Re: [ccp4bb] Cis-peptide bond checking

2015-02-16 Thread Edward A. Berry
. Stewart, D. E., Sarkar, A., and Wampler, J. E. (1990) J. Mol. Biol. 214, 253–260 D. Pal, P. Chakrabarti, Cis peptide bonds in proteins: residues involved, their conformations, interactions and locations, J. Mol. Biol. 294 (1999) 271–288. (and I'm sure that is far from complete) On 02/16/20

Re: [ccp4bb] P3212--1's in Space Group Names?

2015-02-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
Well let me further muddy the waters by insisting that the 1 IS DEFINITELY a place-holder, telling you that there is no rotation (greater than 1-fold) along the a or b axes, and that the 2 therefore refers to 2-fold rotation along the next axis, the ab diagonal (no the -a,b diagonal which is pe

Re: [ccp4bb] Blob Game

2015-02-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Ethanol? You weren't setting up drops with liquor on your breath, were you? On 02/23/2015 12:20 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: Dear Crystallographers, I've got a strange blob hanging off an arginine--see attached. Any ideas? Nothing weird in the prep; cryst+prot conditions: NH4SO4, TRIS/HEPES, CaCl2

Re: [ccp4bb] adjusting bad Ramachandran angles

2015-02-25 Thread Edward A. Berry
If you use restraints to fix outliers, I strongly suggest to refine to convergence without restraints after they are "fixed". If some outliers return, and "% favored" decreases, so be it. For one thing, depositing a structure with dihedrals restrained gives an unfair impression of higher quali

Re: [ccp4bb] adjusting bad Ramachandran angles

2015-02-25 Thread Edward A. Berry
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Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic - Crystallisation in anaerobic glove box

2015-03-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
Do you have evidence that the oil blocks diffusion of O2? O2 is a nonpolar molecule, generally much more soluble in oils than in water. I'm not sure about silicone oils, but I would think they also dissolve O2 readily. eab On 03/18/2015 08:02 AM, Patrick Shaw Stewart wrote: Hi Steve I have o

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic - Crystallisation in anaerobic glove box

2015-03-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
Actually I may have misunderstood the original post. Patrick never said oils block O2 diffusion: On 03/18/2015 09:47 AM, Edward A. Berry wrote: The microbatch-under-oil method is very handy for anaerobic work: (In a glove box, of course) 1. You can keep the microbatch

Re: [ccp4bb] 来自"李孝蓉" 的邮件

2015-03-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
To be sure it is protein, it would be nice to see some spots at resolution less than (spacing greater than) ~12 A. The pattern is somewhat consistent with a unit cell with two very short axes and one long axis. If so, then when you rotate so that the long axis is in the plane of the picture (pe

Re: [ccp4bb] Sortwater NCS Matrix input

2015-04-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 04/01/2015 08:47 PM, Shane Caldwell wrote: I guess the next, probably more general question for the bb is: which utilities export an NCS transformation matrix with more precision? TAJones' "O" program allows you to specify output format like write .LSQ_RT_m2m ncs.odb (3f16.10) which gives

Re: [ccp4bb] funding experiences - query

2015-04-14 Thread Edward A. Berry
One of my projects was caught in the transition- as long as we didn't have crystals diffracting to high resolution, the project was highly significant but was denied (continuation of) funding for lack of confidence we would get the structure. After we got good crystals and phased them they said su

Re: [ccp4bb] HPLC vs FPLC for protein purification

2015-04-20 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 04/20/2015 06:44 PM, xaravich ivan wrote: Hi CCP4eans, solvent based HPLC system? Do you mean like acetonitrile:water:TFA on reverse-phase columns? I think this is routinely used for analytical runs or to obtain material for protein chemistry, but the concentration of acetonitrile required

Re: [ccp4bb] The predicted unit cell is large and all the molecules will be around the longest axis.

