[ccp4bb] improvement of tiny protein crystals

2009-09-30 Thread atul kumar
hi all sorry for asking non ccp4bb question. i am trying to crystallise phosphatase protein,it has histag.I am getting very tiny crystals into .1m hepes ph7.4,1m Na-K tartrate.I tried additives(MPD,ethanol,propanol)for improvement of crystals,but didnt get any success.I have tried both

Re: [ccp4bb] multiple datasets in Xds

2009-09-30 Thread Kay Diederichs
Francis E Reyes schrieb: Hi all Can XDS take in additional images that have a different template name and reside in a different directory? The reason is that I have high res images and then low res images in different directories that I want XDS to consider. Thanks! FR Hi Francis, XDS

[ccp4bb] missing subroutines

2009-09-30 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi folks, hope all is well with you on this sunny day (well it is sunny over here!) I am trying to recompile some code on a machine that does not have the ifc compiler installed. (The code did compile w/o problems on another computer that has ifc). It all works fine except for one program

[ccp4bb] ACORN2 in ccp4

2009-09-30 Thread José Manuel Otero Casas
Hi all, Someone knows if ACORN2 (Acta D 2009, 881) is implemented in ccp4? If no, where is possible to find a copy or when it is going to be implemented? Thanks Jose Otero

[ccp4bb] TEACH-SG Workshop Advanced Strategies for the Expression of Proteins and Protein Complexes in Yeast Barcelona, November 19 20th, 2009

2009-09-30 Thread Vanessa Llobet
Spine 2-Complexes - Teach SG workshop: Advanced Strategies for the Expression of Proteins and Protein Complexes in Yeast Barcelona, Spain. November 19-20, 2009 The workshop is aimed at advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and will deal with state-of-the-art technologies for the

Re: [ccp4bb] improvement of tiny protein crystals

2009-09-30 Thread Dr. Anthony Addlagatta
*** This message has been scanned by the InterScan for CSC SSM by IICT security policy and found to be free of known security risks. *** Atul, Reasons could be so many. Since you say that the His-tag is still present in your protein try to remove it and

[ccp4bb] trouble with imosflm cell refinement

2009-09-30 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardia
Dear all, I cannot get imosflm refining any cell, the program simply stalls: all you have is the little E at the top right rotating, but no messages, no errors, no crashes. 'Abort' doesn't have any effect either, nor it has the sequence 'Pause'-'Continue'. I have this problem with: OS:

Re: [ccp4bb] trouble with imosflm cell refinement

2009-09-30 Thread Graeme Winter
Dear Miguel, You may find that replacing the ipmosflm binary with the one from Harry's web page may be more reliable - typically these sorts of things come down to gfortran or g77 being a little keen in optimization. http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/mosflm/ Cheers, Graeme 2009/9/30 Miguel

Re: [ccp4bb] trouble with imosflm cell refinement

2009-09-30 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardia
Le 30 sept. 09 à 17:27, Graeme Winter a écrit : Dear Miguel, You may find that replacing the ipmosflm binary with the one from Harry's web page may be more reliable - typically these sorts of things come down to gfortran or g77 being a little keen in optimization.

[ccp4bb] Phaser question

2009-09-30 Thread Simon Kolstoe
Dear all, In the phaser .sol file what do the two LLG's correspond to on the SOLU SET line eg SOLU SET RFZ=20.7 TFZ=35.4 PAK=0 LLG=1699 LLG=2821 Do they show an initial and a refined LLG or do they correspond to the rotation and translation function as in the Z scores? I checked the

[ccp4bb] How to fix sidechain rotamers for Refmac?

2009-09-30 Thread Peter J Stogios
Hi, I'm working with a 1.8 A structure with Coot and Refmac, and there are many sidechain rotamers that show very clear difference density peaks for setting their correct positions. However, Refmac continuously moves the rotamers back into negative density peaks. It's really quite

Re: [ccp4bb] How to fix sidechain rotamers for Refmac?

2009-09-30 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Dear Peter, This simply should not be happening. The actual value of the weight term btw does not say much, what we would need to know is the resulting rmsd, or the associated z-score. For what you describe, weighting should not matter really - same goes for the torsion restraint, that will

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position available @Rossmann lab, Purdue University

2009-09-30 Thread Long Li
A post-doctoral position is available in a virus structure laboratory. Experience in macromolecular crystallography, electron microscopy, molecular biology and protein chemistry is desirable. Please e-mail applications to Michael Rossmann, _...@purdue.edu mailto:m...@purdue.edu_ (dept of

[ccp4bb] Software for predicting potential disulfide cross-linking sites?

2009-09-30 Thread Jie Liu
Dear All Does anyone know a software or web-server which can predict potential disulfide cross-linking sites? I have solved a crystal structure. Is there a software to read in the coordinates file and symmetry information and predict the potential contacting residues which I can then mutate to

Re: [ccp4bb] Software for predicting potential disulfide cross-linking sites?

