Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 11:10 +, Eleanor Dodson wrote: If you dont like it - delete it.. Eleanor I know. But what I want is to skip the calculation in some cases when the map is not needed. This currently is impossible without modifying the refmac code. Ian provides an excellent example

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:03 -0600, Yi-Liang Liu wrote: Hi CCP4ers, I know it is not quiet related to CCP4. I am now working on a protein-protein complex system. I am wondering which kits I should try in a higher priority? I appreciate everyone's suggestions, and maybe there are some papers

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallizing protein sitting in PBS

2011-11-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:26 +, Tom Murray-Rust wrote: That way you should be able to quickly identify any hits that are due to salt, and which are likely to be your protein. Just a footnote to Tom's excellent comment: It is possible to have actual protein crystals to grow alongside salt

[ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
Is there some way to make refmac *not* to produce the output mtz file, i.e. skip the whole FWT/DELFWT calculation altogether? -- Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to make water is crazy? Julian, King of Lemurs

[ccp4bb] phaser openmp

2011-11-08 Thread Ed Pozharski
Could anyone point me towards instructions on how to get/build parallelized phaser binary on linux? I searched around but so far found nothing. The latest updated phaser binary doesn't seem to be parallelized. Apologies if this has been resolved before - just point at the relevant thread,

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser openmp

2011-11-08 Thread Ed Pozharski
problems! BW, Gabor On Nov 8 2011, Ed Pozharski wrote: Could anyone point me towards instructions on how to get/build parallelized phaser binary on linux? I searched around but so far found nothing. The latest updated phaser binary doesn't seem to be parallelized. Apologies

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystalization in low PH

2011-11-07 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 05:19 +, Sam Arnosti wrote: Hi everyone I have a protein that is extraordinarily stable at PH=3.0 or even 2.0. I want to crystallize it in the low PH and compare the differences between the crystals in regular PH and low PH. I was wondering how people set up

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging with CAD fails

2011-11-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
If you post the cad input file, it should be easy to pinpoint the problem. As it stands, you are either: 1) Including Miller indices as merged columns - they get done automatically, so if you specify them, you get the duplicate labels 2) You actually do have the same name for the two columns in

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic scattering factors in REFMAC

2011-11-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 15:57 +, Ivan Shabalin wrote: As a result, red peeks around Se are significantly lower, Se B-factors are a bit smaller (like 25.6 and 23.1), and Rf is lowered by a bit more than 0.1% with the same input files. Hope others will comment to clarify my confusion: It

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic scattering factors in REFMAC

2011-11-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
factor are blurred out by the much wider B-factor Gaussian. It doesn't hurt to model the atoms form factors properly, but in almost all cases of MX, some other source of error is more important. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/1/2011 6:55 AM, Ed Pozharski wrote: On Mon, 2011-10

[ccp4bb] PDBe deposition

2011-11-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
For reasons I cannot explain even to myself I chose to use the PDBe to deposit the next structure (instead of RCSB). Curiosity may be one. This is a protein-DNA complex refined with latest refmac/coot and it uses (I presume) the modern naming convention (i.e. DA/DT/DG/DC for nucleotide names).

[ccp4bb] REFMAC number of reflections

2011-11-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
I am absolutely sure this has been discussed before, and I have just re-convinced myself that refmac reports the number of reflections in just the working set, and not the total number of reflections. So my question is Is there a reason why the PDB ADIT tool imports the Nwork from the refmac pdb

Re: [ccp4bb] Weird blob appears

2011-10-28 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 20:46 -0500, Jacob Keller wrote: I went back to using the original mtz from scala Curious. What were you using - the refmac output mtz? Just for the record - the refmac output mtz contains *modified* amplitudes, and Garib said many times it should not be used as the

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac 5.6 ccp4 6.2.0

2011-10-28 Thread Ed Pozharski
Just to verify, is this by any chance *unrestrained* refinement? On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:37 +0200, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Kenneth A. Satyshur, what is your weight set to? If it is set to 'auto', try setting it to a specific value and lower

Re: [ccp4bb] IUCr committees, depositing images

2011-10-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 15:36 +0200, George M. Sheldrick wrote: In non-continuous mode, the goniometer has to accelerate at the start of a frame and decellerate at the end, then wait for the frame to be read. Someone should be able to confirm this, but I was under impression that at

