Re: [ccp4bb] Residual density feature

2015-06-15 Thread Ben Bax
Dear Colin, I think the residual blob usually represents a combination of different chemical entities. I think the correct thing to do is to try to dock all the possible chemical entities you have in your crystallisation buffer, purification buffers and things that have carried through in an

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Re: [ccp4bb] Tris buffer in cryo protectant

2015-06-15 Thread Enrico Stura
Ursula, After extensive testing, I have found out that in most cases pH changes during flash freezing does not pose a problem. In some cases it can be beneficial. I encourage you to try +/- 2 pH units from your crystallization pH. Sometimes a sub-optimal pH is chosen just because the

Re: [ccp4bb] Residual density feature

2015-06-15 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Hi Colin, You may have tried this but just in case you haven't, perhaps you should try put a few water molecules in the blob and refine? After that the geometry of the water arrangement may give you a better idea what the blob represents. It worked for me in quite a few cases. Cheers,

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Pavel Afonine
Why not just use CIF files directly? Note, most Phenix tools accept input model and data in cif format (and can write them back in cif too). Pavel On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:52 AM, StrBio biophysics.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, How one can convert pdb-sf.cif file downloaded from PDB to a

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Donald Damian Raymond
Hi, I've written a bash script that does just what you want. Find it here -- https://github.com/donaldraymond/crystallography-scripts/blob/master/PDB_data.sh Run the script with a PDB ID. Like this PDB_data 1yks The script downloads the PDB and sf.mmCIF files from the PDB. It then converts

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear StrBio, you can use the command line tool cif2mtz. If the file is rather recent, and you are only interested in the first block, you can type cif2mtz hklin yourciffile.sf hklout yourmtzfile.mtz eof end eof There are some subtleties that you may only convert correctly after looking into

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread StrBio
Thank you all. I got several options, and I am using phenix pdb sf-cif to mtz protocol. Thanks once again for your help. On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Shibom Basu sbas...@asu.edu wrote: Well, you can also try sf-convert program from PDB to convert sf.cif file to any other format mtz, or

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Schubert, Carsten [JRDUS]
Phenix has a menu item for this: Reflection Tools - Import CIF structure factors HTH Carsten From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of StrBio Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 1:53 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Hattne, Johan
Or Convert to/modify/extend MTZ in Reflection Data Utilities”. You can “Import reflection file in mmCIF format and create MTZ file”. // Johan On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:58, Schubert, Carsten [JRDUS] cschu...@its.jnj.com wrote: Phenix has a menu item for this: Reflection Tools - Import CIF

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Shibom Basu
Well, you can also try sf-convert program from PDB to convert sf.cif file to any other format mtz, or cns whatever you want. On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:52 AM, StrBio biophysics.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, How one can convert pdb-sf.cif file downloaded from PDB to a workable format for

[ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread StrBio
Hi All, How one can convert pdb-sf.cif file downloaded from PDB to a workable format for further refinement (may be by phenix or Refmac) of the deposited structure? I need help.

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Huw Jenkins
On 15 Jun 2015, at 20:00, Donald Damian Raymond do...@umich.edu wrote: Hi, I've written a bash script that does just what you want. and potentially deletes a lot of files it didn’t create... #cleanup rm temp* $cif_file 2 /dev/null Huw

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Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Donald Damian Raymond
Hi Huw, $cif_file is a variable that holds the sf-cif file downloaded from www.RCSB.org see line 126 of the script cif_file=$pdb_id-sf.cif After converting the cif to an MTZ, the cif is no longer necessary. That is why the script deletes it (clean up). Best, Donald On Jun 15, 2015, at

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Tris buffer in cryo protectant

2015-06-15 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Ursula, just a stupid question: did you try freezing a crystal? There are quite a few crystal structures in the PDB with (a) bound Tris molecule(s), so quite some crystals were not destroyed by a pH shock during freezing. If you tried freezing and saw no/bad diffraction, you should try to

Re: [ccp4bb] workable data from PDB sf-cif

2015-06-15 Thread Donald Damian Raymond
Hi all, Huw was correct, there is potential to delete temp files that the script did not create that I had not considered. I've changed rm temp* $cif_file 2 /dev/null to rm temp.mtz temp.pdb $cif_file 2 /dev/null Best, Donald On Jun 15, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Huw Jenkins h.t.jenk...@me.com wrote: