[ccp4bb] GPCR Structural Biologist Position Available-Lilly Research Laboratories

2022-04-24 Thread Dirk Bussiere
Dear colleagues, We are looking for a GPCR structural biologist to come and join our team in Molecular Pharmacology. Please see job description that follows. Please don't send me your CV, but rather apply on-line via the provided link. Thank you! -Dirk https://lill

Re: [ccp4bb] Some questions on tools for CCP4i2cloud: pdbset, pdbcur, coordconv, sftools

2021-08-31 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
resolution (that I plot then with gnuplot). I can't recall having used coordconv at all. Best regards, Dirk. On 8/26/21 12:29 PM, Robbie Joosten wrote: Dear CCP4 users, We (as in, the CCP4 developers) are investigating some (potentially) missing functionality in CCP4i2 and/or Cloud

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Antwort: Re: [ccp4bb] chain on 2-fold axis?

2021-08-27 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
given), where for each test set reflection, after applying the NCS rotations in reciprocal space, the distances to the working set reflections are taken into account, and test and working set reflections are chosen such that their distances are large enough to be uncorrelated. Best regards, Dirk

[ccp4bb] Experienced structural biologist position available

2021-08-25 Thread Dirk Bussiere
lease don't hesitate to contact me. -Dirk Dirksen Bussiere, Ph.D., M.B.A. Sr. Director/Head, Molecular Pharmacology (Quantitative and Structural Biology) Lilly Research Laboratories Eli Lilly and Company Lilly Biotechnology Center Phone: 510-759-7013 10290 Campu

[ccp4bb] bioNMR research scientist position available

2021-05-27 Thread Dirk Bussiere
7C1000&sdata=1IHr8eXSkWCrH2S8UTDeADrnWRgg7sqVGTkyaHk%2FZic%3D&reserved=0> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. -Dirk Dirksen Bussiere, Ph.D., M.B.A. Sr. Director/Head, Molecular Pharmacology (Quantitative and Structural Biology) Lilly Research Laboratories

[ccp4bb] Converting data set to another format?

2021-05-20 Thread Dirk Bussiere
a conversion program or route. Thank you. -Dirk Dirksen Bussiere, Ph.D., M.B.A. Sr. Director/Head, Molecular Pharmacology Lilly Research Laboratories Eli Lilly and Company Lilly Biotechnology Center 10290 Campus Point Dr. E-mail: bussiere_dirk...@lilly.com

Re: [ccp4bb] Omit maps in phenix and ccp4

2021-04-07 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
atoms. I never tried this with REFMAC5, though. Cheers, Dirk. On 07.04.21 11:46, Eleanor Dodson wrote: Well - I use COOT for this sort of task, and dont trust the automated tools. my procedure is load COOT - probably after a refinement cycle set occupancy of ligand(s) to 0.00 ( Measures

Re: [ccp4bb] phenix.refine with ligand with ambiguous electron density

2020-12-03 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
doubt. Cheers, Dirk. On 03.12.20 10:20, Robert Nicholls wrote: Hi Dale, You're absolutely right - the multiple hypothesis testing problem is one that is often not considered, let alone properly accounted for. Whilst this can be accounted for by appropriate adjustment of significance lev

Re: [ccp4bb] [xds] how to specify measuring angle

2020-10-09 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
r the OSCILLATION_RANGE, data processing might run through but produces non-sense results, independent of the data processing program you use. So, it is absolutely important to know the correct value for the oscillation range per frame. Cheers,

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: Going back to Coot 0.8

2020-09-11 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Paul, thanks - I've setup my own key bindings, already ;-) Cheers, Dirk. On 11.09.20 12:34, Paul Emsley wrote: Maybe because I've never attended a Coot course? And maybe because, I've even never searched for Coot tutorials because the usage of Coot was (almost) always ve

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: Going back to Coot 0.8

2020-09-11 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
, I will have a look at the pointers that you gave below. I would also be grateful if you could give some pointers (which I've probably overlooked!) where Eigen-flip, JED-flip, backrub and CURLEW are explained. Best regards, Dirk. On 10.09.20 17:59, Paul Emsley wrote: I'm not again

