[ccp4bb] Research associate in software development for structural biology

2022-03-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi all We have a job posting closing on Sunday to develop next generation web based molecular graphics software. For details see the following: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/research-associate-in-software-development-for-structural-biology-475985.html Regards, -- Professor Kevin Cowtan

[ccp4bb] PDRA in software development at York...

2022-02-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi all We have a position available at York to develop web based tools for molecular graphics and model building. For details, see this page <https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885_web_page_id=475985> . -- Professor Kevin Cowtan Email: kev

[ccp4bb] New Ewald sphere teaching tool

2021-12-11 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Kevin Cowtan Email: kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk Pronouns: Please use they/them when referring to me in professional contexts ORCiD: -0002-0189-1437 <https://orcid.org/-0002-0189-1437> Disclaimer: http://w <http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm> ww.york.ac.uk/doc

[ccp4bb] Online social games for the Study Weekend 2021

2020-12-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
ee play mode. If anyone wants to host any other games (maybe a Minecraft Java server, Animal Crossing or European-style board games), please feel free to do so and publicise them here or on the conference forums once they open. -- Professor Kevin Cowtan Email: kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk Prono

Re: [ccp4bb] Pointless error in ccp4i2 import merged data...

2020-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi all The problem turned out to be that the user had a space in their username. Creating a new account solved it. Regards, On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 10:23, Kevin Cowtan wrote: > Hi! > > I have a student trying to run i2, and a task to import merged data from > cif which works fine f

[ccp4bb] Pointless error in ccp4i2 import merged data...

2020-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
011/04/00/ba5158/index.html;> PDF $$ -- Professor Kevin Cowtan Email: kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk Pronouns: Please use he/him or they/them when referring to me in professional contexts Address:York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry University of York

[ccp4bb] PhD position in methods development at York, UK

2019-10-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
send them to me!)Project Description A PhD position is available to work in the group of Dr Kevin Cowtan on computational methods for automatic building of protein structures. Both X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy can give us a picture of the electron density clouds in a protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Can anyone run refmac from the WINDOWS command prompt?

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
nces are that mine is in the default location, and that machine has > not had an earlier version of ccp4 installed. > > Can you check "set" to see what is set in the environment. > > Charles > > On 13 Feb 2019, at 11:29, Kevin Cowtan wrote: > > Hi! Can anyone ru

[ccp4bb] Can anyone run refmac from the WINDOWS command prompt?

2019-02-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
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[ccp4bb] Methods developer post at York, UK

2017-06-12 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position for up to 18 months to work with Dr Kevin Cowtan on a BBSRC-funded project on novel methods for refining macromolecular models to explain crystallographic observations. You will be based within the York Structural Biology Laboratory

[ccp4bb] Ugly fonts in ccp4i under Linux...

2015-01-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! I don't know if anyone else is having problems with ccp4i fonts looking very ugly under Linux, in particular recent versions of Ubuntu? I couldn't find anything about it online. Well, if you are, I have the solution. 1. Install at least the xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi packages 2. Create a

Re: [ccp4bb] How to create a mask with specified pixel size in CCP4?

2014-10-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I'm not sure, but I think you'll have to do a 'run and edit command file' and add the following keyword: GRID SPACING 2.4 2.4 2.4 Give it a try. On 14 October 2014 17:31, Steven Chou stevezc...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to generate a mask from a pdb coordinate file using the

Re: [ccp4bb] New! Interactive structure factor tutorial...

2014-10-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
in the control panel. Kevin p.s. If you for some reason really have to access the old one, it is still available here: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/sfapplet-old/sfintro.html On 29 September 2014 10:15, Kevin Cowtan kevin.cow...@york.ac.uk wrote: I don't *think* they did that in the old

[ccp4bb] New! Interactive structure factor tutorial...