2015-04-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
Also collect while rotating around the long axis, which you nearly are in this shot assuming the Phi axis is horizontal. That way the close separation is in x,y where you can see it rather than in Z which puts the spots on top of each other requiring thin slicing and (low mosaicity!) to separat

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-04-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
Some details of one controversy Prof. Rich became embroiled in are available on the wikipedia page for his colleague Sung-Hou Kim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Sung-Hou). Especially references 6-8, which are scanned copies of correspondence exchanged with the folks at MRC, e.g. the initial a

Re: [ccp4bb] Alexander Rich passed away Monday April 27, 2015

2015-05-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 05/02/2015 12:23 PM, Imre Berger wrote: Dear Edward - Would you be so kind and explain why you went ahead to post that comment about Alex Rich on CCP4, in a thread which announced the sad news of his passing away? Yes- I realized after posting it that it was inappropriate. If there is any w

Re: [ccp4bb] Graphic for rotation about axis

2015-05-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
Thanks, these are great! I installed the ttf font on a windows box, and the symbols are available in MSWord and Photoshop (and presumably powerpoint and everything else). No more designing my own symbols in photoshop! eab On 05/08/2015 02:43 PM, Mooers, Blaine H.M. (HSC) wrote: Hi Nick, These

Re: [ccp4bb] [phenixbb] how to generate an isomorphous difference map

2015-05-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
iser wrote: Good points. But also, the traditional isomorphous difference map is not as susceptible to model bias issues compared to a real space difference map (or a "vector" isomorphous difference map). On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Edward A. Berry mailto:ber...@upstate.edu>&

[ccp4bb] Two kinds of solvent-accessible-surface ?

2015-05-15 Thread Edward A. Berry
If I remember correctly, there are two different ways to calculate a surface by rolling a ball over it, and i think that I want a program to calculate the non-conventional one. As I understand, the ASA is defined as the surface traced out by the _center_ of the rolling sphere, i.e. one radius

Re: [ccp4bb] Two kinds of solvent-accessible-surface ?

2015-05-15 Thread Edward A. Berry
al Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Edward A. Berry Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 3:08 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Two kinds of solvent-accessible-surface ? If I remember correctly, there are two different ways to calculate a surface b

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal habit/morphology and the relationship to unit cell contents

2015-06-01 Thread Edward A. Berry
Is it possible to distinguish P64 from P62 without having basically solved the structure? Given that it is P64, is the +ive direction of the c axis arbitrary? A left-hand helix is left hand either way you point it, and the molecules in the asymmetric units could be pointing the opposite way.

Re: [ccp4bb] How many is too many free reflections?

2015-06-04 Thread Edward A. Berry
In other words, the free set for each complex must be such that reflections that are also present in the apo dataset retain the FreeR flag they had in that dataset. A very easy way to achieve this- generate a complete dataset to ridiculously high resolution with the cell of your crystal, and ass

Re: [ccp4bb] New ligand 3-letter code

2015-06-06 Thread Edward A. Berry
Neat! It's true the PDB will choose a unique code for you, but they will use what you supply if it is already unique, and it is nice to be able to choose something that can help you remember what it stands for. Gone are the days when we could choose meaningfull pdb ID's (like 1PRC, 2PRC, 3PRC etc

Re: [ccp4bb] determine NCS operators from PDB coordinates

2015-06-19 Thread Edward A. Berry
A number of superposition programs allow to superimpose specified atoms (such as CA). Once you get the operator, comparing two different operators is not a job for a conventional superposition program, since you are superimposing a line on a line which has the extra degree of freedom- rotation ab

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: New ligand 3-letter code (help-7071)

2015-06-19 Thread Edward A. Berry
You raise some good points, but as far as better confidentiality pre-publication goes. unreleased entries are not secret in any case- if the second group is at all nervous about competition, they will be searching the unreleased entries database (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/searchStatus.do),

Re: [ccp4bb] [Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] FW: New ligand 3-letter code (help-7071)]

2015-06-21 Thread Edward A. Berry
I can't imagine a journal doing that can you? When I work on my supplementary material in a paper I don't expect that the journal will take a bit out and publish it separately to support the work of my competitors. Not out of spite that I was beaten - but because I don't want to take the respon

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser solution and solvent content for arp warp

2015-06-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
A little bit confused about the 30 molecules. Superimposed models from the nmr structure in one or two copies ofone ensemble? Anyway, Arp-warp just uses the model to calculate phases for an initial map. How about forgo the model and give it a map with phases from the successful phaser run? It l

