[ccp4bb] PhD position in methods development at York, UK

2019-10-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
don't send them to me!)Project Description A PhD position is available to work in the group of Dr Kevin Cowtan on computational methods for automatic building of protein structures. Both X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy can give us a picture of the electron density clouds in

[ccp4bb] Pointless error in ccp4i2 import merged data...

2020-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
rnals.iucr.org/d/issues/2011/04/00/ba5158/index.html";> PDF $$ -- Professor Kevin Cowtan Email: kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk Pronouns: Please use he/him or they/them when referring to me in professional contexts Address:York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry

Re: [ccp4bb] Pointless error in ccp4i2 import merged data...

2020-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi all The problem turned out to be that the user had a space in their username. Creating a new account solved it. Regards, On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 10:23, Kevin Cowtan wrote: > Hi! > > I have a student trying to run i2, and a task to import merged data from > cif which works fine f

[ccp4bb] Online social games for the Study Weekend 2021

2020-12-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
ee play mode. If anyone wants to host any other games (maybe a Minecraft Java server, Animal Crossing or European-style board games), please feel free to do so and publicise them here or on the conference forums once they open. -- Professor Kevin Cowtan Email: kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk Prono

Re: [ccp4bb] CCPALC: not enough memory

2011-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Can you send the command script, and mapdump output for any input maps? Also, if you are entering a PDB file, the cell, spacegroup, and an idea of range of X, Y, and Z values? On 09/06/2011 09:56 AM, Ingo P. Korndoerfer wrote: hello, it seems i am recently getting the above error quite a lot

Re: [ccp4bb] CCPALC: not enough memory

2011-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, here's the solution (also to BB in case anyone else has this problem). The PDB file appears to come from CNS. The coordinate file contains the following atoms: ATOM 2244 CG LEU A 452.000.000.000 1.00 0.00 A ATOM 2245 CD1 LEU A 452.000.000.000 1

[ccp4bb] Protein structure solved by computer gamers (and phaser)!

2011-09-19 Thread Kevin Cowtan
"Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players" The paper (Nature SB): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf The game: http://fold.it/portal/

[ccp4bb] Program announcement: Nautilus

2011-09-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Here's an alpha release of my nucleic acid model building program for the early adopters among you to try out. There's no GUI, there's only a Linux binary for now, the features are rather limited, and it's only been tested on synthetic data. On the other hand, it seems to work for me. Feedback

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On 09/29/2011 03:55 PM, Dima Klenchin wrote: I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be mostly due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the platform-specific issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers who were happy to code for MacOS 7-9 but refused

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot NCS averaging

2011-10-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On 10/05/2011 03:42 PM, Peter Canning wrote: When I run Parrot to do density improvement and NCS averaging, Parrot works beautifully (final FOM is 0.87) but NCS averaging causes the average NCS correlation coefficient to drop (from 0.94 to 0.64) and the average mask volume to increase from 0.31 t

[ccp4bb] Program announcement: Nautilus v0.2

2011-10-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
New version of Nautilus (my nucleic acid building program). Main changes: - Now available for both OSX(x86) and Linux. - It no longer corrupts the residue names of any existing non-nucleic acid model you feed in. - Most cases where the output model clashes with itself have been fixed. - I'v

Re: [ccp4bb] origin_shift in polar space group

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
... Regards -- Ian On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: It is a program Kevin Cowtan wrote - here is the info you get when you try to run it.. E [c.

Re: [ccp4bb] cmakereference : reading reflections

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Bryan Lepore wrote: does cmakereference v0.2 in ccp4 6.1.13 require 'project', 'dataset' or 'crystal' to be in the .mtz? because i thought by default, these were eponymous I'm pretty sure it doesn't. e.g my .mtz - that has labels F and sigF - : * Dataset ID, project/crystal/dataset names, c

Re: [ccp4bb] buccaneer crashes

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
It looks like something has been corrupted in your CCP4 installation. Possibly there is a post-install script which should have been run but wasn't? If you do: ls $CCP4/share/python/ then you should see something like this: CCP4pipeline22.py* CCP4pipeline.pyc CCP4pipeline.py*subproce

Re: [ccp4bb] Map correlation coefficient

2011-02-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
cphasematch will do it in reciprocal space and give you a variety of statistics, including F- and E-map correlation. Go to reflection data utilities/phase comparison. Maher Alayyoubi wrote: Hi Everybody, I am a new user on the ccp4 bulletin, I have a question on how to calculate the map correl

Re: [ccp4bb] Can DM-skeletonisation specify the "join point cutoff" value?

