Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2various is broken [ was: Another pointless question ]

2009-06-12 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
rwise). We always try to support as many "standards" as possible, but there will always be ambiguities. m -Original Message- From: Ian Tickle [mailto:i.tic...@astex-therapeutics.com] Sent: Fri 6/12/2009 10:45 PM To: Winn, MD (Martyn) Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK; Kevin Cowtan; Phil

Re: [ccp4bb] TLSANL gives zero off-diagonal ANISOU matrix in CCP4 6.1

2009-05-21 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Apologies, this was a bug introduced by a recent change. It is fixed and will be in 6.1.2 Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Alejandro Buschiazzo Sent: Thu 5/21/2009 6:26 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] TLSANL gives zero off-diagonal ANISOU ma

Re: [ccp4bb] Low-level disable ccp4i database...?

2009-04-20 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Well, the guys may have distributed a phx-specific configure file, but otherwise, I think it is USE_DBCCP4I_ON_STARTUP in ~/.CCP4/unix/configure.def At least it worked for me after the briefest of tests of the Windows equivalent. Cheers Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS Create/Edit module error erases project folder

2009-02-07 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Well, I am sure this is not meant to happen. It doesn't seem to happen with my 6.1 version First question: are you sure that the project directory really has gone? Rather than it no longer showing in ccp4i. Check for the directory in a terminal window. If it has really gone, then you have t

Re: [ccp4bb] Replacement for arp_waters?

2009-01-20 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Part of the reasoning was that arp_waters corresponded to a very old version of arp/warp It was felt that up-to-date arp/warp and/or findwaters covered the functionality. Of course, every implementation does things in a slightly different way, and each has their fans. Which means it is hard to d

Re: [ccp4bb] NCS restraints of domains

2009-01-08 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Sounds like a good candidate for (domain-level) TLS to me. Cheers Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Nicholas Keep Sent: Thu 1/8/2009 10:54 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] NCS restraints of domains I am refining a low (3A) resolution structur

Re: [ccp4bb] Restrictions in ccp4-6.1 ?

2008-12-10 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
The current value of maxbat in scala_/parameters.fh is 5000 Mind you, according to CVS this was increased from 1000 to 5000 in 1999! sortmtz and reindex also have MBATCH=5000. There's no restriction in the library itself. Cheers Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on beha

Re: [ccp4bb] 6.1 release date

2008-11-10 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
At a recent developers' meeting we predicted a release date 2 weeks from now.* Meanwhile, the previously announced test release series is pretty stable, and much better than 6.0.2, so it is worth a try. HTH Martyn * Calculation done assuming: 1) testing reveals 0 problems, 2) none of our colla

Re: [ccp4bb] installing Phaser EP

2008-10-27 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Well, in case of installation difficulties, you can always contact the friendly and helpful staff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ;-) Unfortunately, our friendly and helpful Mac expert is away at the moment, but I can try to help. If you follow through to the Mac download page, you have a few choices.

Re: [ccp4bb] Rotation axis

2008-08-03 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
ROTMAT will also do this. But I am not sure that this is what Phil wants? The superposition transformation includes a translation, so there is no locus of points that are left unchanged. You can generate an axis of rotation for polar angles from the R which will be quite different from t. You shou

Re: [ccp4bb] [Re: [ccp4bb] warp/arp 7.0.1 to really use the Free R flag] - Summary

2008-05-18 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Yes, the Rfreeflag column should be of type I, see e.g. "Output:" section of http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/html/freerflag.html And this is what ccp4i expects, see $CCP4/etc/types.def But not all programs will check it. In fact, the type changed from W to I in 1995, back in the days when free R was s

Re: [ccp4bb] Scala summary and log file- sometimes shortened

2008-04-25 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Note the appearance of "Normal Termination" in the middle of the table. So I think it is this problem: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/problems.php#6.0.0-gfortran-unbuffered-22May2006 i.e. the GFORTRAN_UNBUFFERED_ALL one. Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of hari jayar

Re: [ccp4bb] Rant: B vs TLS, anisou, and PDB headers

2008-03-29 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
re refined. This will cause problems when you try to redo the final refinement: you add loads of parameters all of a sudden. Using ANISOU records may give you more reliable information about the B-factors, but not about the refinement. Cheers, Robbie Joosten From: "Winn, MD (Martyn)&quo

