Re: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

2018-08-14 Thread Andreas Forster
Hi Careina, if you don't have grey hair (available in the lab), you can still mount crystals at room temperature. With a MiTeGen RT kit, very little skill is required to test crystal diffraction or even collect entire data sets at room temperature. https://www.mitegen.com/product/micrort-room-tem

Re: [ccp4bb] Might be of interest to this group

2018-02-09 Thread Andreas Forster
Wouldn’t that be something for the PyMOL mailing list? All best - Andreas On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 at 20:38, David Schuller wrote: > http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30014-9 > A Novel Form of Stereo Vision in the Praying Mantis > Vivek Nityananda ,Ghaith Tarawneh, Sid > Henri

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR or Homology Model as a MR model

2017-08-29 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear Nishant, Rosetta is a good suggestion. You can also use an ensemble of several related (superposed) structures as your search model. This will improve your chances of success. All best. Andreas On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Nishant Varshney wrote: > Dear Crystallographers, > > I

Re: [ccp4bb] Stable Refinement as Low(ish) resolution

2017-07-12 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear Rhys, I second Roger on the use of jelly-body refinement. In addition, give Buster a try. It sometimes does magic at lowish resolution. All best. Andreas On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Rhys Grinter wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm currently in the process of refining a low(ish) resoluti

Re: [ccp4bb] looking for paper describing optimisation of crystals using a screen kit as additive

2017-05-08 Thread Andreas Forster
Hi Sebastian, you're thinking about local sparse matrix screening. I've done this at a 90:10 ratio. Majeed, S., Ofek, G., Belachew, A., Huang, C.C., Zhou, T., and Kwong, P.D. Enhancing protein crystallization through precipitant synergy. Structure. 2003; 11: 1061–1070 All best. Andreas On

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization Screens

2017-03-06 Thread Andreas Forster
Hi FBDD Evangelist, Emerald Bio is now Rigaku Reagents. https://www.rigakureagents.com/ They don't seem to sell the pHAT screen on their website, but they might be able to provide you with a PDF of the compositions. All best. Andreas On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Hernani Silvestre wrot

Re: [ccp4bb] Choosing test set for twin refinement, with multiple operators

2016-12-06 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear Andre, I agree with Jacob that P 42 21 2 might be the right space group, and that and R free of 33% isn't so bad. If your electron density is poor, that might just reflect the low resolution. Have you tried refinement with Buster? It has a way with low-resolution data. All best. Andreas

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS questions

2016-11-17 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear Wei, if you process your data with XDS, the best is probably to do the scaling in XDS (CORRECT) and be done with it. If you want to use Aimless for merging, you can turn off scaling with the ONLYMERGE keyword or use SCALES CONSTANT. All best. Andreas On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:40 PM, W

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem regarding output in ccp4i 6.5

2015-06-02 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear Deepa, there was a time when spaces in the names of foldera and files was a big nono in ccp4. Maybe it still is. Try changing New Folder to New_Folder or something else without a space. Best Andreas On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Deepa Raju wrote: > Dear all, > I have installed ccp

Re: [ccp4bb] Low Phaser RFZ

2015-05-18 Thread Andreas Forster
Hi Eric, What does your map look like? Do you see features that don't come from the search model? That's the key. That said, with a TFZ of above 10, I'd be rather positive about my prospects. Andreas On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Eric Karg < 052044071b36-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures....

2009-12-11 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey Tommi, I am under the impression that Zbyszek Otwinowski has looked in depth at all of the structures that have now been retracted and has prepared a long manuscript detailing the evidence for fabrication and falsification. As far as I know, this manuscript hasn't been published yet (shame!),

[ccp4bb] ctruncate error (kind of)

2009-10-20 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear all, I'm converting intensities from scala to amplitudes with ctruncate like so: ctruncate -mtzin scala_protein_3_001_180.mtz -colin "/*/*/[IMEAN,SIGIMEAN]" The data are native. An mtz file is generated, and it looks ok, but ctruncate doesn't terminate properly. Instead, after Anisotropy

