[ccp4bb] Competition organised by the Scientist: Proteopedia voted first place

2010-09-02 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Dear ccp4bb subscribers, I have just learned that Proteopedia (the wikipedia-style encyclopedia of macromolecular structures) has been voted winner in this year's competition organized by the Scientist ( http://www.the-scientist.com/ , readers and judges choice). So thanks to all who voted,

[ccp4bb] Sftools and Phaser compatibility issues - continued

2010-09-02 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear bulletin board, After downloading and recompiling the complete CCP4 package (we had the precompiled 32bits version on our 64bits machines) we were able to apply the patches of Claus and the problem case P21221 went through without problems. However, with the next problem case tested,

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 6.1.13 and ARP/wARP 7.1

2010-09-02 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear All hopefully the fix for modules.def is now in the source and binaries for ccp4 6.1.13 Charles Ballard CCP4 On 30 Aug 2010, at 18:06, ger...@embl-hamburg.de wrote: Dear Colleagues, some of you might have noticed that ARP/wARP does not install cleanly with the latest version of

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

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Evans
I'm sure it would be a good thing if SFTOOLS recognised all possible space groups, but I wonder why you are using SFTOOLS at all. I've almost never had the need to use it myself. Space group changes and many other things can be done with CAD for example Phil On 2 Sep 2010, at 13:31,

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

2010-09-02 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Phil, CAD would also be an excellent alternative. I used REINDEX which also worked. The point I tried to make is that if people do not know that SFTOOLS is not up to date, they may use it in good faith and get into trouble. If they know it, they might use it to hack an mtz file when

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

2010-09-02 Thread Nat Echols
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:31 AM, herman.schreu...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: The other question is: why does phaser write 'R 3 :H' in the mtz? When the problem with the P21221 space group first popped up last year, Randy told me that space group numbers like 2018 are non-standard, and that

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.

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

2010-09-02 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
FYI -- The :h suffix for R3 is described in the IUCr symmetry cif (intl tables vol G chapter 4.7) under _space_group.reference_setting where it states For the space groups where more than one setting is given in International Tables, the following choices have been made. For monoclinic space

[ccp4bb] How to automatically answer NO to SFTOOLS reading in a shell script?

2010-09-02 Thread Hailiang Zhang
Hi, I am reading a ccp4 mtz file using SFTOOLS. It asked me Is this an XPLOR RFREE flag column?. First I assume the answer is NO, since the input is a CCP4 mtz file although the colume is for free-flags. Then, I am wondering what is the script to automatically answer NO in a shell script.

Re: [ccp4bb] How to automatically answer NO to SFTOOLS reading in a shell script?

2010-09-02 Thread Bart Hazes
Hi Hailiang sftools was first and foremost designed to be used interactively, that is why it tends to follow a question and answer user interface. Of course you can use sftools in scripts but if it pops up a question that was not anticipated, the script it will crash. There could be a batch

Re: [ccp4bb] How to automatically answer NO to SFTOOLS reading in a shell script?

2010-09-02 Thread Hailiang Zhang
GOt it! Thanks! Best REgards, Hailiang Hi Hailiang sftools was first and foremost designed to be used interactively, that is why it tends to follow a question and answer user interface. Of course you can use sftools in scripts but if it pops up a question that was not anticipated, the

[ccp4bb] to back-soak or not to back-soak

2010-09-02 Thread amit sharma
Hi, I recently collected a MAD dataset on one of my xtals soaked in ~7mM KAuCN2 for 1.5 days. I had backsoaked these xtals prior to freezing and the signal seems to be faint. I was wondering if it would help not back-soaking xtals. I would be grateful for any comments/suggestions. thanks, --

Re: [ccp4bb] microseeding SeMet drops with native xtal seeds

2010-09-02 Thread Diana Tomchick
See the following publication for an interesting method to resolve pseudo-merohedral twinning in SeMet crystals: Cansizoglu, A. E. and Chook, Y. M. (2007) Conformational heterogeneity of Karyopherinβ2 is segmental. Structure, 15(11):1431-1441. In an effort to obtain single selenomethionine

[ccp4bb] Confirming expression of a GPCR in HEK293

2010-09-02 Thread Qing Lu
Dear All, Apologies for a non-ccp4 question. I am planning to express a GPCR in HEK293T cell line by transfecting with the requisite cDNA for performing an assay. I would like to confirm the expression of the protein in the cell line by western blot or histochemical studies. Any pointers in this

Re: [ccp4bb] Confirming expression of a GPCR in HEK293

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Keller
If I were you, I would just make a gfp-tagged construct--this is an easy way to make sure that the protein is there, and made it to the membrane. If necessary, you can blot for gfp, or add other tags in the process for alternative blotting (one on each side to make sure it is not cleaved, for

Re: [ccp4bb] Confirming expression of a GPCR in HEK293

2010-09-02 Thread Pascal Egea
Hi Qing, I would recommend either the use of GFP as mentioned by Jacob or a his-tag or a flag-tag. C-terminal tagging is preferred to prevent interference with signal sequences at the N-terminus of the protein. Flag tag is really good for detection , the commercial antibodies for detection are

[ccp4bb] fit a peptide in isolated density

2010-09-02 Thread Rain Field
In an isolated piece of density, I want to fit a 7AA peptide fragment from a protein. Only the sequence of the whole protein (200AA) is known, and I don't know the peptide sequence. I think it's best to try from the beginning of the whole sequence to the end. So is there any software or scripts