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
is much more serious than it is perceived. Before you provide sufficient evidence everybody will have their opinion. Garib On 27 Oct 2011, at 17:08, Ed Pozharski wrote: I am curious as to what the collective opinion on the raw data deposition actually is across the cross-section

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
Sorry, the results in a pie-chart form are available here (but the spreadsheet may be useful too if you want to see what is meant by other) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?hl=en_USformkey=dHh4cjdLZGZrSEpUOG9kV2hkb3ZXNHc6MQ -- Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
wishes, Gerard. -- On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:08:24PM -0400, Ed Pozharski wrote: I am curious as to what the collective opinion on the raw data deposition actually is across the cross-section of the macromolecular crystallography community subscribed to the bb. So

Re: [ccp4bb] raw data deposition

2011-10-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
Dear Adrian, thank you - this is most helpful in assessing why we do or don't need to deposit the raw data. However: And let me say that, as this bb hardly reaches ALL practicing MM crystallographers, but only those with an interest in techniques, the results AND discussion are heavily

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT not connected to PHENIX

2011-10-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 10:33 +0200, Tim Gruene wrote: with every python script one has to distribute a specific python version ... and with every program one has to distribute binaries for every platform... more food for my prejudice against software ;-) This really is not about python, it's

Re: [ccp4bb] frm2frm

2011-10-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
This thread may be relevant http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg18422.html On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 15:06 +1000, khuchtumur bumerdene wrote: Hello, Does anyone know where I could download frm2frm utility from Bruker? Is it even possible to do so? -- Hurry up before we all

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about drawing disulfide bonds in Pymol

2011-10-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 10:15 -0400, Ke, Jiyuan wrote: flat sheet option IIUC, the set command in pymol allows per-selection application, i.e. if you try this in the command line instead of checking the option in the menu set cartoon_flat_sheets, 0, blah where blah is your selection. -- Oh,

Re: [ccp4bb] twist angle bwtween monomers

2011-10-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
Assuming you are dealing with a pure twist, isn't the polar rotation angle reported by lsqkab or superpose what you are looking for? On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 04:16 +, Debajyoti Dutta wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of any software to calculate the twist angle between two monomers in a

Re: [ccp4bb] webserver for molscript

2011-10-24 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 18:18 +0530, faisal tarique wrote: Hello everyone Is there any online server which could convert 3D structure of a protein into 2D image, the way program molscript does ? -- Regards Faisal School of Life Sciences JNU One option is to directly access

Re: [ccp4bb] 5-Bromo-2′-deoxyuridine monomer in coot and Jligand

2011-10-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
As Sabine said, you need to make sure that the monomer is defined as DNA type. The best way to figure out how to do this is to look at the standard monomer library for nucleotide, e.g. $CCP4_LIB/data/monomers/d/DA.cif. On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 18:44 -0400, zhang yu wrote: Hi Sabine, Thanks for

Re: [ccp4bb] merging parts of models in COOT

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 12:20 +0100, Leonid Sazanov wrote: Hi, If I have two somewhat different overlayed models, is it possible in COOT to replace part of one model by another? Similarly to O command: merge_atoms from_molecule residue_start residue_end to_molecule residue_start ? That's a

Re: [ccp4bb] Biological assembly

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
My question is - is it necessary that we deposit a structure, which PISA predicted as most probable assembly in PDB as an asymmetric unit biological assembly or can we deposit a dimer (asymmetric unit) and give explanation for the biological assembly according to what PISA predicted. As

Re: [ccp4bb] how can merge two PDB

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
Why not do the molecular replacement - 6kDa is rather small but it most likely will work On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 06:13 -0700, Afshan Begum wrote: Hello CCP4 user I have collected a data set 2.1 for my complex. Actually after first run of Rafmac i can see the density for my inhibitor but the

Re: [ccp4bb] WaterTidy fails in windows ccp4i

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 12:45 -0500, Jacob Keller wrote: Is there an alternative water-picker in the gui? watertidy is not a water-picker -- I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling. Julian, King of Lemurs

Re: [ccp4bb] WaterTidy fails in windows ccp4i

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
Not sure where you quoting this from. I am looking at the official documentation here http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/watertidy.html which clearly states This program has two purposes. 1. It moves the H2O coordinates to the symmetry related position nearest to the host molecule.

