Re: [ccp4bb] Finding best model for molecular replacement

2010-05-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:57 PM, David Briggs wrote: > I like to generate some models using the "Phyre" server > > ( http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/~phyre/ ) > > Feed the best .pdbs into Mr Bump. > > Go and get coffee. Come back and find a solution with post-refmac > R/Rfree in the mid-30s. > > IMHO

Re: [ccp4bb] ligand modelling

2010-05-11 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:07 PM, intekhab alam wrote: > I solved one structure of a viral RNA polymerase in complex with some > ligands at 2.6 A resolution. The ploymerase structure has 3 monomers in the > asymmetric unit and in all the 3 monomers i found |Fo|-|Fc| as well as > 2Fo|-|Fc| map for

Re: [ccp4bb] programmatic symmetry mate generation

2010-04-24 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:25 PM, James Stroud wrote: > I want to programmatically generate the symmetry mates for a molecule and > write out the files containing the symmetry related molecules. I'm resisting > the urge to reinvent the wheel. > > What is the best way to do this? I'd prefer to do i

Re: [ccp4bb] phenix error message

2010-04-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: > we are using the latex phenix version (1.6.1) on PCs with Debain Stable or > Testing. After starting a refinement job, the following error message shows > up: > Tim: please report these errors to either b...@phenix-online.org, or the phenixbb.

Re: [ccp4bb] The effect of the absence of various diffraction data to the electronic density

2010-04-20 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:35 AM, 商元 wrote: > I've seen a website where there are some dynamic pictures to show the > effects of the absence of various diffraction data to the electronic > density, such as the changing process of the electron density as the > deletion of low-resolution data. But I

Re: [ccp4bb] Follow up to TLS, NCS and refinement

2010-04-08 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Bonsor wrote: > Following my previous question, there was something wrong with the staring > model for molecular replacement. Now that is sorted, I have 8 complexes in > the ASU. After a few rounds of refinement with NCS and isotropic Bfactors, > both the Rf

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystals Soaking in Divalent metals salts.

2010-03-31 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Muhammed bashir Khan < muhammad.bashir.k...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > I am working with protein which are supposed to be bound with Magnesium > and Cobalt metals.I have now its crystals which are diffracting quite > nicely.I want to know the Magnesium and Cobalt bindi

Re: [ccp4bb] secondary structure restraints [was: Phenix version 1.6.1 released]

2010-03-31 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: > this is very interesting! From the list of changes, it appears that in > version 1.6.1, you use a similar idea to implement hydrogen bonds via DSSP > during refinement that I used to stabilize the 4.3 A refinement of Pol II in > complex with

Re: [ccp4bb] Displaying electron density in PYMOL

2010-02-10 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Raja Dey wrote: > I need someone expert in PYMOL. I am getting a trouble to prepare a > figure to display electron density for some water molecules. I can see clear > density in COOT at sigma level 2.5. But, I could not see the density in > PYMOL even at sigm

Re: [ccp4bb] coot and probe clash

2010-02-08 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 PM, William G. Scott wrote: > This is available to install as a binary from here: > > http://molprobity.biochem.duke.edu/get_molprobity.php > > > Although probe and MolProbity3 are said to be "free and open source > software distributed under a BSD-style license", I ca

Re: [ccp4bb] DSSP server

2010-01-14 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] < cschu...@its.jnj.com> wrote: > you could use ksDSSP, which is an OpenSource implementation of DSSP. > Requires some compiling though and I am not sure if OSX is supported. > You also need to compile the PDB record I/O libraries. > It ru

Re: [ccp4bb] Judging a homology model

2010-01-05 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Raja Dey wrote: > Assuming all the above data are right, which of the following way would > give the best model for C? > > 1. Building homology model of C with A as template. > > 2.Building homology model of B with A as template and then use B as > template t

Re: [ccp4bb] H32 or R 3 2 :H

2009-12-15 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > Yes, the PDB required format is H 32 - but the xHM symbol is: 'R 3 2 :H' > > I guess the PHENIX group are trying to pressurise the wwwPDB to change.. > You'd have to ask Ralf. Besides, it isn't just PHENIX/CCTBX that uses this notation: h

