[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] suggestions for UV spectrometer

2008-12-05 Thread Gregor Witte
Agree! I think for crystallographic use the nanodrop is perfectly okay to see if the protein is 5mg/ml or 30mg/ml. But in fact I also do not trust our instrument if it comes to more important issues like preparing solutions for titrations or assays. And due to the small pathlength I do not trust

Re: [ccp4bb] tortion angle restraints in REFMAC

2008-12-05 Thread Eckhard Hofmann
Hi Huiying, could you tell us which version of refmac you are using? There has been an issue with torsion definitions in ligands NEVER included in the refinement, even if they were in the cif (at least up to Refmac_5.2.0019). I did have the same effect you had and wondered why. (See list in Oct

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] suggestions for UV spectrometer

2008-12-05 Thread Martin Hallberg
Which brings us back to the Hellma "TrayCell" solution where you can, from the same spectrometer, have both the cuvette option and the quickness of the NanoDrop/NanoVue system. Anyone that can comment on the performance of the TrayCell from Hellma? Cheers, Martin On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:06 AM

[ccp4bb] meaning of R free of perfect twin

2008-12-05 Thread Agnieszka Kiliszek
Hi, What is the meaning of R free of perfect twin? Shelxl counts it but it seems that the R f is no longer independent. Aga

Re: [ccp4bb] meaning of R free of perfect twin

2008-12-05 Thread Serge Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I guess the independence is mostly depending on how you select the reflection that lie in the free-set. If (from the beginning) you select reflections that are related by the twin operator to be both in the free-set you keep the "independence"

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Re: [ccp4bb] meaning of R free of perfect twin

2008-12-05 Thread Karsten . Niefind
Am 5 Dec 2008 um 13:50 hat Agnieszka Kiliszek geschrieben: > Hi, > > What is the meaning of R free of perfect twin? Shelxl counts it but it > seems that the R f is no longer independent. > > Aga Dear Aga, I also had this problem, however with Refmac5.5. My solution was to use the CNS script

[ccp4bb] BCA BSG meeting

2008-12-05 Thread R. J. Lewis
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[ccp4bb] 3D modeling program

2008-12-05 Thread riya doreen
Hello everyone, I am looking for a modeling program that will allow me to input a sequence alignment and coordinates of a template for 3D structure prediction of a target molecule. I know Modeller can do the job. Are there other web based programs that can do the same ? Thanks

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D modeling program

2008-12-05 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Yes of course. I heartily recommend 3Djigsaw - (google for it) - it's a very nice and simple to use web service that only requires a sequence as input. If you have a very low-homology target you may not succeed with this service but that's not necessarily a detriment since very careful attentio

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D modeling program

2008-12-05 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
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Re: [ccp4bb] 3D modeling program

2008-12-05 Thread Artem Evdokimov
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Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic: FAD enzymatic assay

2008-12-05 Thread michael nelson
You might be right. I can not rule out the possibility. By the way, is the PMS/DCPIP system fairly stable in the aerobic condition? Mike --- On Thu, 12/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic: FAD enzymatic ass

[ccp4bb] MR with DNA

2008-12-05 Thread UT MDACC
Is there any existing example about anybody trying to do molecular replacement for a protein-DNA complex using any B-DNA from the pdb database. I am wondering 1) whether it is doable 2)if it is not doable, why not? Thanks in advance for the feedback

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] suggestions for UV spectrometer

2008-12-05 Thread wangsa tirta ismaya
Dear all, Thanks a lot for raising the issue with the not reproducibility of protein measurement with Nanodrop. We use the instrument as a workhorse in the lab. Indeed, recently I observed that the protein concentration suggested by Nanodrop is sometimes differ to the usual colorimetric measuremen

[ccp4bb] Summary - torsion angle restraints in REFMAC

2008-12-05 Thread Huiying Li
The keyword script Eckhard mentioned did the job I wanted to achieve. I created the cif file for my ligand through the Monomer Library Stetcher and then edited torsion angle part to include the restraint for the OH tiling angle. I am running the CCP4 Suite 6.0.2 and CCP4i 1.4.4.2. but I still h

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D modeling program

2008-12-05 Thread Dima Klenchin
to models built on low-homology structures. since i'm currently preparing my bioinformatics lectures for next week's teaching, i might as well be a Besserwisser and point out that homology, much like pregnancy and death, is a binary concept. i'm sure artem knows this and simply mistyped "low

[ccp4bb] postdoctoral position at Cold Spring Harbor Lab

2008-12-05 Thread Hiro Furukawa
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from highly enthusiastic individuals with strong interest in conducting structural and electrophysiological approaches to solve problems in ion channels, transporters, receptors and intramembrane enzymes involved

Re: [ccp4bb] MR with DNA

2008-12-05 Thread Ho-Leung Ng
It would be difficult because your protein probably affects the DNA conformation. Do you have some idea how your protein affects DNA conformation? But I think a brute force strategy trying every piece of DNA in the PDB as a template might work. Another approach would be to do MR using only segments

Re: [ccp4bb] getting weak diffracting crystals

2008-12-05 Thread Debajyoti Dutta
  Dear sir, Thank you all of you for your suggestions. Sincerely Deb On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 Mathews,Irimpan wrote : >Hi Deb, > >You may want to try some ions (cations and anions). It may help stabilize some >loops if they have binding sites. I usually add around 5 - 10uL to 500 uL of >the well

[ccp4bb] R pim and Rmeans

2008-12-05 Thread Debajyoti Dutta
  Dear members, I have a little query hare about Rpim and Rmeans. How these are used to mark data quality, and how can one calculate it. Thak you for your reply in advance. Sincerely Deb

Re: [ccp4bb] R pim and Rmeans

2008-12-05 Thread Bernhard Rupp
112. Weiss MS, & Hilgenfeld R (1997) On the use of the merging R factor as a quality indicator for X-ray data. J. Appl. Cryst. 30, 203-205. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debajyoti Dutta Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 8:07 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [c

Re: [ccp4bb] R pim and Rmeans

2008-12-05 Thread Ganapathy Sarma
In addition to the Weiss paper ... Diederichs, K and Karplus, PA (1997). Improved R-factors for diffraction data analysis in macromolecular crystallography. Nature Structural Biology 4(4): 269-275. On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Debajyoti Dutta wrote: Dear members, I have a little query h

Re: [ccp4bb] R pim and Rmeans

2008-12-05 Thread Manfred S. Weiss
Dear Deb, R_meas or R_rim is a merging R-factor which is independent of the redundancy or multiplicity of the data (hence its name), R_pim stands for precision indicating merging R-factor. R_pim gives you the precision of the averaged measurement, which is the one you are actually using for struct