Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Hi there one thing I did to get more space for needles in a drop was to make 'book end' coverslips. Your take a plastic covership and with a razor blade you cut obliquely into the plastic to make a 'flap' of the plastic. Then you lever it up to vertical to give a projecting vertical s

Re: [ccp4bb] Error in overlapmap

2011-11-15 Thread Eleanor Dodson
On 11/15/2011 02:07 AM, Rojan Shrestha wrote: Dear all, I am trying to calculate the correlation between two 2Fo-fc maps but I was getting error. The error is: CCP4 library signal library_file:Cannot open file (Error) This error was appeared after reading the given map files and trying t

[ccp4bb] pointless error

2011-11-15 Thread Rajesh kumar
Dear all, mtzdump shows my space group as 'C 2 2 21' (number 20) pointless gives error "Space group is not in library". part of the log file is following. I appreciate all the help. Thanks Raj ** *

[ccp4bb] Bug in XIA2 0.3.3.3 Build 3479

2011-11-15 Thread Antony Oliver
Dear CCP4 developers, Forgive the posting here, but I can't find the correct contact details for Graeme Winter… I have just downloaded the latest version of XIA2 (0.3.3.3 build 3479) and tried to integrate a dataset. The program fails with the following error… >>> Build: 3479 XIA2 0.3.3.3 Com

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread Nian Huang
Thank you guys. I basically tried almost everything that I can find in the hampton catalogue and in this bulletin, seeding, hanging, sitting, sandwitch drops (which made things worse), temperature, gel, oil batch, and additive screens. Manipulating the crystal with fiber increases the chance to mak

[ccp4bb] Wanted: Electron Microscopists

2011-11-15 Thread Suchetana Mukhopadhyay
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[ccp4bb] In the mood for some LEGO DNA to celebrate PDB40?

2011-11-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, I came across this YouTube clip the other day that is well worth 3 1/2 minutes of your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhs1YO5nqXA It was made by Tommy Christensen and shows how he built a model of DNA out of LEGO bricks (of PDB entry 2DAU, to be precise) to celebrate th

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Attached is a picture of making the bookend setup - step b. shows the razor levering up the flap from the plastic coverslip  - be careful not to cut right through (I have done that and the drop dries extra quick in such a case) also be careful to apply the protein/well droplet as shown with to t

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop.

2011-11-15 Thread James Austin
Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -Original Message- From: Nian Huang Sender: CCP4 bulletin board Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:44:28 To: Reply-To: Nian Huang Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] Control of crystals' direction and position in the drop. Thank you guys. I basically tried a

[ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Feng Guo
Hi, there, Maybe someone asked this question before, but I couldn't find it in the archive. We use the native data to do molecular replacement before, but only part of the model fit the density. After collect a new set of selenoMet data, we try to use it to solve the phase, it solve some of

Re: [ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Sharp will do that. Or you can simply handpick them when looking at your anomalous map using the MR phases. With those sites you can use a variety of programs to refine the SeMet sites and hopefully get better phases. Are you sure your MR model is correctly placed ? Have you tried conventional

Re: [ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Jacob Keller
How about Phaser with partial MR structure? JPK On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Feng Guo wrote: > Hi, there, > > Maybe someone asked this question before, but I couldn't find it in the > archive. > >  We use the native data to do molecular replacement before, but only part of > the model fit

Re: [ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Jon Schuermann
Phenix does this (http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/autosol.htm#anch125) Phaser-EP (http://www.phaser.cimr.cam.ac.uk/index.php/Experimental_Phasing#Combined_MR_and_SAD_Phasing) and SHELX using an experimental version you have to get from George Sheldrick. Jon -- Jonathan P. Schue

Re: [ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Jon Schuermann
I forgot to mention... there are two ways of calculating the phases in Phenix, try both ways because the maps can look very different. Jon -- Jonathan P. Schuermann, Ph. D. Beamline Scientist NE-CAT, Building 436E Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue A

[ccp4bb] Crystallizing protein sitting in PBS

2011-11-15 Thread Jayakrishnan Nandakumar
Hi All, I have an RNA-binding protein that I can purify out of bacteria in PBS (Phosphate buffered saline;137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 10 mM Na2HPO4, 2 mM KH2PO4), but which is insoluble in Tris/NaCl-based buffers. My guess would be that the inorganic phosphates (by mimicking RNA) are binding the prote

Re: [ccp4bb] Can I combine selenoMet data and MR model to solve the phase problem?

2011-11-15 Thread Frederic VELLIEUX
Hi, This hasn't been mentioned by the people who have answered so far so here we go: your molecular replacement solution and your SeMet solution to the phase problem are not necessarily using the same origin. There is a ccp4 program (is it phistats ? and there may be other programs around) tha

Re: [ccp4bb] Bug in XIA2 0.3.3.3 Build 3479

2011-11-15 Thread Graeme Winter
Dear Tony, Sorry you found it hard to track me down - I should add a note on the end of the log file as to how to report errors :o) In order to work out what happened please could you send me (off list) the xia2-debug.txt and xia2.error files? Thanks & best wishes, Graeme On 15 November 2011 1