[ccp4bb] Call for ACA abstracts for session "What is the meaning of resolution?"

2019-04-09 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
discussion. Abstracts can be submitted at: https://acaonline.secure-platform.com/a/ If you have any questions, you can direct them to: raquel.bromb...@utsouthwestern.edu or zbys...@work.swmed.edu. Best, Zbyszek Otwinowski and Raque

[ccp4bb] opening in Zbyszek Otwinowski lab

2017-12-19 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Google Scholar profile and other information about you that you consider to be the most important. Although the deadline for the application is February 15th, I will be interviewing candidates by Skype or in person (for Texas-based applicants) as soon as they are identified. Zbyszek Otwinowski UT

Re: [ccp4bb] ligand binding and crystal form

2016-10-26 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
again. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear Veronica, > > with 1st, 2nd, 3rd map you mean the density for the same dataset after > three consecutive cycles of building-refining or three different maps from > three different crystals? > If it's the first case, it could be fine, i

Re: [ccp4bb] How to fit BioSAXS shape to the Structure

2015-06-26 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
riggs> >> >> On 26 June 2015 at 11:39, Ashok Nayak wrote: >> >>>Dear Weifei, >>> >>> It can also be done manually in Pymol by changing the mouse mode from >>> 3 >>> button viewing to 3 button editing and later moving the envelope onto >>> the >>> X-ray structure or vice-versa, however the best fit can be achieved in >>> SUPCOMB. >>> >>> regards >>> Ashok Nayak >>> CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow >>> India >>> >>> >> >> > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353

Re: [ccp4bb] Data reduction

2015-05-27 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
; Hi All, > > Scalepack output says 98.8% complete data but after converted to .mtz file > it reduced to 64%. > I have tried in CCP4 and phenix both. > How is it possible? > > Ayan > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX

Re: [ccp4bb] X-rays and matter (the particle-wave picture)

2015-05-21 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
t; can anyone shed some light on this ..or point me in the right direction? > > > Thanks in advance > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353 Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group numbers

2014-10-02 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
g > XDS. This of course doesn't affect XDS one iota, and I can change the MTZ > header to the correct space group at my leisure (but definitely no > re-indexing!). So I don't understand why the choice of P2122 vs P2221 etc > is relevant as far as XDS is concerned: it just needs to know that the > space group is P222. I can even tolerate C2 from XDS since where > necessary > it will get auto-re-indexed to I2 on first entry into the database (but > never subsequently!). > > Cheers > > -- Ian > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353

Re: [ccp4bb] correlated alternate confs - validation?

2014-07-23 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
other packing contacts; however, for conformations close to rotational axis, symmetry operator cannot preserve conformer ID, and this issue cannot be avoided. Zbyszek Otwinowski >>I would probably make the two waters alternates of each other. > > > > Quite possible, but the gro

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein Crystallography challenges Standard Model precision

2014-07-22 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
correctly, this comes with least-squares-routines. I only pointed out that cell errors are listed in the XDS output (provided you refine them, of course). I am sure those errors are well defined. Best wishes, Tim On 07/22/2014 06:53 PM, Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: Error estimates for the unit cell

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein Crystallography challenges Standard Model precision

2014-07-22 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
. The main question is: what the unit cell uncertainty means? For most samples I could defend to use values: 0.001A, 0.01A, 0.1A and 1A as reasonable, depending on particular point of view. Without defining what the unit cell uncertainty means, publishing its values is pointless. Zbyszek Otwinowski

Re: [ccp4bb] definitions of unique reflections

2014-07-14 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
So there are good reasons to report both types of completeness in the publication and in the deposit, even if there is no such custom yet. Zbyszek Otwinowski > There is some disagreement on terms used to deposit data. We need a > definition and an algorithm > for each definition. > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Help in Cell content analysis

2014-06-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
scattering. An alternative explanation is that you crystallised a proteolitic fragment of your protein. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear all > i have a small query to ask and seek your suggestions: > > I have collected a data for a protein with 324 residues and processed at > its best

Re: [ccp4bb] Reprocess data with new resolution cutoff?

2014-05-19 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
lower resolution will change anything other than overall R-merge and other R-statistics. To calculate these statistics it is enough to re-merge the data with lower resolution. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Hi all, > > This is a basic question and I'm sure the answer is widely known, but > I

Re: [ccp4bb] metals disapear

2014-04-30 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
crystal exposed to constant high dose. If anything, the helical scan method is more suitable to study radiation damaged state of the crystal. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear Dean, > > You have already received excellent insight into radiation effects on > metals. From personal experience

Re: [ccp4bb] metals disapear

2014-04-30 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
does not matter! It is an urban legend that shorter wavelength will help. I remember it being debunked two decades ago, and somehow it is still alive. Zbyszek Otwinowski > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Dean, > > this is probably a very common observati

