Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-06-30 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Replicate is a good option with its own problems as it can be seen as referring to exact copy which multiple measurements clearly aren't. It does have an advantage of being the word used by non-crystallographers though. As a lame attempt at joke, use of terms redundancy and multiplicity to describ

[ccp4bb] postdoctoral position at University of Maryland - IBBR/Rockville, structural biology

2020-10-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Pozharski ( epozhars...@som.umaryland.edu). References will be requested as needed. Edwin Pozharski, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology

Re: [ccp4bb] Rfrees

2010-11-29 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 14:30 +, Jyotica Batra wrote: > is there a way I can switch to phenix.refine by retaining the same > R-frees, I have from refmac If you actually mean the test set, then you don't need to do anything other than use the same mtz-file.  Keep in mind though that in phenix b

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG in the pdb? zero occ

2010-08-14 Thread Edwin Pozharski
nt as they will skew the statistics and possibly the B-factor >>> restraint model. >> >> Zero occupancy may be a bad idea for yet another reason - the atoms will >> displace bulk solvent and produce what is essentially a hole in the >> structure. It may be justified

Re: [ccp4bb] Method to calculate the axis of an alpha helix

2010-08-15 Thread Edwin Pozharski
arameters? > Thanks for any suggestions > > Regards, > Yuan SHANG > -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] luzzati numbers in ccp4/refmac

2007-03-05 Thread Edwin Pozharski
uld not be using Luzatti plots to estimate error. (Actually, I'm not sure what "Luzatti SigmaA Rfree" means in the first place). You should instead use the ESU values from either Maximum Likelihood or from the Cruickshank DPI empirical indices. These are given in the PDB file outp

Re: [ccp4bb] Very weird

2007-03-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
copies to do the refinement, forseeing that there will be a huge Rfree drop from 42% because I account for the extra density using the 4th copy. BUT TO MY SURPRISE, THE RFREE INCREASE TO 65%. Can you teach me what is going wrong? Thank you Yanming -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get rid of Membrane formed on hanging droplets?

2007-03-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
S, Building 101, Room F363 > P.O. BOX 12233 111 T.W. Alexander Drive > RTP, NC 27709 RTP, NC 27709 > Tel (o): 919-316-4634 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore --

Re: [ccp4bb] RMSD

2007-03-14 Thread Edwin Pozharski
we use ?? Example : shifting from Refmac to CNS. There appears to be an increase in rmsd of bonds even without refining the structure in CNS. Is the estimation methods are different or am i doing something wrong !! Thanks for your valuable inputs. regards john -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD

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

2007-08-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
ter. Best - MM Mischa Machius, PhD Associate Professor UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd.; ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816; U.S.A. Tel: +1 214 645 6381 Fax: +1 214 645 6353 -- Edwin Pozharski,

Re: [ccp4bb] differences between Rsym and Rmerge

2008-01-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
/ or (averaged over all the reflection in a given resolution shell)? -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore -- When the Way is forgotten duty and justice appear; Then knowledge and wisdom are born along with hypo

Re: [ccp4bb] differences between Rsym and Rmerge

2008-01-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
hat's not such a problem. --Christopher Putnam, Ph.D. Assistant Investigator Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research Mischa Machius, PhD Associate Professor UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd.; ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816

Re: [ccp4bb] differences between Rsym and Rmerge

2008-01-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
he drawbacks of using Rmerge as a measure of the quality of a data set is that it can be intentionally and unintentionally manipulated. " Cheers, Ed. -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore -- When the Way i

Re: [ccp4bb] differences between Rsym and Rmerge

2008-01-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
know which column to look at, but you will satisfy the other half. Bernie On Fri, January 18, 2008 1:39 pm, Edwin Pozharski wrote: There are two opposing views on this. First: Rmerge doesn't matter. Don't even look into that column in scalepack output, you will be upset over nothing.

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about freeR tag

2008-01-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
program which to use for Rfree set, but needs to be set, since it is not default. again, not exactly sure what the problem is, but i hope some of this helps. feel free to email with further questions if needed. best of luck! cheers, nick -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, A

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Edwin Pozharski
hD Manager, Structural Biology Resource Center Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065-6399 phone: 212- 327-7429 fax: 212-327-7389 -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore -- When the Way is forgotte

[ccp4bb] refmac same residue different names

2019-02-04 Thread Edwin Pozharski
x27;s a question I already asked in the appropriate forum. Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore -- When the Way is forgotten duty and justice appear; Then knowledge and wisdom are born along with hypocrisy. When harmoni

Re: [ccp4bb] Turning off the bulk solvent modelling in Refmac5 to generate Polder maps?