2011-03-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
The skeletonisation option in dm rarely produces any benefit. I wouldn't use it. Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi all; It is described by "http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/dm_skeletonisation.html"; that the "skeletonisation" has two adjustable parameters (join point cutoff, and end point cutoff), but the DM

Re: [ccp4bb] what is NCS operators of parrot

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
First three numbers are the Euler angles. The next 3 are the (approximate) centre of mass of the source molecule. The last 3 are the corresponding point in the target molecule. (This is a little more complex than the form used in 'dm', but unfortunately the simpler form was missing important i

Re: [ccp4bb] NCSMASK question

2011-04-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
If you are trying to make a mask in spacegroup P21, that;s not the way to do it. Make the mask in NCSMASK without a symmetry keyword. Then run mapmask to change the spacegroup to P 21 and use EXPAND OVERLAP to generate the symmetry copies of the mask. Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi, I want to ge

[ccp4bb] Straw poll: polysaccharide building?

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Straw poll: Are you interested in software to autobuild polysaccarides? Kevin p.s. I expect I'll have to spend at least a year working on the problem before before I spell polysaccharide consistently.

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Did you try here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/ Kevin Anderson wrote: I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually Scientific Linux 5.3) and have run into the apparently-familiar problem of not having bltwish. Specifically, while I can download blt-2.4-21.z.el5.i386.r

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
to finally be working now; I just had to compile it on a 32-bit machine.) -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote: Did you try here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/ Kevin Anderson wrote: I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually Scientific

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
of bltwish for ccp4, or am I obliged to dump it in /usr/bin ? -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote: The Linux i386 version works on Fedora and Ubuntu. Not tried RHEL. ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/Tcl-Tk++-linux-i386.tar.gz Kevin Anderson wrote: I'

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
For a global CC: Reflaction Data utilities/Phase comparison For residue by residue: Map and Mask utilities/Map correlation Note that the global CC will not be the average of the residue by residue, since it also correlates over solvent, etc. Kevin Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I am

Re: [ccp4bb] Map averaging question

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Simon Kolstoe wrote: 1. Can the map averaging function in coot cope with averaging across twenty monomers Yup. Just tries it with 1c9s (22-fold ncs) The 'all' button is handy for turning off the 19 maps you aren't interested in, then turning on the one you are. The averaged density will

[ccp4bb] Coot 0.6: new binaries and NEW CITATION

2009-12-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Two things for Coot users... Firstly, I have just uplaoded the remaining Linux binaries for Coot 0.6, i.e. Fedora 8, Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 6.06 (with python and gtk2 gui). You can find them on the Coot website here: http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/binaries/releases/ Secondly, please c

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot 0.6: new binaries and NEW CITATION

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Kay Diederichs wrote: Kevin Cowtan schrieb: Emsley P, Lohkamp B, Scott W, Cowtan K (2010) "Features and Development of Coot" Acta Cryst D66 (in press) Sorry, I wouldn't like to cite a paper whose contents I don't know. Excellent! I think the corresponding author ma

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-16 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I didn't think I had anything to say on this, but following an interesting discussion on a non-science based forum, I'd like to expand on a point that both Dale and Felix made in different ways. In the retraction of these 12 structures (and the 6 structures last year), we are not seeing the fa

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
In ccp4i select "Coordinate utilities/Superpose" And then on the first menu select "Superpose using secondary structure matching". It will automatically superpose based on fold rather than atom alignment. (This is the same software as used at the EBI for what used to be called MSDfold). Mi

Re: [ccp4bb] DMMULTI question

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Joe Cockburn wrote: Dear BB, We are trying to solve the structure of a complex between two proteins. We have two crystal forms of the complex, and a partial MR solution in each. We now want to average the density between these two forms to improve the maps, using DMMULTI. However, there are a cou

