[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position available at Caltech

2011-05-19 Thread Andre Hoelz
The Hoelz laboratory at the California Institute of Technology seeks to recruit an outstanding postdoctoral scientist in structural biology. Our laboratory focuses on the structure-function relationships of multi-protein macromolecular assemblies. Major research themes are (1) the nuclear pore

Re: [ccp4bb] SigmaA LABIN error

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Yogesh I was probably the last person to update the SIGMAA source code, but I have been using it without any problems. Could you post more info, specifically the shell script you are using and an mtzdump listing of the MTZ file header. If the problem can't be resolved from that info I may

[ccp4bb] Low resolution refinement

2011-05-19 Thread Joane Kathelen Rustiguel
Dear all I am refining a structure at 3.4 A resolution that contains 3 molecules in the a.u. The chain A sits on a 2-fold crystallographic axis forming the dimeric functional structure expected for this class of proteins. The other two chains B and C, which also form the functional dimer, seem

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning, Wilson scaling and B factor

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Fulvio There are 2 different issues here: the Wilson plot scale B factor on the one hand and Wilson statistics on the other. The first are not affected by twinning since they depend only on the intensity averages in shells. The second refers to the distribution of intensities (i.e. the

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning, Wilson scaling and B factor

2011-05-19 Thread fulvio saccoccia
Ok, so another question in my mind: the data come from a collection interrupted after the first 200 frames and restarted after 1 hour to recover the missed 160 frames. The first and second group of frames, if separately indexed, give cell parameter values that differ of about 1A for axes and 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning, Wilson scaling and B factor

2011-05-19 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Fulvio, Yes, it can. An increase in cell parameters can indicate a failure of the cooling system or (more likely) radiation damage of the crystal. For refinement you probably do not need all those 360 frames, unless you collected thin frames and your space group is P1 I suggest you integrate

Re: [ccp4bb] Low resolution refinement

2011-05-19 Thread Gregory Verdon
Missing density could point to incomplete data, how is the completeness at high and low resolution? Sent from my iPhone On May 19, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Jon Schuermann schue...@anl.gov wrote: Dear Joane, Bert's recommendations are very good, but I'd like to add a little caution. If just

[ccp4bb] PhD or postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany

2011-05-19 Thread Remco Sprangers
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tuebingen, Germany. PhD or postdoctoral positions funded by tax free fellowships are available in the research group of Remco Sprangers and in the research group of Silke Wiesner. We are looking for candidates that have a strong interest

Re: [ccp4bb] Low resolution refinement

2011-05-19 Thread David Schuller
This reminds me of: Pig heart short chain L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase revisited: Sequence analysis and crystal structure determination Barycki JJ, O'Brien LK, Birktoft JJ, Strauss AW, Banaszak LJ Protein Science (Oct 1999) Vol 8, pp 2010-2018. In which the protein in question also had

Re: [ccp4bb] Low resolution refinement

2011-05-19 Thread Eric Larson
Dear Joane, We have had very good luck refining low resolution structures with dramatic improvement using several newish options in refmac - particularly when NCS is present! Those options are jelly body restraints, automatic NCS restraints, and map sharpening. Here is a description

[ccp4bb] One Postdoc Position Available in Structural Virology

2011-05-19 Thread Frank Lee
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in Dr. Fang Li's lab at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Research involves biochemical and structural studies on proteins that guide invasion and replication of important viral pathogens. For more