[ccp4bb] Is there a gold standard binding-site hydrophobicity score?

2013-10-31 Thread Francois Berenger
Dear list, Is there a way that for a binding site (defined as the protein surface atoms N Angstroms around a ligand molecule) we can assign a (preferably normalized) hydrophobicity score to the binding site? - I would prefer something that I can run offline rather than a webserver (but a we

Re: [ccp4bb] Data mining interactions in the PDB

2013-10-28 Thread Francois Berenger
;Nil illegitimo carborundum"/- /Didactylos -- Best regards, Francois Berenger. https://www.linkedin.com/in/fberenger

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

2013-07-30 Thread Francois Berenger
Be careful that running data intensive jobs over NFS is super slow (at least an order of magnitude compared to writing things on a local disk). Not only the computation is slow, but you may be slowing down all other users of the cluster too... F. On 07/30/2013 11:28 PM, Adam Ralph wrote: Dear S

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 6.3.0 PBS/qsub configuration

2013-07-02 Thread Francois Berenger
You need to source the CCP4 config file. At my site: # for Bash source /usr/local/src/ccp4/ccp4-6.3.0/setup-scripts/ccp4.setup-sh I guess that would be the first command in the script you send to your cluster via qsub. Regards, F. On 07/02/2013 11:55 PM, AFL wrote: Dear Group Members, I'm

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] insertion code problem

2013-06-25 Thread Francois Berenger
I think pdbset from CCP4 can renumber a PDB and hence get rid of the uggly insertion codes. On 06/26/2013 03:33 PM, herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: Dear Rain, Insertion codes are still a sore point for many CCP4 programs and one of the reasons I prefer Buster over Refmac. Refmac5 does not re

Re: [ccp4bb] Gnuplot: how to plot with resolution values as labels on x-axis?

2013-06-24 Thread Francois Berenger
On 06/25/2013 12:36 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kay, the rotation can be achieved with 'set xtics rotate by 30' I did not know about xticlabels, suggested by Abhinav - very useful! My preferred gnuplot reference: http://security.riit.tsinghua.ed

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 8?

2013-06-06 Thread Francois Berenger
On 06/07/2013 06:10 AM, Ho Leung Ng wrote: Hello, Are there any issues with crystallography related software on Windows 8, especially with PyMol or Coot? The operating system you are mentioning is unobservable, non causal and has a response time far greater than one second. To me, as an

Re: [ccp4bb] Active site volume calculator

2013-06-06 Thread Francois Berenger
On 06/06/2013 08:47 AM, Bosch, Juergen wrote: Hi Yuri, http://fpocket.sourceforge.net http://sts-fw.bioengr.uic.edu/castp/calculation.php I think GHECOM also compute this. GHECOM uses morpho maths operators in 3D. Quite beautiful. http://strcomp.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/ghecom/ Just to name 2

Re: [ccp4bb] Screening a protein surface for interaction sites

2013-05-29 Thread Francois Berenger
On 05/29/2013 04:30 PM, Gang Dong wrote: Try FTsite: http://ftsite.bu.edu/. I have seen people using metapocket: http://projects.biotec.tu-dresden.de/metapocket/ Gang On Wed, May 29, 2013 09:17, Karsten Niefind wrote: Dear colleagues, please allow me to ask crystallography experts for adv

Re: [ccp4bb] PISA interface question

2013-05-13 Thread Francois Berenger
On 05/13/2013 06:34 PM, Evgeny Osipov wrote: Hello everybody, I am trying to evaluate solvatation energy of my protein and. Unfortunately the protein highly glycosilated and it seems that PISA does not take into account hydrogen bonds between mannose from one molecule and symmetry related molecul

[ccp4bb] new phaser and threads

2013-04-03 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there a way to tell the new phaser to not use more than N threads when running? I have a problem with it overloading some cluster nodes. Thanks a lot, F.

Re: [ccp4bb] "Child Killed" error in SCALA

2013-03-07 Thread Francois Berenger
You can try to run your program under strace in order to get more info about what went wrong. Look at the end of the trace to have an idea. strace On 03/08/2013 02:47 AM, Roger Rowlett wrote: OK, here is a strange one: I have 4 client machines (3 absolutely identical hardware) all running ccp4

Re: [ccp4bb] compiling Fortran 77 code on a Linux box (using gfortran ?)