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Pavel Afonine wrote: Dear Ed, Tightly restrained refinement will be equivalent to torsion angle parametrization, since bonds and angles are essentially fixed (but dihedrals are not). Simply not true. Think why -:) Hint: in restrained refinement the weight applies to all terms - bonds, an

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl into mtz using f2mtz

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This may also be a job for 'convert2mtz', which I think will pick up the complex columns automatically. Only available from the command line though. Kevin Eleanor Dodson wrote: I am no expert on CNS files, but do the entries for F_BULK and F_MODEL correspond to an amplitude and a phase - it ce

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
SSM is also available in Coot and CCP4MG of course... Eleanor Dodson wrote: would ssm serve your purpose? eleanor ebi or ccp4i Miri Hirshberg wrote: Sun., Jan. 17th 2010 EBI Greetings, I am looking for a 3D structure superposition program which takes two structures and superpose them ba

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein/DNA complex in Buccaneer

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Yes, this can be done, but you need buccaneer 1.4, which I haven't released yet. We've seen significant benefits to preserving the heavy atoms through to the refinement, although the code has been written so that it can preserve DNA or any other know structure features as well. I'll try and pu

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Crank is a good tool for doing this automatically. Follow the instructions here: http://ccp4wiki.org/~ccp4wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Automated_experimental_phasing_with_Crank Qing Lu wrote: Hi All, I am new to protein crystallography. I would like to know the steps involved in solving a MAD da

Re: [ccp4bb] Charge flipping.

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I played with this (coded from scratch, both simple algorithm and a few tweaks) for a couple of weeks for solving heavy atom substructures. With perfect FAs it works well and quickly. With real delta-F's it didn't work at all. Can't remember if I tried perfect delta-F's. Probably SUPERFLIP is

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
My understanding from Gerard K is that the next version of the PDB format will also use unjustified atom names. Unfortunately, following mmdb, I also backed the wrong horse and assumed space-padded atom names were here to stay. A certain amount of re-engineering is going to be required. My c

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I'm not quite clear what your aim is here, but if you want to reproduce Wan'g method exactly, DM can't do it as it has a whole lot of more recent stuff built in (gamma correction, masking algorithms etc). If you really want to implement Wang's method (and I'm not sure quite why you would, beca

Re: [ccp4bb] GPU computing

2010-06-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I looked at it and concluded that our FFTs are on the whole too short for it to be worthwhile, and a lot of calculations aren't FFT bound anyway. An awful lot of our stuff is simply not very slow. Also, GPU computing at the moment is crippled for many problems by the bandwidth bottleneck and m

Re: [ccp4bb] JLigand Coot link

2010-06-09 Thread Kevin Cowtan
LINKR is not part of the PDB format: http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect6.html It's also not supported by MMDB, for that reason. I think Eugene put in some stuff to store remarks, but I don't know if unrecognized keywords are also stored (Eugene?). So there's a problem here, and t

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4-6.1.13 - Austwick

2010-06-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Err - no. Not apart from diff'ing the html documentation page. From memory: - Rudimentary support for model building after MR, although I've removed some of the useless features in 1.3 - GUI support for supplying your own additional buccaneer or refmac keywords. Can be used to access the f

Re: [ccp4bb] Multiple NCS relations

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Or download the latest refmac 6.6, and it will do NCS fully automatically, and handle conformational flexibility too. David Schuller wrote: I think you should be able to specify two different "NCSR" lines, one to cover chains A&A' and C&C', and another to cover chains B&B'. On 06/23/10 18:51

[ccp4bb] Buccaneer 1.5

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Buccaneer 1.5 is available from here: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/buccaneer/buccaneer.html The new version doesn't have any new model building features, but incorporates significant new features to automate tidying up of the resulting model, as follows: - Model tidying: Chain fragment

Re: [ccp4bb] Fast,medium,slow axis do not match

2010-06-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You could feed *both* maps through mapmask with AXIS X Y Z to convert them to the same axis order. You may also have a problem with the maps having different XYZLIM ranges. In that case, using XYZLIM MATCH on the second run of mapmask to match the second map to the first should fix it. Kevin

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient, at-a-glance info about PDB entries

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: For a five-minute illustrated introduction to PDBprints (including instructions on how to include them in your own webpages) point your browser to: http://pdbe.org/pdbprints Good idea. But the icons for published/unpublished, protein present/prote