Re: [ccp4bb] Help With Setting up a Stereo view system_walkthrough

2020-08-03 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Marian, for some while, now, in xorg.conf, the entry Option "Composite" "Disable" does not work. Please, use instead the entry Option "COMPOSITE" "Disable" Cheers, Dirk. On 03.08.20 14:54, Marian Oliva wrote: INSTALING STEREO COOT 3D VISION 2

Re: [ccp4bb] Help With Setting up a Stereo view system

2020-07-31 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
rules.d/98-nvstusb.rules, with the contents # NVIDIA 3D Vision USB IR Emitter SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0955", ATTR{idProduct}=="0007", MODE="0666" Cheers, Dirk. On 30.07.20 14:46, Marian Oliva wrote: Dear colleagues. I would like to

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-07-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
If I remember correctly, this is something that Gerard proposed long time ago for phasing programs. Best wishes, Dirk. On 01.07.20 11:52, Kay Diederichs wrote: Dear Dirk, one cannot fully correct radiation damage. Normal scaling procedures take care of the average decay by a smooth resolu

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-07-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
, to average them and count them only once (say, for crystals measured multiple rounds of 360 degrees to find identical geometries)? Best wishes, Dirk. On 01.07.20 11:02, Gerard Bricogne wrote: Dear Dirk, Aren't you for getting about radiation damage? The n measurements of the sam

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-07-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
realistic number of truly independent measurements. Cheers, Dirk. (*) I don't see a difference between measuring the same reflection with the same geometry n-times and measuring it n-times as long (apart from, maybe, catching instabilities in the experimental setup). Just averaging

[ccp4bb] COOT 0.9 cuts pdb header

2020-06-16 Thread Dirk Maurer
Hi, I noticed that, while saving my pdb model in COOT 0.9, sometimes a big part of the header (compared to the originally loaded file) is just left out in the new pdb-file. This results in that COOT cannot reopen this file at another time. Any ideas how I can fix this? Best regards Dirk

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group/Unit cell

2020-05-22 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Maria, are you sure, it's I222? From the extinction rules, you can't distinguish between I222 and I2(1)2(1)2(1). Best regards, Dirk. On 22.05.20 12:08, Demou, Maria wrote: Dear all, I have a question that may have a straight forward answer, and was wondering if this is a co

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia 3D Vision2 glasses

2020-01-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
anager XFCE: Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor -> Enable display compositing I hope that helps. Cheers, Dirk. On 1/15/20 8:52 AM, "Weiergräber, Oliver H." wrote: Note that the more recent versions of EL7 no longer require compositing to be disabled for nVidia s

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia 3D Vision2 glasses

2020-01-09 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
<https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4845/~/3d-vision-end-of-life---faq> on the Nvidia site. Best regards, Dirk Kostrewa. On 1/9/20 10:37 AM, Barone, Matthias wrote: Hi Patricia All modern graphics cards still support 3D vision, but you are correct that nvidia is addr

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Nvidia 3D vision 2 glasses with Ubuntu workstation

2019-01-08 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
dify the composite option in your xorg.conf as follows: Section "Extensions"     Option "COMPOSITE" "Disable" EndSection I have no idea, since when Xorg is case-sensitive, or whether this has anything to do with the Nvidia driver (I use the one from ELRepo).

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Nvidia 3D vision 2 glasses with Ubuntu workstation

2019-01-07 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Sorry for spamming the CCP4BB with this e-mail meant for Kay, only - I accidentally used the "Reply All" button instead of the "Reply" button ... ;-) Anyway, I wish the CCP4 community a Happy New Year! Cheers, Dirk. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [c

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Nvidia 3D vision 2 glasses with Ubuntu workstation

2019-01-07 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Stereo-Brille nicht funktioniert ... Mit unseren alten 3D-Ready-Monitoren haben wir unter Scientific Linux 7.6 bisher keine 3D Stereo-Probleme beobachten können. Die Nvidia-Treiber kommen aus dem ELRepo-Repository. Habt Ihr die Stereo-Probleme noch? Liebe Grüße, Dirk. On 20.12.18 22:28,

[ccp4bb] open position Research Scientist Protein Crystallographer (m/f) at Boehringer Ingelheim

2017-03-04 Thread Dirk
The Structural Research Group at our Oncology Site Vienna is seeking an experienced Protein Crystallographer in the field of pharmaceutical research and drug design. We are looking for a candidate with outstanding professional and personal competencies, highly motivated and with the ability to a

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Calculation of generalised R-factor?

