Re: [ccp4bb] External: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB vs COVID19

2020-03-21 Thread Michel Fodje
In Ascoidea asiatica where CUG is translated as both Leu and Ser. Mühlhausen S., Schmitt H.D., Pan K.T., Plessmann U., Urlaub H., Hurst L.D., Kollmar M. Endogenous stochastic decoding of the CUG codon by competing Ser- and Leu-tRNAs in Ascoidea asiatica. Curr. Biol. 2018; 28:2046-2057. Perhaps,

Re: [ccp4bb] External: Re: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?)

2020-12-04 Thread Michel Fodje
I think the results from AlphaFold2, although exciting and a breakthrough are being exaggerated just a bit. We know that all the information required for the 3D structure is in the sequence. The protein folding problem is simply how to go from a sequence to the 3D structure. This is not a compl

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Michel Fodje
We store raw data for two main reasons: a) We currently use only a fraction of the information actually contained in raw images and extraction of that fraction can be improved. Destroying the data means - we lose the extra information, and make future research in some areas either impossible o

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Michel Fodje
Every dataset costs money to produce. Is it more cost effective to expect that those wishing to use the data repeat the expenditures by repeating the experiments? To exaggerate the point, imagine a world without published research articles, would it be more expensive to do science or less? We s

Re: [ccp4bb] tcl tk RHEL 6.2

2012-02-06 Thread Michel Fodje
Your 64bit system does not have the 32bit LSB libraries installed. Install the packages "redhat-lsb.i686" and "redhat-lsb-graphics.i686" using yum as follows: yum install redhat-lsb.i686 redhat-lsb-graphics.i686 >-Original Message- >From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.U

Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication

2012-03-31 Thread Michel Fodje
Very interesting "Response to Detection and analysis of unusual features in the structural model and structure-factor data of a birch pollen allergen" doi:10.1107/S1744309112008433 a quote from the response: "Author Schwarzenbacher admits to the allegations of data fabrication and deeply apol

Re: [ccp4bb] JAC (2010), 43,1242-1249

2010-10-19 Thread Michel Fodje
It is available online at http://www.stat.ucla.edu/history/essay.pdf Michel Fodje Staff Scientist Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility Canadian Light Source Tel: 306 657 3758 From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk

Re: [ccp4bb] linux flavors

2011-02-22 Thread Michel Fodje
The preferred method to get NVIDIA drivers for Fedora is to use the RPM Fusion repositories (http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia). Drivers installed this way will be automatically updated with the kernel as required. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.

Re: [ccp4bb] Cluster Design

2011-04-19 Thread Michel Fodje
f the number of frames. I hope this helps. Michel Fodje, Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility, Canadian Light Source -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Frank Murphy Sent: April-19-11 6:06 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Su

Re: [ccp4bb] Help with Bayes's theorem

2010-04-27 Thread Michel Fodje
The opinionator piece is misleading about the meaning of probability, especially as it implies that you could reformulate every problem into one about frequencies. As was pointed out a long time ago by Harold Jeffreys and repeated by Ed Jaynes, "The essence of the present theory is that no pro

Re: [ccp4bb] Highest shell standards

2007-03-26 Thread Michel Fodje
You are probably referring to the following works: Caliandro et al, Acta Cryst. D61 (2005) 556-565 and Caliandro et al, Acta Cryst. D61 (2005) 1080-1087 in which they used density modification to calculate phases for unmeasured reflections, and used the phases to extend the resolution by calculat

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Michel Fodje
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:54 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: > Not at all. Consider all those users of GPL programs running on Windows. > The developers of cygwin, mplayer, etc have no right to redistribute > Windows itself. Programs running under windows are not derivative works of Windows otherwis

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Michel Fodje
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:34 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: > Yes. That is a more complete statement of rights under the GPL. > Please note, however, that "the source code" to which you are > guaranteed access is the source code to the GPL-ed program itself, > not to pieces of the operating environment

[ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Michel Fodje
Dear Crystallographers, Here are a few paradoxes about diffraction I would like to get some answers about: 1. In every description of Braggs' law I've seen, the in-coming waves have to be in phase. Why is that? Given that the sources used for diffraction studies are mostly non-coherent. 2. Trying