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient, at-a-glance info about PDB entries

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
s you should be able to pick colours which work for everyone, not just for me. Flip Hoedemaeker wrote: Yep, its green-blue vs grey... Bad choice I guess? Perhaps you can provide a set of examples that work for you? Flip On 7/15/2010 13:20, Kevin Cowtan wrote: Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: For a

Re: [ccp4bb] Buccaneer 1.5 error on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Maybe your PYTHONPATH isn't set? echo $PYTHONPATH should give /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.1.13/share/python/ (This should happen automatically from the setup scripts however) Alexander Batyuk wrote: Dear all, I'm having trouble running buccaneer 1.5 from within ccp4i on mac os x 10.6.4 with th

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement/Model-Building & Density Modification

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Michael Thompson wrote: Hello All, I am currently solving a structure at 2A resolution with phases obtained from molecular replacement. Using the MR solution, I began refinement with Refmac using NCS restraints. I am currently building the parts of the model that were left out of the MR search m

Re: [ccp4bb] Sftools and Phaser compatibility issues - continued

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Well, CCP4 programs using the core libraries should ignore the spacegroup symbol and use the operators instead, which bypasses the whole problem. I would advise anyone using the CCP4 libraries in their own programs to do the same. That works for mtz and map, but not for pdb files of course. K

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with NCS detection in Parrot

2010-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Florian Schmitzberger wrote: Dear All, I am encountering a problem when using Parrot (for combined density modification and non crystallographic symmetry (NCS) averaging) in ccp4 6.1.13, run via ccp4i. Parrot does not detect the (2-fold) NCS present among my heavy atom substructure with 20

Re: [ccp4bb] Fd-3m with pdbset

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
George M. Sheldrick wrote: Perhaps I should mention that with the SHELX method of specifying the space group symmetry using the symmetry operators, alternative settings, specified in IT or not, cause no problems. But then we would not have had this thread (or the H3/R3 and P21221 threads). W

Re: [ccp4bb] The input of CCP4-DM

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hailiang Zhang wrote: If I have the model phase PHIC, exp Fo, and sigmaa-weighted FWT, is that more reasonable to use Fo/PHIC or FWT/PHIC as the input of CCP4-DM? You want Fo, sigFo, PHIC and the FOM from sigmaa or refmac. You might want to try parrot as well. If you feed it your MR model it

Re: [ccp4bb] The input of CCP4-DM

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
zhan...@umbc.edu wrote: Hi Kevin: Thanks! Could you explain why the DM (NCS concerned) input should be Fo/PHIC/WCMB instead of FWT/PHIC? I thought DM is just a real-space phase improvement method, and the latter (FWT/PHIC) suffers less from model bias... No, DM does phase combination in recipr

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot versus prime-and-switch-phasing

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Try both and look at the maps. Both are easy to run. (Which works best seems to vary a lot from case to case.) Yamei Yu wrote: Hi all, To decrease model bias from molecular replacement we can either use Parrot or prime-and-switch-phasing. What's the difference between these two programs? Whi

Re: [ccp4bb] .cv to .mtz conversion

2010-09-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You could try: convert2mtz -hklin my.cv -mtzout my.mtz -cell 30.0,40.0,50.0,90.0,90.0,90.0 -spacegroup 'P 21 21 21' Marni Williams wrote: Hey I have a problem with converting a CNS created file in .cv format to .mtz for use in CCP4. I suspect it is because the Fortran model and the colum

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with the task make reference (for Pirate)

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
First question: do you need to run makereference at all? If you are using a recent version, then reference data is supplied in $CLIBD/reference_structures In fact, if you are using the latest version of pirate, you don't need to specify a reference structure at all. So the only reason you mi

Re: [ccp4bb] "B" in B-factor

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Tricky... My guess would be that it comes from the commonplace use of symbols in one common definition of a Gaussian: y = a exp( - b x^2 ) (although that doesn't explain the capitalisation). Rajesh Kumar Singh wrote: May be too trivial, I was just wondering what "B" stands for in the term "B

Re: [ccp4bb] crytstallographic software

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Cowtan
J. Appl. Cryst. I have used it for things which I think need publishing, but are of more abstract subjects and less direct interest to the biological crystallography. However, politics and finances may dictate otherwise. Acta D has for some reason a rather poor impact rating, and J. Appl. Cr