Re: [ccp4bb] paired refinement

2015-07-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
Another criterion for cutoff, also requiring the structure to be solved, is the agreement between data and structure, e.g. Rfree or CCfree. I think it is very unlikely that you could get Rfree =.2493 in a shell which contains only noise. So I would suggest doing paired refinement to 2.2 and 2.1 A

Re: [ccp4bb] paired refinement

2015-07-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
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Re: [ccp4bb] paired refinement

2015-07-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
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Re: [ccp4bb] topdraw

2015-07-05 Thread Edward A. Berry
I think it is part of ccp4: $CCP4/bin/topdraw On 07/05/2015 10:30 AM, Faisal Tarique wrote: Dear all Can anybody provide me the link to download or install " TopDraw " a topology drawing interface in CCP4..? Thanks -- Regards Faisal School of Life Sciences JNU

Re: [ccp4bb] determine NCS operators from PDB coordinates

2015-07-07 Thread Edward A. Berry
est wishes, Tobias. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Edward A. Berry mailto:ber...@upstate.edu>> wrote: A number of superposition programs allow to superimpose specified atoms (such as CA). Once you get the operator, comparing two different operators is not a job fo

Re: [ccp4bb] just out of totally idle curiosity ...

2016-11-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
What about China? Singapore? On 11/09/2016 12:45 AM, Tom Peat wrote: I don't know about Europe, but it is very tight Down Under... -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of William G. Scott Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2016 4:38 PM To: CCP

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: AW: AW: [ccp4bb] confusing crystal diffraction

2016-11-17 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 11/17/2016 08:36 AM, herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: Dear Shijun, The reject.hkl file is the file with all rejected reflections. The first three numbers are h, k and l. For the other items you have to consult the HKL manual. As I said, I am not familiar with HKL2000. However, in your cas

Re: [ccp4bb] Effects of Multiplicity and Fine Phi with Equivalent Count Numbers

2016-11-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 11/30/2016 10:16 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: If you fine slice and everything is then a partial, isn't that *more* sensitive to lack of synchronization between the shutter and rotation axis than the wide-frame method where there's a larger proportion of fulls that don't approach the frame edge

Re: [ccp4bb] help with Buccaneer

2017-01-19 Thread Edward A. Berry
When faced with a program requiring HL coefficients, and having phases from a (partial) model, I used to run a ccp4 program called sigmaa to generate the HL coefficients. I'm not sure if this is theoretically a good idea, but at least it allows the program to run. On 01/19/2017 11:10 PM, Vikram D

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown electron density blob, pdb convention for partially ordered ligands

2017-01-25 Thread Edward A. Berry
Uma's use of quotes around "di" suggests a related question about PDB convention. It was my (perhaps not very good) understanding that ligands should be identified by what is actually present in the crystal, and not by what can be modeled. For example endogenous ubiquinone is likely to be UQ50

Re: [ccp4bb] !SPAM: [ccp4bb] secondary structure assignment to PDB file

2017-01-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
As I understood the problem, it is that automatic assignment comes out differently for different structures of the same protein or proteins so close that they should have the same secondary structure, due to differences in quality of the structures. The question then is not how to determine sec

Re: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Edward A. Berry
Does this count as an example? grep SSBOND /a/pdb/pdb4e9m.ent SSBOND 1 CYS A 39CYS B 39 1555 1555 2.05 SSBOND 2 CYS C 39CYS D 39 1555 1555 2.04 SSBOND 3 CYS E 39CYS F 39 1555 1555 2.03

Re: [ccp4bb] advances in multisubunit membrane protein

2017-02-03 Thread Edward A. Berry
Speaking specifically for succinate dehydrogenase, there are a number of assembly factors required for insertion of flavin, iron-sulfur clusters (SDHAF1,2,3 . . .). Since E. coli or Pischia make their own SDH, there is a possibility the endogenous assembly factors and co-factors would work with t

Re: [ccp4bb] CM Sephadex C50

2017-02-07 Thread Edward A. Berry
Yes, CM-Sephadex expands and contracts incredibly. For other than batch methods you will be much better using CM-Sepharose. I guess it is cross-linked sepharose, and doesn't swell up much even in distilled water. What is happening is the negative charges of the carboxy groups repel each other,