2019-02-04 Thread Edwin Pozharski
It should be according to the manual http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/refmac5/keywords/xray-principal.html#solv If you using CCP4i, I believe this is done by unchecking the "Calculate the contribution from the solvent region" box in Scaling section. --- I don't know why the sacrifice didn't work. The

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] [ccp4bb] refmac same residue different names

2019-02-06 Thread Edwin Pozharski
> > > > Good luck! > > Herman > > > > *Von:* CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] *Im Auftrag von > *Edwin Pozharski > *Gesendet:* Montag, 4. Februar 2019 22:35 > *An:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > *Betreff:* [EXTERNAL] [ccp4bb] refmac same residue dif

Re: [ccp4bb] SO4 or PO4

2019-02-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Consider removing sulfate from the mother liquor after crystals are formed. I recall having success replacing ammonium sulfate with sodium malonate (it's a nice cryoprotectant as well). This is assuming that ammonium sulfate is your major precipitant. If it's just an additive (say, your conditio

Re: [ccp4bb] Mandatory mmCIF format for crystallographic depositions to the PDB

2019-02-20 Thread Edwin Pozharski
But my 80 symbols... :) On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:08 AM John Berrisford wrote: > From July 1st 2019 onward, mmCIF format files will become mandatory for > crystallographic depositions to the Protein Data Bank. PDB format files > will no longer be accepted for deposition of structures solved by

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in real space - please sign & invite other scientists to sign this letter

2019-08-20 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Dear Daniel, with all due respect, I do believe that you are making several mistakes in your argument. English is not my native tongue, but I suspect that there is a substantial difference between "author" and "signatory". What people are asked to do here is essentially to sign a petition, not t

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Better Beamline suggestion!

2019-08-21 Thread Edwin Pozharski
> > > In the absence of such you can resort to carefully bending the loop or > bending the pin (Jim Holton made a nifty device for bending the pin) while > keeping the xtal bathed in the cold stream. > > I would also mention these https://hamptonresearch.com/product-Adjustable-Mounted-CryoLoop-38

[ccp4bb] cif-file macro?

2016-10-25 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I expect this not to exist, but is there a way to define a variable in a cif-file (e.g. a global esd target for, say, angles)? I am certainly capable of putting together a bash script to emulate this, so please don't bother with suggesting a workaround unless you really enjoy that kind of thing :)

[ccp4bb] ssrl

2012-06-22 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Anyone knows what happened at SSRL? Remote access of all sorts appears to be down (including ssh, nx, website, webice).

Re: [ccp4bb] estimate of effective concentration

2012-06-22 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Filip, if you have a way to measure the fraction bound (say you see two conformers and your data is good enough to refine occupancies), and if the binding constant for the two peptides in solution is measurable then you can derive your "effective concentration". What would that really tell y

Re: [ccp4bb] sulphur bridge

2012-07-11 Thread Edwin Pozharski
If you need reducing agent, the best choice is probably TCEP. If you are to choose between the BME and DTT, I'd recommend DTT, since BME tends to modify cysteines (sometimes in active site which may be quite annoying, although post-crystallization DTT soaks can remove some of these). On the o

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS installation

2012-07-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I think the bash-compatible startup script has disappeared from CNS distribution at some point. The one that was distributed with cns 1.1 still works though, and I attach my copy of it. On 07/12/2012 11:24 AM, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: Dear Fulvio Saccoccia, along the lines of Ian Tickle's reply:

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS compliant addition of hydrogens to structure?

2012-07-17 Thread Edwin Pozharski
7;ll add hydrogens in a naming scheme consistent > with CNS? (reduce doesn't do this). > > > Thanks! > > F > > > > > - > Francis E. Reyes PhD > 215 UCB > University of Colorado at Boulder > -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] resolution limit

2012-07-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
;> people's views. Thanks very much. >> Narayan > > After refinement, what is R-free in the last shell? If it is significantly > better > than random, say around .4 or less, that could be taken as evidence that > there > is data in the last shell. > Also check the e

Re: [ccp4bb] resolution limit

2012-07-18 Thread Edwin Pozharski
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ccp4bb/2001/msg00383.html > Rsym...what's that? > > JPK > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Edwin Pozharski > wrote: > >> As has been shown recently (and discussed on this board), Rsym is not >> the >> best me

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic Thermal shift assay

2012-07-19 Thread Edwin Pozharski
p; Molecular Biology > Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute > 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 > Baltimore, MD 21205 > Office: +1-410-614-4742 > Lab: +1-410-614-4894 > Fax: +1-410-955-2926 > http://lupo.jhsph.edu > > > > > -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure alignment

2012-07-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
One of many possible ways is to use rms_cur command in pymol. But fundamentally such number is meaningless, since root mean square deviation is only useful when the average shift between the two structures is (close to) zero. On 07/23/2012 11:06 AM, Theresa Hsu wrote: Dear all I have two p

