb] Comparison of Water Positions across PDBs

2013-11-04 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
chains in the structure? - appending all waters to chain A? Thanks. Andreas On 30/10/2013 11:57, MARTYN SYMMONS wrote: >>At deposition the PDB runs a script that renumbers authors' waters according to a scheme based on the residue they are nearest from N to C terminus along each ch

Re: [ccp4bb] Comparison of Water Positions across PDBs

2013-10-30 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
At deposition the PDB runs a script that renumbers authors'  waters according to a scheme based on the residue they are nearest from N to C terminus along each chain. This renumbering started  when waters were assigned to macromolecular chains rather than getting a chain id of their own.  I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Problematic PDBs

2013-10-21 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
As a postscript it might be worth mentioning one problematic ligand that suggested to me a way to correct some of the errors mentioned in this thread   R12 is indicated as 9-(4-HYDROXY-2,6-DIMETHYL-PHENYL)-3 in the  most recent Coot monomer library. But in the PDB ligand description it is 9-

Re: [ccp4bb] Docking models into low-res SAD map

2013-09-19 Thread Martyn Symmons
Hi Oliver a few years ago I used the ccp4 FFFEAR program from Kevin Cowtan for this sort of domain search. It was very good but also quite labour-intensive. I have not followed up since to see if it was updated or the functionality was included in Buccaneer. cheers Martyn

Re: [ccp4bb] What kind of reflection data to deposit to PDB

2013-09-17 Thread Martyn Symmons
Sorry to contradict, But the mmCIF data model certainly does not seem to require hkl unique within the reflection data. Like CIF the mmCIF formalism has been developed to allow a complete description of a diffraction experiment and the data arising from it. There is a full description at ht

Re: [ccp4bb] What kind of reflection data to deposit to PDB

2013-09-09 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Hi there, To my knowledge the PDB does not include unmerged data in entries - you are required to deposit the data that the coordinates were refined against.  I believe you can deposit other data which will be archived and can be requested by other users - problem is that none of the distributio

Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names?

2013-09-02 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
n official human-readable extended PDB format would really help. Cheers, Dirk. Am 30.08.13 18:14, schrieb MARTYN SYMMONS: Hold your horsemen! Does not this option save us from 'formatagedon'? We currently only have single letters or numbers for chains. But we could easily agree to sw

Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names?

2013-08-30 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
the case with most computing identifiers - however not many programs seem to pay attention to the atom 'numbers' in any case.  Cheers   Martyn  Martyn Symmons (not Winn) Cambridge From: Dirk Kostrewa To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday, 3

Re: [ccp4bb] modified amino acids in the PDB

2013-07-09 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
have to make a call on which kind of backbone they will >> feature in >> within the pdb. >>  That is why there is  'D5M' for non-polymer deoxyAMP. Also known as ' DA' >>when it >> is 'DNA-linking' but so far not fessing up to life un

Re: [ccp4bb] modified amino acids in the PDB

2013-07-09 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
t is 'DNA-linking' but so far not fessing up to life under a third code as 'RNA-linking'  Now is perhaps the time to ask for explanations of these nomenclature features before they become hard-wired in the new pdb deposition system (however there may be time - I refer you t

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB secondary structure assignments

2013-07-04 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
ages/wwpdbac-2010-report.pdf or perhaps more pertinently: 'In early 2010, the annotation module will be put into service,' (http://www.wwpdb.org/wwpdbac-pages/wwpdbac-2010-report.pdf) Perhaps as in many things it is often better to travel hopefully than to arrive...  Cheers   Mart

Re: [ccp4bb] showing electron density on an ipad

2013-05-01 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear Dave     I have found the Molsoft ICM browser useful for showing students structures. There is a freely distributed version available for both ipad and android. I have not used it for maps but I believe it can display them.    SGC Oxford originally showed me this software and have great exam

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-30 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
tarts with c axis reflections including 0, 0, l odd as well as even, which is sort of a hint here From: MARTYN SYMMONS To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 14:30 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure Just as a postscript. It has

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Just as a postscript. It has been pointed out to me that the space group was correct in the uploaded PDB and in the mtz reflection file. And there was no editing of this data pre-deposition.  I am sort of surprised how quickly people are to beat up on the authors in such cases since we do not

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-13 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear Robbie A shame then that these 'helpful' annotators did not make use of  Pavel's basic sanity on the space group (*mentioned below) and check back to the one listed in the uploaded PDB file.  I often wonder why the PDB does not make the deposited coordinate file publicly available so that

Re: [ccp4bb] PDBe website update: What's new

2013-03-14 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
acknowledgement too? Yours perplexedly, Martyn  Dr Martyn Symmons Cambridge From: Gary Battle To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013, 10:27 Subject: [ccp4bb] PDBe website update: What's new Dear all, Twice a year, the Protein Data Ba