Re: [ccp4bb] buried surface area

2011-10-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 20:17 +0100, Jyotica Batra wrote: Dear users, Are there any programs to calculate percentage of buried surface area that is polar vs nonpolar? Thanks in advance Thanks! Jyotica Surface Racer includes breakdown by atom type (polar vs nonpolar) in the output:

Re: [ccp4bb] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-18 Thread Ed Pozharski
. The russian translation of KernighanRitchie was my first programming book, and seemingly the only one I ever needed. -- Ed Pozharski epozh...@umaryland.edu University of Maryland - Baltimore

Re: [ccp4bb] IUCr committees, depositing images

2011-10-18 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 18:17 +0100, Gerard Bricogne wrote: it would be of the greatest value to that investigator to be able to double-check how reliable some features of that structure (especially its ligands) actually are. Certainly, one could argue here that the current PDB policy that

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-18 Thread Ed Pozharski
Selecting a test set that minimizes Rfree is so wrong on so many levels. Unless, of course, the only thing I know about Rfree is that it is the magic number that I need to make small by all means necessary. By using a simple genetic algorithm, I managed to get Rfree for a well-refined model as

Re: [ccp4bb] MR - small coiled coil, 1.65A = 1.000 solutions, all of them wrong

2011-10-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
Did you check for twinning? The most radical approach is to reprocess in P1 and see what R-values you get On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:09 -0200, Napoleão Valadares wrote: Hi there! I got crystals from some synthetic peptides I bought, they are 30 residues long and are supposed to form a

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 11:48 +0300, Nicholas M Glykos wrote: For structures with a small number of reflections, the statistical noise in the 5% sets can be very significant indeed. We have seen differences between Rfree values obtained from different sets reaching up to 4%. This

[ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
This is a follow up (or a digression) to James comparing test set to missing reflections. I also heard this issue mentioned before but was always too lazy to actually pursue it. So. The role of the test set is to prevent overfitting. Let's say I have the final model and I monitored the Rfree

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 13:07 -0700, Nat Echols wrote: You should enter the statistics for the model and data that you actually deposit, not statistics for some other model that you might have had at one point but which the PDB will never see. If you read my post carefully, you'll see that I

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 23:41 +0100, Phil Evans wrote: I just tried refining a finished structure turning off the FreeR set, in Refmac, and I have to say I can barely see any difference between the two sets of coordinates. The amplitude of the shift, I presume, depends on the resolution and data

Re: [ccp4bb] Akta Prime / FPLC Options / Off Topic

2011-10-13 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 18:18 -0700, Paul Smith wrote: and have heard some good things about Bio-rad Personally, my experience with Biorad was very positive. For instance, we had the switch valve motor burn out and they sent us the motor for $150 or so while they could have charged us full price

Re: [ccp4bb] Monomers in COOT

2011-10-13 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 11:25 +0800, Dr. STEPHEN SIN-YIN, CHUI wrote: Dear All, For all monomers (3 letter) used in COOT, where can i find the full names of the whole library? Many thanks stephen Assuming that you have ccp4 configured, you can use this one-liner find

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice rings... [maps and missing reflections]

2011-10-11 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 15:24 +, Bruno KLAHOLZ wrote: However, once you have determined and refined your structure it may be worth predicting the intensity of these spots and put them back for map calculation, REFMAC does this by default, because expected value of unknown structure factors

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice rings... [maps and missing reflections]

2011-10-11 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 10:47 -0700, Pavel Afonine wrote: better, but not always. What about say 80% or so complete dataset? Filling in 20% of Fcalc (or DFcalc or bin-averaged Fobs or else - it doesn't matter, since the phase will dominate anyway) will highly bias the map towards the model.

Re: [ccp4bb] Ice rings... [maps and missing reflections]

2011-10-11 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 11:54 -0700, Pavel Afonine wrote: Yep, that was the point - sometimes it is good to do, and sometimes it is not, and Do you have a real life example of Fobs=0 being better? You make it sound as if it's 50/50 situation. -- Hurry up before we all come back to our senses!