2016-12-20 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4ers, many thanks to all of you who replied to my request! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Dirk. Forwarded Message Subject:[ccp4bb] Calculation of generalised R-factor? Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:47:00 +0100 From: Dirk Kostrewa Reply

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculation of generalised R-factor?

2016-12-20 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
purpose ... Cheers, Dirk. On 20.12.2016 15:37, Robbie Joosten wrote: The value for the Hamilton test is written by Refmac as the weighted R-factor. There was a follow-up paper that showed that you shouldn’t use the normal R-factor for the Hamilton test. PDB_REDO does the Hamilton test

[ccp4bb] Calculation of generalised R-factor?

2016-12-20 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
reported by the usual refinement programs. Is there a program that reads an mtz file with Fo and refined Fc and just calculates RG? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Lud

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Eigers, and local CBF formats

2016-03-11 Thread Dirk Reinert
and quality of results without the help of Global Phasing. Best wishes, Dirk --- Dr. Dirk Reinert Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG Lead Identification and Opt. Support Tel.: +49 (7351) 54-97892 Fax: +49 (7351) 83-97892 mailto:dirk.rein...@boehringer-ingelheim.com Boehringer Ingel

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Rfree below Rwork

2015-07-02 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Herman and Boaz, in the trigonal setting R32 (not in the hexagonal setting "H32"), the unit cell in R32 contains 6 copies. If you take the whole R32 unit cell as a P1 cell, you would have 6 copies in the "asymmetric unit", as Hermann wrote. Best regards, Dirk.

Re: [ccp4bb] [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia quadro Update for Linux

2015-04-07 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
"Disable"'. However, disabling composite is incompatible with gnome 3! So to get 3D stereo working, I completely removed gnome 3 and switched to KDE 4. If you don't like KDE, I got 3D stereo also working with the MATE desktop on one trial system. Best regards, Dirk. On 02.

Re: [ccp4bb] Bulk solvent

2015-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Bernhard, further thinking about the Babinet scaling effects, I have to correct my conclusion in the last sentence: On 12.01.2015 14:21, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: If, however, the unmodelled part is less well ordered (which is the more common case), it's contribution will mainly affec

Re: [ccp4bb] Bulk solvent

2015-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
). This, in principle, should increase, or overestimate, the signal of the difference densities at low resolution, which might also help with interpretation of the unmodelled part. But all these scaling effects should be small, unless a substantial part of the model is missing. Best regards, Dirk

Re: [ccp4bb] Bulk solvent

2015-01-09 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
in of possibly important difference density peaks in narrow regions. Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 D-81377 Munich Germany

Re: [ccp4bb] Free Reflections as Percent and not a Number

2014-11-25 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
worse for simulated-annealing). I also think, that neither simulated-annealing nor jiggling is necessary to get rid of previous bias. Best regards, Dirk. On 25.11.2014 17:03, Ian Tickle wrote: Dear All I'd like to raise the question again of whether any of this 'jiggling' (i.e. ad

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein Crystallography challenges Standard Model precision

2014-07-23 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
rather low personal estimate of the accuracy (not precision) of unit cell parameters. Best regards, Dirk. Am 23.07.2014 09:49, schrieb Bernhard Rupp: Although Zby's remarks re precision are beyond my original bewilderment about listed zepto-meter range digits (sans precision measur

Re: [ccp4bb] twin or untwinned

2014-07-03 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
a few weeks ago, but got no reply, yet (maybe, my e-mail got lost). Cheers, Dirk. Am 03.07.2014 13:46, schrieb Tim Gruene: Hi Dirk, that would truely be very sad - the XDS file format is such a beautiful, self-contained and well documented format for diffraction data that a misinterpretation s