Re: [ccp4bb] Computer hardware and OS "survey"

2009-05-01 Thread Andreas Forster
As Warren pointed out, dual-boot is so 20th century it's surprising people still bother with it. For me, dual boot (never mind it was on a fantastic Thinkpad) was the major reason to go for OSX. I was simply too sick of it.. It might sound like heresy to true Macolytes but I feel I have now the

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-04-14 Thread Andreas Forster
Depends on your robot, obviously. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:32 PM, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this include the customary grieving period? > > > > On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:10 PM, JOE CRYSTAL wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone have information about how long it takes to set

Re: [ccp4bb] xtalview and mifit

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey Ethan, all, On Feb 6, 2008 1:02 AM, Ethan Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that both Fedora and Suse 10.3 currently ship with a > broken xorg library. This is a known problem (Google for details), > but I do not know if there is a fixed version available for download. No

Re: [ccp4bb] the worst molecular replacment probes

2007-09-21 Thread Andreas Forster
To avoid excessive excitement potentially caused by such a list, people should also indicate the time spent with a model just good enough to initially justify the eventually futile effort. Andreas On 9/21/07, Bryan W. Lepore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > would anyone be willing to share storie

Re: [ccp4bb] post-doc possibility in newcastle

2007-09-20 Thread Andreas Forster
You'd need quite a large French press or meat grinder to crack the cells and get the protein. William Scott wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:23:05 +0100 "R. J. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a large signalling complex called the 'stressosome' from B. subtilis.

Re: [ccp4bb] public forums

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Forster
Before going into an ethics class, I think this material needs to go into a crystallography class. Every crystallographer (and maybe even every structural biologist) should know why the structure is fishy, how fishiness can be detected, how one can make sure one's own structure is legit, etc. Anal

Re: [ccp4bb] Stereo grpahics and Virtual Reality

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Forster
For the benefit of overworked and stressed-out graduate students and post-docs, funding agencies need to be convinced that the remotes cannot be bought without the console. Andreas Stephen Graham wrote: Full VR systems with motion tracking and are now affordable to most labs (~$2500 for all

Re: [ccp4bb] libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2007-06-19 Thread Andreas Forster
This is an old version of the c++ libraries. You get it by installing compat-libstdc++-33 Andreas Paul Kraft wrote: Hiys, I've got an hp pavillion dv2000 with a 64x2 processor and I loaded the redhat version of CCP4-6.0.2. I tried loading it manually but there was no configure or make file

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Swiss humour - no laughing matter? (Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data)

2007-03-05 Thread Andreas Forster
Hello Klaus, I think you should give Gerard some "Hofnarrenfreiheit". (That's a fine German word for you to figure out, Gerard.) He is certainly not an evil racist at heart. Andreas Klaus Piontek wrote: Greetings (or in "correct" Swiss German "Grüezi wohl", with Umlaut=vowel mutation) t

[ccp4bb] [summary] grids and detergent

2007-03-01 Thread Andreas Forster
Dear all, two days ago I asked the ccp4 and 3DEM lists how one could prevent carbon films from being destroyed by detergent. At least that's what I meant to ask. Thanks for the many responses I got in no time (summarized below). Thanks to all who responded and apologies to those I don't mention

Re: [ccp4bb] dmmulti NCS mask

2007-02-26 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey all, this is wildly off-topic, but since we were even talking about NMR the other day, I was thinking why not EM? I'm trying to get negative stain images of a membrane protein. Problem is that the detergent (similar to triton) that best stabilizes the protein eats the carbon grid, even at c

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread Andreas Forster
Steve, Steve Lane wrote: Given the current situation at Apple, particularly their shift in focus and revenue percentage from "computers" to other types of devices, i.e. iPods, either/both of the above reasons for refusal to do the work are plausible. are you saying one shouldn't buy one's scie

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with anisotropic refinement using refmac

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey all, let me give this discussion a little kick and see if it spins into outer space. How many reflections do people use for cross-validation? Five per cent is a value that I read often in papers. Georg Zocher started with 5% but lowered that to 1.5% in the course of refinement. We've had