[ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread R.Srinivasan
Dear All, I have got initial crystals in a condition with PEG 1000. The PEG 1000 stock we had in our lab was rock solid and when i heated it to about 50 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes it became a solution. We thought the compound has got out dated or something like that and bought a bran

Re: [ccp4bb] Impact Factors

2010-06-23 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear Tassos, thanks for alerting us to this unexpected but welcome fact! I would like to take the opportunity to a) congratulate George Sheldrick! b) point out to the CCP4 community that we decide ourselves about the impact factors of journals that are important for our work: specifically, if we

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread Vellieux Frederic
R.Srinivasan wrote: Dear All, I have got initial crystals in a condition with PEG 1000. The PEG 1000 stock we had in our lab was rock solid and when i heated it to about 50 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes it became a solution. We thought the compound has got out dated or something like

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:40:35PM +0530, R.Srinivasan wrote: > Dear All, > > I have got initial crystals in a condition with PEG 1000. The PEG > 1000 stock we had in our lab was rock solid and when i heated it to > about 50 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes it became a solut

Re: [ccp4bb] Merohedral twining for P212121. -

2010-06-23 Thread Ian Tickle
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:09 PM, wrote: > My interest was really what happened in the observed diffraction > pattern. With the large difference in the orthorhombic cell dimensions, > the spots will gradually separate for the higher orders. The point I > really wanted to discuss was whether ther

Re: [ccp4bb] Merohedral twining for P212121. -

2010-06-23 Thread Frank von Delft
My experience with pseudo-merohedral twinning (it was actually the reticular case with half the spots overlapped and the other non-overlapped half on a pseudo C-centred lattice) is that the degree of splitting varies widely over the diffraction pattern. In some places there was complete overlap,

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread Flip Hoedemaeker
The meting point of PEG 1000 is around 38C. Obviously, if Sigma has heated the batch to fill the bottles in the first place this is a futile exercise... I'd ask them first. Flip Vellieux Frederic wrote: R.Srinivasan wrote: Dear All, I have got initial crystals in a condition with

Re: [ccp4bb] Merohedral twining for P212121. -

2010-06-23 Thread Jonathan Elegheert
I recently ran into a similar case where the SG was P2(1)2(1)2(1) with a ~ b (within a few angstroms), thus emulating a P422 metric symmetry. Full details here: Pubmed ID: 20057079 As Ian says, sometimes the spot splitting was particularly visible, sometimes it was not. SAINT was not able to i

[ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear all, I've been trying to install the SuperSym module for pymol (svn trunk version of pymol as of today, 1.3.x). Upon restart the console says "Ooops! SuperSym requires cctbx and numeric python to function. Please install these." The system is i7 with Debian Testing 64bit with python2.5 (alt

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]
Tim, I'm shooting from the hip here, but I think the problem is that cctbx comes with its own python, which you would need to run both pymol and numpy under. According to Ralf it is at least not trivial to utilize the system python to run cctbx. So I think you need to compile/install pymol against

Re: [ccp4bb] [COOT] Hardware stereo

2010-06-23 Thread David Schuller
1) Do you have a line: Option "Stereo" "10" in the "Screen" section of your xorg.conf? 2) Is the 3D Vision emitter hooked up both to a USB port _AND_ to the mini-DIN stereo socket on the Quadro card? AFAIK emitter sync with only USB connection is not supported under Linux. http://htt

[ccp4bb] Modified Arginine Coot and SHELX

2010-06-23 Thread Fatima
Dear all, I'm finishing a refinement using SHELX and Coot (1.3A) and I have a modified Arginine. There’s a blob of positive density (9.04 and 7.01 sigma) binding NH2 in the 2 conformations. I think it could be a hydroxyl there. 1) How can I add that in Coot? 2) Does SHELXL recognise modified

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread Prince, D Bryan
When the ACA meeting was in Hawaii (2006?), there was information about microwaving PEG solutions to artificially age new samples so that they would crystallize like the older PEG's. So I would infer that heat does have a significant effect on solid PEG's. All PEG's with MW >=600 are solids at r

Re: [ccp4bb] PEG 1000

2010-06-23 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Actually it probably would be better ask the supplier of your screen first how they got PEG 1K diluted to 12.5%. If they did hit it then you have to do the same. But even better idea is to order that PEG 1K from the same company that sells the screens. It will insure identical treatment. My 2 c

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position EMBL

2010-06-23 Thread Panne Daniel
The Panne laboratory at the EMBL seeks to recruit an outstanding postdoctoral scientist in structural biology. Our research focus is directed towards the structure of macromolecular assemblies involved in the innate immune system and in epigenetic gene regulation (Panne et al., Cell 2007; Panne,

Re: [ccp4bb] Dual boot--windows 7 and Linux

2010-06-23 Thread Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]
Dear All, The problem solved. I have to remove one of the Dell factory partitions to install Linux. Here is what I did 1. Shrink the hard drive with Win 7 to give free space for Linux 2. Delete the READER partition (Did not touch the Dell Utility, OS and Recovery partitions) 3. Install from DVD

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Carsten, thank you for the instruction. The cctbx package seems to lack tkinter which is required by pymol (and maybe numpy, too). How do I install a specific python module (package? what's the correct term?) 'under' cctbx.python? Cheers, Tim On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:07:36AM -0400, Schube

Re: [ccp4bb] Stuck refinement

2010-06-23 Thread Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]
Hi All, The problem has also been solved with a new 2.0A dataset collected over the last weekend. Same space group and dimensions, much less radiation damage. This time I used APS SER-CAT's weaker BM beamline. Thanks, Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section V

