Re: [ccp4bb] different Rfactors in different Refmac versions

2009-10-21 Thread Gesa Volkers
Garib Murshudov schrieb: What is the version of refmac you arre using. There was a bug and I think we have fixed it. If you take the version from www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/refmac/latest_refmac.html it may give consistent results. Only mac and linux versions are available. For windows version you

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :)

2009-10-21 Thread Clemens Steegborn
Cytochrome c Best CSt -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] Im Auftrag von Artem Evdokimov Gesendet: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:25 AM An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :) Hello CCP4 folks! I have a quick

Re: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :)

2009-10-21 Thread Tim Keys
Have a look at the phycobiliproteins. Best, Tim

Re: [ccp4bb] Two Equally Good MR Solutions Found by Phaser

2009-10-21 Thread Eleanor Dodson
From the Pattersn peak it seems very likely that you have two molecules in the asymmetric unit seperated by the very vector that seperates your two MR solutions, and both MR solutions are correct? Or is that not possible? Is there no room for 2 molecules in the asymmetric unit, and the

[ccp4bb] New loop building program: sloop

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
People keep asking me if buccaneer can build loops. In response to which I usually point them to 'loopy' and 'rapper', both of which do an excellent job. However, I seem to have written a loop building program by accident, and since people have been asking I guess I may as well release it.

Re: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :)

2009-10-21 Thread Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra
- E. coli cytochrome b562: the entire culture turns red upon overexpression. - The bilin-binding protein of Pieris brassicae is a blue protein, although its chromophore biliverdin IXgamma only occurs in insects. - The neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is wine-red if produced in

[ccp4bb] Moving copies to be close to one unit cell.

2009-10-21 Thread FRANCOIS XAVIER CHAUVIAC
Dear crystallographers, After solving a structure by molecular replacement I have 16 copies of my protein in the asymetric unit. However in the PDB file they are scattered over several unit cells. I would like to know if there is an easy way or software to move all of the 16 copies close to

Re: [ccp4bb] Moving copies to be close to one unit cell.

2009-10-21 Thread Vellieux Frederic
You can do it easily in coot: display your objects. Then display the symmetry (draw, cell symmetry) with a large enough radius. Then File: save symmetry coordinates, click on one atom of one of the equivalent copies you're interested in. You have to repeat the process several times. It

Re: [ccp4bb] Two Equally Good MR Solutions Found by Phaser

2009-10-21 Thread X Xiong, Cellular Molecular Medicine
Hi All, Thanks for all the replies, I would like to add more information, after reindex it to P21212, the cell parameter is a=88.71, b=116.26, c=55.12, the molecule is a long rod like head to head dimer with a length of 110Å (55Å long for each monomer) and we used the dimer to search the

[ccp4bb] structure validation tools

2009-10-21 Thread Katja Schleider
Hi everybody, I solved my first crystalstructure and now want to publish it. But how do I know the structure is ready for publication and deposition in the pdb. We can explain our theory with the structure but which factors I have to regard to publish nothing wrong or bad. Can anybody tell how

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position available

2009-10-21 Thread Hernando Sosa
A post-doctoral position to study cystoskeletal macromolecular assemblies using cryo-electron microscopy is available in the Sosa lab. For this position the ideal candidate will be interested in solving problems related to the structure and function of proteins and will be willing to learn or

Re: [ccp4bb] structure validation tools

2009-10-21 Thread Joerg Standfuss
Dear Katja, I find the Molprobity server very useful. It analyses key factors of your structure like Ramachandran plot, rotamer outliers or clashes and tells you where improvements are necessary. It also ranks your model in respect to other structures in the pdb of similar resolution

Re: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :)

2009-10-21 Thread Günter Fritz
Some redox proteins from sulfate reducing bacteria are expressed at high levels: Yellow-brownish APS reductase (FAD FeS) Brown Hydrogenase Ferredoxin rubredoxin ... (FeS) Green Sulfite reductase (Siroheme, FeS) Red c-type cytochromes (1 heme, 4 heme, 9 heme or even 16 heme) lots of colours!

[ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Andy Torelli
Hi everyone, Is there a free utility that can convert an x-ray diffraction image collected with an ADSC detector to a standard image file format e.g. .jpg, png, etc.? I'm looking for something more elegant than a screen-capture that will yield a higher (graphics) resolution image. I'm sure

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Graeme Winter
Hi Andy, If you have a recent CCP4 installation (i.e. 6.something I think) there's diff2jpeg, which does exactly what you want. Otherwise there are also spells to use Mosflm for this which allows a little more control over the greyscale settings. Cheers, Graeme 2009/10/21 Andy Torelli

Re: [ccp4bb] Moving copies to be close to one unit cell.

2009-10-21 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello FX, As already mentioned there a number of programs that can perform this task. If you end up deciding to go with Coot, I put together a play by play that should help. http://bit.ly/oHqDW Hope that helps. Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Harry
Hi Mosflm has done this for years - there's a recipe on the Mosflm FAQ pages (well, the questions were asked frequently when I originally wrote them about 7 or 8 year ago!). Someone called Graeme Winter (now at Diamond) wrote this code originally...) On 21 Oct 2009, at 15:53, Andy

[ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Mike England
Hi all, I will highly appreciate your help regarding following: How to align two DNA structures in Pymol or Coot or any other softwares? ( I tried regular align in Pymol, but it doesn't work for DNA; it works great for protein structures.) Thanks a lot in advance ! Mike

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Mike, By 'align', if you mean superimposition, lsqman will do the job. Raji --- Raji Edayathumangalam Joint Research Fellow Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical School Brandeis University On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Mike England wrote: Hi all, I will highly

Re: [ccp4bb] Moving copies to be close to one unit cell.