Re: [ccp4bb] crytstallographic software

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Thanks for the insight into how the system works. I see now why the procedings go out in January. I am not encouraged by the logic of the system. h-factors will probably help though. Acta D should improve a bit in 2006, since one paper alone from the 2004 procedings was cited 326 times in 2006

Re: [ccp4bb] dmmulti NCS mask

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Two things: 1. You can do overlap removal in NCSMASK using the OVERLAP keyword. 2. You shouldn't be using 6 masks anyway - you only need one mask. Dmmulti generates the rest internally. Jianghai Zhu wrote: Dear all, I have two low resolution (3.8 A) MAD data sets from two different space

Re: [ccp4bb] Procheck vs Molprobity

2007-02-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
d by the author. MolProbity by contrast includes new data from a large number of high resolution structures solved since the introduction of ProCheck and refined using more modern algorithms. In any disagreement between MolProbity and ProCheck, I would consider the MolProbity output to be authoritativ

[ccp4bb]

2007-02-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Well, cp solve.com test.inp would be your starting point. You should now be able to run it. Next you might want to use your favourite editor (say gedit on Linux, which is a bit like notepad on Windows) to make some changes to it, if it doesn't do exactly what you want. To do that, you will hav

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ to Shel-X?

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You are absolutely right! The difficulty in getting from MTZ to any other format or back is unacceptable. Expecting working crystallographers to write Fortran format statements is ridiculous. I've been trying to address this by adding support for other formats to clipper, but my pace has been g

[ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On a more general note, having looked at mtz2various it looks a lot better than last time I used it, and the problem of keeping I's is a separate issue. But we still get fairly regular format conversion questions on both this and the coot list. From memory, the most common questions concern c

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, from the replies I've got a fully automatic CNS->MTZ conversion utility which is part of CCP4, requires minimal or no user input and converts the whole file, including gathering Bijvoet differences would be a good thing. Send me files and I will try and do it. What I want is as many CNS f

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Does anyone have a genuine CNS file (i.e. not exported from CCP4) which has HL ABCD coeffs in it? I need the complete file, and also the spacegroup and cell. Thanks, Kevin

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, here's my first attempt at an automatic file converter. It's not complete, but I think it should do the majority of files. What it does: 1. Reads a non-anomalous CNS file, either with or without labels in the main data block. There must be a complete set of 'DECL' lines at the beginning of

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Here's an updated version of cns2mtz. The new version automatically merges anomalous data, generates a full set of CCP4-style free sets from the CNS test column, completes the data (unless you tell it not to), and can take the cell and spacegroup information from a pdb file as well as from the

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ format conversion

2007-03-19 Thread Kevin Cowtan
cad job to fix. I'll code it properly when I have time. Eleanor Dodson wrote: How do you solve the anomalous data Q - this might be useful for SHELX too - the reflections do not have to follow each other, or I believe even by hkl and -h -k -l; they can be a symmetry equivalent.. E

[ccp4bb] convert2mtz...

2007-03-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This is a replacement for cns2mtz, which fixes all the reported bugs in that program, is rather more convenient, and handles other ascii file types as well, including at least SHELX hkl files and XtalView PHS files. Changes include: - Spacegroup headers are now generated correctly. (I hope).

Re: [ccp4bb] How to run Java program?

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
The file you need to run should end .class or .jar. If you don't have such a file, you'll need to compile it first. You probably need a java sdk rather than jre, although gcj might do the trick. Then: javac Switch.java should make the .class file. (You may need to include the path to your jav

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 GUI

2007-05-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: I was thinking in the "less scary" widgets-based interface for not-so-used options. If possible, I think that all options should be available to the interface. My programs at least have a load of options which I put in for the purposes of testing out ideas, which

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 GUI

2007-05-11 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Clemens Vonrhein wrote: One thing I found very confusing though, is that the com-files created by the CCP4i will often have (nearly) all possible keywords set, even if I haven't changed any of the defaults in the gui. Often, a CCP4 program has defaults itself and only requires keywords if one wan