Re: [ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-06 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 17:36 -0500, Jon Schuermann wrote: If I'm not mistaken it is caused by /tmp/'username' not existing or being writable... Jon I can't reproduce this behavior by removing writing permissions from /tmp/$USER. ccp4i starts without a complaint (I guess I'd get into

Re: [ccp4bb] software for surface curvature

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:25 -0700, Jun Liao wrote: I want to calculate the surface curvature for my proteins in a quantitative way and show the results in a graphics software such as Pymol Surface Racer http://apps.phar.umich.edu/tsodikovlab/index_files/Page756.htm will output curvature per

Re: [ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:36 +0800, Jobichen Chacko wrote: I looked into our previous posts and tried to locate the ccp4.LOCK file, but I cannot find one in my system. Curiously, neither can I with the ccp4i currently running. Maybe this info is outdated, and you should try deleting

Re: [ccp4bb] Bicarb at low pH

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 15:56 -0500, Jacob Keller wrote: Transfer them to higher pH, and hope for the best? Consider crosslinking your crystals with glutaraldehyde. They will then became virtually insoluble, although it's possible that you may lose diffraction at elevated pH. -- Hurry up

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-30 Thread Ed Pozharski
...resisted the temptation to express redundant/easily objectionable/useless opinion on the virtues of different OS environments for two days... can't hold any longer... the power of one ring is too strong... the only useful suggestion on automatic update of proprietary nvidia drivers has already

Re: [ccp4bb] is codon optimization worth it?

2011-09-30 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 10:49 -0400, Patrick Loll wrote: Has anyone encountered a case in which a construct with the native sequence expressed poorly (or not at all?) in Rosetta(DE3), but the corresponding construct with a codon-optimized sequence expressed well? (The gene in question is from

Re: [ccp4bb] Superpose, SSM

2011-09-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 20:42 +0100, Matthias Zebisch wrote: However, it is not possible to use it within CCP4, eg. for a subsequent superposition. What do you mean by that? Do you get an error when you use the superpose output pdb with some other program? -- I'd jump in myself, if I

Re: [ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:04 +0100, Peter Hsu wrote: Or is this just a crazy/bad idea? If there is one thing that I learned about crystallization, is that very few ideas are so crazy that they are bad (i.e. not worth trying). Well, if dried seaweed and ground horse hair are good for seeding, I

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization of complex and ...

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 22:20 -0400, m zhang wrote: Second is about reusing of Ni-NTA resin. According to Qiagen's instruction, after using fresh Ni-NTA resin, one only needs to wash the used Ni resin first with 0.5M NaOH, then with your own buffer. After that the resin is ready to be reused

Re: [ccp4bb] Silver staining Coomassie stained gels

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 15:28 +0530, K Singh wrote: Dear All, Can anyone suggest me a protocol for silver-staining the PAGE that is already stained with Coomassie. Kris Just destain it and then use the standard silver-staining protocol. If for some reason you want to have both stainings

Re: [ccp4bb] about alternate conformations

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:08 -0400, Ming wrote: The methionine has half selenium and half sulfur. Do you have the evidence that your incorporation ration was 50%? On a practical side, try giving the SeMET a different chain ID. You can change it back manually after refinement. Assuming that the

Re: [ccp4bb] Paper describing the structure of LFA-1

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 14:10 -0400, Narayanan Ramasubbu wrote: Dear All: I would like to know the literature on the crystal structure of Leukocyte Function-Associated Antigen One (LFA-1, CD11a/CD18). I have the structure of I domain but not for the entire molecule. I would greatly appreciate

Re: [ccp4bb] UV imaging of crystals

2011-09-15 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 20:50 +0100, Andrew Purkiss-Trew wrote: Molecular Dimension do such an adaptor which fits to existing microscopes. Do you by any chance know the price? I can seemingly order it through the website for the hefty price of $0.00, which is too good to be true. -- Hurry up

Re: [ccp4bb] Why Does Cross-linking Mean Anything?

2011-09-15 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:10 -0500, Jacob Keller wrote: Maybe one should do a gradient of gluteraldehyde concentrations, then plot the deviation of the observed cross-linked oligomerization from a theoretical null hypothesis? Right - just do it side-by-side with a protein known to be monomeric

Re: [ccp4bb] Pointless problems

2011-09-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 14:06 -0400, Emmanuel Saridakis wrote: If not, is there another way to check my point group/spacegroup starting from Denzo/Scalepack? If you are trying to choose the screw axes, you can always look at the systematic absences. This script may be useful in extracting the

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure problem

2011-09-13 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 08:55 +, #HEW KAI LI KELLY# wrote: However, Rfree refused to go down any further and it's still around 30-31% And you have built the DNA already, right? -- Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to make water is crazy?