2014-09-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi folks! Nearly two decades ago I wrote the interactive structure factor tutorial, to help people understand diffraction beyond the simple explanation of Bragg's law. As such it has been one of the longest lived interactive teaching tools on the web. However time and technology have caught up

Re: [ccp4bb] composite omit map

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Further to Jurgen's comment, in the GUI comit is under 'Map and Mask Utilities', although if you want to run it in slow mode with refinement you'll have to use the script. On 26 August 2014 19:47, dusky dew duskyde...@gmail.com wrote: Can you people please tell me how to calculate a composite

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac buccaneer combination

2014-03-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Can you send me the rest of the logfile? I think I've seen an error like this where the number of atoms built dropped to zero, in which case there is something seriously wrong with the input phases. But I expect there are other ways to trigger a refmac fail - I can't tell for sure without more

Re: [ccp4bb] Proper format for buccaneer heavy atom file?

2013-12-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! Just a list of atoms with type or element set to SE should do it. (Note that your heavy atom program may not have allocated the atom type). Having said that, the heavy atom info biases the sequencing to try and get MET/MSE in the right place, but if the sequence doesn't want to fit it won't

[ccp4bb] Job vacancy, University of York

2013-07-25 Thread Kevin Cowtan
VACANCY - (SENIOR) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN GENE EXPRESSION FOR STRUCTURAL GLYCOBIOLOGY, University of York, UK We wish to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on the expression of mammalian genes, for 3-D structural and chemical mechanistic studies, in the area of eukaryotic glycobiology

[ccp4bb] VACANCY - SENIOR RESEARCHER IN GENE EXPRESSION FOR STRUCTURAL GLYCOBIOLOGY

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Cowtan
VACANCY - SENIOR RESEARCHER IN GENE EXPRESSION FOR STRUCTURAL GLYCOBIOLOGY, University of York, UK Applications are invited for a Senior Researcher to play a major role in establishing mammalian gene expression for 3-D structural and chemical mechanistic studies in the area of eukaryotic

[ccp4bb] Program announcement: Nautilus v0.2

2011-10-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
New version of Nautilus (my nucleic acid building program). Main changes: - Now available for both OSX(x86) and Linux. - It no longer corrupts the residue names of any existing non-nucleic acid model you feed in. - Most cases where the output model clashes with itself have been fixed. -

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot NCS averaging

2011-10-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On 10/05/2011 03:42 PM, Peter Canning wrote: When I run Parrot to do density improvement and NCS averaging, Parrot works beautifully (final FOM is 0.87) but NCS averaging causes the average NCS correlation coefficient to drop (from 0.94 to 0.64) and the average mask volume to increase from 0.31

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-30 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On 09/29/2011 03:55 PM, Dima Klenchin wrote: I have a feeling that the lack of Windows software continues to be mostly due to the irrational animosity toward it rather than the platform-specific issues. After all, there seemed to be many developers who were happy to code for MacOS 7-9 but

[ccp4bb] Program announcement: Nautilus

2011-09-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Here's an alpha release of my nucleic acid model building program for the early adopters among you to try out. There's no GUI, there's only a Linux binary for now, the features are rather limited, and it's only been tested on synthetic data. On the other hand, it seems to work for me.

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

2011-09-19 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players The paper (Nature SB): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf The game: http://fold.it/portal/

Re: [ccp4bb] CCPALC: not enough memory

2011-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Can you send the command script, and mapdump output for any input maps? Also, if you are entering a PDB file, the cell, spacegroup, and an idea of range of X, Y, and Z values? On 09/06/2011 09:56 AM, Ingo P. Korndoerfer wrote: hello, it seems i am recently getting the above error quite a lot

Re: [ccp4bb] CCPALC: not enough memory

2011-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, here's the solution (also to BB in case anyone else has this problem). The PDB file appears to come from CNS. The coordinate file contains the following atoms: ATOM 2244 CG LEU A 452.000.000.000 1.00 0.00 A ATOM 2245 CD1 LEU A 452.000.000.000

[ccp4bb] Straw poll: polysaccharide building?