Re: [ccp4bb] Simultaneous PHENIX and CCP4 burp

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Setup your path to find the phenix version (i.e. phenix goes first in your path). Then in CCP4i, go to System Administration/configure interface and at the bottom of the External Programs folder add the CCP4 paths for the conflicting applications explicitly, i.e. add 'phaser' in the lefts hand

Re: [ccp4bb] error using NCS in dm

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! Your problem is probably this: you don't have 3 domains. You have 3 NCS copies, but only 1 domain. In CCP4I, instead up using the 'Add domain' button to add new operators, you should be using the 'Add operator' button. Kevin Jay Thompson wrote: Hi. I'm having a problem with running

Re: [ccp4bb] Survey on computer usage in crystallography

2007-06-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
More likely the issue is that some of us do not find stereo to be necessary of beneficial for crystallographic model building. In which case, given the power of modern PCs and graphics cards, a basic off-the-shelf PC costing $1000/£500 is completely adaquate for typical structure solution and

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I'm afraid there is no ambiguity. You can't use the CCP4 version 6.* libraries in GPL software. The approach adopted by Coot, which is GPL'd, is to use the CCP4 5.0.2 libraries, which are LGPL, along with some patches currently maintained by Ralph Grosse-Kunstleve to address the more serious d

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
cense imposes additional restrictions on redistribution - in particular (but not limited to) an indemnity clause. Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 06:55, Kevin Cowtan wrote: I'm afraid there is no ambiguity. You can't use the CCP4 version 6.* libraries in GPL software. This

[ccp4bb] Job vacancy for Coot developer at York...

2007-07-11 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Details here: http://www.york.ac.uk/univ/mis/cfm/vacancies/vac_detail.cfm?vacno=BR07299&mode=standard Software Engineer in Protein Crystallography Graphical Model Building in "Coot" Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry Vacancy reference: BR07299 You will work

Re: [ccp4bb] Suggestion: Wiki -- was:Re: [ccp4bb] need help--Rfree is not decreasing

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! A crystallography wiki was discussed at the last CCP4 developers meeting, and I've been looking into it. Setting up a wiki is not hard, but keeping it up-to-date and secure is. (We've had problems with this at York, where we've been running one for a few years). Therefore I suggest it is

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 Wiki

2007-07-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Yes, that is our intention. CCP4 would probably be at the third level of a hierarchy including: Macromolecular crystallographic techniques Structure solution, analysis and visualisation software The CCP4 suite So there would be room for other software packages at the same level as CCP4,

Re: [ccp4bb] auto-tracing programs

2007-07-31 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You could try buccaneer to build an initial model, followed by ARP/wARP to complete the model. I've see some good results on maps in the 2.5-3.5A range with buccaneer, but model completion is still not so good (although it gets better with each new release). http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Does it matter what the PDB use? They will export PDB and mmCIF for us to use, so what they use internally doesn't matter. (IIUC the EBI uses SQL). From my perspective as a developer I am not bothered in the slightest whether we use PDB or mmCIF, because I read everything through MMDB which ha

[ccp4bb] New buccaneer...

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
A couple of buccaneer releases have gone by since I last made an announcement: release 0.7.2: - new 'correlation mode' gives better results after MR or when completing an initial model. - sequenced fragments are now renumbered to match the position in the final sequence. release 0.7.3:

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I support CCP4 adopting the hybrid36 and 2 char chain id extensions too. If no-one else steps up to do it, I'll try and patch mmdb to support it when I get time. Kevin George M. Sheldrick wrote: I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character chain IDs PDB file colum

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

2007-08-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Wow! Those are two pretty amazing structures. For those of you who haven't had a look, the ordered molecules are in layers with *huge* gaps in between, much greater than in 2hr0. And yet both of these structures were solved with experimental phasing (SIRAS) unlike 2hr0, and the data is to hig

Re: [ccp4bb] Mean phase difference calculation

2007-08-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Yup. cphasematch It gives unweighted and weighted mean phase errors and F and E correlations. It'll also try the opposite hand if appropriate. It's in the GUI under Clipper utilities. For an example script, run it in the GUI and then view the command file. Kevin Winter, G (Graeme) wrote: H

[ccp4bb] New validation program...

2007-09-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Number 4. 1994. "The CCP4 Suite: Programs for Protein Crystallography". Acta Cryst. D50, 760-763. as well as any specific reference in the program write-up. Copyright 2007 Kevin Cowtan and University of York. All rights reserved. Please reference: Cowtan K. (2006) Acta Cryst. D62,

[ccp4bb] New versions of buccaneer and sequins...

