Re: [ccp4bb] Save the dates: CCP4-BCA Summer School in York 19-25 August 2023

2023-06-16 Thread Johan Turkenburg
. And there is additional support from generous suppliers, see the bottom of the landing page. Come and join us for what promises to be another exciting summer school. The organisers, Johan Turkenburg, Jon Agirre and Paul Bond On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 16:56, Jon Agirre wrote: > Dear all, > > It i

[ccp4bb] Oxford cryostream 700 free to a good home

2021-07-28 Thread Johan Turkenburg
We have recently acquired a new diffraction setup and have retired our old equipment. We now have 2 Oxford cryostream 700 systems up for grabs. They come complete with controller, dewar, pump, stand etc. Both work, but the controllers have a few niggles that you need to know about - doesn't stop

[ccp4bb] Reminder: CCP4/BCA Protein Crystallography Summer School at York, 1-7 September 2019

2019-06-05 Thread Johan Turkenburg
because of the funding arrangements, but is open to a limited number of overseas applicants. For further details and the application form please see https://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/proteincrystallography/ Tracey Gloster (University of St Andrews) Johan Turkenburg (University of York

[ccp4bb] Protein Crystallography Summer School at York, 1-7 September 2019

2019-04-24 Thread Johan Turkenburg
, priority is given to UK applicants because of the funding arrangements, but is open to a limited number of overseas applicants. For further details and the application form please see https://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/proteincrystallography/ Tracey Gloster (University of St Andrews) Johan

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] High Rfree - ice ring

2019-04-09 Thread Johan Turkenburg
I agree with Harry that an ice ring should never require you to process the data in two separate runs, and hopefully this does not become a standard approach.. How did you present those data to aimless so it could scale the two datasets that have no overlap at all? Johan On Tue, 9 Apr

Re: [ccp4bb] visualising anis B factors

2019-01-24 Thread Johan Turkenburg
This reminds me of my days as an undergraduate at Leiden University. I did a project with RAG de Graaff, and learnt to solve some small molecule structures. All programs were run on an IBM mainframe that was located in the central computing services. Input was prepared in fixed format. When I had

[ccp4bb] Cryosystems series 600

2017-01-19 Thread Johan Turkenburg
We are having a clear out and have several Oxford cryosystems 600 going spare. They are not in working order, and they are really only for spare parts. Free to a good home, pick up only. Contact me off list if you are interested. If we don't hear within 10 days, they will go in the bin. Johan

Re: [ccp4bb] frosted crystals during storage in pucks

2013-07-17 Thread Johan Turkenburg
We put a supply line of compressed air (not sure how dry this is) in the dewar to wam it up and dry it out. We leave this running overnight, and this seems to result in the dewars being dry enough for later use. We haver never bothered to weight the dewars before and after use etc, so can't

Re: [ccp4bb] How to set the contour level to a specific value in COOT?

2013-03-13 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Or you can give ccp4mg a go (see the ccp4 website). Makes wonderful pictures. (shameless plug from yorkie) Johan On 13 March 2013 08:45, herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: ** Dear Tiantian, If it is for a picture for a publication, I would use Pymol. I find the pictures prettier and you

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot's hidden talents!

2013-01-11 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Friday afternoon Good time to look at some artistic representations of protein molecules. This is pretty amazing: http://www.julianvossandreae.com/ Johan On 11 January 2013 14:26, Derek Logan derek.lo...@biochemistry.lu.se wrote: To be honest I preferred this more homespun work:

Re: [ccp4bb] 2D-bar code scanner to read Hampton pins barcodes

2012-07-25 Thread Johan Turkenburg
We use a Pepperl+Fuchs Omnitron handheld cabled reader. Our model is a cr2010_4 but this is now several years old. It looks similar to the MH200 model that I found after a quick google. It is used for every synchrotron trip, and works well. Johan On 24 July 2012 15:33, Pietro Roversi

Re: [ccp4bb] molrep question - how get our ducks in a row?

2012-02-23 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi, There is an option in the molrep interface (in the search parameters tab) to output all models closest to the input coordinate file With a bit of luck, that should do it. Johan On 24 February 2012 00:07, Gloria Borgstahl gborgst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, We are solving a

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-30 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Rather than crossover office we now use VirutalBox and have a Windows XP installation with Office for those of us who can't live without it. You can backup the virtual machine (which is simply a big file) for the virtual OS before you do an upgrade of your host OS (Ubuntu in my case) and copy that

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-29 Thread Johan Turkenburg
This discussion will rage forever, it seems, but that won't stop us all chipping in. My experience is the opposite: all crystallographic software I use is available as binaries for the major linux distros, and installs without problems. Ubuntu is easy to maintain on desktops (your mileage on

[ccp4bb] Diamond phase III proposal. Call for Expressions of Interest. Deadline looming!

2011-06-09 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Please don't hit delete yet, read on! First of all, many thanks to all the people who have already submitted a letter of support for the initiative Versatile microfocus beamline with a side-station for in-situ diffraction. It is essential that we get as many letters of support as possible, to

[ccp4bb] Phase III beamline at Diamond Light Source. Call for support.

2011-06-01 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Many of you will have seen the request for expressions of Interest for the phase III proposal for A versatile microfocus beamline with an in-situ side station for macromolecular crystallography at DIAMOND. As one of the co-proposers I would like to urge you to support this proposal and write a

Re: [ccp4bb] linux flavors

2011-02-24 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi, Slightly deviating from the original thread perhaps: I am having trouble with recent releases of Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite laptop, mainly associated with ACPI. The internet is awash with discussions on how to fix the problems with ACPI (fan speed, screen brightness etc). None of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi Dirk, This example compares integration software in combination with the scaling program, which is what usually happens. Obviously, the scaling program does more than just scaling, it also handles rejections. It is possibly this procedure that makes most of the difference. For example, the

[ccp4bb] Expressions of Interest in Diamond’s Phase III Beamline proposals

2010-09-29 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Dear Everyone, As an MX representative of the Diamond User Committee we are writing to remind you that the deadline is fast approaching for Expressions of Interest in Diamond’s Phase III Beamline proposals, three of which are aimed at MX. The three relevant beamlines and their representatives are

Re: [ccp4bb] Create a dual boot windows-linux machine

2009-01-18 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Perhaps the fact that 8.04 is the Long Term Support version is useful to some people? FWIW, I tend to create /home as a separate partition in gparted, so that when I install a new (version of an) OS, I can keep my files etc. Maybe a little fiddly for the first time installer, but worth

Re: [ccp4bb] WM_DELETE_WINDOW

2008-03-04 Thread Johan Turkenburg
I'm not sure I agree with having a confirm button. This would try to address a 'problem' in a way that has us all clicking a 'confirm' button every time we close the interface, to stop accidentally closing the interface every now and again. As closing an interface (plus children) window

Re: [ccp4bb] anomalous signal of Mn and Ca ions

2008-02-29 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi, You need to firstly check that you did the map calculation correctly, see comments below: Sun Tang wrote: Dear All, In my structures, I want to assign Mn or Ca ions for some densities. But when I did not have anomalous density in CCP4i. I am not sure whether I was correct. The

Re: [ccp4bb] possible solutions for those troobleshooting ccp4 and ccp4i...

2008-02-21 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi, Was this an install from executables, or from source? I have just installed Ubuntu Gutsy on my laptop (everything including wireless worked out of the box - I think Ubuntu is great for people who want to simply use computers). I installed CCP4 6.0.2 with the automatic installer from the