Re: [ccp4bb] twin or untwinned

2014-07-03 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
... and please check, whether phenix.xtriage recognized the input data as intensities or as amplitudes. In case of doubt, convert the intensives first into an mtz file with Fs instead of Is and run phenix.xtriage on the mtz file. Best regards, Dirk. Am 03.07.2014 13:36, schrieb Tim Gruene

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning fun

2014-01-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
op fiber diffraction, ice rings, etc.) or extremely weak data. For a really good discussion of twin tests, see Yeates, Methods. Enzymol. 276, 344-358, 1997. Best regards, Dirk. Am 28.01.14 18:26, schrieb Bert Van-Den-Berg: Dear all, I recently collected several datasets for a protein that

Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names?

2013-09-02 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
an-readable extended PDB format would really help. Cheers, Dirk. Am 30.08.13 18:14, schrieb MARTYN SYMMONS: Hold your horsemen! Does not this option save us from 'formatagedon'? We currently only have single letters or numbers for chains. But we could easily agree to switch to dou

Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names?

2013-08-30 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Martyn, excellent - this worked! Many thanks! Cheers, Dirk. Am 30.08.13 16:04, schrieb Martyn Winn: IIRC the CCP4 library (i.e. mmdb) can handle 2-character chain names. There may be something specific in pdbset which interferes. You can try pdbcur as an alternative. Something like

[ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names?

2013-08-30 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
e chain names. To my knowledge, only COOT and PHENIX can cope with them. Before I start writing my own little jiffy, is there a quick way to use COOT or PHENIX to apply a fractional coordinate shift, or could you tell me, which other program I can use in this special case?

Re: [ccp4bb] Advise on setting up/ maintaining a Ubuntu cluster

2013-07-31 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
We have a very similar setup, and I can only second Kay's experience. Best regards, Dirk. Am 31.07.13 13:36, schrieb Kay Diederichs: I have a very different experience with NFS: we are using Gigabit Ethernet, and a 64bit RHEL6 clone with ECC memory as a file server; it has RAID1 ext4

Re: [ccp4bb] Concerns about statistics

2013-06-14 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
esolution increments in refinement to decide the high resolution cutoff is very time-consuming. Best regards, Dirk. Am 13.06.13 17:15, schrieb Andrea Edwards: Hello group, I have some rather (embarrassingly) basic questions to ask. Mainly.. when deciding the resolution limit, which statistic

[ccp4bb] Single-Gaussian Atomic Scattering Factors?

2012-11-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 D-81377 Munich Germany Phone: +49-89-2180-76845 Fax:+49-89-2180-76999 E-mail: kostr

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot Release 0.7 in CCP4 Software Update?

2012-10-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
mechanism for Coot, be it part of CCP4 or part of Coot, would help the software administrator :-). A related question just crossed my mind: when will Coot and CCP4mg become part of the CCP4 core packages? Best regards, Dirk. P.S.: I've sent Paul Emsley a CC of this little conversation.

[ccp4bb] Coot Release 0.7 in CCP4 Software Update?

2012-10-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4 developers, this question might be interesting for many CCP4/Coot users: will the Coot release 0.7 and future releases be made available to CCP4 users via the CCP4 software update? Best regards, Dirk. Original-Nachricht Betreff:[COOT] Release 0.7 Datum

Re: [ccp4bb] Which Coot for Scientific Linux 6.3

2012-09-20 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
lly linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped" I hope that helps a little bit. Best regards, Dirk. Am 20.09.12 14:37, schrieb David Waterman: Dear Fred, You may like to try the CCP4 Package Manager, available from the downloads page: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/download/#o

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS installation

2012-07-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Fulvio Saccoccia, along the lines of Ian Tickle's reply: there should be a script "cns_solve_env_sh" using /bin/sh, which is usually a soft-link to /bin/bash. I use this script for setup of CNS under bash. Best regards, Dirk. Am 12.07.12 16:49, schrieb fulvio saccoc

Re: [ccp4bb] bulk solvent treatment inside protein cavities

2012-04-17 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
g and shrinking the mask, could produce false positive or negative difference density. To exclude these cases, you can always calculate the Babinet bulk solvent correction as a control. Best regards, Dirk. Am 16.04.12 12:37, schrieb Allister Crow: Board members, I have a couple of questions

Re: [ccp4bb] proper or improper ncs?