2007-09-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I've released new versions of buccaneer (model building) and sequins (validation) today, with some fixes and new features: buccaneer 0.7.5 new features: Substantially improved sequencing algorithm. This uses a full sequence-alignment type calculation to get the best fit of the expected sequen

Re: [ccp4bb] DM NCS averaging

2007-10-19 Thread Kevin Cowtan
User error I'm afraid. You are using the 'add domain' button in the GUI, you should be using the 'add operator' button instead. Kevin Bernhard Rupp wrote: Thanks to Pete and Juergen - seems that the GUI sticks the offending domain 1 - domain 2 - line in the script. Both the linux and

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless (1.2.0) and enantiomorphic SG's

2007-11-09 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This is great! But before we all get carried away, a quick reality check is in order. This isn't an area I've thought about, but my limited understanding raises the following issues Given that an MTZ file contains a cell, an indexing of the data, and possibly phases involving a choice of o

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless (1.2.0) and enantiomorphic SG's

2007-11-09 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Eleanor Dodson wrote: Offering a selection of space groups compatible with a point group will not require reindexing. Some point groups of course permit reindexing, but one hope you have chosen a consistent set as you combine data sets into an MTZ file - pointless and the GUI both offer ways to

Re: [ccp4bb] Clipper: Agarwal density gradients and AtomShapeFn::rho_grad

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, that's a good question. Unfortunately the answer is hard, otherwise I would have done it already. The a[] and b[] coeffs are the Gaussian coefficients used for calculating an atomic shape function in reciprocal space, i.e. for use in a structure factor calculation. The aw[] and bw[] coef

Re: [ccp4bb] setpaths.sh

2007-12-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
If you did a binary install, did you remember to run the post-install script: install.sh? Does the $CEXAM/unix/runnable/run-all test work? Meyer, Peter wrote: Hi Li, setpaths.sh (and variants for other shells) are generated during the cctbx build process (with ccp4-6.0.2, this might happen o

Re: [ccp4bb] pirate and R-free

2008-01-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! Remove the colin-wrk-free keyword completely, and things should behave as you expect. Kevin Bryan W. Lepore wrote: running pirate 0.4.9 w/ gui 1.4.4.2 ; the documentation suggests that R-free can be left unassigned - yet, pirate fails, claiming : colin-wrk-free /*/*/[Unassigned] CCP4

Re: [ccp4bb] fffear/pirate/buccaneer and SIGFP

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Not at the moment, but I'm open to suggestions! Bryan W. Lepore wrote: do any of fffear/pirate/buccaneer use SIGFP in a significant/meaningful way? -bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] Announcement: two crystallographic wikis

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
To add to Kay's announcement... There is also going to be another, "official", ccp4 wiki, distinct from Kay's wiki, and fulfilling a different purpose. We're in the early stages of developing it at the moment. The precise roles will probably evolve over time, but currently we see them as follows:

Re: [ccp4bb] WM_DELETE_WINDOW

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Having just sampled a few Linux apps, the most common behaviour for the close decoration seems to be to close without warning if there is no unsaved work, or to close with warning otherwise. At first glance, the CCP4i main window never has an unsaved state, so I was going to disagree with you.

Re: [ccp4bb] Missing reflections

2008-03-12 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Refmac (and dm and pirate and probably some other programs like phaser too) will only restore missing reflections if there are entries (albeit bblank ones) for those reflections in the MTZ file. So it's not a matter of running uniquify before refmac, its a matter of running uniquify before you

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac,tlsanl vs TLS, B and anisou

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I agree with Paul and George that it is vital that PDB files from TLS refinement contain ANISOUs which reflect the results of that refinement, and would like to reinforce Paul's point below. There are many possible parameter-frugal approximations to full ADP-refinement: TLS is just one of them

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with mask creation

2008-04-11 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Turn off the 'set map extent' option. Then it'll cover the whole of the molecule. Nathan Henderson wrote: Hello all, I am trying to do some map averaging from my crystal with 4 molecules/asu. The mask I am trying to create contains the D monomer. However, the output mask seems to be defined in

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