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallographic confusion

2014-04-19 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Why not improve "effective resolution" to include consideration of solvent content? Due to constant packing density of proteins, it would become a synonim (by appropriate transformation) to number of observations per modelled atom. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear Dale, dear Kay, >

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
;>>>>> big, sturdy, salty, yellow crystals. He claims I have the best kit for single-crystal diffraction on campus. >>>>>> I would very much appreciate advice on how to deal with this, anything >>>>>> in the range from "won't work" to "use software X to analyze data in >>>>>> space group P-43N" would be welcome. >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> Andreas >>>> -- >>>> Dr Tim Gruene >>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie >>>> Tammannstr. 4 >>>> D-37077 Goettingen >>>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > -- > Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS > Dept. Structural Chemistry, > University of Goettingen, > Tammannstr. 4, > D37077 Goettingen, Germany > Tel. +49-551-39-33021 or -33068 > Fax. +49-551-39-22582 Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353

Re: [ccp4bb] Error in ccp4lib?

2014-03-24 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
e.mtz hklout newfile.mtz labi file 1 allin end I think (and hope) that the data and phases will be converted correctly to the CCP4 asymmetric unit. Eleanor On 25 Mar 2014, at 09:16, Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: I am reading an external file, which contains phases and ABCDs in the space group P

[ccp4bb] Error in ccp4lib?

2014-03-24 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ct for reflections with initial h not equal to zero, but gives wrong result for 0 k l reflections. Zbyszek Otwinowski Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 6353 (fax) zbys...@work.swmed.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-13 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ir structure factors will vary and can change quite a lot. Cryo-cooled crystals definitely can have high degree of internal non-isomorphism resulting from this effect. Zbyszek -- Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (ph

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
D: 9757100 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] -- Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 6353 (fax) zbys...@work.swmed.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ions need to be handled on case by case basis. Zbyszek Presence of multiple, similar unit cells in the sample is completely different and unrelated condition to statistical disorder. Agreed! Jacob -- Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, T

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-12 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
crystals. However, this requires separate data set collection rather than mixing such crystals during one rotation sweep. Presence of multiple, similar unit cells in the sample is completely different and unrelated condition to statistical disorder. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Not sure I underst

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning problem ?

2014-03-11 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
disorder. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Hi, > > If there's an NCS translation, recent versions of Phaser can account for > it and give moment tests that can detect twinning even in the presence of > tNCS. But I agree with Eleanor that the L test is generally a good choice > in these c

Re: [ccp4bb] rmerge

2013-08-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Dear All, The purpose of statistics in the output of Scalepack is to help the experimenter to assess the data. The question is, what is the purpose of R-merge statistics and its usefulness when its value exceeds 100%? When Scalepack was originally written 20 years ago, I made a decision to output

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing - twinned xtals

2013-08-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ation that the particular crystal presented is twinned or highly mosaic, so chances are good that this project will be solved. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Hi CCP4 folks > I have a data set which is looks twinned ( see the image-1 - I zoomed on to the image so that one can spot the twinning. Furth

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing - twinned xtals

2013-08-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
n solving twinning issues during crystal growth > > Thanks in advance ! > > Mahesh[image: Inline image 2][image: Inline image 3] > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353 Zbyszek Ot

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing - twinned xtals

2013-08-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
share their experiences on solving twinning > issues during crystal growth > > Thanks in advance ! > > Mahesh[image: Inline image 2][image: Inline image 3] > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange density in solvent channel and high Rfree

2013-03-19 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
n a lower symmetry. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear all, > We have solved the problem. Data processing in P1 looks better (six > molecules in ASU), and Zanuda shows a P 1 21 1 symmetry (three molecules > in > ASU), Rfactor/Rfree drops to 0.20978/0.25719 in the first round > of re

Re: [ccp4bb] refining against weak data and Table I stats

2012-12-07 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
The difference between one and the correlation coefficient is a square function of differences between the datapoints. So rather large 6% relative error with 8-fold data multiplicity (redundancy) can lead to CC1/2 values about 99.9%. It is just the nature of correlation coefficients. Zbyszek

Re: [ccp4bb] Same protein showing different SG

2012-09-11 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
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Re: [ccp4bb] P4132 vs. F23

2012-05-31 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Space groups F23 and P4132 are not subgroups of each other (without invoking pseudotranslational symmetry) so they cannot be related by twinning. The end of theoretical analysis. Zbyszek Otwinowski > You need to say what the cell dimensions are for these 2 options.. > Eleanor > &g

Re: [ccp4bb] How to evaluate Fourier transform ripples

2011-07-06 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
. Consequently, the answer is that typically one should not see ripples. Ripples should not be confused with the effect of electron density maps being smoothed by vibrations and other forms of disorder. Zbyszek Otwinowski > > Dear All, Hi. I was asked in a manuscript revision to discuss >

