Re: [ccp4bb] Add secondary structure definition into an alphafold PDB

2022-04-07 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Also, of course, you could get the up-to-date version from - https://swift.cmbi.umcn.nl/gv/dssp/ Harry > On 7 Apr 2022, at 09:29, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > wrote: > > Hi Ines > > DSSP? (In ccp4 as “mkdssp” in $CBIN)? Should work with any (valid??) PDB file >

Re: [ccp4bb] Add secondary structure definition into an alphafold PDB

2022-04-07 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Ines DSSP? (In ccp4 as “mkdssp” in $CBIN)? Should work with any (valid??) PDB file “Oldie but goodie”... Harry > On 7 Apr 2022, at 09:24, Munoz.Ines wrote: > > Dear all, > > Is there any program or server that automatically assign the secondary > structure elements into a pdb generated

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot 1

2022-04-04 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Isn’t that what we all say every year on the day after March finishes? Harry > On 1 Apr 2022, at 23:46, Paul Emsley wrote: > > That, for the record, is more or less what Ralf said 18 years ago. > On 01/04/2022 23:38, Pavel Afonine wrote: >> It's April 1st today, isn't it? -;) >> >> >> On

Re: [ccp4bb] ligand binds to one molecule

2022-03-07 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks Just my two ha’porth; if you go back to one of the first two structures determined by protein crystallography, haemoglobin (horse?) has multiple oxygen binding sites) which are potentially different (the binding of oxygen ion one affects the binding in the other - “allostery”). I’m

Re: [ccp4bb] CCTBX current reference?

2022-02-22 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Jul 2013) Harry > On 21 Feb 2022, at 10:04, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi > > Is this _really_ the most recent reference for cctbx? > > Grosse-Kunstleve, R. W., Sauter, N. K., Moriarty, N. W. & Adams, P

Re: [ccp4bb] CCTBX current reference?

2022-02-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Is this _really_ the most recent reference for cctbx? Grosse-Kunstleve, R. W., Sauter, N. K., Moriarty, N. W. & Adams, P. D. (2002). J. Appl. Cryst. 35, 126–136. (from one of Dorothee Liebschner’s recent papers)? Harry > On 21 Feb 2022, at 09:44, Harry Powell -

[ccp4bb] CCTBX current reference?

2022-02-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi I didn’t find this in a couple of minutes searching so I thought I’d ask - what’s the current literature reference for the cctbx toolkit? Harry To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link:

Re: [ccp4bb] OFF_TOPIC: Should you be worried about BPA from plastics? Yes, if you store alkaline reagents in polycarbonate bottles!

2022-01-31 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Last year there were a few reports in the chemical press (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC02708E, and references therein) of studies of glass catalysing reactions - it seems that it isn’t as benign as one might imagine. Of course, this will not be news to the old chemical hands on this

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] A "funny" thing related to AlphaFold2 ....

2021-11-10 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
e with MG. > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 12:16, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi folks > > Been a while, but I’ve been doing some work on checking that some files are > valid PDB files and went back to the documentation; a

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] A "funny" thing related to AlphaFold2 ....

2021-11-10 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks Been a while, but I’ve been doing some work on checking that some files are valid PDB files and went back to the documentation; as far as I can work out, the best solution to this is John Walker’s, because “MODEL 0” is not allowed in the standard (maybe it is for mmCIF…) - > On 27

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-17 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Forgive me if I’ve missed something, but I can’t find a way to run AlphaFold without installing it locally - in which case I need a reasonable GPU. On the other hand, RoseTTAFold does pretty much the same thing and is available via David Baker’s web server - upload your sequence and sit

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Just my two ha’porth. I’m currently involved in a project where my collaborators are investigating the interactions between protein pairs (both hetero and homo) - they specifically asked me _not_ to give them any models from ensembles (actually, they said “no NMR structures because they

Re: [ccp4bb] AI papers in experimental macromolecular structure determination

2021-08-04 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks This is probably a good time to mention that both Melanie and Andrea will be giving presentations at the IUCr in Prague in a couple of weeks or so in the Commission for Crystallographic Computing session chaired by Rita Giordano - MS-73 Machine learning in biological and

[ccp4bb] interesting paper...