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-10 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: > I assume this is the denouement of the Ajees et al debacle a while back? > Does this mean all authors on all of those papers were complicit? Otherwise, > how would one author alone perpetrate this kind of thing? He pretends to go > to the syn

Re: [ccp4bb] converting .cv to mtz

2009-11-17 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: > one of many possible options to do this: > > If you have the latest PHENIX installed ( http://www.phenix-online.org/ > download/nightly_builds.cgi), then you can use "Reflection file editor" > from the main GUI to do what you want. > With

Re: [ccp4bb] Autobuild Wizard in PHENIX

2009-11-09 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:44 AM, RONG hui Rong wrote: > Could somebody tell me some server online that can do jobs like > Autobuild Wizard in PHENIX (generating iterative-build composite OMIT map > for molecular replacement model and removing existing model bias) or some > methods that can

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of nucleic acid structures

2009-10-22 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:41 AM, vanessa delfosse < vanessa.delfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for people using Phenix to refine RNA or DNA structures. I work > on RNA structures since some months and I observed quite large differences > between CNS and Phenix, especially concerning rms dev

Re: [ccp4bb] structure validation tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Katja Schleider wrote: > I solved my first crystalstructure and now want to publish it. But how do I > know the structure is ready for publication and deposition in the pdb. We > can explain our theory with the structure but which factors I have to regard > to publ

Re: [ccp4bb] missing subroutines

2009-10-02 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Adam Ralph wrote: > The python scripts CCTBX are not part of the CCP4 core but can > be obtained from the associated phaser tar file. CCTBX can also be > obtained from cctbx.sourceforge.net. This stuff is almost certainly > free to academics, I do not know about

Re: [ccp4bb] force display of sheet in PYMOL

2009-10-01 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Raja Dey wrote: > Dear Friends, > Sorry for the off topic question. How I can force PYMOL > to display a portion of the molecule as beta sheet? PYMOL is displaying this > part as a loop by default, but I like to see this as beta sheet. Is there >

Re: [ccp4bb] Rfactor got stuck with a data having alternate strong and weak reflections.

2009-09-03 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > Lattice translation is effectively one form of twinning, you can visualise > it as a set of crystals where that lattice are aligned in 2 dimensions but > there is slippage along the third. So each "reflection" is in fact the sum > of two or

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser troubles

2009-08-24 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Ho wrote: > Did you also install Phenix in your machine? Phenix contains another > version of phaser and will alias "phaser" to the phaser in Phenix. No, it will be called phenix.phaser. The Phenix environment scripts ($PHENIX/phenix_env*) do not alias

Re: [ccp4bb] advice on laptop for crystallography

2009-07-28 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Salgado, Paula wrote: > I'm planning to upgrade my laptop and would like to run most > crystallography programs. I was wondering if people could comment on their > current prefered options. I would prefer not to go for a Mac, so any other > alternative suggestions

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning Reference(s) Addressing Common Twinning Problems

2009-07-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jacob Keller wrote: > Dear Crystallographers, > > I have not done the statistics, but I have noticed that a large portion of > the inquiries directed to the BB are twinning-related. While I recognize > that many of these issues have case-specific details, it may b

Re: [ccp4bb] combining phase information from a Se-Met and Hg SAD data sets

2009-06-15 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Arnon Lavie wrote: > we collected SAD data sets to 3.0 A on our protein, once as a Se-Met > protein and once soaked with a mercury compound. Data statistics indicate an > anomalous signal in both data sets. However, the maps are not great. Is it > possible to comb

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser

2009-05-22 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Tim Gruene wrote: > this usually means that you have a second version of phaser installed, e.g. > from the phenix package. To find out, go to a terminal from which you would > start ccp4i and type 'which phaser'. My guess is that the answer to that > command does

Re: [ccp4bb] H3 to > 2.0A but low observations:parameter ratio

2009-04-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote: > It seems I have a case where I have 5595 reflections but my protein is > about 102 residues. With a mean atom / residue * 4 parameters for each atom > I get about 7833 parameters. So it seems that I have a observation : > parameter ratio

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: modelling of a transmembrane domain

2009-04-10 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Claudia Scotti wrote: > I'm trying to model the 20 residues-long single transmemebrane domain of a > protein and it is recognised, as expected, to be an alpha-helix by several > programs. Homology modelling fails for lack of sequence similarity and > modelling by

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin refinement - selecting FreeR

2009-02-20 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> > I used phenix to assign the free reflections putting in the twin > operators. Doing simulated annealing in phenix, I get a rather large > difference in R/Rfree of ~7%. Well, I guess I need to do some tweaking of > the parameters in phenix (running the latest phenix and cci_apps). When I > tha

Re: [ccp4bb] educational opportunity: Difference between SIRAS and SAD?

