Re: [ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator

2010-02-03 Thread Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo
I would like to add that contrary to popular belief, MPD would have to be treated as a volatile in the example you give below. It vaporizes, although very slowly, as can be proven by leaving a 1uL drop of it in open air for a couple of days. Cheers, Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo. Jacob Keller

Re: [ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator - better measure it !

2010-02-03 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Hi, Instead of calculating the drop composition, there is a simple device, refractometer,  which you can  use to measure the actual composition of the drop (based on the refraction indices of the components). Some of us even used it in the old days. It's possible that with nano-size drops some

[ccp4bb] BCA/CCP4 XVII Summer School in Protein Crystallography 5th-10th Spetember 2010

2010-02-03 Thread Elspeth Garman
BCA/CCP4 XVII Summer School in Protein Crystallography Biochemistry Department and St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. 5th-10th September 2010. Scope. The BCA Summer School is a combined taught and practical course intended primarily for students and researchers new to crystallography.

[ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator

2010-02-03 Thread Clemens Grimm
regardless of what such a (kinetic) calculator will calculate at the end - we will have to feed it with data of the type vapour pressure vs. concentration and temperature of substance X. Even without a whole simulation tool for the kinetics of a vapour diffusion experiment this will already

Re: [ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator

2010-02-03 Thread Imre Toeroe
Hi, this might be relevant here: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444995000436 Imre Clemens Grimm wrote: regardless of what such a (kinetic) calculator will calculate at the end - we will have to feed it with data of the type vapour pressure vs. concentration and temperature of

Re: [ccp4bb] how to supply the following twin operator to detwin?

2010-02-03 Thread Ian Tickle
-Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pete Sent: 02 February 2010 01:04 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: how to supply the following twin operator to detwin? The determinant of the matrix is zero, so it can't

Re: [ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator

2010-02-03 Thread Clemens Grimm
Zitat von Imre Toeroe t...@embl.de: Hi, this might be relevant here: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444995000436 Yes! thanks for the link. Imre Clemens Grimm wrote: regardless of what such a (kinetic) calculator will calculate at the end - we will have to feed it with data

[ccp4bb] Post-doc position Imperial College

2010-02-03 Thread Byrne, Bernadette
An RA position in membrane protein structural biology is available in the group of Dr Bernadette Byrne, Imperial College London. The position is funded for two years by GlaxoSmithKline as part of an industrial collaboration focusing on the structure determination of clinically relevant

[ccp4bb] 2nd Circular for ISDSB2010 Paris May 2010 now available

2010-02-03 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Colleagues, The 2nd Circular for the International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2010) is now available to download from the Conference website:- http://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/images/File/ISDSB2010-2ndcircular-010210.pdf Best wishes, John Professor J R Helliwell DSc On

Re: [ccp4bb] Release of Mosflm version 7.0.6 and iMosflm 1.0.4

2010-02-03 Thread harry powell
Hi folks (1) I missed out one of the fixed bugs in the latest release - the WAIT command in iMosflm now works properly, so you can start processing while you are collecting and let iMosflm worry about whether the images have been collected yet. (2) This is a little embarrassing! Mosflm

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-02-03 Thread Ed Pozharski
Pavel, - In general you are free to decide what you name a domain: it can be a residue, its part or the whole structure. - What would be main and side for non-amino acid molecule, like a whatever ligand? I don't see how my freedom to explicitly define the terms I use in a post is relevant.

[ccp4bb] Stereo

2010-02-03 Thread Revilleza, Maria Jamela (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Hello, FYI the 3D glasses distributed for viewing the Avatar movie can be used to view structures in COOT using the Zalman monitor. Regards, Jay Maria Jamela R. Revilleza, Ph.D. Research Fellow Molecular Biology Section Laboratory of Immunology NIAID/NIH Building 10, Room 11D10 10 Center

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
as it appears to bear near the guanidine group of an arginine, I would suggest it is a partially occupied and disordered sulphate and/or phosphate. whether this is practically modellable is another matter, a sulphate at occ. 0.5 is an option, or putting a water with a remark in the pdb

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi Katja, What I personally do in such a situation is to start to fill the density by water oxygen atoms, refine a bit (the position plus the isotropic temperature factors) and then compute a new map. Usually it has cleared up somewhat, thus allowing you to find out what it really is. This is

Re: [ccp4bb] Vapor diffusion calculator

2010-02-03 Thread Jacob Keller
Thanks very much for the reference; I have always wondered about precisely this relationship (how much salt = how much PEG). Interestingly, the authors note that down to PEG 1500, the MW of the PEG does not change the corresponding salt values very much. I wonder whether anybody did this for

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread David J. Schuller
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:26 +0100, Mark J. van Raaij wrote: as it appears to bear near the guanidine group of an arginine, I would suggest it is a partially occupied and disordered sulphate and/or phosphate. If it's a sulphate, a look at the anomalous map should show something. --

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Bernhard Rupp
General remark – if I may Putting nothing in: no significant effect on model and life in general Putting ‘something’ potentially wrong and misleading in: could be detrimental to your career BR From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Katja Schleider Sent:

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Roger Rowlett
I agree with many others: this is quite possibly sulfate or phosphate. If collected at 1.54A the anomalous map should help identify the presence of sulfur. Sulfate or phosphate may be present at lower than full occupancy. I would refine everything else you reasonably know in the model

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-02-03 Thread Pavel Afonine
Dear Ed, Tightly restrained refinement will be equivalent to torsion angle parametrization, since bonds and angles are essentially fixed (but dihedrals are not). Simply not true. Think why -:) Hint: in restrained refinement the weight applies to all terms - bonds, angles, torsions, etc...

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo

2010-02-03 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Yeah, only the RealD goggles, the ones that look like these and that are given out at standard (not IMAX) movie theaters: http://www.google.com/products?q=reald+3d+gogglesscoring=p will work. Several users brought back the IMAX goggles that look like these (might be yellow):

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-02-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 10:04:36 Pavel Afonine wrote: I always suggest to run these refinement jobs and see which one gives the best result: 1) TLS + individual isotropic ADP refinement (tls+individual_adp); 2) TLS + group individual ADP refinement (tls+group_adp); I do not think

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Dale Tronrud
Mark J. van Raaij wrote: as it appears to bear near the guanidine group of an arginine, I would suggest it is a partially occupied and disordered sulphate and/or phosphate. whether this is practically modellable is another matter, a sulphate at occ. 0.5 is an option, or putting a water with a

[ccp4bb] PDB SEGID Case Sensitivity

2010-02-03 Thread James Stroud
Hello All, In typically comical fashion, the PDB specification 3.2 at http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format32/sect9.html leaves out columns 67-76 for ATOM and HETATM records. Since I can only conclude that SEGIDs must be one of those grey areas, I thought I'd make a multiple choice

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB SEGID Case Sensitivity

2010-02-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 15:59:26 James Stroud wrote: Hello All, In typically comical fashion, the PDB specification 3.2 at http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format32/sect9.html leaves out columns 67-76 for ATOM and HETATM records. Since I can only conclude that SEGIDs must be

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB SEGID Case Sensitivity

2010-02-03 Thread James Stroud
On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: So far as I know, the PDB/RCSB folks do not even look at these columns. So it comes down to a question of individual non-PDB programs. Which program were you wondering about? I guess the big ones, CCP4, CNS, coot, O, pymol, phenix,

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Bostjan Kobe
I think there is at least one more option here (relevant at least in some rare cases): Identifying what that something is likely to be can be significant and may advance your career Of course it is important to present supporting or otherwise evidence for the interpretation. As already discussed,