2013-03-06 Thread Francois Berenger
Hi, The command: $ aptitude install fort77 would install an f77 command on Ubuntu/Debian Linux. In fact that's a wrapper for f2c, but maybe it behaves like a real f77 compiler, I would give it a try personnally. On 03/06/2013 06:48 PM, vellieux wrote: Hello, For those who still know the Fortra

[ccp4bb] Thanks for the new graphical CCP4 installer

2013-02-14 Thread Francois Berenger
It is easy to use and even nice looking. Regards, F.

Re: [ccp4bb] Any tool to calculate surface accessible by ... another protein?

2013-02-12 Thread Francois Berenger
On 02/13/2013 04:51 AM, Emmanuel Levy wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a tool to measure the "Protein accessible surface area", which could be defined exactly as the solvent ASA except with a probe of larger radius. Most tools that calculate ASA however do not work with a probe radius of a

[ccp4bb] pdbset: filtering out ANISOU lines

2012-12-06 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Would it be possible to have pdbset take care of only the ATOM lines in a given PDB? I managed to make it do what I want but in case there are ANISOU lines, I want to ignore them. Currently, I'm using grep before pdbset, but I would prefer to avoid it as I am doing some computational expe

[ccp4bb] thanks god for pdbset

2012-12-04 Thread Francois Berenger
Especially the renumber command that changes residue insertion codes into an increment of the impacted residue numbers. Regards, F.

Re: [ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-28 Thread Francois Berenger
For those interested, I think I'll go for Chimera and its support for .bild files. And that will be the end of this not so much xtal-related topic. ;) Sorry for the noise. Regards, F. On 10/29/2012 09:47 AM, Francois Berenger wrote: On 10/27/2012 05:32 AM, Pete Meyer wrote: Just o

Re: [ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-28 Thread Francois Berenger
protein representation, etc. So, if I go for some pymol-supported format, I will do all my visual inspection in pymol. Pete Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, For some new project, I'd like to be able to generate things and store them in PDB format. For example, a triangle, a line segment, a squa

Re: [ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-25 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/26/2012 12:29 PM, Francois Berenger wrote: On 10/26/2012 12:16 PM, James Stroud wrote: This sounds like something that a PDB file is not intended to do. I think everyone has universally agreed to the PDB specification at the RCSB, which makes no provisions for arbitrary objects, as cool

Re: [ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-25 Thread Francois Berenger
ispaces or even the pymol wiki, pointing to your implementation that you keep on github. James On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, For some new project, I'd like to be able to generate things and store them in PDB format. For example, a triangle, a line segme

Re: [ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-25 Thread Francois Berenger
set up a home page using wikispaces or even the pymol wiki, pointing to your implementation that you keep on github. I do have a github page, and do open source what's worth it. ;) Thanks, F. James On Oct 25, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, For some new project, I

[ccp4bb] adding some user-defined graphical objects in a PDB file (and displaying them)

2012-10-25 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, For some new project, I'd like to be able to generate things and store them in PDB format. For example, a triangle, a line segment, a square, a cube, a sphere, an arrow, etc. Being able to change the color and "line width" would be nice. Is there some official recommended way of doing th

Re: [ccp4bb] calculating dialectric properties of enzyme active site

2012-10-08 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/07/2012 12:02 AM, Boaz Shaanan wrote: Hi If you want to calculate the electrostatic properties of your protein/mutants you can use Delphi or APBS. Calculation of the dielectric constants is most challenging. I think that these two programs use some approximations to estimate the variati

Re: [ccp4bb] residues forming the surface of a cavity

2012-10-04 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/04/2012 04:09 PM, sreetama das wrote: Dear all, Is there any CCP4 module/ other software/ web server which can determine which particular residues form the surface of a pocket/ binding-site in a protein? Do you mean "residues not far from any ligand atom"? And you know wher

