Re: [ccp4bb] [COOT] [ccp4bb] Colour surface by sequence conservation

2007-01-31 Thread Tim Gruene
As far as I know clustalw/x can provide you with a list of scores per residue. You can easily feed the score into the B-value column with perl or other command line tools. I did this a couple of years ago, not being a scripting guru it took maybe one hour and was fun. -- Tim Gruene Institut fu

[ccp4bb] S-hexylglutathione summary

2007-01-31 Thread Marian Oliva
Just in case somebody else want to prepare a S-hexylglutathione solution.Bryan suggested me to gently warm it up (37 celsius degrees is enough).But also I got these suggestions,I crystallized some GSTs with that compound several years ago.I found that the trick was to solublise it by adding NaOH an

Re: [ccp4bb] [COOT] [ccp4bb] Colour surface by sequence conservation

2007-01-31 Thread Stephen Graham
A python script to do just that is below. Cheers, Stephen == Start of script == #!/usr/bin/python import os import string import sys if len(sys.argv) != 3: print 'Set the B factor column to reflect sequence conservation from CLUSTALX' print 'Usage: colour_sequence ' sys.exit(1) PDB_file

[ccp4bb] peptide crystal

2007-01-31 Thread shivesh kumar
Dear all I am trying one DPC bound peptide.Can anyone suggest me which precipitant and additives I should add.Thanx in advance. Shivesh

Re: [ccp4bb] Colour surface by sequence conservation

2007-01-31 Thread James Irving
Hi Iain, Here's a perlscript that takes as arguments: clustalw_aln_file reference_seq_name pdb_file min_B max_B and calculates a consensus score as the fraction most represented amino acid in a column, where min_B=100% and max_B=0%. Multiple chains are handled as long as the reference sequence in

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position at the university of leeds.

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Ranson
Dear All, We are looking for an electron microscopist, structural biologist, computational image processor or biochemist for structural studies of yeast prion fibrils using cryo-EM and single-particle image processing. This is a really exciting project, and potentially an ideal post for a cr

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Georg Zocher
First of all, I would like to thank you for your comments. After consideration of all your comments, I conclude that there are three possibilities. 1.) search for some particularly poorly-behaved regions using parvati-server a.) refining the occupancy of that atoms and/or b.) tightening

Re: [ccp4bb] Colour surface by sequence conservation

2007-01-31 Thread Marcos Navarro
Iain, Like Dante said, you can use the ConSurf server to easily generate your pdb with a conservation score in the b-factor column and then use the script color_b.py (http://adelie.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc/work/pymol/) to make the figure with pymol. Marcos Iain Kerr wrote: I'm trying to co

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey all, let me give this discussion a little kick and see if it spins into outer space. How many reflections do people use for cross-validation? Five per cent is a value that I read often in papers. Georg Zocher started with 5% but lowered that to 1.5% in the course of refinement. We've had

[ccp4bb] CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR BEAMTIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC

2007-01-31 Thread ravelli
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR BEAMTIME WITH ONLINE MICROSPEC Extended Deadline: Monday 5th February 9am There will be beamtime available at the ESRF for MX data collection with a setup that allows online monitoring of UV/VIS spectral changes of the crystal during the X-ray diffraction experiment. Users

Re: [ccp4bb] PCB buffer and MMT buffer

2007-01-31 Thread Nadir T. Mrabet
Hi all, I only wish to draw your attention to the fact that the Henderson-Hasselbach equation (as used in the paper you cite) is only valid if you use zwitterionic buffers. Otherwise, with other buffers, especially phosphate and multi-acids (e.g. succinate, citrate and so on), any calculation

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 06:10, Georg Zocher wrote: > First of all, I would like to thank you for your comments. > > After consideration of all your comments, I conclude that there are > three possibilities. > > 1.) search for some particularly poorly-behaved regions using > parvati-server

Re: [ccp4bb] Surface acessible area

2007-01-31 Thread Taiana Oliveira
Hello everybody! I would like to know how to calculate how much accessible surface area is lost upon binding a determined carbohydrate to ConA lectin using SURFACE or AREAiMOL from CPP4. Thanks in advance for your help! Sincerely, -- Taianá Maia de Oliveira Laboratório de Moléculas Biologicamen

[ccp4bb] Surface accessible area

2007-01-31 Thread Taiana Oliveira
Hello everybody! I would like to know how to calculate how much accessible surface area is lost upon binding a determined carbohydrate to ConA lectin using SURFACE or AREAiMOL from CPP4. Thanks in advance for your help! Sincerely, -- Taianá Maia de Oliveira Laboratório de Moléculas Biologicament

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-31 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
I've just remembered another approach that I've heard suggested, although I don't know anyone who has tried it. Dissolve plenty of the small molecule in paraffin or silicone oil, and use this mixture to cover the drop. This can be used with regular vapor diffusion or (probably better) micro

Re: [ccp4bb] Colour surface by sequence conservation

2007-01-31 Thread Iain Kerr
OK, figured it out with help from the suggestions. Thanks ! PROTSKIN, given a PDB file and a CLUSTALW alignment does a fine job of modifying the B-factor column into % identity (or similarity) Two problems I encountered: 1. A residue we mutated not matching up with the corresponding sequence

[ccp4bb] Surface acessible area

2007-01-31 Thread Taiana Oliveira
Hello everybody! I would like to know how to calculate how much accessible surface area is lost upon binding a determined carbohydrate to ConA lectin using SURFACE or AREAiMOL from CPP4. Thanks in advance for your help! Sincerely, -- Taianá Maia de Oliveira Laboratório de Moléculas Biologicament

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Dale Tronrud
As I see it, the size of the test set is a question of the desired precision of the free R. At the point of test set selection there is variability between the many possible choices: you could happen to pick a test set with a spuriously low free R or one with an unfortunately high free R. The

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Randy J. Read
I would agree mostly with what Dale said, and point out that it applies as well to the SigmaA estimation that is a necessary part of ML refinement. When we were developing the ML targets that went into CNS, we did a number of tests to see how many cross-validation reflections were needed. The f

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal

2007-01-31 Thread john bacik
Hi Shivesh, Have you tried dropping your MPD concentration (ie. by increments of ~5%)? Changing the pH may also result in larger crystals. JP On 1/30/07, shivesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all Sorry for unrelated query.I have crystallized a protein which is at 40% of MPD.But the p