2012-02-21 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
, a kappa of 180 degrees would be expected. This looks (very) improper to me. Best regards, Dirk. Am 21.02.12 14:47, schrieb Francis E Reyes: Hi all This structure has the following ncs (output via phenix.simple_ncs_from_pdb) OPERATOR 1 CENTER: 18.3443 -55.4605 23.0986 ROTA 1:1.

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystal

2012-02-07 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
the expected cooling rate a lot! My very personal experience is, that cryo-cooling in the N2-stream worked better for me than in LN2 in a variety of projects - but the reason could just be me ;-) Best regards, Dirk. [1] Matthew Warkentin, Viatcheslav Berejnov, Naji S Husseini, and Robert E

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
dered and disordered parts, respectively, without any need to change the wavelength. In this analogy, the ordered part would have the coherence of a Laser, whereas the disordered part would have the incoherence of a vapour lamp. Best regards, Dirk. Am 12.01.12 11:57, schrieb Ian Tickle: On 1

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
My understanding of coherence is a constant phase relation between waves. Of course, this breaks down for inelastic scattering, but (in)coherence can also be described without any change in wavelength. Best regards, Dirk. Am 12.01.12 11:27, schrieb Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.): Does

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
uthors were annoyed by a vanishing NMR signal because the macromolecule crystallized in the NMR test tube ;-) Best regards, Dirk. Cheers, BR PS: I am grappling with the meaning of resolution in NMR. I can see that it could be related to comparable data/parameter ratios, although I am even

Re: [ccp4bb] Sub-angstrom resolution

2012-01-11 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
cture factors? For a larger unit cell (assuming a similar solvent content), I would then expect larger structure factors. Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Mü

Re: [ccp4bb] sugar and coot

2011-11-21 Thread Dirk
he restraint definitions are often incomplete. Greetings Dirk Am 22.11.11 01:16, schrieb Jan van Agthoven: Hi everyone! Does anyone know if there is a way of auto-refining a sugar in Coot? Jan

Re: [ccp4bb] Distinguish NH4 from Na?

2011-11-17 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
., D58, 872-874 (2002); Glusker, Advances in Protein Chemistry, 42, 1-76 (1991)). But depending on your data resolution and quality, and on the completeness of the coordination sphere, it might be difficult to distinguish between them. Best regards, Dirk. Am 16.11.11 19:20, schrieb Jacob Keller

Re: [ccp4bb] [PyMOL] Putting a protein molecule into a grid and traversing through the grid

2011-10-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
t eigenvalue), and the minor inertia axis coincides with the Z-axis (smallest eigenvalue)." Best regards, Dirk. Am 27.10.11 14:17, schrieb Anasuya Dighe: how do i put a protein molecule inside a cube with x-axis spanning till the largest x-coordinate, y-axis spanning till the largest y

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-29 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Yes, SHARP and BUSTER both work on a Mac. Cheers, Dirk. Am 29.09.11 09:45, schrieb Sebastiano Pasqualato: On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:48 AM, Nat Echols wrote: I don't know of any macromolecular crystallography programs that don't run on Mac - Hey there, does this mean that SHARP work

Re: [ccp4bb] question regarding secondary-structure restraints

2011-09-26 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
secondary structures and other hydrophilic interactions to some reasonable geometry, even at very low resolution. Best regards, Dirk. Am 26.09.11 16:17, schrieb Nat Echols: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Dirk Kostrewa mailto:kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de>> wrote: when I pl

Re: [ccp4bb] question regarding secondary-structure restraints

2011-09-26 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
all geometrical restraints, of course. Best regards, Dirk. Am 22.09.11 22:49, schrieb Nat Echols: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Pete Meyer <mailto:pame...@mcw.edu>> wrote: In short, the effective observation to parameter ratio improves by ~4%. This seems like a relatively small

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein structure solved by computer gamers (and phaser)!

