[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position at UZH on designed repeat proteins

2009-08-25 Thread Peer Mittl
Applications are invited for two vacant positions at the University of Zürich (Switzerland), Department of Biochemistry, group of Prof. Markus Grütter, one at the postdoctoral and one at a research assistant level. We are focussing on the investigation of the structure/function relationship of

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread James Stroud
On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: Not sure this is the right place to ask, but... I'm trying to chain some ccp4 programs together via a script. It creates temporary files with arbitrary names based on the process id. The problem is that when I try to pass one of these files

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread Martyn Winn
You should be able to do this kind of scripting. The CCP4 library will try to add an extension, iff there is not one already. But if you have set $tempfile to foo.pdb then it shouldn't add anything. Code is in ccp4_general.c if you want to sabotage it ... The list of default extensions is in

[ccp4bb] long needles

2009-08-25 Thread james09 pruza
Dear all, Sorry for the non-ccp4 question. Recently I have got some long needle of on 35 kDa protein with 65% MPD at 4 degree C at pH 3.6 (50 mM NaOAc buffer). The protein contains 50mM of salt. The florets are very thin. I need some suggestions regarding the optimization of the crystallization

[ccp4bb] problem with CCP4i

2009-08-25 Thread Atlanta Cook
Hi, I am running CCP4 version ccp4-6.1.1 on Mac OS X. I was working without any problems until the gui crashed and when I tried to start it up again it lost my PROJECT directory information. I restarted the computer and now I can't even get the gui up, if flashes up for a second and

Re: [ccp4bb] long needles

2009-08-25 Thread Enrico Stura
James and those that may be interested, 65% MPD at 4 degree C at pH 3.6 are conditions that stimulate the growth of salt crystals, but one cannot exclude that the florets are indeed protein. 1. If you are sure you are dealing with protein crystals try the co-precipitant approach: Carry out a

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with CCP4i

2009-08-25 Thread Brad Bennett
Hi Atlanta- Yep, this one bit me (on Mac OS X), too. To fix it, I had to go to /usr/local/ccp4-6.1.2/share/ccp4i/etc/UNIX and edit my configure.def file. Almost at the end of the file, there is a line that says USE_DBCCP4I_ON_STARTUP. Change the value from 1 to 0. This should refresh your project

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with CCP4i - problem solved

2009-08-25 Thread Atlanta Cook
Hi Thanks for the various suggestions. It turns out that I can get rid of the error by deleting the file ~/.CCP4/unix/status.def. Atlanta On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:29, Brad Bennett wrote: Hi Atlanta- Yep, this one bit me (on Mac OS X), too. To fix it, I had to go to /

[ccp4bb] Senior Scientist - X-Ray Crystallographer position at Genentech, San Francisco

2009-08-25 Thread Ballard, Charles (STFC,DL,CSE)
Note: Please do not reply to this e-mail. See the end of this posting for complete application instructions. For more than 30 years, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 01:27:52 Martyn Winn wrote: You should be able to do this kind of scripting. The CCP4 library will try to add an extension, iff there is not one already. But if you have set $tempfile to foo.pdb then it shouldn't add anything. Since several people have expressed

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hi Ethan, On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:21:01AM -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: mv $1 $1.brk ... That works, but at the cost of an unnecessary file copy operation. That is just a rename operation, right? So I doubt it has any major overhead (but might be wrong). or % ln -s $1 $1.pdb instead?

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread Winn, Martyn (STFC,DL,CSE)
As Clemens said, the mv simply renames, shouldn't copy any data, so should be ok. I would say that is a perfectly valid thing to do in a script, and not just a workaround. If you look in ccp4_general.c, IIRC it is function ccp4setenv, and there is a comment (sic!) that says something like add

[ccp4bb] International Conference on Neutrons in Biology, October 25-28, 2009, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Langan
International Conference on Neutrons in Biology October 25-28, 2009 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Registration, abstract submission, lodging information, and session topics can be found at http://lansce.lanl.gov/neutronsbiology/http://lansce.lanl.gov/neutronsbiology/ Topics for talks and

Re: [ccp4bb] How to work around strange naming XYZIN convention?

2009-08-25 Thread Pete Meyer
But now I want to run the script from a cgi script as part of the processing by a web service. No matter what the name of the file that was originally uploaded, the web server has homogenized it to a local temporary file whose name is generated by a hash function from the pid. The cgi script