2021-07-16 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Readers of this BB may be interested in the following paper from DeepMind - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2_reference.pdf referenced from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 Of course, you should never just open a link contained in an e-mail…

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-04 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
gnificant main-molecule disorder so that comes ahead of adding hydrogens, > and refining unrestrained anisoB (as is the default) for disordered atoms is > asking for trouble. It's not as cookie-cutter as you represent, and I stick > to all my suggestions. > > Phil Jeffrey > Princeton &g

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-04 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Yes, ANIS and adding hydrogens (in SHELXL) are good things to do - with 0.8Å data most small molecule crystallographers would do this as a first step after fitting all the non-H atoms. One thing I can’t agree with is to cut the resolution of your data _unless_ you have a very, very good

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-28 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, 27 May 2021 08:48, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > wrote: > > Hi Jon > > The RMSD data (also NOEs, chemical shifts, etc) are not in the original > PDB so I would have to calculate them - which takes me to my original > question

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-27 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
; scaled by NMR variability > > in ccp4mg? > > This changes the size of the worm but not the colour. > > On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 09:56, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Anyway, thanks to all those who answered

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-27 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Anyway, thanks to all those who answered my original question - especially Tristan: Chimerax (+ his attached script) Michal, Scott: Theseus (https://theobald.brandeis.edu/theseus/) Bernhard: Molmol (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8744573/ ) Rasmus CYRANGE

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-27 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
gt;>> >>>> The superpose/overlay of all the structures in PyMol should inform you the >>>> rigid part of the protein as well as the flexible part. The rigid part >>>> would have very low backbone RMSD or overlay tightly and the flexible part >>>

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-26 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
s of the protein may have been studied through NMR relaxation. > > Smita > > > On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 10:05:05 AM CDT, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Hi > > Given that there are plenty of

Re: [ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-26 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
hot areas? > Jürgen > >> On May 26, 2021, at 11:04 AM, Harry Powell - CCP4BB >> <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Given that there are plenty of people on this BB who are structural >> biologists rather than “ju

[ccp4bb] Analysis of NMR ensembles

2021-05-26 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Given that there are plenty of people on this BB who are structural biologists rather than “just” crystallographers, I thought someone here might be able to help. If I have a structure in the PDB (e.g. 2kv5) that is an ensemble of structures that fit the NOEs, is there a tool available

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting data set to another format?

2021-05-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Dirk Converting to a form that Mosflm can read is not too much of a problem - the problem arises because Kappa CCD images are not corrected for spatial distortions, which can be significant. I think you would need a correction table (or similar - maybe “brass plate” images if you have

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i2 crashes on MacOSX 10.13.6 - High Sierra

2021-04-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
and its link /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib) looks like it’s solved my problem. Talk about needles in haystacks… Harry > On 21 Apr 2021, at 10:42, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > wrote: > > Hi folks > > I have an old-ish Mac (Mac Pro, mid-2010, 3.46 6-core Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM) >

[ccp4bb] ccp4i2 crashes on MacOSX 10.13.6 - High Sierra

2021-04-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks I have an old-ish Mac (Mac Pro, mid-2010, 3.46 6-core Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM) running High Sierra (OSX 10.13.6) - the box will not support newer versions of OSX or MacOS, so I can’t “upgrade” any further on the OS front (well, I could if I really wanted to hack beyond Apple’s

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice ring data issue

2021-03-04 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Alex Have a look at Auspex - it may be able to help AUSPEX (www.auspex.de) Harry > On 4 Mar 2021, at 15:39, Alexander Brown > wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm struggling with a dataset I have which shows very poor data quality > around 3.6A, or exactly where I can see a significant ice ring in

