Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling with SCALA high and low resolution data sets

2013-03-21 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Kyriacos, What kind of high-resolution data do you have? In my experience, while Scala usually produces excellent results, it often fails miserably or even crashes due to too negative intensities in case of low redundancy data. E.g. if one does a second high-resolution scan with a high

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling with SCALA high and low resolution data sets

2013-03-21 Thread vellieux
Dear Kyriacos, Just one thing to add to this suggestion from Herman: I personally view and study the plots generated by the SCALA/TRUNCATE or AIMLESS/TRUNCATE route after XDS processing (in particular the plot of Rmerge values as a function of Batch number) to eliminate deviating batches

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling with SCALA high and low resolution data sets

2013-03-21 Thread Antony Oliver
Or, seeing that this is the CCP4BB smile, you could use the Xia2 pipeline from CCP4i - which will also use XDS if installed on your system. My recommendation would be to process with XDS. By using the autoProc procedure from Global Phasing this is very easy, even for people who are normally

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution limit of index in XDS

2013-03-21 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Tim, It could be that COLSPOT does not rely on experimental setup parameters. However, XDS must have reasonably close starting values for distance, direct beam position etc., otherwise the autoindexing would fail, so the information to calculate an approximate TRUSTED_REGION is available.

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution limit of index in XDS

2013-03-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear Herman, some pros and cons are documented at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/Wishlist#Would_be_nice_to_have , and the workaround is at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/xdswiki/index.php/Ice_rings . These XDSwiki articles are old, and nobody has

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution limit of index in XDS

2013-03-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:28:27 +, herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: Dear Tim, It could be that COLSPOT does not rely on experimental setup parameters. However, XDS must have reasonably close starting values for distance, direct beam position etc., otherwise the autoindexing would fail, so

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution limit of index in XDS

2013-03-21 Thread Herman . Schreuder
I was a little provokative. A GUI with a viewer would actually be an excellent idea since it allows one to see what one is doing, which would be of great help for difficult data sets. Nevertheless, since XDS is part of many automated pipelines, the possibility to run XDS offline with a command

Re: [ccp4bb] suitable buffer for CD studies

2013-03-21 Thread Harsh Bansia
Respected All, Thanks for your valuable suggestions and inputs. with regards, Harsh On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: Yep, mostly you should stay away from Tris as this is the worst buffer system when playing with temperature changes. Tris for

[ccp4bb] homology modeling of dimeric proteins

2013-03-21 Thread Sudipta Bhattacharyya
Dear All, Could annyone please suggest me any program or server that can build homology based models of dimeric/oligomeric proteins? Previously I have used many software/servers which can build the monomer of my target proteins but not the dimers. Self docking of homology based monomer is not

[ccp4bb] Coot question

2013-03-21 Thread Nicolas Soler
Dear all, My question concerns the Extension- modelling- Rigid body fit residue ranges function in Coot. Although it works well through the interface, I cannot have it to work in a python script, does somebody know the correct syntax? Thanks in advance, Nicolas

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[ccp4bb] Oligomerization state

2013-03-21 Thread Theresa Hsu
Dear all I have a His-tagged membrane protein with unknown oligomerization state. But I am worried that tag addition may induce different state than in native and affect its crystallizability. Is there a single method that can determine the oligomerization state with nearly 100% accuracy? I

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Oligonucleotide purity (Summary)

2013-03-21 Thread Theresa Hsu
Dear all I received off-board replies on this subject. Most people use standard desalting for all cloning and mutagenesis experiments regardless of length. One reply recommended desalting for up to 40 bases and HPLC for longer oligos because of larger ratio of (n-1) contaminants. For

Re: [ccp4bb] Oligomerization state

2013-03-21 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Dear Theresa, Although I haven't yet done the experiment myself, I am told that microscale thermophoresis (MST) is another useful method for oligomerization measurements, especially since it is designed to work for membrane proteins in presence of detergents etc. If you want to quickly learn more

Re: [ccp4bb] homology modeling of dimeric proteins

2013-03-21 Thread Joel Tyndall
I have successfully used modeller (standalone software; Sali lab) to generate multimeric complexes up to 24-mers Hope tis helps From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sudipta Bhattacharyya Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 5:00 a.m. To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject:

Re: [ccp4bb] Oligomerization state

2013-03-21 Thread Toufic El Arnaout
Hello Theresa, Maybe a functional assay (if possible) is better than determining the oligomeric state? Why is finding out the oligomeric state (which is unknown anyway and the answer can be compared to nothing), the answer to is having a tag ok? will the protein crystallize? What if the analysis

[ccp4bb] Map Alignment

2013-03-21 Thread Chen Zhao
Dear all, Does anybody know some softwares for aligning electron density maps? I tried transforming map by SQL model fit extension in COOT, which turned out to be not working: the map it transformed is the one supposed to be fixed. If I switch the moving model with the reference model, I only

Re: [ccp4bb] Map Alignment

2013-03-21 Thread Bosch, Juergen
If I understand your question correctly, you have a couple of atoms which you could align to get the rotation translation then you can use these values with maprot (CCP4) or mama (USF) to actually superimpose maps. Jürgen On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chen Zhao wrote: Dear all, Does anybody

Re: [ccp4bb] Map Alignment

2013-03-21 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Chen, I also tried the Superpose maps utility in PHENIX, however, since they are nucleic acid structures, it seems that the sequences cannot be recognized. I'm not aware of such problem. If it does exist and you want me to fix it please send me the files and I'll have a look. Pavel