Re: [ccp4bb] making a paper model

2017-03-09 Thread Edward A. Berry
On 03/09/2017 11:45 AM, Alice Dawson (Staff) wrote: you can find a paper model of GFP at the RCSB PDB https://cdn.rcsb.org/pdb101/learn/resources/gfp-model.pdf Hmm- that seems to involve quite a bit of cut-and-pasting too - or rather cut-and taping! 2D topology diagrams are really schematics

Re: Writing out common waters from multiple files [ccp4bb]

2007-01-19 Thread Edward A. Berry
Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: I have superimposed one structure on top of another. Now, I am interested in only displaying the water molecules that are identical between the two structures. MolA has ~3000 waters and molB has ~900 waters. There are ~330 water molecules identical between the two

Re: [ccp4bb] How to subtract one electron density map from another

2007-03-22 Thread Edward A. Berry
Mapman (Uppsala software factory) allows you to subtract maps if they are on the same grid. You may need to multiply one map by a factor (again in mapman) to make the background flat in the regions you believe to be identical. Linearity of the Fourier Transform implies you could get the same resu

Re: [ccp4bb] Highest shell standards

2007-03-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
Actually I was thinking of a somewhat earlier paper: Rayment,I. Molecular relacement method at low resolution: optimum strategy and intrinsic limitations as determined by calculations on icosahedral virus models. Acta Crystallogr. A 39, 102 116 (1983). But thanks for bringing the Caliandro et a

Re: [ccp4bb] Highest shell standards -oops-

2007-03-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
-oops- many missing REFLECTIONS are included.

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of low resolution structures

2007-04-03 Thread Edward A. Berry
Sounds like a pretty successful refinement, given the resolution! The fact that releasing NCS improves R-free suggests there are real ncs violations (otherwise releasing ncs increases R-free). But they may be confined to a few residues in contact areas. You can locate these violations by comparin

Re: [ccp4bb] : Crystallographic Programs on AMD computers

2007-04-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
Kay Diederichs wrote: the CPU (AMD versus Intel) does not play any role for crystallographic computing, but you'll have to decide whether you want to install the 64bit or the 32bit version of RHEL4. 32bit programs run a bit faster on a 64bit operating system, and with a 64bit OS you can run p

Re: [ccp4bb] image plate shadow

2007-05-03 Thread Edward A. Berry
It definitely could be the pin, assuming that projects in from the opposite side as the beamstop shadow. Although the crystal is a major source of background scatter, and obviously the pin cannot cast a shadow in that light, air scattering is also significant, and the air at the tip of the collima

[ccp4bb] Alternate space groups for MR in Beast

2007-05-07 Thread Edward A. Berry
Dear All, I'm doing molecular replacement with beast, using the ccp4i gui. Space group is P41 or P43 based on syst. absences. Input mtz file is reduced in P41, but I want to try the translation search with both. So, Does beast automatically try both? Is there a parameter I can enter to set p43 on

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-04 Thread Edward A Berry
Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote: The last question: In the same paper, for the complex structure R and Rfree are equal (30%) is that an indication for improper refinement in these published structure? I'd love to hear your comments on that too. Several times I solved low resolution structures using

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Edward A Berry
?) to compensate for the difference in resolution of model and data? Carien On 4 Jun 2007, at 19:38, Edward A Berry wrote: Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote: The last question: In the same paper, for the complex structure R and Rfree are equal (30%) is that an indication for improper refinement in

Re: [ccp4bb] Sorting on residue number in Coot

2007-07-05 Thread Edward A Berry
Andrew Gulick wrote: that the PDB file can be re-ordered? I realize I could use a sort command in UNIX however that would be complicated by the presence of multiple chains and splitting up the PDB by chain could be as tedious as manually editting. Any other easy work-around suggestions from an

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 20:47, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: Implementations to generate intuitive, maximally backward compatible numbers can be found here: http://cci.lbl.gov/hybrid_36/ From that URL: ATOM 8 SD MET L 48.231 -64.383 -9.257 1.0

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-12 Thread Edward A Berry
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: I.e. the first 9 serial numbers are represented as usual. The following atoms use a base-36 system (10 digits + 26 letters) with upper-case letters. 43670016 (26*36**4) additional atoms can be numbered this way. If there are more than 43770015 (9+43670016)

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 rotation convention

2007-08-13 Thread Edward A. Berry
How about this (may be way off base): Any transformation can be seen either as moving of the coordinates in a fixed coordinate system, or as a "change of coordinates" and expressing the position of the same object with respect to the new coordinates. In molecular replacement it is convenient to

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

2007-08-16 Thread Edward A Berry
For nice crystals data processing is straightforward. For crystals with large unit cells, high mosaicity, and diffuse scattering, processing can be critical. It may be that future advances in integration software will allow one to extract far better data from such a diffraction dataset than can be

Re: [ccp4bb] tricky molecular replacement

2007-11-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
One other idea idea: 1. Solvent flattening on the hexagonal crystal 2. use the flattening mask to cut out the density of one molecule, put in a large P1 cell for calculating structure factors 3. Use the structure factors from the density of the hexagonal crystal to solve the triclinic crysta

Re: [ccp4bb] torsion restraints and phi/psi

2007-11-07 Thread Edward A Berry
Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear All, I wonder about the exact use of torsion restrains and the effect on phi/psi/w validation. a) does refmac restrain phipsi at all (except vdw repulsion which does not bias them otherwise)? Isn't it the case that vdw interactions are turned off between ato

Re: [ccp4bb] torsion restraints and phi/psi

2007-11-07 Thread Edward A Berry
I wrote: Isn't it the case that vdw interactions are turned off between atoms in a residue, and perhaps with the residues before and after? No it is not the case, at least in refmac5 and SHELLXL. Thanks to those who clarified this. Jim Naismith's earlier post, which I had not seen, suggests a b

Re: [ccp4bb] upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo

2007-12-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
I just noticed there is a space between s and o in .so: Robert Grant wrote: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libbluecurve.s o" Probably a mistake in pasting the error message, but if not it could be significant. Ed

[ccp4bb] Does NCS bias a randomly-chosen test set (even if not enforced)?

2008-02-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
Clarification- Someone wrote: Ah- that's going way to fast for the beginners, at least one of them! Can someone explain why the R-free will be very close to the R-work, preferably in simple concrete terms like Fo, Fc, at sym-related reflections, and the change in the Fc resulting from a step of

[ccp4bb] Unit cell change - was Re: [ccp4bb] XDS question

2011-06-14 Thread Edward A. Berry
I'm currently struggling with what I think is a variation on this theme, would appreciate comments as to whether my thinking is reasonable. The space group is basically rhombohedral, but along the lines of spots in the (hexagonal)L direction, with some crystals there are two weak spots between eac

Re: [ccp4bb] non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-16 Thread Edward A. Berry
Better yet, RbBr? and pH MES, MOPS, and HEPES with RbOH? I haven't checked the price. Jacob Keller wrote: Is there any reason why crystallographers have not routinely substituted NaBr for NaCl in protein crystallization stocks, or even pH'd their TRIS with HBr, if there is no NaCl? Wouldn't it m

Re: [ccp4bb] non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-16 Thread Edward A. Berry
Sean Seaver wrote: Better yet, RbBr? and pH MES, MOPS, and HEPES with RbOH? I haven't checked the price. Including shipping in the US RbBr: 50 g 99% pure is ~$150. RbOH: 25g 99+% pure in 50 % water runs about ~$120. It would be interesting to see how the substitution would influence the crys

Re: [ccp4bb] Nanodrop versus Nanophotomter Pearl versus good old Bradford.

2011-06-16 Thread Edward A. Berry
Arnon Lavie wrote: ~~~ We have been considering buying a Nanodrop machine (small volume, no dilution needed, fast, easy). However, while testing our samples using a colleague's machine, we have gotten readings up to 100% different to our Bradford assay (all fully purified proteins). For example,

Re: [ccp4bb] Waters in ADIT

2011-06-22 Thread Edward A. Berry
In my experience ADIT (or ADIT2) is aware of symmetry mates, and gives a different message for waters related to them- something about these waters will be moved for you if you don't do it yourself. I would go ahead and deposit, and when you are given the final file to OK for release, if it erron

Re: [ccp4bb] Homology modelling

2011-06-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
I suspect what your colleague wants is not a whole slew of homology models, but for you to take a look at variable residues, see what they are doing in the structure, and make comments like The tyrosine is H-bonding the ligand, so mutating to phenylalanine may weaken the binding or change specif

Re: [ccp4bb] Kd's in Crystals

2011-06-24 Thread Edward A. Berry
Jacob Keller wrote: Dear Crystallographers, what is the dogma with regard to affinities in crystals? For example, if I soak three crystals in 1pM, 1nM, and 1uM compound X, and they all show equivalent density, does that mean that the affinity is really better than 1pM, or is the crystal of such

Re: [ccp4bb] generate large symmetry model

2011-06-30 Thread Edward A. Berry
Its obviously not going to be possible to give a unique chain letter for every chain in 27 cells, but forget renaminmg the chains and its very easy to generate the models to look at- might even do it in a triple-nested foreach loop in csh. After generating the whole cell as suggested by David or E

Re: [ccp4bb] Multi crystal averaging : data on same scale before averaging?

2011-07-14 Thread Edward A. Berry
If I recall correctly DATAMAN does Wilson scaling in which the scale and B-factor are adjusted so the average reflection intensity in resolution bins are the same. I suspect it may not be required if all the data have been put on an approximately absolute scale by e.g. truncate (although that does

Re: [ccp4bb] Data from old tapes

2011-07-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
My exabyte eliant 8 mm tape just went on the blink, so I've sent it to Pacific Data (http://www.pacificdata.com/tape_drive.html) for repair. They also sell tape drives, but looks like mainly newer ones. Probably have some old ones from the repair business. Search ebay for exabyte or "dat tape" and

Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of ccp4 on 64bit fedora core 13

2011-08-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
유상헌 wrote: > Dear all, > > First I’m a beginner of linux and I’m trying to install CCP4 on my 64bit > Fedora 13. > > If there is anyone who successfully installed ccp4 on 64bit fedora13, > > please, instruct me how to install this program in detail. > I recently installed CCP4-6.1.3 from sour

Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of ccp4 on 64bit fedora core 13

2011-08-09 Thread Edward A. Berry
Edward A. Berry wrote: If you have trouble with TCL/TK read below-quoted message. Mosflm site has more suggestions. better yet: http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/CCP4_on_Fedora_12 which says: Now Tcl/Tk tools are bundled with Fedora 12, and they work well for CCP4i

Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of ccp4 on 64bit fedora core 13

2011-08-09 Thread Edward A. Berry
n a new terminal: imosflm and ccp4i work (as far as I have tested) Andreas On 09/08/2011 2:46, Edward A. Berry wrote: Edward A. Berry wrote: If you have trouble with TCL/TK read below-quoted message. Mosflm site has more suggestions. better yet: http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konst

Re: [ccp4bb] Installation of ccp4 on 64bit fedora core 13

2011-08-09 Thread Edward A. Berry
Edward A. Berry wrote: That does look easier, but mainly because you are not installing blt - What do you get for "which bltwish"? presumably in $CCP4I_TCLTK, since ccp4i works. So that means $CCP4_MASTER/tcltk++/bin But how did it get there? maybe from here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/

Re: [ccp4bb] BLT wish

2011-08-17 Thread Edward A. Berry
Seems to me the CCP4 change is exactly in line with the developers' response to wgscott's bug report at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/19148 You have to have the BLT package, whether you shell bltwish or wish. Modern BLT package doesn't contain bltwish, because "not a bug.

Re: [ccp4bb] Sequence Alignment Question

2011-08-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
Yuri wrote: Hello Everyone, A little off topic but, what is a good way to show (publication quality) multiple sequence alignment? I am trying to show conserved regions in related proteins from different organisms. Thank you -- Yuri Pompeu or clustalw, e.g. http://npsa-pbil.ibcp.fr/cgi-bin/ali

Re: [ccp4bb] Modeling ligands in binding pockets when the density is weak.

2011-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
David Schuller wrote: On 08/23/11 15:01, Ed Pozharski wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:36 -0600, Francis E Reyes wrote: Seems to be a quiet day on the BB So you need an earthquake :) Had one already, thanks. Apparently sent from the vicinity of U. Maryland and JHSPH, thanks.

Re: [ccp4bb] reindexing monoclinic data

2011-08-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
Gregory Bowman wrote: Hi all, We have several primitive monoclinic datasets for the same protein with various ligands, with essentially the same unit cell parameters. We would like to have these with the molecules/density oriented the same way for easy comparison, but as chance would have it,

Re: [ccp4bb] Methods for dehydrating crystals

2011-08-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
Andrea L Edwards wrote: Hi all, What are the most successful methods you know of for dehydrating a crystal prior to freezing it? I am trying to push the resolution of my crystals. Thanks, Andrea First of all, be aware that not all crystals are improved by dehydration. Some need to be drier,

Re: [ccp4bb] reindexing monoclinic data

2011-08-27 Thread Edward A. Berry
Gregory Bowman wrote: Yes, but I don't actually want to swap a and c (convention that a is shorter than c), but instead flip k and keep h and l the same. Incidentally, it is not immediately obvious to me why in matrix I cited below that the new l is h+l: -1 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 Greg Because -a a

Re: [ccp4bb] reindexing monoclinic data

2011-08-27 Thread Edward A. Berry
Sorry for adding confusion- of course in reciprocal space beta* should be acute. The figures should have been labeled a, c not h,L. Edward A. Berry wrote: Gregory Bowman wrote: Yes, but I don't actually want to swap a and c (convention that a is shorter than c), but instead flip k and k

Re: [ccp4bb] UV imaging of crystals

2011-09-15 Thread Edward A. Berry
A "real" UV microscope requires quartz optics, right? Probably conventional microscopes use glass. And you can't see 280 nm (and its not good for your eyes) so you need some kind of phosphor screen to view the image? Bosch, Juergen wrote: I'm replying here to myself :-) So in an off-board discu

Re: [ccp4bb] Superpose, SSM

2011-09-26 Thread Edward A. Berry
>>> The outputfile appears to have additional line feeds (see picture) which, >>> however are not seen in the windows notepad. What application ARE the extra lines seen in? Sounds like a problem with different newline conventions- vs vs - although I shouldn't have thought extra carriage return

Re: [ccp4bb] Ramachandran plot difference between Coot and Morprobity (or Phenix)

2011-09-29 Thread Edward A. Berry
What does ProCheck say? Xiaopeng Hu wrote: Dear all, I just notified that there is a big difference between the Ramachandran plot analysis results produced by Coot and Morprobity (or Phenix). For the structure I am working now, Phenix(Morprobity) gives out Ramachandran outliers 0.2%, favored

Re: [ccp4bb] detect dsDNA

2011-10-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
Jacob Keller wrote: I actually looked at an EtBr MSDS a while ago, and was shocked at how benign it was. I also heard from someone that they used to feed it to Argentinian cows routinely a few years back... Wikipedia says it was used as a trypanosomacidal - It's being discontinued not because

Re: [ccp4bb] Bicarb at low pH

2011-10-02 Thread Edward A. Berry
Jacob Keller wrote: Dear Crystallographers, I would like to soak my crystals in bicarbonate (a possible substrate), but the crystals have grown--and only grow--in pH 5.2-6.0, so the bicarb/CO2 will just keep evolving out of the solution and reliquishing its hydroxyls until the pH is elevated suf

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice rings...