Re: [ccp4bb] drops swelling

2011-09-10 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:00 +0800, anita p wrote: Would it be worth while to try and remove glycerol at the last step which is gel filtration and then set trays in my case? Sure, assuming that your protein does not become unstable without glycerol (protein solubility is likely to decrease

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystypos [WAS: [ccp4bb] Mac OSX 10.7 Lion]

2011-09-10 Thread Ed Pozharski
The best X-ray related typo I ever seen was the Small angel scattering - poor little things! On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:23 -0400, Patrick Loll wrote: Still doesn't beat my all-time favorite, an early Microsoft spell-checker that changed diffract to defrocked. I forgot to mention how

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and DNA

2011-09-10 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 08:21 +0200, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: A, C and G are RNA nucleotides. T is (mostly) not, its RNA-equivalent is uridine phosphate, U. Right, that was my suspicion. But I thought that RNA bases would be Xr, not Xd. Plus, refmac does not complain about missing

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and DNA

2011-09-09 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:58 +0200, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: Perhaps the Nd/DN issue was solved between revisions 3470 and 3628 ? Indeed. I just built the rev 3633 and it works fine. Autobuild scripts used to have some problems on Lucid, but this time it worked perfectly. This evolved

[ccp4bb] refmac and DNA

2011-09-08 Thread Ed Pozharski
After switching (finally) to 6.2.0 and therefore to Refmac 5.6.0117 I have found a problem working with DNA that I have not seen with 6.1.13/5.5.0109. Namely, - if I use the pdb file produced by Coot (0.7.pre-1.3470) that seems to output DNA as Ad/Td/Gd/Cd no matter what the input names were,

Re: [ccp4bb] peptide crystallization question

2011-09-06 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:51 -0500, Chaudhary, Ritcha wrote: Do people use regular screens used in macromolecular crystallization such as Hamptons, wizards etc? Probably not - I believe short peptides are crystallized mostly via various evaporation techniques (but I am very curious to hear what

[ccp4bb] 64-bit CCP4

2011-09-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
I am almost sure this has been addressed before, so you can go after me for insufficient googling. However, 1. Is there any *significant* advantage in using 64-bit CCP4 binaries (primarily speed)? 2. IIUC, the standard CCP4 download results in 32-bit binaries being run on a 64-bit system.

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-30 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 09:55 -0500, Pete Meyer wrote: but I'm all in favor of dropping gui's for tasks that don't involve dealing with graphical data second that. I was about to say while it is not expected that everyone practicing crystallography should master the use of command line, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Is there a protein that it could interact with different proteins by the same part?

2011-08-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 09:44 -0400, Yamei Yu wrote: Is there a protein that it could interact with different proteins by the same part (maybe the same part but in different conformations?)? Lysozyme interacts with two antibodies, HyHel-5 and D44.1 via the same epitope but different set of

Re: [ccp4bb] How to handle b-factors at low resolution and very incomplete model?

2011-08-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 11:30 -0600, Francis E Reyes wrote: What's a way to determining a B-factor to set for all residues of a model at low resolution (4A)? Why not refine the overall B-factor? Even at 4A it should still be legitimate. -- Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to make

Re: [ccp4bb] Modeling ligands in binding pockets when the density is weak.

2011-08-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:36 -0600, Francis E Reyes wrote: Seems to be a quiet day on the BB So you need an earthquake :) This is similar, imho, to the issue of disordered side chains:

Re: [ccp4bb] Check PDB file for missing atoms

2011-08-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:19 -0700, Tiago Barros wrote: Does anyone know a program that will check a PDB file for missing atoms and output a list of the corresponding residues? REFMAC reports a (truncated?) list in the log file. Coot can also identify missing atoms. I would be pretty sure

Re: [ccp4bb] Morph with Chimera: how to make visible connection/interaction in Morph