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure Refinement Program

2012-07-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Scott, you are asking for opinions when you should be asking for hard data. CNS, refmac and phenix all can regularize a structural model. If your primary consideration is speed, you should simply try all three and compare cpu time. Cheers, Ed. On 07/23/2012 12:50 PM, Scott Foy wrote: He

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS installation

2012-07-28 Thread Edwin Pozharski
; > > cns_solve: command not found > > I don't know how to trouble shoot. > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks > Yogi > -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS installation

2012-07-28 Thread Edwin Pozharski
e/CNS/cns_solve_1.3 >> >> >> yogesha@yogesha-laptop:~/work$ cns_solve >> >> >> cns_solve: command not found >> >> I > don't know how to trouble shoot. >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Yogi >> > > > -- > Edwin Pozharski, PhD > University of Maryland, Baltimore -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] Process multiple data sets

2012-08-01 Thread Edwin Pozharski
problems.  Try using the same unit cell/orientation on all datasets, it's easy to do if you abandon gui and feed input file directly to denzo. -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] space group and multiplicity

2012-08-02 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 08/02/2012 04:37 AM, Careina Edgooms wrote: Dear ccp4 I ask a very fundamental question because I have not had formal training in this and I would like to understand. How can I obtain the multiplicity (z) from the space group? So for example if the space group is P222 how do I know that th

Re: [ccp4bb] column profile

2012-08-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Note that gel filtration columns need to be calibrated separately for different buffer. S100 is a preparative column not quite intended for molecular weight determination, but if that is what you are doing, it's important to do your own calibration. On 08/07/2012 03:20 AM, MT wrote: Have a l

Re: [ccp4bb] Pisa application

2012-08-09 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 08/08/2012 09:00 AM, Jose Duarte wrote: To my knowledge PISA by itself is not able to do interface prediction To my understanding PISA is not *intended* to do interface prediction

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: ITC or Biacore

2012-08-09 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 08/09/2012 03:55 AM, rashmi panigrahi wrote: Does any one have the experience of doing ITC or Biacore(SPR) at 10 or 15 degrees? You can do ITC at any temperature your instrument allows, certainly no problems at 4oC. To share a trick, at least on a MIcrocal instrument cooling down is very

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining Rpim value

2012-09-05 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Michelle, On 09/04/2012 06:14 PM, Michelle Deaton wrote: Is there a straightforward way to obtain this value from my data? From what I understand, most of my options involve going back and obtaining unmerged intensities. I am hoping there may be a way for me to avoid having to backtrack that

Re: [ccp4bb] scala & scaleit problems

2012-09-05 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Mary, consider re-posting with log-files attached Cheers, Ed. On 09/05/2012 08:44 AM, Mary Ortmayer wrote: Hi, My scala and scaleit programmes are failing with "bad input labels" for both my data and the ccp4 tutorial data. I would be grateful for any help. Thanks, Mary

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 09/06/2012 07:48 PM, Qing Luan wrote: I built a molecular replacement model What is the model based on (i.e. how much sequence identity you have)? Did you try something other than CNS (specifically for twinning detection)? Did you check the patterson map and/or self-rotation for off-origin pe

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
And also - I presume p6 does not work? On 09/06/2012 07:48 PM, Qing Luan wrote: which I can scale in P3, P31, P32, P321, P3121 and P3221 with similar statistics:

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Matt, On 09/07/2012 09:56 AM, Matthew Franklin wrote: I'm also a bit dubious about the 4.3 A limit; your useful data may be ending around 4.6 instead, despite the high I/sigma numbers. Why? I would rather suggest Qing extends resolution to where I/sigma~1. Other than Rmerge, I don't see wh

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
All you need is scipy library to get those pesky statistic functions :) On 09/12/2012 11:11 AM, Pete Meyer wrote: Python's relatively easy to learn, and more flexible than octave/R; but it doesn't have the built-in statistic functions that octave and R do.

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Ethan, I think majority of your complaints about python result from its very purpose - to be readable/portable for the sake of facilitating rapid implementation. There are many other languages that provide tools to accomplish what Jacob wants to do (well, I would stay away from P''), but pyt

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand geometry obs. vs. ideal

2012-09-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
You can do unrestrained refinement in refmac, at your resolution it may be OK. If you want to keep protein restrained, you can either use harmonic restraints or come up with a special cif-file for your ligand with large esd targets. There is no direct way to tell refmac to exclude specific r

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-14 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 09/14/2012 12:30 AM, Eric Bennett wrote: Actually it's a bit of a hindrance. In Perl I can call the int function on anything and get a sensible answer. In python if you call int on a string that contains a floating point number the default behavior is that it will crash: The sensible ans