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Straw poll: Are you interested in software to autobuild polysaccarides? Kevin p.s. I expect I'll have to spend at least a year working on the problem before before I spell polysaccharide consistently.

Re: [ccp4bb] NCSMASK question

2011-04-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
If you are trying to make a mask in spacegroup P21, that;s not the way to do it. Make the mask in NCSMASK without a symmetry keyword. Then run mapmask to change the spacegroup to P 21 and use EXPAND OVERLAP to generate the symmetry copies of the mask. Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi, I want to

Re: [ccp4bb] what is NCS operators of parrot

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
First three numbers are the Euler angles. The next 3 are the (approximate) centre of mass of the source molecule. The last 3 are the corresponding point in the target molecule. (This is a little more complex than the form used in 'dm', but unfortunately the simpler form was missing important

Re: [ccp4bb] Can DM-skeletonisation specify the join point cutoff value?

2011-03-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
The skeletonisation option in dm rarely produces any benefit. I wouldn't use it. Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi all; It is described by http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/dm_skeletonisation.html; that the skeletonisation has two adjustable parameters (join point cutoff, and end point cutoff), but the DM

Re: [ccp4bb] Map correlation coefficient

2011-02-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
cphasematch will do it in reciprocal space and give you a variety of statistics, including F- and E-map correlation. Go to reflection data utilities/phase comparison. Maher Alayyoubi wrote: Hi Everybody, I am a new user on the ccp4 bulletin, I have a question on how to calculate the map

Re: [ccp4bb] cmakereference : reading reflections

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Bryan Lepore wrote: does cmakereference v0.2 in ccp4 6.1.13 require 'project', 'dataset' or 'crystal' to be in the .mtz? because i thought by default, these were eponymous I'm pretty sure it doesn't. e.g my .mtz - that has labels F and sigF - : * Dataset ID, project/crystal/dataset names,

Re: [ccp4bb] origin_shift in polar space group

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eleanor Dodson c...@ysbl.york.ac.uk wrote: It is a program Kevin Cowtan wrote - here is the info you get when you try to run it.. E [c...@roo mariaH]$ csymmatch BFONT COLOR='#FF'!--SUMMARY_BEGIN-- html !-- CCP4 HTML LOGFILE -- hr pre

Re: [ccp4bb] .cv to .mtz conversion

2010-09-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You could try: convert2mtz -hklin my.cv -mtzout my.mtz -cell 30.0,40.0,50.0,90.0,90.0,90.0 -spacegroup 'P 21 21 21' Marni Williams wrote: Hey I have a problem with converting a CNS created file in .cv format to .mtz for use in CCP4. I suspect it is because the Fortran model and the

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot versus prime-and-switch-phasing

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Try both and look at the maps. Both are easy to run. (Which works best seems to vary a lot from case to case.) Yamei Yu wrote: Hi all, To decrease model bias from molecular replacement we can either use Parrot or prime-and-switch-phasing. What's the difference between these two programs?

Re: [ccp4bb] The input of CCP4-DM

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hailiang Zhang wrote: If I have the model phase PHIC, exp Fo, and sigmaa-weighted FWT, is that more reasonable to use Fo/PHIC or FWT/PHIC as the input of CCP4-DM? You want Fo, sigFo, PHIC and the FOM from sigmaa or refmac. You might want to try parrot as well. If you feed it your MR model it

Re: [ccp4bb] The input of CCP4-DM

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
zhan...@umbc.edu wrote: Hi Kevin: Thanks! Could you explain why the DM (NCS concerned) input should be Fo/PHIC/WCMB instead of FWT/PHIC? I thought DM is just a real-space phase improvement method, and the latter (FWT/PHIC) suffers less from model bias... No, DM does phase combination in

Re: [ccp4bb] Fd-3m with pdbset

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
George M. Sheldrick wrote: Perhaps I should mention that with the SHELX method of specifying the space group symmetry using the symmetry operators, alternative settings, specified in IT or not, cause no problems. But then we would not have had this thread (or the H3/R3 and P21221 threads).