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Zwart
I remember this question (and the answer) from 11 years ago! http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ccp4bb/1998/msg00051.html HTH Peter 2009/9/30 Jie Liu j...@trimer.med.cornell.edu: Dear All Does anyone know a software or web-server which can predict potential disulfide cross-linking sites? I

Re: [ccp4bb] How to fix sidechain rotamers for Refmac?

2009-09-30 Thread Roger Rowlett
Is it possible there are alternate conformations for these side chains? Refmac, or any other refinement program, will try to fill one of the density regions with your side chain, but because of partial occupancy, a negative difference map will result, with accompanying positive density in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser question

2009-09-30 Thread konstantin v. korotkov
I think the second LLG value is after refinement. But sometimes I see that the second LLG goes negative and I wonder what it means. For example: RFZ=3.1 TFZ=17.2 PAK=0 LLG=238 LLG=-603 -Konstantin On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Simon Kolstoe wrote: Dear all, In the phaser .sol file what do the two

Re: [ccp4bb] How to fix sidechain rotamers for Refmac?

2009-09-30 Thread Manish Chandra Pathak
Hi Peter, I think, instead of tightening the weighing term, giving it slight freedom would have helped. If data quality is good at 1.8 ang, then it certainly deserves more freedom. What do you think. best wishes Manish Manish Chandra Pathak, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry Emory

[ccp4bb] MOLREP

2009-09-30 Thread Tommi Kajander
Hi, I have been using a dimer as a search model in MOLREP (there will be several in AU), for some reason the program tends to break the dimer into monomers wihtout asking me.. how is this determined in the program... a more detailed manual would be nice, also on the output as the different

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser question

2009-09-30 Thread Randy Read
In a Phaser automated molecular replacement job, it does almost everything at a working resolution and then a final refinement at a final resolution. By default, the working resolution is 2.5A and the final resolution is the full resolution of the data set. So the second-last LLG is the

[ccp4bb] Peter Boyd, RIP

2009-09-30 Thread Leslie Kinsland
Posted on behalf of James G. Tobin, LLNL Dear Colleagues, It is with great sorrow that I must report that Peter Boyd has passed away, in his sleep at home on Friday morning, September 25th. His family is planning a private service. If you wish, condolences can be sent to MaryBeth Boyd at

[ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread Christopher Law
I am just wondering if anyone else is getting just a little bit peeved that the BB is now primarily being used as a jobs board? -- Dr. Christopher J. Law, Queen's University Belfast

Re: [ccp4bb] How to fix sidechain rotamers ...

2009-09-30 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Peter, sorry for not answering exactly your question... but since this is relevant I reply anyway: The latest version of phenix.refine has an option fix_rotamers=true, that automatically fixes all side chain rotamers by going residue-by-residue and choosing the best one based on density

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardia
Le 30 sept. 09 à 22:07, Christopher Law a écrit : I am just wondering if anyone else is getting just a little bit peeved that the BB is now primarily being used as a jobs board? -- Dr. Christopher J. Law, Queen's University Belfast Hi Christopher, Well, I quote from the CCP4 web site:

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread Artem Evdokimov
I personally am not peeved at all, but I am getting concerned that most of the jobs advertised are postdocs. Mighty and mysterious market forces have cut very deep into the heart of structural science and this is not good. Artem Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must

Re: [ccp4bb] improvement of tiny protein crystals

2009-09-30 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Dear Atul, A question that any prudent structural biologist should ask sooner or later once 'very tiny crystals' are obtained is - are these crystals made of my protein of interest? I've witnessed at least three cases of 'tiny crystals' being another (unintended) protein (confirmed by solving

[ccp4bb] X-ray Facility Manager Position: University of Pittsburgh

2009-09-30 Thread Laurie Betts
At the risk of being the first job posting after the recent discussion, please see the following link for job description: http://www.structbio.pitt.edu/webusers/xray/ -- Laurie Betts X-ray Crystallography Facility Manager Department of Structural Biology University of Pittsburgh 1050 BST3 3501

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread William Scott
I always Look on the Bright Side of Life, so I take a certain solace in the fact that while this may be true, most postdoc positions pay about as well as my job, if not better. On Wed, September 30, 2009 5:52 pm, Artem Evdokimov wrote: I personally am not peeved at all, but I am getting

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread aaleshin
Are the salaries compared in orders of magnitude? Or you mean other pays? On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:30 PM, William Scott wrote: I always Look on the Bright Side of Life, so I take a certain solace in the fact that while this may be true, most postdoc positions pay about as well as my job, if

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread Ray Low
Christopher, I don't think you will have any more 'peeved' feelings when you ARE looking for a job.

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread William Scott
No, just California Dollars, which I think are on a par with those printed in Zimbabwe prior to April 12th. On Wed, September 30, 2009 8:27 pm, aaleshin wrote: Are the salaries compared in orders of magnitude? Or you mean other pays? On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:30 PM, William Scott wrote: I

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread Ray Low
Christopher, I don't think you will have any more 'peeved' feelings when you ARE looking for a job. r

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread James Stroud
On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Christopher Law wrote: I am just wondering if anyone else is getting just a little bit peeved that the BB is now primarily being used as a jobs board? I think the people looking for jobs have different feelings. But using the CCP4BB as a gripe board, now there is