2011-08-18 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 17:23 +0100, WENHE ZHONG wrote: Dear all, I would like to show the visible metal-residue interaction during the Morph movie. Anyone knows how to do that in Chimera? Thank you. King regards, Wenhe IIUC, you have worked out how to generate the morph trajectory

Re: [ccp4bb] [CCP4] movie for side chain flip

2011-08-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 15:48 +0100, WENHE ZHONG wrote: Hi all, Sorry for a little bit out of topic question. Morph Serve is the only online server I know to make movie for protein motion. But what I want to do is to make a movie to show one single side chain flip. It seems Morph could not do

Re: [ccp4bb] mising atoms

2011-08-04 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:06 +0530, vandana kukshal wrote: in a PDB with 2 A resolution many atoms of side chan if argenine and aspartate , lysine and glutamate are missing due to weak electron density Aha! Take that, non-believers in the wisdom of the end user! :) Hope it does not revive

Re: [ccp4bb] No reflections in resolution bin???

2011-08-04 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 08:10 -0400, james09 pruza wrote: Refmac is giving the error No reflections in resolution bin??? It seems there is no SigFP column. I wonder how to fix the problem. This, of course, depends on the origin of the data. Most data processing software will include the

Re: [ccp4bb] Newbie Installation Question

2011-07-29 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 20:08 +0100, Yuri wrote: Dear all, I have just downloaded and installed the ccp4-6.2.0. It says all I should do next is source the /setup-scripts/csh/ccp4.setup file... I have done that, but I cannot launch the program... Any help is welcome...(it is probably something

Re: [ccp4bb] Fab:antigen complex crystallization!!!

2011-07-28 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 05:07 +0100, Sean Seaver wrote: Spoiler - Fabs like ammonium sulfate. Not really - in my hands the ammonium sulfate was one hit out of 7. While Ivan's question is about Fab complexes with protein antigen, I think it brings up a more general question of protein

Re: [ccp4bb] research paper

2011-07-28 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:35 +, Jung-Hoon Lee wrote: Acta Cryst D63 (2007), 550-554. I can't believe Cornell has no access to Acta D. -- Hurry up before we all come back to our senses! Julian, King of Lemurs

Re: [ccp4bb] Purity of DNA oligos in protein co-crystal attempts.

2011-07-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 13:42 +0100, Charles Allerston wrote: I am trying to decide on the many variables I need to consider to attempt a co-crystal between a protein I work on and a DNA oligo of ~35nt in length. In my somewhat limited protein:DNA crystallization experience, the less pure

Re: [ccp4bb] I/sigma for h+k=2n+1 and h+k=2n

2011-07-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 09:51 -0400, zhang yu wrote: I would like to have a close look at the reflections. for example, the average I/sigma for reflections with h+k=2n+1 and reflections with h +k=2n. Once you have your reflections listed in a file having h,k,l,f,sigf as first five columns (e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] Non-crystallography symmetry operator

2011-07-25 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:24 -0400, zhang yu wrote: which software could calculate and output non-crystallography symmetry operator? LSQKAB, SUPERPOSE - there are other options, of course -- Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to make water is crazy?

Re: [ccp4bb] hello

2011-07-22 Thread Ed Pozharski
I recall using CME some time ago (within last couple of years) without problems. Also, an alternative approach is to incorporate BME as a separate residue instead - the disulfide bond will be correctly identified by refmac. I would think ideologically this is more appropriate - using a different

[ccp4bb] CCP4 releases

2011-07-19 Thread Ed Pozharski
Just a general curiosity - did I miss the release announcement for the 6.2.0 version on the bb or is it the CCP4 policy not to make such announcements? Perhaps the idea is to prevent people rushing to download the latest release and crushing the server :) -- I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so

Re: [ccp4bb] output individual redundancies

2011-07-15 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 09:26 +0100, Phil Evans wrote: Ed. You could count them from the unmerged output as you say, or I could make you a special version of SCALA or Aimless maybe next week Phil, that would be fantastic! Hope there is broader interest in such option (beyond Robbie and

[ccp4bb] output individual redundancies

2011-07-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
I am looking for a way to output redundancy per individual reflection, preferably for scala but if that is not possible then maybe for scalepack. From my (admittedly quick) look at the scala manual it seems that I can use something like UNMERGED output option to exclude outliers and then would