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with NCS detection in Parrot

2010-09-06 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Florian Schmitzberger wrote: Dear All, I am encountering a problem when using Parrot (for combined density modification and non crystallographic symmetry (NCS) averaging) in ccp4 6.1.13, run via ccp4i. Parrot does not detect the (2-fold) NCS present among my heavy atom substructure with 20

Re: [ccp4bb] Sftools and Phaser compatibility issues - continued

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Well, CCP4 programs using the core libraries should ignore the spacegroup symbol and use the operators instead, which bypasses the whole problem. I would advise anyone using the CCP4 libraries in their own programs to do the same. That works for mtz and map, but not for pdb files of course.

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement/Model-Building Density Modification

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Michael Thompson wrote: Hello All, I am currently solving a structure at 2A resolution with phases obtained from molecular replacement. Using the MR solution, I began refinement with Refmac using NCS restraints. I am currently building the parts of the model that were left out of the MR search

Re: [ccp4bb] Buccaneer 1.5 error on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Maybe your PYTHONPATH isn't set? echo $PYTHONPATH should give /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.1.13/share/python/ (This should happen automatically from the setup scripts however) Alexander Batyuk wrote: Dear all, I'm having trouble running buccaneer 1.5 from within ccp4i on mac os x 10.6.4 with

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient, at-a-glance info about PDB entries

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: For a five-minute illustrated introduction to PDBprints (including instructions on how to include them in your own webpages) point your browser to: http://pdbe.org/pdbprints Good idea. But the icons for published/unpublished, protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient, at-a-glance info about PDB entries

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
should be able to pick colours which work for everyone, not just for me. Flip Hoedemaeker wrote: Yep, its green-blue vs grey... Bad choice I guess? Perhaps you can provide a set of examples that work for you? Flip On 7/15/2010 13:20, Kevin Cowtan wrote: Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: For a five

Re: [ccp4bb] Fast,medium,slow axis do not match

2010-06-29 Thread Kevin Cowtan
You could feed *both* maps through mapmask with AXIS X Y Z to convert them to the same axis order. You may also have a problem with the maps having different XYZLIM ranges. In that case, using XYZLIM MATCH on the second run of mapmask to match the second map to the first should fix it.

[ccp4bb] Buccaneer 1.5

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Buccaneer 1.5 is available from here: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/buccaneer/buccaneer.html The new version doesn't have any new model building features, but incorporates significant new features to automate tidying up of the resulting model, as follows: - Model tidying: Chain

Re: [ccp4bb] Multiple NCS relations

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Or download the latest refmac 6.6, and it will do NCS fully automatically, and handle conformational flexibility too. David Schuller wrote: I think you should be able to specify two different NCSR lines, one to cover chains AA' and CC', and another to cover chains BB'. On 06/23/10 18:51,

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4-6.1.13 - Austwick

2010-06-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Err - no. Not apart from diff'ing the html documentation page. From memory: - Rudimentary support for model building after MR, although I've removed some of the useless features in 1.3 - GUI support for supplying your own additional buccaneer or refmac keywords. Can be used to access the

Re: [ccp4bb] JLigand Coot link

2010-06-09 Thread Kevin Cowtan
LINKR is not part of the PDB format: http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect6.html It's also not supported by MMDB, for that reason. I think Eugene put in some stuff to store remarks, but I don't know if unrecognized keywords are also stored (Eugene?). So there's a problem here, and

Re: [ccp4bb] GPU computing

2010-06-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I looked at it and concluded that our FFTs are on the whole too short for it to be worthwhile, and a lot of calculations aren't FFT bound anyway. An awful lot of our stuff is simply not very slow. Also, GPU computing at the moment is crippled for many problems by the bandwidth bottleneck and

Re: [ccp4bb] About solvent flattening

2010-06-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I'm not quite clear what your aim is here, but if you want to reproduce Wan'g method exactly, DM can't do it as it has a whole lot of more recent stuff built in (gamma correction, masking algorithms etc). If you really want to implement Wang's method (and I'm not sure quite why you would,

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
My understanding from Gerard K is that the next version of the PDB format will also use unjustified atom names. Unfortunately, following mmdb, I also backed the wrong horse and assumed space-padded atom names were here to stay. A certain amount of re-engineering is going to be required. My

Re: [ccp4bb] Charge flipping.