Re: [ccp4bb] strict structure based alignment

2012-07-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
get an multiple fastA alignment of the superimposed structures and explains the format. Hope that helps.   Martyn Martyn Symmons EBI Cambridge     From: Eric Pettersen To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012, 2:17 Subject: Re: [cc

[ccp4bb] studentship posting

2011-12-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Posted on behalf of Dr Callaghan - please contact her directly. 4 year Ph.D. Studentship on RNase structure and metabolic control. School of Biological Sciences. University of Portsmouth. Supervisor: Dr Anastasia Callaghan Co-supervisor: Dr Sarah Newbury (Sussex Medical School) Understanding

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Attached is a picture of making the bookend setup - step b. shows the razor levering up the flap from the plastic coverslip  - be careful not to cut right through (I have done that and the drop dries extra quick in such a case) also be careful to apply the protein/well droplet as shown with to t

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
rtainly gave me some chunkier needles and gave them space to grow upwards. Otherwise they flattened down as the droplet flattened with equilibration and often they 'glued' themselves to the horizontal surface.     Hope it helps     Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge ___

Re: [ccp4bb] PISA question

2011-08-24 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear All I may not have understood but if I run PDBe PISA and go Interface>Details then I get a table of the form eg for H-bonds Hydrogen bonds 1 A:GLN 213[ NE2] 3.52A:SER 3[ O ] 2 A:ASN 112[ ND2] 2.77A:SER 3[ O ] 3 A:GLN 213[ NE2] 2.

Re: [ccp4bb] DTU vs DTT ?

2010-11-25 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
-MPD which wins out at 585 entries http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe-srv/view/search?Chemical_code=MPD cheers, Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge --- On Thu, 25/11/10, Linda Schuldt wrote: > From: Linda Schuldt > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] DTU vs DTT ? > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein sequencing service?

2010-11-25 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
I have had excellent service from Mike Weldon (m.a.wel...@bioc.cam.ac.uk) at PNAC University of Cambridge Biochemistry. He will accept outside orders subject to capacity being available. http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/pnac/ Cheers Martyn Martyn Symmons EBI - Cambridge > > On 24/09/

Re: [ccp4bb] protein turns brown

2010-09-24 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
transfer bands on binding to cys. So make sure you include EDTA or similar chelator (after metal affinity obviously). Oxidation is more likely if your protein unfolds - so try to keep it happy with nicely buffered pH and any ligands that might stabilize it.    Good luck. Martyn Martyn

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
this point I guess the copies can bump and so apply a force on each other but that is a local, and likely to be perturbing, force. best wishes Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge --- On Thu, 23/9/10, Ian Tickle wrote: > From: Ian Tickle > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estim

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG in the pdb?

2010-08-12 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
That's a good point, Ed Based on the formula: HO CH2-(CH2-O-CH2)n-CH2OH, PEG MW = 44n+62, a table of n to MW goes like below which gives an idea of what range is possible. Someone maybe knows what polydispersity can be expected from the synthetic process. As you say though, a specific range cou

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG in the pdb?

2010-08-12 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear Klaus depends how many missing residue you want advertised in the header of your deposited file. The pdb will put in a special Remark 610 and Remark 615 to indicate any missing residues from your heterogen list. However the policy is not to list every missing (or zero occup

Re: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
precipitate settles strongly into a circle at the bottom of the droplet then I would say this is a bad sign :( Hope this helps. regards     Martyn Symmons EBI, Hinxton, Cambs. UK   --- On Thu, 10/6/10, joybeiyang wrote: From: joybeiyang Subject: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline

[ccp4bb] Fw: [ccp4bb] degradation of protein durring freez thaw

2010-04-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Sounds like good advice - I suppose that since pure water un-freezes last, you could have protein concentration inhomogeneities? So in areas where the protein concentration is raised it could start to feel like crashing out. All the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge - Original

Re: [ccp4bb] Phasing statistics

2010-04-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
periment(s) is useful to see - if only for people to plan their own experiments building on past experience. Best wishes and regards Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge - Original Message From: Ian Tickle To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 15:42:51 S

Re: [ccp4bb] Phasing statistics

2010-04-14 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
final_ model in the _original_ map? In the real world ;) I don't see that happening anytime soon all the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge - Original Message From: "Soisson, Stephen M" To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Tuesday, 13 April, 2010 19:09:12 Su

Re: [ccp4bb] Phasing statistics

2010-04-12 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
might be nice to see too. There used to be a heavy atom database for such like things - not sure of the current status of that. see you all the best Martyn Martyn Symmons Cambridge From: Frank von Delft To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Monday, 12