Re: [ccp4bb] Same protein, different molecule numbers per ASU

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Pozharski
Fairolniza, my experience with multiple crystal forms growing from the same drop (I had 4 that I was able to identify, there could have been more) was that there were similarities in the way protein molecules packed into fibers that were subsequently arranged into distinct crystal forms. You may

Re: [ccp4bb] Potential Space Group Issue

2011-07-08 Thread Ed Pozharski
Raji, Assuming that the real space group is P212121, in P21 you will still get a solution except for the extra NCS which will closely resemble the extra 2-fold screw. Then you can probably tell if there are any significant differences between NCS-related copies that justify lower symmetry space

Re: [ccp4bb] Solving the structure

2011-06-24 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 09:50 +0200, mullapudi edukondalu wrote: Dear Members, I have my first data set on one of my protein crystals, that diffract to 2.7 A, and the space group is I222. According to Mathews coefficient, there should be 4 molecules in the asymmetric unit. But, when I run

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5: put restraint on only peptide bonds

2011-06-23 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:49 +0900, Masaki UNNO wrote: Dear all Is it possible to put restraint on only peptide bonds? I would like to put restraint on O-N bond lengths, Ca-O-N angles, and O=O-N angles. Could you teach me how to do it, if possible? Masaki UNNO, Ph.D. One could create a

Re: [ccp4bb] Waters in ADIT

2011-06-22 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 14:10 +0200, Petr Kolenko wrote: Some of them have 2.7 AA contacts to main chain! it may be a good idea to report this to the PDB, this seems like a bug. -- Hurry up before we all come back to our senses! Julian, King of Lemurs

Re: [ccp4bb] Help! low resolution protein-DNA complex

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
I have a 3.2A dataset for a protein-DNA complex. The protein is a homodimer, and the DNA is almost palindromic (except one base pair in the middle and two or three base pairs at both two ends). It is my first time solving structures, and unfortunately the resolution is low. No body in

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac problem with anisotropic Us

2011-06-10 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:48 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: I don't think that combination makes any sense. Whatever anisotropic is being described by the TLS parameters can also be fully described by the individual anisotropic U^ij terms. So the TLS parameters are entirely redundant, leading

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: Question about the statistical analysis-might be a bit off topic

2011-06-09 Thread Ed Pozharski
Kay, The Wikipedia's error propagation article in its Caveats and Warnings paragraph calls this a Cauchy distribution. And that sounds strange to me. p.d.f. of the Cauchy distribution is non-zero for any finite argument, whereas the p.d.f. for the inverse Gaussian must tend to zero at x-0,

Re: [ccp4bb] how convert SF to intensities

2011-05-12 Thread Ed Pozharski
That is, I think that a correct procedure could be to convert model to structure factor and then obtain intensities squaring the SF. Does anyone know how can I do? Use sftools -- Hurry up before we all come back to our senses! Julian, King of Lemurs

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2011-05-03 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 13:27 +, Jahan Alikhajeh wrote: term insertion code. Does anyone know anything about it? what is it used for? It may be used to follow WuKabat numbering for antibodies. Frankly, it it is something that can be easily avoided (after all, 32A is simply the 33rd

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2011-05-03 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 18:06 +0100, Ian Tickle wrote: So Ed, it's not just relevant to the WuKabat numbering for antibodies. Obviously, it was meant to be an example of use, not the only example. The idea that one would _not_ use consistent numbering (and therefore insertion codes) across

Re: [ccp4bb] reproducibility of protein crystals

2011-05-02 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 15:48 +0800, anita p wrote: What are the reasons behind nonreproducibility of protein crystals? There are many possible reasons. You could start by checking you protein stock for signs of degradation and preparing it afresh. -- Hurry up before we all come back to our

[ccp4bb] balbes run

2011-04-27 Thread Ed Pozharski
Is there any way to download all of the files produced by a BALBES run on YSBL server at once (as opposed to going through every item individually)? A related question is what is a minimal set of files I will actually need to analyze the solution? refmac_final_result.* and summary.log - is

Re: [ccp4bb] Mock Dataset

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:48 -0400, Peter Randolph wrote: My PI has mentioned a Mock Dataset made available by the ACA for various programs (HKL etc) to practice with, but I haven't been able to find it and was wondering if anyone knew of any, Thanks, Peter Randolph If you are looking for

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