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I played with this (coded from scratch, both simple algorithm and a few tweaks) for a couple of weeks for solving heavy atom substructures. With perfect FAs it works well and quickly. With real delta-F's it didn't work at all. Can't remember if I tried perfect delta-F's. Probably SUPERFLIP is

Re: [ccp4bb] Help needed in solving a MAD dataset

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Crank is a good tool for doing this automatically. Follow the instructions here: http://ccp4wiki.org/~ccp4wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Automated_experimental_phasing_with_Crank Qing Lu wrote: Hi All, I am new to protein crystallography. I would like to know the steps involved in solving a MAD

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein/DNA complex in Buccaneer

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Yes, this can be done, but you need buccaneer 1.4, which I haven't released yet. We've seen significant benefits to preserving the heavy atoms through to the refinement, although the code has been written so that it can preserve DNA or any other know structure features as well. I'll try and

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
SSM is also available in Coot and CCP4MG of course... Eleanor Dodson wrote: would ssm serve your purpose? eleanor ebi or ccp4i Miri Hirshberg wrote: Sun., Jan. 17th 2010 EBI Greetings, I am looking for a 3D structure superposition program which takes two structures and superpose them

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl into mtz using f2mtz

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This may also be a job for 'convert2mtz', which I think will pick up the complex columns automatically. Only available from the command line though. Kevin Eleanor Dodson wrote: I am no expert on CNS files, but do the entries for F_BULK and F_MODEL correspond to an amplitude and a phase - it

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Pavel Afonine wrote: Dear Ed, Tightly restrained refinement will be equivalent to torsion angle parametrization, since bonds and angles are essentially fixed (but dihedrals are not). Simply not true. Think why -:) Hint: in restrained refinement the weight applies to all terms - bonds,

Re: [ccp4bb] DMMULTI question

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Joe Cockburn wrote: Dear BB, We are trying to solve the structure of a complex between two proteins. We have two crystal forms of the complex, and a partial MR solution in each. We now want to average the density between these two forms to improve the maps, using DMMULTI. However, there are a

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Cowtan
In ccp4i select Coordinate utilities/Superpose And then on the first menu select Superpose using secondary structure matching. It will automatically superpose based on fold rather than atom alignment. (This is the same software as used at the EBI for what used to be called MSDfold). Miri

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

2009-12-16 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I didn't think I had anything to say on this, but following an interesting discussion on a non-science based forum, I'd like to expand on a point that both Dale and Felix made in different ways. In the retraction of these 12 structures (and the 6 structures last year), we are not seeing the

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot 0.6: new binaries and NEW CITATION

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Kay Diederichs wrote: Kevin Cowtan schrieb: Emsley P, Lohkamp B, Scott W, Cowtan K (2010) Features and Development of Coot Acta Cryst D66 (in press) Sorry, I wouldn't like to cite a paper whose contents I don't know. Excellent! I think the corresponding author may be able to provide

[ccp4bb] Coot 0.6: new binaries and NEW CITATION

2009-12-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Two things for Coot users... Firstly, I have just uplaoded the remaining Linux binaries for Coot 0.6, i.e. Fedora 8, Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 6.06 (with python and gtk2 gui). You can find them on the Coot website here: http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/binaries/releases/ Secondly, please

Re: [ccp4bb] Map averaging question

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Simon Kolstoe wrote: 1. Can the map averaging function in coot cope with averaging across twenty monomers Yup. Just tries it with 1c9s (22-fold ncs) The 'all' button is handy for turning off the 19 maps you aren't interested in, then turning on the one you are. The averaged density

Re: [ccp4bb] real space correlation coefficients and coot? or a program from CCP4?