Re: [ccp4bb] 2,3-butanediol

2010-03-25 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
). Just how brief this is depends on your dexterity and also how well the crystal is engaged in the loop. My crystals were not very happy about the cryo but I could make it brief enough to get them out intact. Good luck, Martyn Martyn Symmons MBU Cambridge - Original Message From

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization of a macromolecular complex

2010-03-05 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
buffer, salt, reductant, detergent, metal ions, etc will be concentrated up alongside the protein. cheers Martyn Martyn Symmons, MBU Cambridge. As an aside I heard that the 1:1 derives from the days when pipettes could not be trusted with such small volumes. The 1:1 ratio is the best chance

Re: [ccp4bb] Per-residue RMSD for multiple structures

2010-02-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
e a boon and a blessing cheers, Martyn Martyn Symmons MRC-MBU - Original Message From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Tuesday, 23 February, 2010 14:57:02 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Per-residue RMSD for multiple structures? Thanks Stephen! I was going to sugg

Re: [ccp4bb] smeared spot in diffraction

2010-01-21 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
hoose loops with care - maybe go with litholoops? Martyn Martyn Symmons MRC-MBU Cambridge - Original Message From: Kelly Daughtry To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, 21 January, 2010 14:27:58 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] smeared spot in diffraction Fengxia, To me the diffra

Re: [ccp4bb] where I have been going wrong in crystallization?

2009-12-22 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
t crystals (I'd like to stick with this cut-off as the physical and sealing properties of other membranes might be different). Or if someone has a higher MW cheap alternative protein/condition? Best wishes - agus 'Bliadhna Mhath Ur Dhuibh Uile' as we say in gaelic. Martyn -

[ccp4bb] where I have been going wrong in crystallization?

2009-12-21 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
f 6ul..." So perhaps sometimes I am just not respectful enough to deserve crystals ? good wishes to all regards, Martyn ------- Martyn Symmons MRC-MBU Cambridge UK 'Chan fhiosrach mur feòraich.' Gaelic proverb - Nothing asked, nothing learned.

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D search for peptide conformers?

2009-12-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
july 2008 pdb I think (culled to 99% seq ident. is the best one). But could be something more recent available? Good luck Martyn Martyn Symmons - Cambridge From: Patrick Loll To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Monday, 14 December, 2009 20:02:53 Subject: [ccp4bb] 3D

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining residues as rigid bodies

2009-12-03 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Discussing with Fred Vellieux offlist I suggested the following: would it be useful to have a sort of 'simulated annealing' of the B-factor values? - in refinement I often try resetting them to higher values (Moleman has a function for this I think) and then see which ones refine back down nicel

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining residues as rigid bodies

2009-12-02 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
IMHO this is a bad idea as the restraints can give undue weight to poorly ordered residues in order to favour the tighter distribution that you are specifying. I have found bindividual.inp to perform at low resolution reasonably well, and I think it is more realistic than group B-factors. The

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic; alignment keeping upper and lower case

2009-09-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear All - I am looking for a multiple alignment program that will work with upper and lower case letters in the sequences and preserve them through to the output. I used to use PILEUP but that is no longer supported here. Any suggestions much appreciated. regards

[ccp4bb] unknown PyMOL script author

2009-01-14 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
%a) cmd.select("s2","%s`%d"%b) if cmd.select("(s1|s2) and not ?skip"): if cmd.dist("tmp","s1","s2") < 20.0 : print '',cmd.iterate("s1|s2",&

Re: [ccp4bb] Poor electron density - polyAla or PolyGly?

2008-10-16 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear Joe one thing that has helped me a lot with similar problems is G. Kleywegt's SPASM - you make your best guess of the mainchain then add a total guess of the sidechains (say with mutate in COOT - choosing the top rotamer). Then you cut out the loop and run this in SPASM as a s

[ccp4bb] Protein-protein docking

2008-02-12 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
rches with crosslinking restraints. It works nicely interactively if you explore the receptor surface by centring the search on different residues. Best wishes Martyn Martyn Symmons Department of Pathology University of Cambridge

Re: [ccp4bb] oxidised cys

2007-04-13 Thread Martyn Symmons
Martyn Martyn Symmons Department of Pathology University of Cambridge Message Received: Apr 13 2007, 01:37 PM From: "John Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] oxi

Re: [ccp4bb] oxidised cys

2007-04-13 Thread Martyn Symmons
structures cheers Martyn Martyn Symmons Department of Pathology University of Cambridge Message Received: Apr 12 2007, 06:06 PM From: "Flip Hoedemaeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [ccp4