Re: [ccp4bb] Y-Chi2 running out of chart

2011-06-22 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
cooling rates and variability in the crystal lattice. Merging statistics should be acceptable, however they may not be perfect. Better cryo-cooling is likely to help. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear Colleagues, > > I'm collecting a dataset on our recently repaired Rigaku home source. Crysta

Re: [ccp4bb] Change cell parameter

2011-06-08 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
2000. The reindexing will change the beta angle automatically. > Dear all, > > I have a P2 derivative dataset with beta=89.6. I try to change the beta to 90.4 to be consistent with the native dataset. Should I do sth with the HKL, like applying a matrix? Thanks a million! > > Best, > Zhiy

Re: [ccp4bb] The meaning of B-factor, was Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-04-01 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
monic restraints on U (square root of B) rather than on Bs themselves. It is not we who cram too many meanings on the B-factor, it is the quite fundamental limitation of crystallographic refinement. Zbyszek Otwinowski > The fundamental problem remains: we're cramming too many meanings into

Re: [ccp4bb] The meaning of B-factor, was Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-31 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
. Zbyszek Frank von Delft wrote: This is a lovely summary, and we should make our students read it. - But I'm afraid I do not see how it supports the closing statement in the last paragraph... phx. On 31/03/2011 17:06, Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: The B-factor in crystallography represent

Re: [ccp4bb] The meaning of B-factor, was Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-31 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ee implemented, require a model-building like approach. The test of the success of such approach would be a substantial decrease of R-free values. If anybody can show it, it would be great. Zbyszek Dale Tronrud On 3/31/2011 9:06 AM, Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: The B-factor in crystallography

[ccp4bb] The meaning of B-factor, was Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-31 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
to the previous thread, representing poorly-ordered (so called 'disordered') side chains by the most likely conformer with appropriately high B-factors is fully justifiable, and currently is probably the best solution to a difficult problem. Zbyszek Otwinowski >>> - they all

Re: [ccp4bb] data processing deviations chisq

2011-03-25 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ation. Hope that helps, Zbyszek Otwinowski > > Hi all, > > I have collected one iodine soaked data in our home source, and processing > the data using HKL2000. Exposure time per frame is 5min/1 degree. > While processing I have noticed that the Chisq values, cell parameters and >

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-30 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Concerning the last point, a wiki seems to be a good place to collect > the results (a table can be used to follow progress in a program, but > also to see the differences between programs). But that brings me to my > last point - a wiki article does not count as a paper. > > best, >

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with finding of spots

2010-11-23 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
to eliminate peaks at higher resolution during autoindexing and then extend the resolution during the refinement. Sometimes it helps for very mosaic crystals. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Dear colleagues, > > I am working on one dataset that is hard to process. The data are about 3A of resoluti

Re: [ccp4bb] What makes the difference between 2 composite omit maps?

2010-11-02 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
the following 2 scripts: (1) ./omit hklin ${f}.mtz mapout ${f}.map < concerned about which one is more appropriate for the sigmaa-weighted 2mFo-DFc composite omit map. (mFo is what I generated from the SIGMAA output) Thanks for any suggestions! Best Regards, Hailiang Zbyszek Otwinowski UT So

Re: [ccp4bb] What makes the difference between 2 composite omit maps?

2010-11-01 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
the SIGMAA output) > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > Best Regards, Hailiang > Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-8816 Tel. 214-645-6385 Fax. 214-645-6353 Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-merge between 2 mtz files.

2009-12-16 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
files (which are very similar) and calculate the R-merge between them. I tried looking into CCP4 and Phenix, but could not find a direct path. Does anybody know how I can do this R-merge calculation? Best regards, Jason Porta -- Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry

Re: [ccp4bb] data reduction

2009-10-29 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
Scalepack as such. Zbyszek Otwinowski > Can you send a bit of your scalepack unmerged data - that would allow us > to check format and pointless behavior.. > > It sounds a bit like a scalepack problem though.. > Eleanor > > Alexandra Deaconescu wrote: >> Dear all: &

Re: [ccp4bb] Mosaicity & beam divergence

2009-08-06 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
inement is used), denzo overestimates it somewhat. -- Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 6353 (fax) zbys...@work.swmed.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] Scalepack error model?

2009-07-17 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
nt by user, they can be refined iteratively by experimenter by adjusting parameters in subsequent runs of scalepack, but most of the time it is not required. New version will adjust all these parameters automatically. Zbyszek Otwinowski Richard Gillilan wrote: Thanks Joe and others. Bit

Re: [ccp4bb] alternate indexing / cubic space group

2007-08-23 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ern all be very different. I do not where this idea originated, but for anomalous data there is only one way of indexing them (unless you are Chang et all.) Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 63

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
ognized as such. Independently, I value the possibility of data simulation in methods development and for teaching purposes. Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 6353 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
t to be. * I take into account that person taking the bet with me can always ask for more time. Zbyszek Otwinowski UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8816 (214) 645 6385 (phone) (214) 645 6353 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]