2011-10-11 Thread Edward A. Berry
If the ice rings are really sharp, they trigger the bad background rejection in denzo/HKL2000. To reject more spots, increase the "reject fraction 0.7" parameter to something greater than .7. This rejection is on a spot by spot basis, so spots with good background between the rings should not be a

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice rings... [maps and missing reflections]

2011-10-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/2011 09:58 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:33:09 pm Garib N Murshudov wrote: In the limit yes. however limit is when we do not have solution, i.e. when model errors are very large. In the limit

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-14 Thread Edward A. Berry
Now it would be interesting to refine this structure to convergence, with the original free set. If I understood correctly Ian Tickle has done essentially this, and the Free R returns essentially to its original value: the minimum arrived at is independent of starting point, perhaps within limita

[ccp4bb] newbie question about data processing

2011-10-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
I integrated data with mosflm using the lowest symmetry implied by the lattice- P4. Scaling with scala confirms that symmetry. Now I want to test P422, but scala doesn't seem to have a SYMM or SPACE GROUP keyword. I'm sure there is an obvious way to do this, which everyone else knows, but i don't

Re: [ccp4bb] newbie question about data processing

2011-10-18 Thread Edward A. Berry
Thanks! That does it. Harry wrote: Hi Ed "reindex" is your friend here - reindex hklin jumbo.mtz hklout dumbo.mtz < I integrated data with mosflm using the lowest symmetry implied by the lattice- P4. Scaling with scala confirms that symmetry. Now I want to test P422, but scala doesn't seem to

Re: [ccp4bb] Archiving Images for PDB Depositions

2011-11-01 Thread Edward A. Berry
Gerard Bricogne wrote: . . . . the view, expressed by many and just now supported by George, that developers could perfectly well do their job on the basis of relatively small collections of test datasets that they could assemble through their own connections or initiative. I mostly agree with t

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Edward A. Berry
Ho Leung Ng wrote: There is at least one paper describing the success of PEG precipitants for complexes, but I can't find the reference right now. Is this it? http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0021889802013973 J. Appl. Cryst. (2002). 35, 674-676[ doi:10.1107/S0021889802013973 ] Crystal

Re: [ccp4bb] adxv

2011-11-21 Thread Edward A. Berry
yum install lesstif ? but wouldn't the motif stuff be required for the X-server, i.e. your terminal, not for the server running adxv? Rajesh kumar wrote: Dear Mark, $ locate XKeysymDB - didnt come with any thing suggests probably openmotif lib is not installed. I linux server has Fedora and

Re: [ccp4bb] [CCP4] identify a rotation centre: domain rotation

2011-11-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Would this work? Take the rot-trans operator from superpose or lsqman and express the rotation matrix as polar coordinates of rotation axis (and angle about it). Get the rotation axis as direction cosines, which will be a vector along the rotation axis of the matrix. Now take the component of the

Re: [ccp4bb] [CCP4] identify a rotation centre: domain rotation

2011-11-25 Thread Edward A. Berry
No! the "divide by 2" part is for a 2-fold rotation- not 8*. Sorry, and hope the O.P. didn't waste any time trying to implement this. Edward A. Berry wrote: Would this work? Take the rot-trans operator from superpose or lsqman and express the rotation matrix as polar coordina

Re: [ccp4bb] Superpositions: Deviation by Residue

2011-11-28 Thread Edward A. Berry
The program: http://sb20.lbl.gov/berry/for/pdbdist2b.for does this. If you run it by the wrapper pdbd2b: echo 'Find distances greater than threshold between corresponding atoms in 2 PDB files' echo 'Usage: pdbd2b file1 file2 startres# [thresh]' pdbdist2b

Re: [ccp4bb] model building at 3.2 A

2011-12-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
Hmm- I wonder if B-factor unsharpening (applying a large POSITIVE B-factor to the data) would have the same effect? Francis E Reyes wrote: On the other hand, shooting a lower resolution crystal may get you the conformation of the disordered domain. Surprising at first thought, but was true in

Re: [ccp4bb] Calibration question

2011-12-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
I suppose you mean the pipetman and similar, and having it calibrated by a professional rather than pipetting into a weighing boat to see if it is OK- Unless i'm missing something, there is very little that can be done in the way of calibration- the diameter of the stainless steel shaft and the p

Re: [ccp4bb] Help me install O on ubuntu11.10

2011-12-28 Thread Edward A. Berry
It seems some 32-bit libraries need to be installed to get recent versions of O to run on 64 bit architecture. There is a 64-bit version undergoing testing now, so you might want to just wait for it. or volunteer to be a tester. Subscribe to o-info mailing list (at the below site) to keep up with

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