Re: [ccp4bb] Which program sequence to use in transforming from P1 to orthorhombic?

2013-02-11 Thread Jens Kaiser
Ethan, The last time I attempted similar things, I had to run rotaprep to convince scala of using most things that did not come directly out of mosflm, but that was before the pointless days. As the reflections are already scaled in P1, I would consider it safe to rely on the Pointless Rmerge

[ccp4bb] Which program sequence to use in transforming from P1 to orthorhombic?

2013-02-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
Hi all, I've downloaded a structure factor file from the PDB that presents itself as being triclinic. It contains F, sig(F), and Rfree only. The P1-ness of this structure is dubious, however. Pointless is 99.6% sure it's orthorhombic and puts out an mtz file in P212121 containing I SIGI

Re: [ccp4bb] Self rotation function interpretation

2013-02-11 Thread R. M. Garavito
Emma, You need to provide more information. Luckily, I222 is orthorhombic, so a* is along a, b* is along b, and c* is along c. This makes things so much easier to interpret. I hope the plotting conventions you used are typical: b along +y (North pole), a along +x (to the right), and c perpen

Re: [ccp4bb] how to update phenix

2013-02-11 Thread Yves Muller
Dear Bill, whatever analogy you want to draw, you are getting yourself into serious trouble here However, regarding cheating, did anybody read the latest publication of Bernhard Rupp and co-workers: Pozharski, E. et al., Acta Cryst. (2013). D69, 150-167 http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/20

Re: [ccp4bb] how to update phenix

2013-02-11 Thread Douglas Theobald
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Tim Gruene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Bill, > > I disagree to your criticism. From http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php: > "CCP4bb is an electronic mailing list intended to host discussions > about topics of general interest to macr

Re: [ccp4bb] how to update phenix

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Bill, I disagree to your criticism. From http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4bb.php: "CCP4bb is an electronic mailing list intended to host discussions about topics of general interest to macromolecular crystallographers.[...]" Personally I am only subscr

[ccp4bb] Recent IUPAC definition of the hydrogen bond

2013-02-11 Thread Nadir T. Mrabet
Hi, I wonder how much of an impact should there be on structure refinement, validation and, last but not least, molecular modeling, if we take into account the recent (2011) re-definition of the hydrogen bond made by the IUPAC. Ref: "Elangannan Arunan, Gautam R. Desiraju, Roger A. Klein, Joa

Re: [ccp4bb] protein crystals or salt crystals

2013-02-11 Thread Jim Pflugrath
If one tries to use a dye to determine if crystals are protein or salt, then I recommend that they use both a positive and a negative control. So have some handy salt or sugar crystals ready along with some known protein crystals to use as controls. Jim From:

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac5 MMA bug

2013-02-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Ed, C7 is the correct name for the atom. Instead of commenting out the line you could swap the C7 and the CM and then Refmac would correct the atom name if it is wrong. This is of course very user friendly, but it also keeps users from using the correct atom names (similar to the nucleic aci

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac5 MMA bug

2013-02-11 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 09:56 +0100, Robbie Joosten wrote: > This is a 'compatability' option in Refmac that internally renames > atoms. If you comment out 'MMA .C7 CM' in your > mon_lib_list.cif file, the problem will disappear. > Robbie, thanks a lot - this fixes it. Is th

[ccp4bb] PhD positions in crystallography - Stockholm University

2013-02-11 Thread Matthew Bennett
The research group of Dr Martin Högbom, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University has two PhD student positions currently available, as part of our quarterly intake of new students. Project title: Membrane protein structural biochemistry The inner environment the

Re: [ccp4bb] protein crystals or salt crystals

2013-02-11 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Amro Here is an extract from our paper, describing a method that is almost infallible, and not too hard to do if you're organized. It can never give false positives and (in the 3 cases we looked at it) only gave false negatives when there was heavy precipitate in the drop. Best wishes, Patrick

Re: [ccp4bb] protein crystals or salt crystals

2013-02-11 Thread Ganesh Natrajan
Dear Amro, What you could try is this. Make a solution of 0.5 % (w/v) commassie brilliant blue in 10% (v/v) ethanol in water. Pipet 1 ul of this into your drop and close the cover slip. If the crystals are protein, they should turn blue after some time (typically 30 mins). Salt crystals will

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac5 MMA bug

2013-02-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Ed, This is a 'compatability' option in Refmac that internally renames atoms. If you comment out 'MMA .C7 CM' in your mon_lib_list.cif file, the problem will disappear. Cheers, Robbie > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:35:25 -0500 > From: epozh...@umaryland.edu > Subject: [ccp4