Re: [ccp4bb] Overlapping transparent surface representations in Pymol

2012-10-02 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/03/2012 12:09 AM, Christopher Browning wrote: Dear All, I was wondering if anybody knows how one can have two transparent surfaces overlapping but then being able to see how the 2 intersect using PYMOL. At the moment, if I have two transparent surfaces overlapping I don't see how they over

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: pdf to word conversion

2012-09-02 Thread Francois Berenger
On 09/01/2012 07:48 PM, Rex Palmer wrote: Dear CCP4BB Does anyone know how to convert a .pdf file into a meaningful Word file. Maybe through Google doc you can do something for free (if you are OK with Google looking into your PDF file). On Linux, there are the pdftohtml and pdftotext commands

[ccp4bb] interesting alternative to CCP4's superpose tool

2012-07-25 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Quite interesting article: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/15/1972.abstract Regards, F.

Re: [ccp4bb] Does anyone have used DelPhi to calculate the Electrostatic potentials of DNA ?

2012-07-10 Thread Francois Berenger
On 07/11/2012 11:36 AM, dengzq1987 wrote: > Hi all, > recently,I want to use > DelPhi to calculate the Electrostatic potentials of DNA.but in the > manual,i can not find the method to create the inputfile fort.11 > 、fort.12 and fort.13.Does anyone have experience on this? Please suggest Why no

Re: [ccp4bb] sequence format conversion

2012-05-08 Thread Francois Berenger
More seriously, there is the babel command from Open Babel in case the second format you show has a known name. On 05/08/2012 04:46 PM, Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, The tool is called awk. There is also another tool called Perl, but I won't recommend it. Regards, F. On 05/08/2012 04:

Re: [ccp4bb] sequence format conversion

2012-05-08 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, The tool is called awk. There is also another tool called Perl, but I won't recommend it. Regards, F. On 05/08/2012 04:02 PM, K Singh wrote: Dear All I was looking for a script or an informatics tool enabling me to change the sequence from FASTA format to something like following: FAS

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Supplying PDB file to reviewers

2012-04-19 Thread Francois Berenger
Hi, There is the exact same problem when releasing a software, possibly open source, before the corresponding article is accepted. And I don't know a correct solution to this problem. Regards, F. On 04/19/2012 05:34 PM, Yu Wai Chen wrote: Dear Marc, As a reviewer I find it difficult to “vis

Re: [ccp4bb] a question about protein sequences in the PDB

2012-03-26 Thread Francois Berenger
On 03/27/2012 12:20 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: On Monday, 26 March 2012, Francois Berenger wrote: Dear list, If I take all the fasta files for proteins in the PDB, are the sequences complete? I mean, do they have holes sometimes (missing amino acids)? In theory the SEQRES records describe the

[ccp4bb] a question about protein sequences in the PDB

2012-03-26 Thread Francois Berenger
Dear list, If I take all the fasta files for proteins in the PDB, are the sequences complete? I mean, do they have holes sometimes (missing amino acids)? Sorry for the maybe stupid question but I know that sometimes the PDB files have missing residues, I am hoping that it is not the case with t

Re: [ccp4bb] Disulfide bonds

2012-03-04 Thread Francois Berenger
I wonder if it's not in the output of pisa from ccp4mg. On 03/05/2012 12:30 AM, Bart Hazes wrote: Hi Fred, The SSBOND server has indeed been moved as we have relocated to a new building. SSBOND is still available at the new server address: http://hazeslab.med.ualberta.ca/forms/ssbond.html This

Re: [ccp4bb] shape complementarity

2012-02-07 Thread Francois Berenger
On 02/08/2012 12:47 PM, Mike Lawrence wrote: Hi Francois Here's a one-liner. The major concept behind the Sc coefficient is that it measures the extent to which, "on average", the normal vectors between closest-neighbour opposing points within the molecular interface are antiparallel. Sc=1 im

[ccp4bb] shape complementarity

2012-02-07 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, After following the discussion on "[ccp4bb] shape complementarity between protein and DNA surface", is there someone here able to explain simply what the SC software of CCP4 is calculating? I mean, is there some intuitive/easy to understand explanation of what SC is calculating? I know

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic:schematic representations for secondary structure