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Graeme Winter
Dear Tim, There are instructions on how to build cctbx against your system Python (which I assume is the one used by PyMol) here: http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/current/installation.html#manually-building-from-sources-under-unix >From there you can also install other Python modules e.g. Numpy in t

Re: [ccp4bb] Stuck refinement

2010-06-23 Thread Francis E Reyes
Sorry a late comer to this thread but the OP mentioned "tweaking the error model" in HKL2000. I have heard this before.What's the validity in this? Does it actually help or does it only help the integration numbers but you'll pay for it during refinement? FR On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:25 AM, "Zh

Re: [ccp4bb] Impact Factor of Acta Crystallographica A is 49.9

2010-06-23 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Thankyou Tassos, Kay and others for the congratulations. Maybe I should put it in perspective: Most of the people citing SHELX were small molecule crystallographers, who do not feel obliged to cite the programs they used only in the supplementary material. If you want to be cited you have to w

Re: [ccp4bb] Merohedral twining for P212121.

2010-06-23 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Colleagues, I hope the following detailed review will be of help both with terminology as well as case studies of a wide variety of kinds, including possible approaches for moving forward, regarding the various manifestations of twinning, lattice disorders and multiple crystals. Best wishes, J

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Ok, I just did that. After sourcing setpaths.sh, PYTHONHOME is set to /path/to/cctbx_build When I start python and enter from cctbx import sgtbx I get an error message about a missing __init__.py The whole cctbx_build does not contain a single __init__.py\*, but there are plenty in ../cctbx_sour

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Graeme Winter
Hi Tim, There will be a cctbx.python dispatcher now which should set everything up - however if you source setpaths_debug I think this should make for a happy python as it includes everything from the dispatcher. At least, that was my understanding. best wishes, Graeme On 23 June 2010 16:17, T

Re: [ccp4bb] Modified Arginine Coot and SHELX

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Emsley
On 23/06/10 14:40, Fatima wrote: Dear all, I'm finishing a refinement using SHELX and Coot (1.3A) and I have a modified Arginine. There’s a blob of positive density (9.04 and 7.01 sigma) binding NH2 in the 2 conformations. I think it could be a hydroxyl there. 1) How can I add that in Coot?

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Nat Echols
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Graeme Winter wrote: > There will be a cctbx.python dispatcher now which should set > everything up - however if you source setpaths_debug I think this > should make for a happy python as it includes everything from the > dispatcher. > Don't use setpaths_debug -

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Campbell
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:07:36 -0400 "Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]" wrote: > Tim, > > I'm shooting from the hip here, but I think the problem is that cctbx > comes with its own python, which you would need to run both pymol and > numpy under. According to Ralf it is at least not trivial to utilize th

[ccp4bb] SOLVED: Re: [ccp4bb] pymol python and cctbx

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear all who answered, the combination of - compiling cctbx from source - modifying the pymol startup script to source the cctbx setpaths.sh AND use cctbx.python (instead of /usr/bin/python) eventually works. Thanks to all the responses to make this work. Tim On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:02:03

Re: [ccp4bb] Multiple ligand refinement

2010-06-23 Thread xaravich ivan
Thank you Tim and Partha, The reason I do not have clear density of my ligands ( at 1.15 Angs) is that I have a native-active enzyme complexed with substrate and product forming at the active site. We have reason to believe from our enzyme kinetics data that we would be able to capture both the sta

[ccp4bb] Multiple NCS relations

2010-06-23 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Dear bb contributors, I would like to refer to your expertise and get advice regarding multiple NCS relations between two macromolecular complexes in asu. Resolution 2.5A, s.g. C2221, R-merge 6%, synchrotron data, 2 complexes per a.s.u. Each complex consist of three polypeptide chains, let's say

Re: [ccp4bb] Multiple NCS relations

2010-06-23 Thread David Schuller
I think you should be able to specify two different "NCSR" lines, one to cover chains A&A' and C&C', and another to cover chains B&B'. On 06/23/10 18:51, Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote: Dear bb contributors, I would like to refer to your expertise and get advice regarding multiple NCS relations betwe

Re: [ccp4bb] Modified Arginine Coot and SHELX

2010-06-23 Thread SIPPEL,KATHERINE H
Since no one has answered the SHELX part of this question I'll jump in. The PRODRG restraints should work as is, assuming you've named the peptide atoms correctly (C, O, CA, N). But just in case they don't you can explicitly attach it to the main chain with the addition of a couple of spare res

[ccp4bb] How to run UPPSALA-mapman in PBS?

2010-06-23 Thread Hailiang Zhang
Hi there: I downloaded the binary files of UPPSALA-mapman and they run smoothly under linux. However, when I write it into a shell script and run under PBS queue, it cannot be excuated. A simple test turned out to be: (1) *** [Linux] ./lx_mapman ->works (2) *** [Linux]source ${ABSDI

Re: [ccp4bb] How to run UPPSALA-mapman in PBS?

2010-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Hello Hailiang, On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:01:04PM -0400, Hailiang Zhang wrote: > Hi there: > > I downloaded the binary files of UPPSALA-mapman and they run smoothly > under linux. However, when I write it into a shell script and run under > PBS queue, it cannot be excuated. A simple test turned

Re: [ccp4bb] How to run UPPSALA-mapman in PBS?

2010-06-23 Thread Hailiang Zhang
Hi Tim: Thanks a lot for suggeting "exec" in my shell script. It really works under both shell and PBS; however, the running was just terminated right after "exec ${DIR}/lx_mapman" was excutated. I am not sure why this happens:-( Hailiang > Hello Hailiang, > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:01:04PM