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D structure based alignment

2008-03-29 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Just to point out that the CCP4 wrapper to SSM "superpose" allows you to specify residue ranges to consider - very useful for multi-domain proteins. See the -s switches in http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/html/superpose.html I'm not clear if this was your issue. Cheers Martyn -Original Message--

Re: [ccp4bb] [phenixbb] Rant: B vs TLS, anisou, and PDB headers

2008-03-29 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
> 2) All you need to reproduce the R-factors are the ATOM records and > structure factor formula (and not ATOM records, PDB header with TLS > records that sometimes may be lost or manipulated and specific > converting programs to add TLS contribution). Also note, that not all > programs extract

Re: [ccp4bb] PRODRG?

2008-03-19 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Yes, it is down at the moment, due to a hacking event apparently. Don't know any more. Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Harry M. Greenblatt Sent: Wed 3/19/2008 1:28 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] PRODRG? BS"D Hi all, Does anybody know

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary: Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-18 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Refmac (at least 5.2) and TLSANL write a line into the PDB header specifying what is in the B column: REMARK 3 ATOM RECORD CONTAINS RESIDUAL B FACTORS ONLY Looking at 2qua which used Refmac 5.3, that line isn't there. I don't know at what stage it has been lost. Of course, it would be nice

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-12 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Clearly a few interesting entries . 2) in the context of PX, only the total "B factor" contribution to Fcalc needs to be positive definite, the TLS component might not be (though it is satisfying if it is) 3) how do you calculate the "TLS origin" ? The PDB entries should contain the origi

Re: [ccp4bb] cannot read .mtz in ccp4i

2008-02-02 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Yes, it might be the old quotes problem. Later versions of ccp4i add in quotes around the filenames (to deal with WIndows paths with spaces) and later versions of Phaser interpret quoted arguments correctly. But a new gui with an old phaser will cause problems. Martyn -Original Message- F

Re: [ccp4bb] ncs phased refinement

2007-12-08 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
This is standard gotcha number 17, you are picking up "ncsmask" from XtalView rather than the CCP4 one, see http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/problems/general-probs.php#general_wrong_prog Basically, you need to fix the path in some way so that the CCP4 one comes first. check with "which -a ncsmask" HTH Ma

Re: [ccp4bb] converting structure factor files to mtz files

2007-11-06 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
to something that cif2mtz recognises (as long as it is the same type of column!!) HTH Martyn -Original Message- From: Björn Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11/6/2007 10:16 AM To: Winn, MD (Martyn); CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] converting structure factor files

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] CCP4i and modeller integration

2007-11-03 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Thanks Ben, Yes, I am acutely aware that our interface has got out-of-date. I can add in these little fixes. If there is sufficient interest, we could talk about updating to the python version. Cheers Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Ben Webb Sent: Fri

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with Mr Bump?

2007-08-21 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
We sometimes find that a local fasta search against the pdb sequence datafile (for which you need to install fasta package) works better than OCA at EBI, i.e. finds more matches. We have never tracked down why. But not sure what you mean by using local OCA server. How have you specified this ser

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 GUI

2007-05-10 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
That kind of thing has been suggested a few times, and in principle is a better way of doing things. One problem we face, is that we're a collaboration rather than a single project, and it is not always possible to adopt neat solutions across the suite. Which is partly why ccp4i was designed to

Re: [ccp4bb] search-and-replace

2007-04-29 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
If I understand you correctly, the CCP4 program Chainsaw would do this. It uses an alignment file, which you could hand-craft to select mutate or conserve. Keyword "MODE MIXA" to select the truncate-to-beta option. HTH Martyn -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of [EM

Re: [ccp4bb] TLSANL: negative mean-sq displacements?

2007-02-26 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
I'd also comment that the absolute values are quite large. Well, I have no knowledge what groups you've chosen, but for domain-sized groups, typical values are 1-10 deg**2. Values can be larger for smaller TLS groups. This is just a rule-of-thumb, but would make me suspicious whether the TLS refine

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 site?

2007-01-30 Thread Winn, MD (Martyn)
Yes, I believe York were going to be off-line for a couple of days following some computer problems. The Refmac 5.3 source code is also available from our pre-release page: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/prerelease_page.php As it happens, I updated it on Monday, so it is up-to-date. Cheers Martyn -O