2012-02-05 Thread Francois Berenger
On 02/04/2012 08:11 PM, Vellieux Frederic wrote: I believe Procheck generates drawings such as those. It generates PostScript files, and if you need to have (eg) jpg files, a PostScript interpreter, screen capture and there you are (Gimp to select only the areas you're interested in) The conver

Re: [ccp4bb] Iphone app to display protein models

2012-01-26 Thread Francois Berenger
On 01/27/2012 04:00 PM, Shiva Bhowmik wrote: Dear All, I was wondering if there is any IOS5 based app to display protein models, which are not in public database, on Iphone. Better than this: Jolecule from Dr. Bosco Ho. "Jolecule works in HTML5 browsers such as Chrome and Safari, mostly in F

Re: [ccp4bb] linux upgrade preferences for CCP4

2011-12-21 Thread Francois Berenger
On 12/22/2011 06:56 AM, David Schuller wrote: Fedora releases are supported for about a year from initial release. Red Hat Enterprise, Centos and Scientific Linux are all supported for about 5 years. Ubuntu has long term support distributions as well: "Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [...] ver

Re: [ccp4bb] Efficient way of showing residue conservation

2011-12-08 Thread Francois Berenger
On 12/08/2011 05:11 PM, Petr Leiman wrote: Dear Bostjan, There is Chimera for almost anything you can think of. Not coot, you are sure? Because (i) Chimera is not part of CCP4 and (ii) usually coot does everything on this mailing list. :) > Search for "Structure-Based Sequence Alignment" on

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser openmp

2011-11-09 Thread Francois Berenger
On 11/09/2011 07:21 PM, Pascal wrote: Le Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:25:22 -0800, Nat Echols a écrit : On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Francois Berenger wrote: In the past I have been quite badly surprised by the no-acceleration I gained when using OpenMP with some of my programs... :( You need big

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser openmp

2011-11-08 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, How faster is the OpenMP version of Phaser versus number of cores used? In the past I have been quite badly surprised by the no-acceleration I gained when using OpenMP with some of my programs... :( Regards, F. On 11/09/2011 02:59 AM, Dr G. Bunkoczi wrote: Hi Ed, in the CCP4 distribut

Re: [ccp4bb] "Insufficient virtual memory"

2011-10-14 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/14/2011 06:31 PM, Ian Tickle wrote: Hello all, some Fortran developer out there must know the answer to this one. I'm getting a "forrtl: severe (41): insufficient virtual memory" error when allocating dynamic memory from a F95 program compiled with Intel Fortran v11.1.059. The program was

Re: [ccp4bb] change of origin for reflections or map

2011-10-12 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, The more I read this mailing list, the more I feel the crystallographer is a very special human being: - he lives in the Fourier space - when he goes to the Cartesian space, he restricts himself to a small box that is replicated to the infinity using symmetry operators and origin shif

Re: [ccp4bb] software for surface curvature

2011-10-04 Thread Francois Berenger
On 10/05/2011 07:25 AM, Jun Liao wrote: Dear All, These days, 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. Does someone have a good idea of which program will do a nice job? If you are a C++ expert an

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-28 Thread Francois Berenger
On 09/29/2011 09:46 AM, William G. Scott wrote: On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Jacqueline Vitali wrote: Dear colleagues, I need some advice for a new computer. (1) I have the option of an HP Z210 8 GB with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400 512 MB. --How does Coot run with this card? OK --I am

Re: [ccp4bb] renaming an holo PDB after the alo one

2011-09-26 Thread Francois Berenger
On 09/27/2011 09:55 AM, David Veesler wrote: Hi François, Chainsaw should do the job for you if you input a clustal alignment. Cheers David Thanks! I'm happy I asked. I'll give a try at chainsaw. Hope to not cut one of my fingers during the process... Le 26 sept. 2011 à 17:44

[ccp4bb] renaming an holo PDB after the alo one

2011-09-26 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I have one bound complexe (a ligand + a protein in holo conformation). I also have the apo structure for a very similar protein. Is there a tool to create a new PDB, whose coordinates are taken from the holo structure but residue names and numbers are taken from the alo structure (by look