2009-02-18 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote: > > Single isomorphous replacement with anomalous scattering uses two datasets > that are isomorphous while using the anomalous signal in one (here > scattering and dispersion are synonymous?). How does SIRAS use the anomalous > scattering si

Re: [ccp4bb] fink update

2009-02-11 Thread Nathaniel Echols
This is Bill Scott's machine, but it's no longer in service: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Sources.list_for_10.5_and_10.4_intel_only You should be able to find the proper URLs somewhere on his website. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Raja Dey wrote: > Dear All,

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Crystal degredation with age

2009-02-05 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Here's another very similar case: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12270703 On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:48 AM, William G. Scott < wgsc...@chemistry.ucsc.edu> wrote: > Some things improve with age. Here is one of my favorite stories: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/oldtrna > > > The crystal structure o

Re: [ccp4bb] mapping sequence conservation metrics on the B factor column ...

2009-01-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Anastassis Perrakis wrote: > Dear all, > I was wondering what is the state of the art for this old dark art ... are > there any good servers / programs that allow to easily upload your own > sequence alignments or create a 'transparent' alignment (I want to see th

Re: [ccp4bb] Characterization of Protein Conformational Changes

2009-01-07 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: > I am sure that most here have dealt with the issue, when making superpositions of conformationally-different structures,> of which regions to align as references and which to call "mobile." Conformational changes can range from very local (e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> > There are also options for virtualization of Windoze and Linux via the > software Parallels although I have yet to test this out. Parallels is okay; I only use it for testing GUI code on Linux. It doesn't support multiple processors, which probably isn't necessary for most people. The graph

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

2008-12-11 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Santarsiero, Bernard D. wrote: > In parallel with the discussion around this off-CCP4-topic, are they any > good examples of the opposite case, where the protein is a monomer in > solution (as evident from light scattering, MW determination through > centrifugation

Re: [ccp4bb] SUMMARY - crystallization of proteins with His-tag and/or c-myc tags

2008-11-13 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:47 AM, iulek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But..., no one commented about c-myc tags. As I expected, there is no > experience with this one yet - ? > I have a more general question that's come up in discussion with former colleagues: what's the largest tag that has bee

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

2008-09-18 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Andrzej, I had the same thought earlier this year. There are several problems: 1) There is no good non-proprietary, truly cross-platform solutions yet. CUDA is very specific to NVidia's hardware, obviously. Apple claims to be adding generic support for GPU acceleration in their next OS release

Re: [ccp4bb] Progresss with Stereo 3D under Mac OS X Leopard

2008-09-17 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> > I find that depth-cue/fog is a sufficient cue for me to determine the > "3-dimensionality" of what I am viewing on my 2-dimensional monitor, > and I find that most 3D systems tend to give me a headache long before > I would get one without them. > Even when the depth-cue/fog isn't enough, simp

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein Color

2008-09-05 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> > I am working with a protein that turns a yellowish-brown color when it is > concentrated to around 2 mg/ml or higher in a small volume (a few hundred > uL). I was wondering if the protein bound a metal or other prosthetic > group that would give it this color? The protein's color somewhat > r

Re: [ccp4bb] Econo column with AKTA FPLC

2008-06-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Exec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have econo column from Biorad and AKTA FPLC system. how shall i connect > the econo column to AKTA FPLC system i.e what are the different > connections / tubings to be used since akta system the tubing are all > sma

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic? [was: 2 Job Post at IRB Barcelona]

2008-06-13 Thread Nathaniel Echols
I just graduated, but I didn't look very hard for experimental crystallography positions, so I can't comment on job ads. Still, I live in Berkeley, which gives me plenty of perspective on the state of the field. Two thoughts: 1. Many universities would prefer not to hire many tenured professors i