[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in protein structure at UCLA

2010-05-20 Thread Todd Yeates
A postdoctoral position is available immediately to work on structures of bacterial microcompartments and to pursue other projects involving protein design and assembly. Bacterial microcompartments are poorly characterized virus-sized protein shells that serve as organelles inside many bacterial c

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Ulrich Zander
Hi Qing Lu, try Autorickshaw: http://www.embl-hamburg.de/Auto-Rickshaw/ It can perform the complete structure solution procedure if the quality of your data is sufficient and I consider it very user-friendly, especially for beginners . Regards, Uli > Hi All, > > I am new to protein crys

Re: [ccp4bb] TLSANL total B factor question

2010-05-20 Thread Shiva Kumar
>The simplest explanation would be that those particular atoms are not in any >TLS group, and therefore they have only an isotropic ADP component. Unfortunately, the '0 0 0' for the anisotropic component in ANISOU record is for all of my protein atoms. >If that is not the case, please show the c

Re: [ccp4bb] TLSANL total B factor question

2010-05-20 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 20 May 2010, Shiva Kumar wrote: > Dear Crystallographers > > I am trying to print out my total B factors using TLSANL (version: 6.1) in > CCP4- 6.1.1. My TLSANL’s input file.pdb is coming from refmac (version: > 5.5.0072) using the TLS & restraint refinement option and isotropic B

[ccp4bb] TLSANL total B factor question

2010-05-20 Thread Shiva Kumar
Dear Crystallographers I am trying to print out my total B factors using TLSANL (version: 6.1) in CCP4- 6.1.1. My TLSANL’s input file.pdb is coming from refmac (version: 5.5.0072) using the TLS & restraint refinement option and isotropic B factors. The TLSANL’s output file.pdb contains the f

[ccp4bb] Hope for breakthroughs

2010-05-20 Thread Jürgen Bosch
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd And the related publication Thousands of chemical starting points for antimalarial lead identification http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7296/pdf/nature09107.pdf Good luck with the goldmine ! Jürgen - Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public H

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Jürgen Bosch
I don't like the site finding option in autosharp, takes too long in most of my cases. So my approach is locate sites via SHELX, then feed them into Sharp. Sorry Gerard :-) Jürgen On May 20, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Jeremiah Farelli wrote: > I second autoSHARP/SHARP. It makes great initial maps, an

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Jeremiah Farelli
I second autoSHARP/SHARP. It makes great initial maps, and once you get it running, it is totally worth it.

Re: [ccp4bb] ncsfind

2010-05-20 Thread Mark Brooks
Hello,         If you have Phenix, try phenix.find_ncs (sorry for the non-CCP4 answer). The example run in the PHENIX documentation is: phenix.find_ncs anb.pdb mlt.mtz This will then write out the NCS operators in various flavours. Basically if you have a list of Se sites it calls RESOLVE, but ha

[ccp4bb] ncsfind

2010-05-20 Thread Karin van Straaten
Dear all,Does anyone know if NCSFIND is still available or how I can get it. If not is there another program that I can use to determine noncrystallographic symmetry between Se-sites.Thanks in advance,Karin

Re: [ccp4bb] Is it possible to mutate a reversible epimerase into an inreversible one?

2010-05-20 Thread Lijun Liu
I think this is somehow tortured, especially by a quick reading of Dale's explanation. All natural epimerases, isomerase and racemases use a mechanism based on L-amino acids to deal with a mirror-symmetric (quasi-, sometimes) reaction. In another word, these enzymes use a non-mirror symmet

Re: [ccp4bb] electron microscopy: where open access fails

2010-05-20 Thread Filip Van Petegem
Dear crystallographers, For those of you who have shared personal frustration with cryoEM map availability, or for those of you who would simply like to see science proceed as it should, here's your opportunity to sign an on-line petitition. Please feel free to send the link below to any of your

[ccp4bb] The organizers: "Frontiers in Automated Crystal Handling and Visualization" invite you to participate

2010-05-20 Thread Stojanoff, Vivian
The Organizers of the workshop: "Frontiers in Automated Crystal Handling and Visualization" May 26-27, 2010 National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratorty Hamilton Conference Room Bldg 555 Chemistry Department would like to invite you to participate in this exciting works

[ccp4bb] Ion identification in crystal structures

2010-05-20 Thread James Murphy
What is a good resource for identifying what seem to be ions (Na+, Cl-, CO3-, NH4-) and not simply water molecules in a crystal structure? James W. Murphy, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist; Dept. of Pharmacology Facility Manager; Macromolecular Crystallography Facility Yale Uni

Re: [ccp4bb] electron microscopy: where open access fails

2010-05-20 Thread Filip Van Petegem
Dear Cathy/EMDATABANK team: It is hard to comprehend the option for keeping maps on hold for up to 2 years. It seems any depositor would do this for pure selfish reasons: keep the data to themselves, don't allow anybody to verify the data for a long time, and have the exclusive right to do experi

[ccp4bb] Grenoble: PhD fellowship in kinetic crystallography

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Weik
A PhD studentship (3 years) is available at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (http://www.ibs.fr) in Grenoble, France. The project is to explore the structural dynamics of the medically important enzyme acetylcholinesterase by a panoply of complementary biophysical methods, including kinetic c

Re: [ccp4bb] Translational pseudosymmetry?

2010-05-20 Thread Owen Pornillos
Dear Eleanor - That is correct. The pseudo-sg is P6, and the structure has been refined in this sg. The intensity difference between the strong and weak subsets is quite significant that for most data sets, auto- indexing routines will miss the weak spots and pick the pseudo-sg instead.

Re: [ccp4bb] electron microscopy: where open access fails

2010-05-20 Thread Cathy Lawson
sent on behalf of the EMDATABANK.org team: The EM Databank (EMDB, http://www.emdatabank.org/) is a resource for the archival deposition and retrieval of EM maps and associated metadata. It was established in 2002 by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, UK), and is now run jointly by

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Qing Lu, Now that several suggestions, both ccp4 and non-ccp4, have been made, may I suggest that you (also) try autoSHARP, available free of charge at http://www.globalphasing.com/sharp/ It includes the invocation of SHELXD to solve the substructure, and takes you

Re: [ccp4bb] Translational pseudosymmetry?

2010-05-20 Thread Eleanor Dodson
This looks a bit strange.. If you have a hexamer in the asymmetric unit, in P3, then that means all symmetry copies lie in the same plane. To generate the Patterson peak, 2/3,1/3,0 the hexamer must be centred at 1/3,1/3, z (with symmetry equivalents 0,-1/3,z and -1/3,0,z ) I would expect y

Re: [ccp4bb] translational NCS

2010-05-20 Thread Eleanor Dodson
pdbset xyzin mol1.pdb xyzout mol1-tran1.pdb SHIFT frac x,y,z (where x,y,z is the patterson peak) end OR pdbset xyzin mol1.pdb xyzout mol1-tran2.pdb SHIFT frac -x,-y,-z (since -x,-y,-z is also a the patterson peak) end Nicolas Soler wrote: Dear CCP4bbs, I am dealing with a case involving pseu

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Minor correction: SHELX software are not part of CCP4 but if you have them installed as part of your crystallograhic software, you can call them from the CCP4 GUI. You can obtain the SHELX suite free to academic labs from Ggeorge Sheldrickbe Email George Sheldrick. George M. Sheldrick Jürge

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Crank is a good tool for doing this automatically. Follow the instructions here: http://ccp4wiki.org/~ccp4wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Automated_experimental_phasing_with_Crank Qing Lu wrote: Hi All, I am new to protein crystallography. I would like to know the steps involved in solving a MAD da