Re: [ccp4bb] more Computer encryption matters

2011-08-18 Thread Francois Berenger
On 08/18/2011 09:34 PM, Andreas Förster wrote: Since we're on the subject... I've been tempted on and off to encrypt my hard drive, but after getting burned once a hundred years ago when encrypted data turned into garbled bytes all of a sudden I've been hesitant. I've gone so far as to install Tr

Re: [ccp4bb] Computer encryption matters

2011-08-17 Thread Francois Berenger
On 08/18/2011 04:13 AM, Jrh wrote: Dear Colleagues, My institution is introducing concerted measures for improved security via encryption of files. A laudable plan in case of loss or theft of a computer with official files eg exams or student records type of information stored on it. Files, f

[ccp4bb] adding side-chains to a backbone model (without introducing clashes in the process)

2011-08-04 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Recently I was advised PULCHRA on phenixbb for such task (http://www.pirx.com/pulchra/index.shtml). I wonder if there is another tool in the CCP4 treasure chest for the same kind of task (preferably open source). Regards, F.

Re: [ccp4bb] research paper

2011-07-31 Thread Francois Berenger
On 07/29/2011 06:30 PM, Robbie Joosten wrote: Jung-Hoon, This is a so-called WaReZ request, which could get you banned a lot of webfora. Of course, we are all guilty of it at some occasions. The best way to get an article is to ask the authors, they are allowed give away free copies (dependin

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser and Molrep gave different solutions

2011-07-20 Thread Francois Berenger
On 07/21/2011 01:45 PM, Hubing Lou wrote: Dear all, I am stuck in a molecular replacement case and looking for advices. I have been working on a protein-DNA complex structure. Data was processed by HKL2000 to 2.6Ang and some of the data statistics are shown below: Space group: P21, Unit Cell: 5

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: How to delete loops from a protein

2011-07-18 Thread Francois Berenger
Hi Obayed, If I understood your question well, you are looking for something called "secondary structure prediction". I googled these keywords and found this server: http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/ You may find other interesting servers on the web and some literature comparing them. I thin

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question. NACCESS

2011-06-17 Thread Francois Berenger
On 06/17/2011 05:25 PM, Armando Albert wrote: Does anyone has got some information about how to get a mac version (intel), of the old unix program naccess?. It was meant to calculate the solvent accessibility per residue from a pdb file. Armando Maybe this server can do the job: http://cgal.

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent channel volume measurement [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-06-13 Thread Francois Berenger
On 06/13/2011 04:55 PM, DUFF, Anthony wrote: It may require some tricks, such as the creation of walls of CA atoms, but Kleywegt's FLOOD will give an answer in terms of number of water molecules. Some more tools are referenced here: http://hollow.sourceforge.net/ However, I did not tried them.

Re: [ccp4bb] Comparing two proteins

2011-04-14 Thread Francois Berenger
This tool looks cool also (especially to all the maximum likelihood fans of this list I guess): http://www.theseus3d.org/ --- Theseus is a program that simultaneously superimposes multiple macromolecular structures. Instead of using the conventional least-squares criteria, Theseus finds the opt

Re: [ccp4bb] Getting the triangulated solvent excluded surface of a protein (PDB) as a .obj file

2011-03-10 Thread Francois Berenger
Sorry, I forgot to mention about what is the .obj file I need. It is a pure ASCII geometric description of a polyhedra. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file It looks rather easy to parse compared to some VRML file, for example. Thanks, F. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello

[ccp4bb] Getting the triangulated solvent excluded surface of a protein (PDB) as a .obj file

2011-03-10 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, What are the good software to do this? I already know of Pymol and Jmol. Both can export the result to a .obj file, which is interesting for later processing. However, Pymol's algorithm is not exactly what Connolly described, cf. http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforg

[ccp4bb] What is the simplest method to analytically compute the Solvent-Accessible Surface Area of a given atom in a protein?

2011-01-12 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Does someone know some good articles on this particular topic? I'd like to implement the thing myself, however if there is a good software doing the job (with readable source code), I might use and cite it. Best regards, Francois.

