[ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...Ah, a solution!

2008-01-16 Thread Jacob Keller
Hi All, Thanks for all of the great suggestions--it was actually Ethan Merritt's suggestions and pointing to the right Gnuplot documentation that really worked for me. Gnuplot is actually pretty powerful, and can make quite nice images. Again, thanks a million for the help. Jacob Keller ---

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread mjvdwoerd
Once upon a time I worked in a group that was interested in developing crystallization in microfluidics. This was before the time that Fluidigm existed and we had not heard of crystallization with the aid of microfluidics at the time. We had good reason to try to make a system that was as smal

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread mjvdwoerd
Once upon a time I worked in a group that was interested in developing crystallization in microfluidics. This was before the time that Fluidigm existed and we had not heard of crystallization with the aid of microfluidics at the time. We had good reason to try to make a system that was as smal

[ccp4bb] fffear/pirate/buccaneer and SIGFP

2008-01-16 Thread Bryan W. Lepore
do any of fffear/pirate/buccaneer use SIGFP in a significant/meaningful way? -bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 13:27, Jacob Keller wrote: > Hello all, > > It might just take you a few minutes to tell me how to do this: > > I have a set of data in three columns xyz (resid1, resid2, value), which I > would like to plot as a "heat" or "color map" on the 2d rectangle formed by >

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Bryan W. Lepore
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jacob Keller wrote: I would like to plot as a "heat" or "color map" on the 2d rectangle [...] cannot figure out how to do this in gnuplot or anywhere, consider gnuplot pm3d (not readily obvious for googling, is it) http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plotpm3d-e.html -br

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Tim Gruene
Are you familiar with pm3d? I couldn't give the solution from the top of my head, but http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plotpm3d-e.html seems a good source of information. -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Wed, 16 Ja

[ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Jacob Keller
Hello all, It might just take you a few minutes to tell me how to do this: I have a set of data in three columns xyz (resid1, resid2, value), which I would like to plot as a "heat" or "color map" on the 2d rectangle formed by the values xy, and colored by z. Essentially what I want is a ~1500

Re: [ccp4bb] Potassium Nitrate

2008-01-16 Thread Roger Rowlett
sajid akthar wrote: Hi All Sorry for non CCP4 question. I want to make Pottasium Nitrate solution of pH 6.9 (ofcourse for crystallisation trails only). I'm adjusting pH by using NaOH. But it seems the pH is not stable after sometime. Is there any good way to do it. Thank you Sa

[ccp4bb] Potassium Nitrate

2008-01-16 Thread sajid akthar
Hi All Sorry for non CCP4 question. I want to make Pottasium Nitrate solution of pH 6.9 (ofcourse for crystallisation trails only). I'm adjusting pH by using NaOH. But it seems the pH is not stable after sometime. Is there any good way to do it. Thank you Sajid Now you can chat withou

Re: [ccp4bb] How to improve the density of another molecule in Asymmetric unit

2008-01-16 Thread Lijun Liu
First you cannot normally expect two in the same AU have the same structure, so an over-weighted averaging may cause bias. It is likely that a rigid-body refinement down to two molecules or even domains may help improve in your case. On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Sun Tang wrote: Hello Ever

Re: [ccp4bb] How to improve the density of another molecule in Asymmetric unit

2008-01-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
ni hao, I have a question about how to improve the electron density. I have two indepedent molecules in the asymmetric unit (1.9 A resolution). I solved the structure with PHASER and refined with CCP4i (Rfree = 0.29). For the first molecule, the density is very good, but for the second one,

[ccp4bb] postdoc position in structural biology of wound healing

2008-01-16 Thread David Hulmes
STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF WOUND HEALING A 2 year postdoctoral position, funded by the French National Research Agency, is available at the Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines in Lyon (www.ibcp.fr) to study the molecular mechanisms of wound healing and to develop novel anti-scarring strategies

[ccp4bb] How to improve the density of another molecule in Asymmetric unit

2008-01-16 Thread Sun Tang
Hello Everyone, I have a question about how to improve the electron density. I have two indepedent molecules in the asymmetric unit (1.9 A resolution). I solved the structure with PHASER and refined with CCP4i (Rfree = 0.29). For the first molecule, the density is very good, but for

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Lisa A Nagy
You optimize that variable as well in scale-up. That is the problem with nano-drop screening- sometimes it is near impossible to scale up the drops. You have to re-screen around the conditions (response surface methods can conserve experiments) because the kinetics change so much between nano and b

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Shirley Roberts
Vaheh, If I'm optimising in 24 well trays after a hit in 96 I generally use sitting drop trays (cryschem) as a first step and try different ratios of protein:mother liquor first rather than changing the protein concentration. I know that sometimes the crystals stick to the plastic but I use th

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
I have been using Phoenix for more than two years and so far there were no issues with maintenance. Wash the needles and nano-dispenser before and after the runs and you are good to go. Electrostatic effects have been seen in a way of drops being positioned on the side of the flat bottom plate, but

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot - volume?