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Michel Fodje
> > 1. In every description of Braggs' law I've seen, the in-coming waves > > have to be in phase. Why is that? Given that the sources used for > > diffraction studies are mostly non-coherent. > > Think of Bragg's Law as explaining what happens to a single photon > that is probabilistically scatte

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Michel Fodje
> For every direction where there is destructive interference and a > loss of energy there is a direction where there is constructive > interference that piles up energy. If you integrate over all directions > energy is conserved. For the total integrated energy to be conserved, energy will have

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Michel Fodje
> You are just using the coherent fraction of the beam. My point is that Braggs' law as currently understood does not preclude the diffraction from waves which were non-coherent before hitting the sample > It is not clear at all how you arrive to that condition. By definition, if > two waves are n

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Michel Fodje
Would it be taking it too far to suggest that one could go all the way and consider that each electron diffracts not as groups in a plane but as individual electrons and a photon impinging on an electron with with a specific phase will be diffracted in a specific direction. However the lattice arra

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein models in Blender

2007-09-13 Thread Michel Fodje
Povray is just a renderer like the renderer in blender, only in the case of povray, the input file defines the model. I would think that if it is possible to generate a povray input file from molecule objects, it should be possible to generate a VRML file which blender can open. If I'm not mistaken

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS and overlaps

2008-02-21 Thread Michel Fodje
I should add that inspecting the average three-dimensional profiles in INTEGRATE.LP could give you an indication if you have overlaps or not. The profiles look like slices through a 3D unimodal gaussian. If you have overlaps it will be revealed by bi-/multi-modal features. However, these are avera

[ccp4bb] Beamtime available at the CLS - invitation for requests

2008-10-22 Thread Michel Fodje
Dear Crystallographers, Beamline 08ID-1 (CMCF1) at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) is accepting user beamtime requests for the period November 6 - December 18, 2008. Detailed information about the beamline can be found on our web pages http://www.lightsource.ca/experimental/cmcf.php , http://ex.li

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-18 Thread Michel Fodje
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:40 -0500, James M. Vergis wrote: > 2) Graphics Cards: > I like the Nvidia cards since they provide linux drivers. ATI also does > now. I would say the only thing I don't like about them is when you do a > kernel update you have to remake the driver. I would just add tha

Re: [ccp4bb] A polite reminder to xia2 users

2015-11-06 Thread Michel Fodje
Hardware: Say I do a lot of screening on Beamline A (many hours used), collect a low resolution anomalous dataset on Beamline B, which helps me to solve the structure, then I collect a high resolution native dataset on Beamline C (in just a few minutes) for refinement and model building. Many pe

[ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-12 Thread Michel Fodje
Has anyone else noticed a problem with the structure of the N-terminal capsid domain of HIV-2 PDB 2wlv. Load it up to in coot and navigate to residue B118. /Michel.

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-12 Thread Michel Fodje
By the way, you will need to show symmetry atoms to see the problem. >-Original Message- >From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >Michel Fodje >Sent: April-12-13 1:14 PM >To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >Subject: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-15 Thread Michel Fodje
Just to round up this topic, a bug report was submitted to PDBe concerning entry 2wlv and the PDB has how responded acknowledging the problem. An updated entry will be available in one week. As pointed out by Savvas, it is very likely the CRYST1 record was manually edited prior to deposition re

Re: [ccp4bb] External: Re: [ccp4bb] Unmodeled density

2021-05-26 Thread Michel Fodje
That looks like a magnessium hexahydrate. From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Pearce, N.M. (Nick) Sent: May 26, 2021 7:15 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: External: Re: [ccp4bb] Unmodeled density Is it on a symmetry axis? If so it could be the superposition of two molecules (a molecule

[ccp4bb] Scientist - CMCF Beamlines, Canadian Light Source

2021-10-19 Thread Michel Fodje
The Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLSI) is the national synchrotron research facility on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon. This facility serves national and international users from academia, industry, and government institutions. The CLS facilitates scientific research aimed at

[ccp4bb] Job Opportunity: Beamline Scientist at Canadian Light Source

2024-04-23 Thread Michel Fodje
mline instrumentation, and excellent communication skills. For more information and to apply online, please visit the following link: https://www.northstarats.com/Canadian-Light-Source Please feel free to share this announcement with anyone who may be interested. Regards Michel Fodje Senior Scientis