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-21 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, For me the citation format is also a major problem. When the title of the paper is not shown, it really hinders the work of trying to find which references are worthwhile reading. I think it may even have a negative impact on the number of citations a paper get. I don't know if it has be

Re: [ccp4bb] [RANT] Publication Data Formats

2010-11-17 Thread Francois Berenger
James Stroud wrote: On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: Bleah. Virtually none of those are human-readable, no matter what the wikipedia page may choose to put as a heading title. What kind of data are you dealing with? PDF would indeed be an odd format for diffraction images,

[ccp4bb] [Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] Graphics for notebook]

2010-11-17 Thread Francois Berenger
--- Begin Message --- Kay Diederichs wrote: "" Datum: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:37:10 + Dear all, Thanks for your suggestions. From what I learned new GPUs from NVIDIA are using the Optimus technology which does not support Linux, meaning that only the dedicated graphics on the system will be

Re: [ccp4bb] SC

2010-11-11 Thread Francois Berenger
Hi, This is the first time I read about "shape complementarity statistics". According to: "A structural basis for the activity of retro-Diels–Alder catalytic antibodies: Evidence for a catalytic aromatic residue" As seen here: http://www.pnas.org/content/99/15/9674.full --- [...] compute the

Re: [ccp4bb] what package provides libg2c.so.0 on Ubuntu ?

2010-10-19 Thread Francois Berenger
Edward A. Berry wrote: I'm helping set up crystallography programs on a ubuntu system, and we're stuck because one program (scalepack) needs the library libg2c.so.0 . Maybe compat-libf2c I understand this is absent from modern distributions because gcc discontinued support for g77 and f2c in

[ccp4bb] Seeking Postdoctoral Researcher

2010-09-29 Thread Francois Berenger
Laboratory: Zhang Initiative Research Unit, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan. (Unit Leader: Dr. Kam Zhang) Job title and Job description: Postdoctoral Researchers Job description: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced computational structural biologist to join the Zhang Ini

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get a seq.data file from a FASTA file?

2010-09-14 Thread Francois Berenger
Reply to myself: The author changed his program so that only the 2 first columns are needed now, and they are obvious enough. Regards, F. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, First, sorry for this not directly CCP4-related question. I have some software here that requires a seq.data file as one

[ccp4bb] How to get a seq.data file from a FASTA file?

2010-09-14 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, First, sorry for this not directly CCP4-related question. I have some software here that requires a seq.data file as one of its inputs: any idea on how to create such a file from a FASTA file? Here is how the expected file looks like for protein 101M (it is named seq.dat): --- 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Format conversion of Shelx coordinate file

2010-08-30 Thread Francois Berenger
Hi, What is the motto/slogan of coot? I read so often about it on ccp4bb. If there is not one yet, I propose: "coot, the crystallographer's swiss knife" :'D Regards, F. Tim Gruene wrote: Hello Florian, you can read the .hat-file into coot and save it from there, changing the suggested file-e

Re: [ccp4bb] ROSETTA for MR model generation

2010-08-25 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I know at least the following papers on this topic: --- "High resolution protein structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2504711/ "Prospects for de novo phasing with de novo protein models" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Re: [ccp4bb] Method to calculate the axis of an alpha helix

2010-08-17 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there some C or C++ code out there doing what you described in 1). If not, is there a very detailed explanation of this procedure somewhere, detailed enough in order to implement it (just getting the best fit vector and its "length", no other parameters)? Thanks a lot, Francois. To

Re: [ccp4bb] Estimation of coordinate errors

2010-08-02 Thread Francois Berenger
By the way, I used this one recently: http://zhang.bioinformatics.ku.edu/TM-score/ It computes a lot of scores: TM-score, MaxSub-score, GDT-TS-score and GDT-HA-score. All of this with a single Fortran file (so nothing more needed except a Fortran compiler), I was impressed. Regards, F. Pavel A

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coefficient

2010-06-25 Thread Francois Berenger
at some moment. And, I also agree that things made only "in the computer" have to be checked using some experimental data in order to be relied on. Francois. Fred. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, I am not a crystallographer, so I will ask a maybe stupid question. When you say &qu

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coefficient

2010-06-25 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I am not a crystallographer, so I will ask a maybe stupid question. When you say "After molecular replacement you should check the result with the model building program of your choice and correct as many errors as possible before running a refinement program." Can this step be automated