2008-01-16 Thread cdekker
Regarding stochastic processes: to increase the chances of nucleation one would like to have protein in the right nucleation zone for a certain period of time. If the drop becomes too small, the ratio evaporation surface/drop volume changes. So, the nucleation zone might be reached within the

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
More recently, I've looked at all of the crystallization robot vendors. For single lab users, all of the systems work well. Systems like the Hydra or Mosquito are less automatic, but provide the basic functions for crystallization trial setup. For more of a user facility with a large number of

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Oryxnano 50+50 nL Demetres Which, indirectly, brings up an interesting (but not relevant to the Oryx) question. Nucleation is a process that does have a stochastic aspect. Thus, one could argue that compromising to 200-300 nl might be better than either extremes of 50nl (too small volum

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Santarsiero, Bernard D.
In our original work on a prototype, we used the Cartesian technology. We were able to dispense 10nL+10nL drops with a large range of viscosities without difficulty. The main issue was to wash the tips after use to prevent clogging. That was with a system that could dispense 1nL droplets. The prese

Re: [ccp4bb] Perl

2008-01-16 Thread Peter Keller
Hi all, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Ian Tickle wrote: I'm rather surprised that is the complete explanation, for the simple reason that Perl (or any program for that matter) already inherits all the environment variables from the shell in which it is run, including PATH, CINCL, CLIBD_MON etc which wou

Re: [ccp4bb] combine incomplete data sets

2008-01-16 Thread David Briggs
Hello Yadong, This is what I would do in your position. 1) Integrate everything in MOSFLM 2) Enforce consistent indexing using POINTLESS (unless I am mistaken, there are alternative origin(s) in p321) http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/html/alternate_origins.html ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.0.2/prereleas

[ccp4bb] Job offer: Protein Crystallographer (with Ph.D)

2008-01-16 Thread Blaesse, Michael
PROTEROS is a leading service-provider for the preparation and three-dimensional structural analysis of proteins for structure-guided drug discovery. Our work contributes to fast and rational development of new therapeutic compounds. Since its foundation in 1998, PROTEROS is a continuously growing,

[ccp4bb] combine incomplete data sets

2008-01-16 Thread Yu, Yadong
Hi there, I have 3 incomplete data sets, collected from 3 single crystals, each accounts for ~40% completeness. They have same resolution range, and randomly overlap with each other a small portion. Mosflm and Scala work well for all 3 separately. The 2 from same beamline have very close stati

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Demetres D. Leonidas
Oryxnano 50+50 nL Demetres David Briggs wrote: I'll defend the honour of the phoenix... (again) Bernhard Rupp 100+100 nl Dave Briggs (and all users at Univ of Manchester, UK) 100+100nl Others.. Only time we have ANY problems is when the nano dispensing tip gets clogged. Often a good wa

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread David Briggs
I'll defend the honour of the phoenix... (again) Bernhard Rupp 100+100 nl Dave Briggs (and all users at Univ of Manchester, UK) 100+100nl Others.. Only time we have ANY problems is when the nano dispensing tip gets clogged. Often a good wash whilst still on the machine will clear the blockage. D

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-01-16 Thread Alexey Rak
Dear Bernard, I do not have long experience using Phoenix. I tried the machine during a couple of demonstrations I had chance to participate and also learned about other people experience who used the robot (various MPIs and universities in Germany and a couple of users from industry in Europe)

Re: [ccp4bb] Perl

2008-01-16 Thread Ian Tickle
I'm rather surprised that is the complete explanation, for the simple reason that Perl (or any program for that matter) already inherits all the environment variables from the shell in which it is run, including PATH, CINCL, CLIBD_MON etc which would be needed to run pdbset, refmac etc. In fact so

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating volume of Ligands

2008-01-16 Thread Isaac Westwood
Dear Rajan, In addition to the estimates already mentioned, if you have access to Chem3D (Cambridgesoft), you can calculate the Connolly volume (excluding solvent) for any (preferably small) molecule, either drawn by hand or by input from its coordinates. In ChemBio3D ultra, this is found in

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating volume of Ligands

2008-01-16 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It isnt a bad approximation for any organic compound to take the number of atoms including hydrogens, and multiply it by 10A^^3 Eleanor Dodson Rajan Pillai wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me any program that calculates voume of a ligand? Moreover, is there also any program that can calculate th

[ccp4bb] lsqkab

2008-01-16 Thread Nathalie Colloc'h
Hi everybody, I wonder why in lsqkab, the glycine residues have a rms value for their side chains which are non null (the same calculation done with CNS give about the same results for the rms calculation, but with null value for the rms of glycine side chains). thanks a lot nathalie -- Dr.

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating volume of Ligands

2008-01-16 Thread harry powell
Hi A simple trick that small molecule crystallographers have been using for decades is based on the average volume of non-hydrogen atoms being about 18 Å^3 (this is close to being more-or-less correct for C, N and O, and the presence of one or two S or P atoms usually makes little differe