Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac ligand refinement question

2010-03-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Katarina Moravcevic wrote: Dear all, I am refining a structure of a protein in a complex with phosphorylated ligand (inositol ring). My problem is that after restrained refinement with Refmac, the ring is distorted in geometrically impossible ways. Could anybody advise me on how to deal with

Re: [ccp4bb] about comparing Rwork and Rfree factors of different refinement trials

2010-03-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Dirk is right. It isnt so much a GUI bug as a feature! When you press restart for any job the previous parameters are loaded into the script. Usually this saves you work, but if you are changing from TLS with initial B fixed to 20 to restrained refinement it is undesirable to keep that

Re: [ccp4bb] Molrep error - bug 3790

2010-03-01 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear Jonathan this sounds like a known issue with the version on molrep that was released with ccp4 version 6.1.1 (so if you are having the problem with 6.1.3 then it has got back in). For some reason we did not get to the bottom of the file path gets doubled up, /home/caruthej/bo3/

[ccp4bb] Second Announcement: EMBO Course on Macromolecular Complexes

2010-03-01 Thread Carlo Petosa
Dear colleagues, We are organizing an EMBO Practical Course on the Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes. The course is primarily intended for Ph.D. students and postdocs engaged in challenging structural projects involving macromolecular complexes. WHEN: 31 May - 5 June,

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 01/03/2010, at 08.02, Dale Tronrud wrote: Dear X-ray Community, I'm sorry to have dragged you all along on this journey. There is something to Ian and Marc's arguments but I have been unable to understand their point. That is my failure and I don't wish to subject the rest of you to

[ccp4bb] MAX-lab beamtime Deadline March 12th 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ursby
CALL FOR PROPOSALS for beam time at MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden. Researchers using synchrotron radiation are invited to submit proposals for beam time for experiments to be carried out during the time period July 2010 to June 2011. The available facilities include beamlines for MX and SAXS, see

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Let me give my input to the confusion :-) Things that can be counted are integers, and have no unit. They may, however, have a _nominal_ unit, which can be stripes, apples, pieces of fruit. Those units are solely used for clarity. For example, I can have 13 pieces of fruit, but that may be

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Ian, Perhaps I should have made a more explicit connection to your message in what I wrote yesterday. I do not think there is any paradox, or apples vs. oranges problem, in this situation. The structure factor is a count of electrons as X-ray scatterers, so that the Fourier

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 01/03/2010, at 13.55, Boaz Shaanan wrote: As for equilibrium constants, I'm somewhat puzzled by your remark on their lack of units (I'm a chemist by the way). Is the equilibrium constant (or dissociation constant) of the reaction A+B-AB identical to that of the reaction: A+2B -- AB2 ? I

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position in GPCR crystallography

2010-03-01 Thread Arun Shukla
A post-doctoral position is available in Dr. Robert Lefkowitz's laboratory at Duke University in the area of GPCR structural biology. The position offers opportunities to work on X-ray crystallography of selected GPCRs in order to visualize the specific signaling confirmations of these

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Ian Tickle
Dear Gerard I would certainly agree that in general, provided one takes sufficient care over dimensions and units, paradoxes can never appear.  However, in this particular case I was pointing out the dimensionality error of writing equations such as f = 10e, and equivalent ones for the structure

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 01 March 2010, Ian Tickle wrote: Dear Gerard I would certainly agree that in general, provided one takes sufficient care over dimensions and units, paradoxes can never appear. However, in this particular case I was pointing out the dimensionality error of writing equations such

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Ian, The iteration seems to be converging :-)) . Regarding your last paragraph, however, I do not think that we have to forbid ourselves to call a spade a spade because of possible confusions that might be caused by misleading abbreviations. If the unit is an electron's worth

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Ronald E Stenkamp
Hi. I'm a little reluctant to get into this discussion, but I'm greatly confused by it all, and I think much of my confusion comes from trying to understand one of Ian's assumptions. Why are the scattering factors viewed as dimensionless quantities? In the International Tables (for example,

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position in Structural Biology in Lyon, France

2010-03-01 Thread Laurent Terradot
*A post-doctoral position *is available immediately in the group of Laurent Terradot at the Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines (IBCP), Lyon, (http://www.ibcp.fr). We are interested in the structure/function of protein complexes involved in /Helicobacter pylori /pathogenesis. This

[ccp4bb] PhD scholarship available

2010-03-01 Thread Margaret Bills
MONASH UNIVERSITY Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD SCHOLARSHIP Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship in Prof. Rossjohn’s lab. http://research.med.monash.edu.au/rossjohn/ The project is within the immunity group and

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Silvia, I don't know about sophisticated, but it's certainly interminable! Whether you need to modify your slides (actually only your 3rd slide seems to be relevant to the discussion) obviously depends on which definition you choose to along with. If you use what I can call the

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-03-01 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 01/03/2010, at 20.44, Dale Tronrud wrote: Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: On 01/03/2010, at 19.01, James Holton wrote: personal discourse. If I review a paper that lists electron density in 1/A^3, I will tell the authors to fix it. If a reviewer tells me to change my electron/A^3 to A^-3,

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position studying membrane enzymes

2010-03-01 Thread Sharon Rozovsky
A postdoctoral position is available for NIH-funded research to study the role of the membrane environment in facilitating the chemical reactivity of monotopic membrane enzymes. Specifically, the project investigates the transfer of the substrate from the membrane to the active site of

[ccp4bb] Positions available in structural biology at Takeda in San Diego

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Klein
Dear CCP4BB Community, I would like to draw your attention to these positions in the Structural Biology Department at Takeda in San Diego. I will be happy to give more information if you are interested in any of these positions. Applications can be made at the Careers Website:

[ccp4bb] 3D RNA Modeling and Simulation Workshop

2010-03-01 Thread Joy P. Ku
Simbios is pleased to invite you to its 3D RNA Modeling and Simulation workshop. The structure and dynamics of molecules is central to understanding biological function, and yet most experimentalists find existing structural modeling tools excessively limited in scope and difficult to use. In