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: protein peptide binding

2012-09-14 Thread Edwin Pozharski
This may be tricky if binding is too weak, but could you use some ultrafiltration with, say, 5kDa filters? The idea is that peptide will not go through if it is associated with protein. Another option is size exclusion, although that is not always straightforward as weakly bound ligands may c

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: help locating CNS data

2012-09-21 Thread Edwin Pozharski
If you are looking for reflection files, the tricky part is that in CNS format they did not include the unit cell parameters. Just to locate them, it may be helpful to know that they contain a header that looks like this NREFlection= 49238 ANOMalous=FALSe { equiv. to HERMitian=TRUE} DECLa

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group choice with respect to physical plausability

2012-09-24 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 09/24/2012 07:09 AM, Harm Otten wrote: Why is it so hard to break the symmetry for two (seemingly) different monomers? Because it's present in your data? In P1, do you still have the electron density that suggests the "overlap" (it's not entirely clear to me what you mean by that - a figu

Re: [ccp4bb] Etiquette on publishing if there is a crystallization report from someone else.

2012-09-25 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Tim, On 09/25/2012 09:51 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: I would assume that someone who publishes crystallisation conditions has given up solving the structure or some other reason to encourage others to pick up the project there could be several situations when this is not so. Sometimes a crystalliz

[ccp4bb] freerflag bug

2013-01-26 Thread Edwin Pozharski
ince 6.3.0, but I do not see any mention of freerflag in updates summary. I can supply the input mtz file that produces the error if needed. Thanks, Ed. -- Edwin Pozharski, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] Contagious, Self-Distributing "Vaccines?"

2021-02-17 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I guess for such vehicle to be "extremely contagious" (or contagious at all for that matter) it should be capable of rapidly multiplying inside the host, so that it outruns immune system mediated destruction for at least some time in order to be present in high enough concentration to effectively s

Re: [ccp4bb] H-bond modelling

2021-06-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
There are tools such as hbplus https://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/software/HBPLUS/ that will calculate predicted hydrogen bonds (including ligands, you just need to define their chemistry) throughout a structure. These tools usually go beyond simple distance considerations and analyze further geo

Re: [ccp4bb] Tools for measuring RMSD of entire molecule when a single domain is aligned

2021-11-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Rms_cur On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 9:05 AM Kyle Gregory < 3632e92fcc15-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear CCP4 bulletin board, > > I was wondering if there are any tools to determine the RMSD of the entire > molecule (two domains) when only aligning one dom

Re: [ccp4bb] simulation of structural changes in the protein

2021-11-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Any molecular dynamics simulation would have a temperature parameter. GROMACS is free and easy to use. And do find a computational biology expert to consult with if this is more than an excercise. On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 11:20 PM Dr Muhammad Saleem wrote: > Dear All, > > I was wondering if there i

Re: [ccp4bb] High-order oligomers vs robust crystals - references?

2021-11-12 Thread Edwin Pozharski
One could use PISA to get a rough distribution of oligomerization states of proteins in the PDB and compare bacterial vs mammalian... there always will be a question though of whether any bias is inherent in proteins or driven by crystallizability itself. Personally, I always though that bacterial

[ccp4bb] ccp4 package manager

2016-11-29 Thread Edwin Pozharski
CCP4 package manager doesn't work for me when I try a fresh ccp4 installation. It goes through all the question dialogs, but then fails to download the actual installation package, complaining of broken network connection. Multiple tries don't help. Obviously, I can get around this by downloadin

[ccp4bb] refmac output

2017-07-31 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I know space is cheap these days, but is there a reason for Refmac to generate all those extra columns in the output mtz file? Refmac (as well as phenix.refine and buster-tnt) output mtz file is almost always used for only one purpose - look at the map in coot. You only need 4 columns for that, n

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac output

2017-08-02 Thread Edwin Pozharski
will get corrected by Garib, Gerard and Pavel). Cheers, Ed. Edwin Pozharski, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore -- When the Way is forgotten duty and justice appear; Then knowledge and wisdom are born along with hypocrisy.

[ccp4bb] include corners in mosflm

2017-09-26 Thread Edwin Pozharski
By default, iMosflm excludes corners from processing. Is there a simple way to make it the default to go all the way to the corner instead of detector edge? I could of course set the max resolution for processing to some outrageous value that is guaranteed to be outside of the image, but perhaps

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-31 Thread Edwin Pozharski
The most pertinent question is, of course, what is the average frequency of the disordered chain controversy flareup. Once we figure that out, some profound mysteries of the Universe will reveal themselves. I am betting it's a simple combination of the solar cycle, inflation adjusted price of a b

Re: [ccp4bb] Showing Stick Representation In Coot

2024-08-27 Thread Edwin Pozharski
I don't know the explicit answer to your question, but you can always copy active site residues into a separate model and use different representation for that. On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 8:52 AM Firdous Tarique wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Is there any way to show stick representation of the selec