2011-09-19 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Great! Maybe, they should add an extra term for correlation of Fcalc to Fobs (or LLG or R) to their game. I wonder, if structures could be solved ab inition by players, then :-). Best regards, Dirk. Am 19.09.11 12:33, schrieb Kevin Cowtan: "Crystal structure of a monomeric retro

[ccp4bb] PIR - was Re: [ccp4bb] Another paper & structure retracted

2011-08-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
case a "X". Maybe, you could check your sequence for this ... Best regards, Dirk. Am 12.08.11 11:16, schrieb Phil Evans: I was missing the semicolon, but it still fails On 12 Aug 2011, at 10:12, Antony Oliver wrote: Interesting iPhone formatting things going on... Let's tr

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear all, or use a modified version of Clemens's commands for that: find . -perm 700 -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -perm 750 -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -perm 600 -exec chmod 644 {} \; find . -perm 640 -exec chmod 644 {} \; Best regards, Dirk. Am 19.07.11 14:34, schrieb Clemens Von

Re: [ccp4bb] Lattice sampling and resolution - a seeming paradox?

2011-04-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear colleagues of the CCP4BB, many thanks for all your replies - I really got lost in the trees (or wood?) and you helped me out with all your kind responses! I should really leave for the weekend ... Have a nice weekend, too! Best regards, Dirk. Am 15.04.11 13:20, schrieb Dirk Kostrewa

Re: [ccp4bb] Lattice sampling and resolution - a seeming paradox?

2011-04-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
cular transform to the sampling of the electron density within the unit cell. For the 1-dimensional case, this is discretely sampled at a/h for resolution d, which is still 1x sampling and not 2x sampling, as required according to Nyquist-Shannon. Where is my error in reasoning, here? Best regards,

[ccp4bb] Lattice sampling and resolution - a seeming paradox?

2011-04-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
(2h). So what is the argument again, that the sampling of the continuous molecular transform imposed by the crystal lattice is sufficient to get the desired information at a given resolution? I would be very grateful for your help! B

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic Breakthrough - DarkMatter Version 1.0

2011-04-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Ethan, many thanks for that - your Dark Matter really (en)lightened my day! I wonder, how many pdb records in the future will contain the corresponding remark lines that your incredible perl script produces :-) Best regards, Dirk. Am 01.04.11 08:06, schrieb Ethan Merritt: Hi to all on

Re: [ccp4bb] Density sharpening with Truncate?

2011-02-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
cdotal evidence, or there is still room for improvement in existing ML refinement programs. Best regards, Dirk. Am 28.02.11 11:40, schrieb Randy Read: Hi, I'm on Garib's side here. The way the maximum likelihood targets work, the variances are defined relative to the average intens

Re: [ccp4bb] Density sharpening with Truncate?

2011-02-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
cture factors, the refinement statistics can only be reproduced using these structure factors). The original structure factors can be easily reproduced by applying back the negative sharpening B-factor. Best regards, Dirk. Am 26.02.11 01:09, schrieb Garib N Murshudov: I would not sharpen stru

Re: [ccp4bb] strange density

2011-02-24 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
ith Ni than with Cl. However, if the data set was collected on a home source with CuKalpha wavelength, such a map would be not be very helpful here, because the Ni signal is about as weak as the Cl signal. Best regards, Dirk. Am 24.02.11 16:37, schrieb Gloria Borgstahl: I'm voting with R

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position at the Gene Center Munich

2011-02-21 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4ers, on behalf of Patrick Cramer, I send a Postdoc position offer, given below. Please, do not respond to me, but to the e-mail addresses given in the job description. Best regards, Dirk Kostrewa. *** Applications are invited

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB deposition ADIT without frames?

2011-02-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Thanks a lot for your suggestions! Meanwhile, my colleague entered the desired sequence information into the first website without frames, and after that, the usual frame layout re-appeared! I don't know whether this is a bug or intended ... Best regards, Dirk. Am 15.02.11 17:00, sc

[ccp4bb] PDB deposition ADIT without frames?