Re: [ccp4bb] error in running Phaser NMA mode

2010-06-24 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I used this script once just to have a look at some NMA-moved structures: --- #!/bin/bash if [ "$#" -ne "1" ] ; then #0 1 echo "usage: phaser_nma.sh INPUT.PDB" exit 1 fi name=`echo $1 | sed "s/\.pdb$//g"` phaser << EOF TITLE moved by some low frequen

Re: [ccp4bb] different compilers for ccp4 code

2010-05-17 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, This is not what you asked for, but I think it is good to know: Intel compilers don't seem to like non-Intel CPUs: http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 Regards, F. Terry Lang wrote: Hey Everyone, I am considering switching from gcc to the Intel compiler in the hopes

Re: [ccp4bb] a simple query: atom selection for CNS

2010-04-29 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Just for your information, there is a mailing list for CNS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnsbb/ And there is some activity on it. Regards, F. AMIT wrote: Just type in CNS refine.inp in the atom select option: {===>} atom_select=(not((chainid A and resid 10:15 ) or (chainid B and resi

[ccp4bb] applying B_factor and scale correction to an MTZ

2010-04-08 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there a tool to apply both the scale and overall B-factor correction found by the wilson plot to a given MTZ file? After applying these corrections, is there another way than redoing wilson to check that the output MTZ is on absolute scale? Thanks a lot, Francois.

Re: [ccp4bb] question about rotation search

2010-04-05 Thread Francois Berenger
? Thanks, Francois. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, While doing a rotation search with Patterson maps, what is the standard way to find the minimum* and maximum** radius to be used while correlating maps? * to avoid the origin peak ** to avoid inter molecular-vectors Is there a CCP4 tool to give me

[ccp4bb] question about rotation search

2010-04-04 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, While doing a rotation search with Patterson maps, what is the standard way to find the minimum* and maximum** radius to be used while correlating maps? * to avoid the origin peak ** to avoid inter molecular-vectors Is there a CCP4 tool to give me this if I provide it with a model? If

[ccp4bb] orthogonal limits of a protein

2010-03-24 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there a ccp4 tool to find automatically the smallest virtual orthogonal "box" that contain a given PDB ? Even if your favorite tool is not part of ccp4, I would be happy to know about it. ;) Thanks, Francois.

Re: [ccp4bb] Why Do Phases Dominate?

2010-03-18 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I was recently advised to have a look at James Holton's videos to have an idea of the effects of various parameters. http://ucxray.berkeley.edu/~jamesh/movies/ There is a video "The importance of Phase": http://ucxray.berkeley.edu/~jamesh/movies/dephase.mpeg This is not an explanation,

Re: [ccp4bb] Any simple way to scale 2 MTZ?

2010-03-12 Thread Francois Berenger
are multiple copies in the ASU. So, we should scale both data sets to absolute scale. This is illustrated in the tutorials here: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/examples/tutorial/html/heavy-tutorial-mad.html#step_4a Best wishes, Graeme On 12 March 2010 08:17, Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, Is

[ccp4bb] Any simple way to scale 2 MTZ?

2010-03-12 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there a magic tool doing the job of scaling 2 MTZ to the same scale? For the moment I know with ccp4: rwcontents then wilson then mtzutils with phenix: lsq_scale (in fact I am lying, I was forced to run ccp4's cad before) Is there a simpler way with ccp4? As I am not a crystallograph

Re: [ccp4bb] LSQ line fit given a set of atomic coordinates

2010-03-09 Thread Francois Berenger
Alejandro Buschiazzo wrote: Dear all, I know this can be done with any statistics program, or even by handbut, just for practical reasons and having to deal with a bunch of pdb's, is there any (CCP4...or eventually other) program containing an embedded feature to calculate the best straig

Re: [ccp4bb] linux question

2010-02-28 Thread Francois Berenger
On 2/27/2010 10:10 PM, David Roberts wrote: I have a quick question about linux for all. Is there anybody running a windows pc with linux on a bootable cd or bootable drive/flash drive/??? that works for crystallography apps? I have a colleague who does molecular dynamics calculations and he

Re: [ccp4bb] status of the UCLA DOE anisoscale server?