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

2020-12-09 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
The “something” is what gives them their edge (and which they’ve hinted at, but avoided being explicit)… The main quality score used to distinguish their results is GDT_TS (Global Distance Test - Total Score - you can look it up on Wikipedia like I did). Although it doesn’t say in Wikipedia,

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

2020-12-09 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Actually, since Deep Mind is a commercial organization (funded by shareholders and people who buy their services), I don’t think they are subject to the same rules as academia as regards making their source code public. It would be very nice if they would (could?) make their code public,

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

2020-12-08 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
represents a typical spread of homologous > models in the PDB. So yes very competitive if you're desperate for a MR > starting model, but not quite yet there for a refined high-resolution > structure. > > Cheers > > -- Ian > > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 12:11, Harry Powell

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

2020-12-08 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi It’s a bit more than science by press release - they took part in CASP14 where they were given sequences but no other experimental data, and did significantly better than the other homology modellers (who had access to the same data) when judge by independent analysis. There were things

Re: [ccp4bb] Apple Silicon / XQuartz / X11 / CCP4

2020-11-11 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi To be fair to Apple, the original Rosetta that allowed Power PC executables to run on their Intel chipped computers worked really well. I still have a machine that can run Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.8), which uses Rosetta to run a very old version of PPC MS Word. The main issue appears to be

Re: [ccp4bb] how to calculate the volume of a small molecule

2020-11-05 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi If it’s just organic, use 18 Å^3 per non-hydrogen - e.g. glucose (C6H12O6) occupies around 12*18 ~= 216Å^3. Atoms like S and P add a little more, but for mental artihmetic and a quick estimate it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. H > On 5 Nov 2020, at 09:25, vincent Chaptal wrote: > >

Re: [ccp4bb] saturn 724 query

2020-10-28 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi I haven’t looked at this for a few years, but I can’t see why you couldn’t; as far as I remember, Mosflm reads Saturn images okay. You would probably need to do low and high resolution runs since the detector is (I think) only 72mm square. Best option would be to try with something like

Re: [ccp4bb] Can anyone hear me?

2020-09-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
even received my own message from the BB… Harry > On 21 Sep 2020, at 09:47, Harry Powell - CCP4BB > <193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi folks > > SInce early last week I have had no messages from the BB - and also received > a message

[ccp4bb] Can anyone hear me?

2020-09-21 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks SInce early last week I have had no messages from the BB - and also received a message telling me that I had been unsubscribed automatically because of bounced messages. I _should_ have now been resubscribed, but am not getting anything - and the BB is no longer on JISCMAIL’s list of

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems with iMosflm under CCP4i2

2020-09-01 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks Thank for the name-check Jon - I haven’t been employed on the Mosflm project since 2016, but it’s nice to be remembered. The place to look for a more definitive answer to the problem is in the date-stamped mosflm.lp file (called something like mosflm_202008319_124743.lp) which will

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2020-07-17 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
nd users may think they just have bad crystals despite pretty > diffraction. > > So yes, there are people these days who collect powder data for wavelength > and beam position reference. > > Cheers, > > Tom > > > On 16/7/20, 9:26 pm, "CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
s diffraction-free method, then a Si powder allows a precise calibration > of detector distance (and location of beam centre). > > > With best wishes, > > Gerard. > > -- > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:25:55PM +0100, Harry Powell - CCP4BB wrote: >> H

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Does anyone bother collecting a powder image (e.g. Si powder) these days so they actually have a reference that can be used to check both the wavelength and the beam centre? Or is this considered just something that old folk do? Harry > On 16 Jul 2020, at 12:19, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:

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

2020-07-02 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Dear all I’ve been persuaded that MPR is a useful name (and see that there are shortcomings with both “multiplicity” and “redundancy") and I agree with much of what’s been said most recently in this thread. BTW, just because the Physics definition of a measurement/quantity/whatever is given

Re: [ccp4bb] Macports and Fink - failed building open source pymol on MacOS Catalina

2020-06-15 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Why not just use QTMG rather than Pymol? This is, after all, the _CCP4_ bulletin board… H > On 14 Jun 2020, at 23:56, Javier Gonzalez wrote: > > Thank you so much Vijaykumar and Kevin, it worked smoothly! > Best wishes, > Javier > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:04 PM Kevin Jin wrote: > My OS

Re: [ccp4bb] Any advice on specs for a new Mac Laptop to run CCP4 and other Xtal Software?