2011-02-15 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
different deposition fields, which makes deposition a nightmare. Has anybody else noticed that? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen

[ccp4bb] Counting of geometrical restraints?

2011-01-31 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
the right one? I would be grateful, if you, Ian, or any other crystallographer on this board could help me (and maybe others) to solve this riddle. Best regards, Dirk. [1] Tickle, Laskowski, Moss. "Rfree and the rfree ratio. I. Derivation of expected values of cross-validation re

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
, Dirk. Am 28.01.11 14:37, schrieb Van Den Berg, Bert: I have heard this before. I'm wondering though, does anybody know of a systematic study where different data processing programs are compared with real-life, non-lysozyme data? Bert On 1/28/11 7:58 AM, "Bosch, Juergen" wrot

[ccp4bb] Off-Topic: CNS MAXLEV error

2010-11-05 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
XLEV exceeded Does anyone could point me to a direction what that means? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 D-81377 Mu

Re: [ccp4bb] High Rmerge with thin frames

2010-11-05 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
liced probably won't help. Anyway, good luck! Dirk. Am 05.11.10 09:40, schrieb Sergei Strelkov: Dear All, I am processing a dataset collected (not by me) with 0.1 degree oscillations. The diffraction is quite weak even though there is a clean diffraction pattern to about 3A. Either Mo

Re: [ccp4bb] Against Method (R)

2010-10-29 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
data are severely incomplete, I must admit, that I don't worry too much. The twinning problem is really severe! Here, I don't see how this could be done in a clever way in real space. Interesting discussion ... Best wishes, Dirk. Am 29.10.10 10:41, schrieb George M. Sheldrick:

Re: [ccp4bb] Against Method (R)

2010-10-29 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
real space refinement ... Best regards, Dirk. Am 29.10.10 08:03, schrieb Robbie Joosten: Hi Bart, I agree with the building strategy you propose, but at some point it stops helping and a bit more attention to detail is needed. Reciprocal space refinement doesn't seem to do the fine de

Re: [ccp4bb] Babinet solvent correction [WAS: R-free flag problem]

2010-10-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
mpty - this depends heavily on the choice of radii to determine/shrink the bulk solvent mask; in such cases, I always calculate a Babinet BS correction as a control Best regards, Dirk. Am 23.10.10 22:14, schrieb Tim Fenn: On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:05:15 -0700 Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Tim, ..

Re: [ccp4bb] Question regarding S-SAD

2010-10-18 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
group, resulting in P6_(6-n) (i.e. P6_5 instead of P6_1). - I wouldn't worry about the mosaicity. Best regards, Dirk. Am 18.10.10 14:03, schrieb Kornelius Zeth: Dear all, we have collected S-SAD data (2x4000 Frames, 0.1 degrees, wedges of 40 Frames, Rf between 3-5% overall) and recei

Re: [ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-18 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
pointed to two SAXS programs, em2dam and vol2pdb, to convert low resolution maps into dummy atoms. Now, I have plenty of options to play with! Best regards, Dirk. Am 13.10.10 13:49, schrieb Dirk Kostrewa: ... maybe, to clarifiy my question a little bit: I want to fill an essentially flat cr

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Best regards, Dirk. Am 13.10.10 13:00, schrieb Dirk Kostrewa: Dear CCP4ers, is there a program around that allows to fill an input map or mask with dummy atoms? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.0

[ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4ers, is there a program around that allows to fill an input map or mask with dummy atoms? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Re: [ccp4bb] Difference map

2010-09-29 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
ith a sum over your compound atoms. The Crick-Magdoff equations has been recently discussed on this board: http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg10039.html Good luck, Dirk. Am 29.09.10 09:09, schrieb intekhab alam: Hi Folks I have a query regarding the difference map between th

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-21 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
umber of observations. Interestingly, in your Acta Cryst paper, restraints are also counted as observations (for instance, in Table 1 and §2.3), but in the derived residuals and ratios, it's clear that they reduce the effective number of parameters. Best regards, Dirk. Am 20.09.10 13:2

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-20 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
gards, Dirk. The complication is that a 'weak' restraint is equivalent to less than 1 parameter (I call it the 'effective no of restraints': it can be calculated from the chi-squared for the restraint). Obviously no restraint is equivalent no parameter, so you can think of i

