[ccp4bb] Mosquito Tips (4.5mm / 9.0mm)

2015-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
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Re: [ccp4bb] REFMAC Riding Hydrogens

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Smith
Hello CCP4bb, Firstly, thanks to all for your comments.  However, I'm still unsure how to sort all of this riding hydrogen business out. Robbie's comments seem particularly apt: "Because there were some reporting errors in the past (http://proteincrystallography.org/ccp4bb/message18808.html) i

[ccp4bb] REFMAC Riding Hydrogens

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Smith
Hello CCP4 community, I'm posting at large regarding a previously raised issue for REFMAC for which I cannot find the conclusion in the old threads. Specifically, does REFMAC add riding hydrogens during default refinement? Though I've not requested that any hydrogens be added, only used if in t

Re: [ccp4bb] Akta Prime / FPLC Options / Off Topic

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
Michael, Unfortunately, I actually don't know who serves these machines apart from GE. Because you brought up the subject of GE equipment and service, I thought I would ask the community about the best options for routine crystallographic scale FPLC. In my opinion, following the takeover of Ph

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
ight to get all of modern crystallographic software to run under windows. Even better, the other way around -- run linux native and windows in a VM. For the record: Shelx is awesome Fortran is a perfectly good programming language I keep a slide rule in my desk. --Paul Paul Smith, Ph.D. -- p...@smit

Re: [ccp4bb] finding from HKL Scalepack

2010-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
Hello Evette, I've encountered the same problem. I have a perl utility that does much of what you would like. It will run scalepack for you iteratively until the number of rejections converges, or it will parse scalepack output.  The output has by shell gleaned from the scale log with the sam

Re: [ccp4bb] which Linux workstation for crystallography to buy?

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
Stefano, I second the previous posts.  Essential is a solid NVIDIA graphics card - quadro or geforce and not something low end.  Vendors don't matter so much, we use both Dell and Hp and both are fine (essentially the same hardware inside). Also, linux version doesn't matter.  We use both Suse

Re: [ccp4bb] problem in heavy metal soaking

2010-09-26 Thread Paul Smith
Hi Seema, In theory, Ammonium Sulfate contains some small fraction of neutral ammonia which can act as a strong nucleophile and react with many heavy metal compounds. That being said, I recently phased two structures with mercury soaks, both of which contained ammonium sulfate. The first was a

[ccp4bb] Home Source Options

2010-09-26 Thread Paul Smith
I'm interested in opinions/advice on home source systems. As synchrotron beamlines are more powerful and more accessible than ever, a home source is really only needed for crystal screening, if at all. With that idea in mind, what are options out there for buying and running a home source in th

Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for (linux) crystallography workstation, server?

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Smith
Hi Ed, Yes, the entire core line is great for crystallography setups. As has been mentioned, there are often issues with AMD processors as the occasional binary that is distributed has been compiled with intel CPU optimizations. I'm particularly fond of Dell's entry level servers with Quad-cor

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Smith
Hi Hailiang, Be sure to include "PARTIAL WCMB" in your sigmaa script. This option outputs something more like a conventional FOM for use in DM. Also, I would allow DM to run more cycles and suggest starting with default parameters for solvent masking and density levels and then looking at the

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
Hi Jacob, I see you're still in the crystallography business. While you have an interesting idea, I doubt refining structures against entire images would be of any use in obtaining higher quality macromolecular structures. Much of what you see on the screen is a function of parameters complet

Re: [ccp4bb] NADP - ADP binding

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
Hello, I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean, but what came to my mind was malic enzyme. Check out Liang Tong's summary of structural data: http://como.bio.columbia.edu/tong/Research/me.html This protein has 2 nucleotide binding sites, one in a canonical Rossman fold and another on the s

Re: [ccp4bb] Format issue with TLSIN/TLSOUT files

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Smith
Also, TLS parameters can be converted to conventional B-factors with both an isotropic and an anisotropic component which can then represented in conventional PDB format. PHENIX does this automatically, but I'm sure other software can perform the conversion as well. --Paul

[ccp4bb] Crystallization Reagent

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Smith
Does anyone know of a source of AMP-N-PP? Thanks, --Paul

Re: [ccp4bb] model completion after MR with partial model

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Smith
a wide range of different protein and solvent density levels along with a custom mask and look at the resulting maps (including NCS averaging) to see what's best. Good Luck! Paul Smith, Ph.D. --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Jerry McCully wrote: > From: Jerry McCully > Subject: [ccp4bb] model co

Re: [ccp4bb] is my crystal twinned or not?

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Smith
Matthew, Here's my $0.02: Try more sophisticated twin tests such as xtriage from phenix or Ctruncate from the latest CCP4 distro. Both programs include multiple twining tests. Second, your R-factors seem very reasonable for a well refined structure missing 20% of a not-so-well ordered domain

Re: [ccp4bb] more than one ligands for CNS generate.inp and refine.inp files

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Smith
Jacob, In CNS/XPLOR all topology files are created equal. You are free to combine all topology into a single file and read that into CNS. Do you have two copies of the same ligand or two different ligands? If you have two different ligands, you can use prodrg or xplo2d/hic-up to generate uni

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand PDB

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Smith
Mariah, Try ChemDraw-3D, you can draw any chemical structure conceivable and write it out as a pdb. It can also do a wide variety of energy minimizations for you. Best, --Paul --- On Tue, 7/21/09, protein.chemist protein.chemist wrote: > From: protein.chemist protein.chemist > Subject: [cc

[ccp4bb] Charge vs. pH plot Isoelectric titration curve ascii plotter

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
to STDOUT in ascii using automatically determining ranges and binning values. These two programs work well like so: "./titrate.pl FASTA.seq | ./plot.pl" to produce a nice ascii plot of charge vs. pH. I hope these are helpful to someone. Best, Paul Smith Paladin