Re: [ccp4bb] xds to mtz using pointless

2008-02-20 Thread Phil Evans
There was a bug in Pointless for XDS reading due to my misunderstanding of the STARTING_FRAME value, which is fixed in version 1.2.13, available from ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.2.13.linux (eg) Otherwise if you send me the file I'll investigate Phil On 20 Feb 2008, at

Re: [ccp4bb] xds to mtz using pointless

2008-02-20 Thread Kay Diederichs
Sabine, versions of pointless before 1.2.13 have a problem with XDS_ASCII.HKL. Phil fixed this in 1.2.13, which can be obtained from ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/ Why don't you use XDSCONV to go to MTZ format? (and XSCALE for merging) best, Kay Sabine Schneider schrieb: Hi everyone

[ccp4bb] xds to mtz using pointless

2008-02-20 Thread Sabine Schneider
Hi everyone, I have a fine sliced dataset consisting of 720 frames (0.25dg / frame). I processed them with Xds and used Pointless to convert it to mtz for putting it in Scala. Spacegroup is P212121 and the resolution ~3.2. After ~200 frames the Rmerge goes up crazy and after 560 it is OK again

Re: [ccp4bb] xds to mtz using pointless

2008-02-20 Thread Sabine Schneider
That solved it! I had an older version (1.2.9). Thanks a lot! Sabine Phil Evans wrote: There was a bug in Pointless for XDS reading due to my misunderstanding of the STARTING_FRAME value, which is fixed in version 1.2.13, available from ftp://ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/pre/pointless-1.2.13.l

Re: [ccp4bb] crashing-out protein eluted from Nickel column

2008-02-20 Thread Vangelis Christodoulou
Hi Juliana, Since you can purify some protein with IMAC, I suggest that you do a buffer screening with Thermofluor before running the desalting column (or gel filtration column) and use the buffer condition(s) that stabilise your protein for the next purification step and possibly freezin

[ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread deena
Hi All, I am about to buy a laptop and find that the XP is twice the price of Vista. Does anyone have positive experience using Vista for crystallographic packages: CCP4, Coot, O, X-plor? or must I still avoid it? Thanks, Deena Deena Abells Oren, PhD Manager, Structural Biology Resource

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread James Stroud
My Understanding is that XP is twice the price for a reason--Vista has been considered a major downgrade. It seems that SP1 has not helped. Of course, there are other options out there besides windows boxes, so you might also want to investigate those (OS X, Linux). Some of crystallographer

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Paukstelis
Or don't buy an OS at all. There are a number of vendors out there that sell OEM notebooks without OSs. I picked up a Compal IF90 with WSXGA+ (1680x1050) for a good price. --paul Yi Zhou wrote: I think we are all using Linux, so just choose the cheaper OS (you have to delete it anyway). Yi O

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Yi Zhou
I think we are all using Linux, so just choose the cheaper OS (you have to delete it anyway). Yi On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:11 -0500, deena wrote: > Hi All, > I am about to buy a laptop and find that the XP is twice the price of > Vista. Does anyone have positive experience using Vista for > crysta

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Scott Pegan
Deena, If you are going to run windows, have to use XP. I tried vista, and the software wouldn't work. Scott On Wed, February 20, 2008 2:44 pm, Paul Paukstelis wrote: > Or don't buy an OS at all. There are a number of vendors out there that > sell OEM notebooks without OSs. I picked up a Compal

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Avinash Gill
I have been using CCP4MG, Chimera, O for Windows, Wincoot, and the entire CCP4 suite (including running Refmac and Phaser through the CCP4i interface) on my Windows Vista laptop for the past 9-10 months without any issues. It has worked very well for me, and I have found Vista to be much more stabl

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Flip Hoedemaeker
Strange, CCP4 and Coot run just fine on my Vista laptop... Have not tried all programs though. Flip -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Pegan Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 22:04 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Vist

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Scott Pegan
My attempt was a desktop installation. This was ~1 month ago. Scott On Wed, February 20, 2008 3:34 pm, Flip Hoedemaeker wrote: > Strange, CCP4 and Coot run just fine on my Vista laptop... Have not tried > all programs though. > > Flip > > -Original Message- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread James Stroud
For those who risk becoming blinded and/or deafened by the vista bells and whistles: http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/1FE803ADF0486D06CC2573990069A75D "The bottom line: It's Vista's architecture and feature set -- Barth cited Volume Shadow Copy, Vista's snapshot service, as an ex

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Juergen Bosch
Hi all, sorry I couldn't help it :-) flames on http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-chooseavista_480x376.mov flames off Juergen James Stroud wrote: For those who risk becoming blinded and/or deafened by the vista bells and whistles: http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/p

[ccp4bb] XDS and overlaps

2008-02-20 Thread Engin Ozkan
Hi everyone, I have been recently relying on XDS quite a bit, but at the same time worrying about how XDS treats overlaps. We had one dataset that both HKL2000 and Mosflm would show to have severe overlaps, as expected due to unit cell parameters and the unfortunate crystal orientation in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Antony Oliver
Hear Hear. OS X wins for me, followed by various flavours of Linux, and then - only then - a windows box (not running Vista). -- Dr Antony W Oliver Cancer Research UK: DNA Repair Enzymes Group Section of Structural Biology The Institute of Cancer Research 237 Fulham Road LONDON SW3 6JB [EMAIL PR

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I am sure Vista is probably just as good (or bad, depending on your point of view) as XP. Most of this stuff should run just fine (I understand that Vista is probably loaded with features that will bring older computer to complete stop, but we are talking about brand new laptop here). But let

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Changrui Lu
Hi all, Vista has tons of compatibility issues, especially with opengl. As far as I know pymol, swisspdbviewer and a number of other opengl based programs do not work on vista. (Coot has some compatibility problem with Aeroglass, and pymol might have a stable release for vista soon.) More progr

[ccp4bb] cns and refmac refinement

2008-02-20 Thread yang li
Dear All, I have a 3A structure, the quality of the data is not very good. Now I have refined it to Rfree=40.7 in Refmac. But it wonnot go further down. Then I used CNS to do annealing, then use refmac to do rigid body refinement. The Rfree converged to 0.34, but if I use restrain refinement

Re: [ccp4bb] cns and refmac refinement

2008-02-20 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Yang Li, trying alternatives is always good thing to do -:) If you have latest PHENIX installed, try this: % phenix.refine model.pdb data.mtz strategy=rigid_body+individual_sites+individual_adp simulated_annealing=true optimize_wxc=true optimize_wxu=true main.number_of_macro_cycles=5 He

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Vista or XP, I shamelessly admit that I personally totally fail to see why - ideology left aside - I would ever buy a *laptop* which is not a Mac. Even for the fact that when a Mac is "asleep" you open the cover and it actually comes up in 1 sec, exactly where it was last evening, its

[ccp4bb] postdoctoral positions in Xiamen

2008-02-20 Thread Aidong Han
Postdoctoral positions available This lab conducts two aspects of research using X-ray crystallography and other biochemical approaches. One is to understand how a limited number of transcriptional factors regulate larger amount of genes. Our model is that two or more transcription factors w