2020-06-08 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi I’d make the decision based largely on where I was going to use it, and how much I was going to have to carry it (and if I ever wanted to use it in coach class). If it was going to be my machine for “on the road”, I’d go for the 13” one, but if it was going to sit on my desk most of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about small molecule crystallography

2020-06-02 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Just to echo what has been said before, and expand a little. (*) 5mm NMR tubes are wonderful for growing small molecule crystals in the way Artem describes - partly because they have _extremely_ smooth interior surfaces with few nucleation points - so you tend to get fewer, bigger

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB file header lines...

2020-05-29 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
ignored or a parser will throw an error. > > Cheers, > Robbie > >> -Original Message- >> From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Harry >> Powell - CCP4BB >> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 16:57 >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: [ccp

[ccp4bb] PDB file header lines...

2020-05-29 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Is there something about “MODEL ” lines (i.e. five characters followed by a space) in PDB files that is completely beyond the pale? I’ve got some PDB files from a protein structure prediction server based in the US that Coot fails to read and that cause QTMG to crash on my Mac. I’ve

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Pseudosymmetry Effects

2020-05-29 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Tim You could send out an SOS to some of the other authors in the same issue, who might have kept a copy - several are “regular" posters on this forum, e.g. Sacha Urzhumtsev Gerard Kleywegt Eleanor Dodson There’s a good chance they’ll be stuck at home at the moment

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] modelling MET (methionine) and SME (met-sulfoxide)

2020-04-27 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks I can’t help feeling that if there are data extending to 0.97Å and there are multiple conformations/multiple components occupying the same region of (real) space/non-unity occupancies, the problem is crying out for SHELXL… Harry > On 27 Apr 2020, at 07:53, Schreuder, Herman /DE >

[ccp4bb] postponement of IUCr XXV to 2021

2020-03-26 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks I don’t know if this has been announced anywhere else yet, but this year’s IUCr meeting in Prague has been postponed to 2021 - see https://iucr2020.org/news/ I doubt this will be a surprise to anyone. Keep well Harry

Re: [ccp4bb] Raw diffraction images for SARS-CoV-2 related structures

2020-03-19 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi > While those text files would be heavy, they'd be still lighter than raw > images and the whole useless white space they carry with them between > reflections. At the risk of extending this thread into a different direction, the "white space (the images) carry with them between

[ccp4bb] iMosflm/Mosflm and Eiger 2 images

2020-02-26 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi folks I’ve noticed that the Mosflm help line has recently received several messages regarding problems processing Eiger 2 images with iMosflm (e.g. those collected on IMCA-CAT) Invariably, the users have been trying to use iMosflm/Mosflm 7.2.* series - also inevitably, this will not work!

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] Lattice-translocation defect (LTD)

2020-02-12 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Something else I should have mentioned - in iMosflm you can sum your images for viewing only if you have them as HDF5 or Pilatus CBF (as well as summing them for processing if you have HDF5). Harry > On 12 Feb 2020, at 10:18, Schreuder, Herman /DE > wrote: > > Hi Daniele, > > I agree

Re: [ccp4bb] Lattice-translocation defect (LTD)

2020-02-12 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Apropos Mosflm - if you have HDF5 files from ESRF (or Diamond, probably elsewhere) you can sum the images internally to whatever rotation range per pseudo image you want (so if you have, say, 0.05º physical images you could process 0.1, 0.15, 0.20º, etc), provided you have installed Mosflm