2010-02-24 Thread Francois Berenger
James Stroud wrote: This seems to be a temporary condition. The page is back up now. Alternatively, if you put the address in Google (http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/~sawaya/anisoscale/), then you click on the "Cached" link of the first result, then you will access the page as Google remembers it.

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange problem running cpp4i over nx - job reported as failed even though it succeeds-log file has nx errors

2010-02-04 Thread Francois Berenger
Ethan Merritt wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010 05:14:24 hari jayaram wrote: > [...] The program run with command: /mega/ccp4-6.1.3/ccp4-6.1.3/bin/sortmtz HKLOUT "/mega/hj-8-2-1/hjbr5-1/hjbr5-1_sorted_mosflm.mtz" has failed with error message ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/NX/lib/libesddsp.so.0'

Re: [ccp4bb] reforigin on 2FKA

2010-01-27 Thread Francois Berenger
sensible, but I think in this particular the fault doesn't lie with reforigin. Cheers -- Ian -Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Francois Berenger Sent: 27 January 2010 06:50 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: refor

[ccp4bb] reforigin on 2FKA

2010-01-26 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I am playing with ccp4's reforigin to verify some MR solutions. If I translate a copy of the pdb.org's PDB 2FKA (from spacegroup F432) by +/-0.5 fractional in any unit cell direction, then reforigin will find back this translation and consider it as valid for this spacegroup. But for

Re: [ccp4bb] verifying a molecular replacement solution (test case where the true structure is known)

2010-01-21 Thread Francois Berenger
e certainly different. -James Holton MAD Scientist Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, 1) In the case I know the true structure (I am verifying I use Phaser correctly), is there a program to do so? Some other questions, if I am to write this program by myself: 2) is there a list somewhere of the t

Re: [ccp4bb] verifying a molecular replacement solution (test case where the true structure is known)

2010-01-17 Thread Francois Berenger
Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, 1) In the case I know the true structure (I am verifying I use Phaser correctly), is there a program to do so? Some other questions, if I am to write this program by myself: 2) is there a list somewhere of the translation ambiguities for each spacegroup

[ccp4bb] verifying a molecular replacement solution (test case where the true structure is known)

2010-01-17 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, 1) In the case I know the true structure (I am verifying I use Phaser correctly), is there a program to do so? Some other questions, if I am to write this program by myself: 2) is there a list somewhere of the translation ambiguities for each spacegroup? For example, in P1 it wo

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman LCD availability

2010-01-14 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, By the way, does anyone got this LCD in Japan? My team is interested to know the model's exact reference as well as from where you ordered it. Thanks a lot, Francois.

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser: removing H in PDB increases the RFZ ?!

2010-01-12 Thread Francois Berenger
see if I can make Phaser output atom numbers from what was read from the PDB. Regards, F. Regards, Markus On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, I have 4 molecules. If I use Phaser's AUTO_MR with all default parameters on them, I get the following scores: no_

[ccp4bb] Phaser: removing H in PDB increases the RFZ ?!

2010-01-12 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, I have 4 molecules. If I use Phaser's AUTO_MR with all default parameters on them, I get the following scores: no_modif remove_H molecule RFZ TFZ RFZ TFZ 16.9 9.6 7.0 9.4 25.2 5.9 5.4 6.2 34.2 4.5 4.7 5.2 44.9 6.8 5.2 6.7 Hence, here are my e

[ccp4bb] open source project announce: parallel/distributed execution of commands

2010-01-06 Thread Francois Berenger
enables progress bar [-w | --workers n] number of local worker threads must have n >= 0 n == 0 can be useful to only run the server --- I hope it can be useful to other people. Rega

Re: [ccp4bb] combining AutoMR and brute [Phaser]

2009-12-21 Thread Francois Berenger
Sorry, I forgot to mention my previous message concerns using Phaser. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, Is there any way to search in AutoMR mode but have the translation only being brute forced? Regards, F.

[ccp4bb] combining AutoMR and brute

2009-12-21 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, Is there any way to search in AutoMR mode but have the translation only being brute forced? Regards, F.

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