2009-10-21 Thread Kendall Nettles
If using Coot, you can also merge molecules on the original and all symmetry related pdb files that you saved, which will automatically renumber the chains for you. Kendall Nettles

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Luis Mauricio Trambaioli da Rocha e Lima
Try MarView: http://www.marresearch.com/download.html#Utilities I use the Linux_glibc-2.3.3 (RedHat9, WS3, etc). Just download it, unpack (gunzip marView.gz) # chmod a+x marView a) to run the program from terminal # ./marView or # kate .bashrc: alias

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Pflugrath
A JPEG has fixed colors for the pixel values. A diffraction image has to use a viewer to convert the pixel values (counts) to a color. One problem with just using a converter to jpeg is how to convert intensities to color (i.e. computer display values). A demo version of d*TREK is freely

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread Nicholas K. Sauter
Andy, Why not try labelit.png filename output.png [-large]? Labelit is availale at http://cci.lbl.gov/labelit Nick Sauter On 10/21/2009 7:53 AM, Andy Torelli wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a free utility that can convert an x-ray diffraction image collected with an ADSC detector to a

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Pozharski
Both pymol/align and coot/ssm (I presume) do the secondary structure alignment first followed by structural alignment. So it only works for proteins. In Pymol, there is fit command that instead matches atoms with the same names; and super which does sequence alignment first. You can try to play

Re: [ccp4bb] structure validation tools

2009-10-21 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Katja, a possible option: from main PHENIX GUI select Comprehensive validation. For example, it will do: - all Molprobity checks; - draw POLYGON picture (Acta Cryst. D65, 297-300 (2009) Crystallographic model quality at a glance.); - show all kinds of stereochenistry rmsds; - real-space

Re: [ccp4bb] align DNA structures

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Brooks
Anna Pyle's group came out with a powerful idea- a simplified set of torsion angles for nucleic acids (NA). http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol31/issue16/images/small/gkg682f1.gif http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/31/16/4755 This is implemented in a Perl program, called

Re: [ccp4bb] structure validation tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Katja Schleider katjaschlei...@yahoo.dewrote: I solved my first crystalstructure and now want to publish it. But how do I know the structure is ready for publication and deposition in the pdb. We can explain our theory with the structure but which factors I

Re: [ccp4bb] Colored proteins :)

2009-10-21 Thread Parthasarathy Sampathkumar
ThyX (also known as Flavin Dependent Thymidyalte Synthase, FDTS) is yellow due to bound FAD. -Partha On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Artem Evdokimov ar...@xtals.org wrote: Hello CCP4 folks! I have a quick question - could you suggest a few naturally intensely colored proteins? Colors based

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray diffraction image -- .jpg

2009-10-21 Thread James Holton
Believe it or not, you can do this with ImageMagick, which is already part of most linux distros: convert -depth 16 -type Grayscale -colorspace GRAY -endian LSB -size 3072x3072+512 \ GRAY:test_0_001.img test_0_001.jpg where this example turns a binned Q315 image (3072x3072 pixels) with a

[ccp4bb] Forcing same origin on different MR solutions

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Grey
Dear crystallographers, I try to solve a MR problem in P21 with several different structures (and one EM map) as search models. I would like all solutions to have the same origin so I could compare them and see their relative positions. I think a possible solution is to bring the center of mass

Re: [ccp4bb] Forcing same origin on different MR solutions

2009-10-21 Thread James Holton
There is a program in the CCP4 Suite called reforigin, which might be what you want. Since all origins are equivalent, there is no way a-priori to force an MR program to always use the same origin, all you can do is compare to a reference. However, a trick you can play on such programs (that

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[ccp4bb] 9 ESR (PhD) and 4 ER (Post-doctoral) positions in cellular and structural biology

2009-10-21 Thread Kristina Djinovic Carugo
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[ccp4bb] [off topic] another network

2009-10-21 Thread Frederic VELLIEUX
Sorry if this is a bit off topic. But I have found it useful. Members of the ccp4bb might be interested in the biomedexperts network ( www.biomedexperts.com ). Once you join (as professionals of biomed science who have already published) you have a homepage that gives you recent publications of

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] another network

2009-10-21 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello Fred, Thanks for sharing! I have also been looking for ways to keep up on literature. This weekend, I combined 17 structural journals into a single RSS feed using yahoo pipes. I did a short post about it here: http://tinyurl.com/yhp2xlm I would be curious if others have any tips or

[ccp4bb] multi domain protein

2009-10-21 Thread Vandana Kukshal
hello     i  have 3.25 A data of multidomain protein with 4 individual domain .one domains structure is already known . and for others domain 40 % simmilar structure is known . when i am running phaser with one known domain i am getting the solution but after getting solution i

[ccp4bb] thank you and a summary

2009-10-21 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Dear ccp4bb crowd, Thank you for the wealth of useful replies to my request! I've received over 100 messages with suggestions! A crude summary of replies is presented below (I've added PDB ID to most of these). Overwhelmingly, the preferences tended towards iron-loaded proteins (red or brown)