Re: [ccp4bb] Crystals Disappearing Overnight

2014-05-08 Thread Dr. Anthony Addlagatta
*** This message has been scanned by the InterScan for CSC SSM by IICT security policy and found to be free of known security risks. *** Maria, >From my experience with co-crystallization experiments, if crystals appear >immediately after setting up the

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[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Space group problem

2014-05-08 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Rain, Maybe a little late, but here are some more comments: 1) What is the deal? For me, one can only know the space group after the structure has been solved. I have seen quite few cases (e.g. twinning, non-crystallographic symmetry etc.) that all programs (XDS, pointless) and statistics

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Re: [ccp4bb] Space group problem

2014-05-08 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi, please post the pointless table "Analysing rotational symmetry in lattice group P 6/m m m". This gives a quite clear information about the presence/absence of rotational symmetry axes. Look at at the following example Analysing rotational symmetry in lattice group P 6/m m m --

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Space group problem

2014-05-08 Thread Christophe Wirth
Dear all, To add another bit to the discussion, I would say that an increase of Rmerge and Rmeas is just expected in such a case, isn't it? According to your tables, in P1, the multiplicity is about 4. In P2, it's about 7. In P3, it's 10. And in P6, it's approaching 20. I would say that this le

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Space group problem

2014-05-08 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Thu, 8 May 2014 16:56:01 +0200, Christophe Wirth wrote: >Dear all, > >To add another bit to the discussion, I would say that an increase of Rmerge >and Rmeas is just expected in such a case, isn't it? > >According to your tables, in P1, the multiplicity is about 4. In P2, it's >about 7. In

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[ccp4bb] Aimless and multiple crystals

2014-05-08 Thread Katherine Sippel
Hi all, I have two nice, but a hair under-complete data sets that I am trying to merge together. If I run aimless on them separately everything looks beautiful. When I merge them together the CC1/2 is still good but all the various and sundry Rs sky rocket. When I go to the log file and look at th

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and multiple crystals

2014-05-08 Thread Katherine Sippel
I forgot to mention the space group is P1. Sorry about that. Thanks, Katherine On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Katherine Sippel < katherine.sip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two nice, but a hair under-complete data sets that I am trying to > merge together. If I run aimless on them

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and multiple crystals

2014-05-08 Thread Craig Bingman
How close are the cell constants? On May 8, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Katherine Sippel wrote: > I forgot to mention the space group is P1. Sorry about that. > > Thanks, > Katherine > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Katherine Sippel > wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two nice, but a hair under-co

[ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hello CCP4 community, I am stumped and would love some help. I have a molecular replacement solution that has Rfree stuck around 40% while Rwork is aorund 30%. The model is actually the same enzyme with a similar inhibitor bound. Relevant information is below. -Yarrow I have solved a structure i

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining Metal Ion Occupancy

2014-05-08 Thread Chris Fage
Hi Everyone, Thank you for the advice, especially Pavel's. My issue has been resolved. I lowered the occupancy and B-factors of the metal ions in the .pdb and ran phenix.refine for 10 cycles. This removed most of the negative Fo-Fc density. Anisotropic refinement of the metal ion B-factors was als

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and multiple crystals

2014-05-08 Thread Katherine Sippel
That is probably the culprit. The two unit cell dimensions are... dataset #1: 68.8295 75.9597 83.3998 65.4000 88.8500 64.9000 dataset #2: 68.3005 75.7100 83.1299 65.3601 88.8900 65.2600 I can't believe I didn't look at that. I know better. Thanks for all of your quick response

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining Metal Ion Occupancy

2014-05-08 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Chris, this certainly improved your model with respect to the data including all their errors. How do you know this did not make your model worse with respect to chemistry, respectively to what is inside your crystal? Best, Tim On 05/08/2014 07:26 PM, Chris Fage wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Tha

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining Metal Ion Occupancy

2014-05-08 Thread Chris Fage
Hi Tim, That's a good question. The negative density vanished and the model itself has not changed much. I still plan to set up soaking/cocrystallization experiments with the metal ion. I am hoping this will increase occupancy. That is the only solution that comes to mind. Regards, Chris On 5/8/

[ccp4bb] Comments needed CBF X-axis definition ambiguity

2014-05-08 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
Dear Colleagues, Please pardon the shotgun distribution of this query. It may only directly concern a few beam-line scientists and software developers, but comments from all interested parties are welcome. Many people have happily used the IUCr imgCIF dictionary definitions in data collecti

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Randy Read
Hi Yarrow, If Dale said that, he probably wasn’t saying what he meant clearly enough! The NCS 2-fold axis has to be parallel to the crystallographic 2-fold (screw) axis to generate tNCS. In your case, the NCS is a 2-fold approximately parallel to the y-axis, but it’s nearly 9 degrees away fro

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Keller, Jacob
The b and c cell constants look remarkably similar JPK -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Randy Read Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 3:41 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution Hi Yarr

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Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Sorry Dale. I left that out. I thought that it was almost parallel or very close. I guess that is not enough. This is after all an exact science. My fault. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Dale Tronrud wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > By the way... I did not say

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hi Randy, Again, sorry about the mis-quote. From a quick look I thought the NCS 2-fold was parallel or close enough. I didn't know that 10 degrees would change the patterson that much. I have tried refinement with both sets of data and get the same results. I will investigate the space group assig

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hi Jacob. I am worried that I would dramatically suffer in data completeness. I am not sure how reliable the data is when you are have 50% completeness. These crystals are also pretty much impossible to reproduce at the moment. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: > Since your s

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hi Brent, I forgot to mention the resolution and other statistics. Here they are (XDS -unmerged data P2 below). Overall completeness is 93.4(85.2)% for 2.2A. I do have some anisotropy in the b-direction. I have tried running phaser with data scaled by the UCLA anisotropy server and obtained the sa

Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Dale Tronrud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Refinement of a model with only 50% completeness is problematic, but you have four copies of a molecule (in P1) so your molecular replacement is only looking for 24 parameters. You should be able to get a solution with 50% completeness. Dale Tron

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Re: [ccp4bb] stalled refinement after MR solution

2014-05-08 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Thank you for the tips Brent. I will try what you suggest. There are actually multiple lattices. And I actually only processed the dominant one in XDS. On May 8, 2014 2:26 PM, "Segelke, Brent W." wrote: > Completeness looks pretty good and you have a good enough resolution > that you should be