[ccp4bb] LIVESTREAMING: Cryo-EM Symposium, 6-7 July 2017, Grenoble, France

[Montse SOLER LOPEZ]

Dear colleagues,

onJuly6th and 7th, the European Photon & Neutron Campus in Grenoblewill 
host a unique CRYO-EM Symposium in the framework of the newly 
established cryo-EM platform. The new facility will be open to the user 
community based on peer-review of scientific merit and technical 
feasibility. Scientists from ESRF, IBS and EMBL will support user operation.


Registration for the event is now closed, but you can follow the talks, 
presented by worldwide experts in the field, through YouTube live 
streaming:


https://www.youtube.com/user/LightforScience

We will be live from 1.30pm on 6 July 2017.

Check out the programme here: http://www.esrf.eu/cryo-em.fr

On behalf of the Organising committee: Stephen Cusack (EMBL), Trevor 
Forsyth (ILL/Keele), Wojciech Galej (EMBL), Gordon Leonard (ESRF), Marco 
Marcia (EMBL), Christoph Mueller-Dieckmann (ESRF), Hugues Nury (IBS), 
Guy Schoehn (IBS), Montserrat Soler-Lopez (ESRF), Jean Susini (ESRF) and 
Winfried Weissenhorn (IBS).

[ccp4bb] Landscape report on open research data

[John R Helliwell]

Dear Colleagues,
I draw your attention to this report published today:-
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/research-policy/open-science/Documents/ORDTF%20report%20nr%201%20final%2030%2006%202017.pdf

It has been produced under the auspices of the UK's Open Research Data Task 
Force set up by the UK's Minister of Science, Jo Johnson:-
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/research-policy/open-science/Pages/open-research-data-task-force.aspx

Admittedly the report has a UK focus but includes extensive surveys of country 
by country activities. Crystallography features various times in the document, 
as does genomics and astronomy. 

As well as being an excellent survey I think the report brings out numerous 
issues within this very important topic. 

All best wishes,
John 

Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc

Re: [ccp4bb] [phenixbb] crystal imaging system

[Chris Waddling]

We had the Tritek CrystalPro and now have two Formulatrix RI-1000s. We're very 
happy with what we have now, and though I don't know what improvements Tritek 
has made since the version we owned, at the time we found their software 
clunky, imaging not the best or most consistent, and automation challenging. It 
took a great deal of time to make it work marginally. 

The formulatrix systems on the other hand have been robust and their support 
excellent (we pay for annual software support but let the hardware support go). 
They're easy to run and maintain. 

Chris

Dr Christopher A Waddling 
Crystallography Facility Manager 
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics 
University of California, San Francisco
Genentech Hall, Box 2140
600 16th St., S126C
San Francisco, CA
94143
415-476-8288


> On Jun 30, 2017, at 5:36 AM, Sebastiano Pasqualato 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> we are in the process of considering the purchase of a new Crystal Imager.
> 
> So far, we have been considering the Formulatrix Rock Imager 182 and the 
> TriTek Crystal Pro HT.
> I would be extremely grateful to anyone who could provide me:
> 
> - feedback and user experience (positive/negative) on those instruments;
> - information on other instruments you would suggest.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance,
> wishing you a pleasant weekend,
> best regards,
> ciao,
> S
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sebastiano Pasqualato, PhD
> Crystallography Unit
> Department of Experimental Oncology
> European Institute of Oncology
> IFOM-IEO Campus
> via Adamello, 16
> 20139 - Milano
> Italy
> 
> tel +39 02 9437 5167
> fax +39 02 9437 5990
> web http://is.gd/IEOXtalUnit
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Re: [ccp4bb] dictionary conversion

[ClAuS Flensburg]

Hi Paul,

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Paul Emsley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the best (or easiest) way to convert restraint information
> (and in particular torsion restraint information) from the mmcif
> output of privateer or acedrg to a dic file suitable for refinement
> with Buster/TNT?

the easiest is to not do it ;-)

BUSTER can use dictionaries from eg. $CCP4/lib/data/monomers/?/???.cif
directly ie. similar format to what Grade[1] produces.

You are welcome to write to buster-deve...@globalphasing.com if you
encounter problems in doing so.


Regards,

ClAuS & Andrew (for buster-develop)
[1]: http://grade.globalphasing.org/cgi-bin/grade/server.cgi

[ccp4bb] dictionary conversion

[Paul Emsley]

Hi,

What is the best (or easiest) way to convert restraint information (and in particular 
torsion restraint information) from the mmcif output of privateer or acedrg to a dic file 
suitable for refinement with Buster/TNT?


Thanks,

Paul

[ccp4bb] crystal imaging system

[Sebastiano Pasqualato]

Dear all,
we are in the process of considering the purchase of a new Crystal Imager.

So far, we have been considering the Formulatrix Rock Imager 182 and the TriTek 
Crystal Pro HT.
I would be extremely grateful to anyone who could provide me:

- feedback and user experience (positive/negative) on those instruments;
- information on other instruments you would suggest.

Thank you very much in advance,
wishing you a pleasant weekend,
best regards,
ciao,
S



-- 
Sebastiano Pasqualato, PhD
Crystallography Unit
Department of Experimental Oncology
European Institute of Oncology
IFOM-IEO Campus
via Adamello, 16
20139 - Milano
Italy

tel +39 02 9437 5167
fax +39 02 9437 5990
web http://is.gd/IEOXtalUnit

[ccp4bb] PSI / CCP4 Workshop "3D Electron Crystallography for Macromolecular Compounds"

[Tim Gruene]

Dear all,

we would like to announce the PSI / CCP4 Workshop 

"3D Electron Crystallography for Macromolecular Compounds"

The workshop will take place at PSI between 18th and 22nd September 2017.
 
Please see the full program, list of speakers, and registration instructions 
at 
https://indico.psi.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5525
 
This workshop addresses crystallographers in the field of structural biology 
who want to expand their field of possibilities to electron crystallography.
 
The list of speakers encompasses experts in sample preparation, electron 
microscopy hardware, electron detectors, and methods from data processing via 
structure solution to model building. They will present recent results from 
the field of electron crystallography.
 
Participants will have the possibility of vivid discussions and get answers 
for their open questions in a very young field.

Tutorials include data processing with DIALS and XDS, as well as Molecular 
Replacement and Refinement at the characteristics of electron diffraction 
data.

Please register before 1st September 2017.

On behalf of the organisers,
Tim Gruene

-- 
--
Paul Scherrer Institut
Dr. Tim Gruene
- persoenlich -
Principal Investigator
Biology and Chemistry
OFLC/104
CH-5232 Villigen PSI

Phone: +41 (0)56 310 5297

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