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H: R-factor is overrated

2010-09-17 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Ian, Am 17.09.10 12:30, schrieb Ian Tickle: Dirk Personally I wouldn't make use of the deposited Fcalcs, I would insist on having the refined model, not only for the reasons Pavel gave, but also because it's never clear which mathematical model was used to produce the deposi

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H: R-factor is overrated

2010-09-17 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Pavel, Am 16.09.10 17:56, schrieb Pavel Afonine: Hi Dirk, so, wouldn't be the deposition of the final model's Fcalc, Phic (and their weights) along with the final coordinates be the best solution? The final Fcalc are our best model and can be used to reproduce the final

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H: R-factor is overrated

2010-09-16 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
ution? The final Fcalc are our best model and can be used to reproduce the final statistics (which would remove the sfcheck annoyance) and to reproduce the final electron density maps, and the coordinates can be used for what ever purpose they are needed, irrespective of a

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular replacement question

2010-09-14 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
als failed. Good luck, Dirk. Am 13.09.10 16:52, schrieb Paul Holland: Hello fellow crystallographers, I am trying molecular replacement for a protein crystal dataset that has very high sequence similarity to the search model with several predicted flexible loop regions; however, all attempts

Re: [ccp4bb] Practical MR advice

2010-09-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
register of at least some side chains either in the 2mfodfc-map or in one of the real-space-averaged 2mfodfc-maps. Good luck, Dirk. Am 01.09.10 17:12, schrieb Roger Rowlett: I am trying to find a MR solution for a large unit cell (R3:H, 158x158x196) with a relatively poor, but I think workable search

Re: [ccp4bb] which software can calculate binding energy

2010-07-23 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
binding energy of drug compounds to protein active sites, and estimated that the errors in the desolvation energies had about the same magnitude as the total net binding energy. So, this is another big source of inaccuracy, especially with very different drug compounds. Best regards, Dirk. Am

Re: [ccp4bb] differences Rfactor calculations

2010-07-14 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
... yes, and this is the reason why sfcheck should be replaced by a more modern program at the Protein Data Bank! Best regards, Dirk. Am 13.07.10 22:15, schrieb Ethan Merritt: Should be in an FAQ somewhere: Q: Why does sfcheck not reproduce my original R factors? A: Because instead of using

Re: [ccp4bb] conversion of cyroEM reconstruction from MRC to CCP4 format

2010-07-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
, you find a colleague at your institute to help you with that. Good luck, Dirk. Am 13.07.10 14:32, schrieb James Whittle: Hi all- I'm trying to convert a cryoEM map from FREALIGN for use with various CCP4 programs, or with MAPMAN. Even though the MRC format is derived from the CCP

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about R/Rfree value difference

2010-07-09 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Tom, very nice tool! It would be good to get numerical values of the plotted distributions as well, like mean, median, standard deviation and so on. Best regards, Dirk. Am 08.07.10 15:20, schrieb Tom Oldfield: Sampath With regard to your question on what sort of statistics you should

Re: [ccp4bb] R values are higher in SF-CHECK

2010-07-06 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
those from the refinement program. Annoyingly, I have to discuss/explain this discrepancy in R-factors every time when I want to deposit a refined X-ray structure with the Protein Data Bank ... Best regards, Dirk. Am 06.07.10 17:05, schrieb Rakesh Joshi: Hello, I refined my structures using

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson B and Mean B factors

2010-07-01 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
50 A and run a test-refinement. If this results in more realistic model B-factors, you should have a closer look at the low resolution data and exclude the ill-measured ones. Best regards, Dirk. Am 30.06.10 19:31, schrieb Vandu Murugan: Dear all, If one could find a difference of more

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with coot

2010-06-30 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Bill Scott (->Google), and I've installed the more up-to-date X11 from xquartz.macosforge.org (but this is not necessary). You may want to try this. Good luck, Dirk. Am 30.06.10 10:48, schrieb Md. Munan Shaik: Dear BB I have a problem with coot opening, i tried to open but its not ope

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