2009-11-17 Thread Kevin Cowtan
For a global CC: Reflaction Data utilities/Phase comparison For residue by residue: Map and Mask utilities/Map correlation Note that the global CC will not be the average of the residue by residue, since it also correlates over solvent, etc. Kevin Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear all, I am

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-14 Thread Kevin Cowtan
, or am I obliged to dump it in /usr/bin ? -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Cowtan cow...@ysbl.york.ac.uk wrote: The Linux i386 version works on Fedora and Ubuntu. Not tried RHEL. ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/Tcl-Tk++-linux-i386.tar.gz Kevin Anderson wrote: I'm

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Did you try here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/ Kevin Anderson wrote: I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually Scientific Linux 5.3) and have run into the apparently-familiar problem of not having bltwish. Specifically, while I can download

Re: [ccp4bb] bltwish and RHEL5

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
be working now; I just had to compile it on a 32-bit machine.) -Kevin A. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kevin Cowtan cow...@ysbl.york.ac.uk wrote: Did you try here? ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.2/extras/ Kevin Anderson wrote: I am currently trying to run CCP4 6.1.2 under RHEL5 (actually

Re: [ccp4bb] experience with the new coot 0.5.2 and a couple of questions

2009-11-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
lei feng wrote: comparing with the old version ( I used CCP4 6.0.2 on my windows xp computer and finished my Ph.D projects.), I found the new version of coot is kind of slow in moving to the next residue of the structure by hitting the space. Can we adjust this to make it faster? or that is

Re: [ccp4bb] loop modelling?

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Sloop can generate both a best conformation and ensembles. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/sloop/sloop.html Coot has both its own loop building code, and an interface to loopy from ARP/wARP. If people like sloop we'll add that to Coot too in due course. Tommi Kajander wrote: Dear all I

[ccp4bb] New loop building program: sloop

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
People keep asking me if buccaneer can build loops. In response to which I usually point them to 'loopy' and 'rapper', both of which do an excellent job. However, I seem to have written a loop building program by accident, and since people have been asking I guess I may as well release it.

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallography teaching advice: f(S) ?

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
William G. Scott wrote: In my case at least, it isn't a question of failing to take an interest, but rather a complete sense of frustration when trying to communicate with people who insist on speaking utter jibberish. The point of the postmodernism generator website is to show just how

Re: [ccp4bb] ctruncate error (kind of)

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Looks like a problem with your file. Can you try: od -a scala_protein_3_001_180.mtz | head If your file is an mtz file, you should get output starting a bit like this: 000 M T Z sp ! o etx nul D A nul nul nul nul nul nul If that is OK, then try: strings

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallography teaching advice: f(S) ?

2009-10-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
William G. Scott wrote: On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:32 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: teleports the students across the hermeneutic circle ;-) (As a consequence, I recommended the postmodernism generator website to the students: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ) It is easy to mock postmodernism,

Re: [ccp4bb] I compressed my images by ~ a factor of two, and they load and process in mosflm faster

2009-09-22 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Waterman, David (DLSLtd,RAL,DIA) wrote: Bill's example is nice because the compression is transparent, so no extra work needs to be done by developers. However, this is one for Macs only. Actually, ZFS is available on Linux too as a user space filesystem, and Sun are considering a kernel

Re: [ccp4bb] ctruncate

2009-09-09 Thread Kevin Cowtan
There are two known issues with ctruncate: one with the anisotropic correction and one with the fitting of F^2 as a function of resolution. The first is easily addressed - try turning off the anisotropy correction. That may solve the problem. Ricardo Aparicio wrote: Dear all, For the same

[ccp4bb] Using buccaneer on hard problems...

2009-09-04 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Buccaneer is giving good results on a lot of cases now, and can work at resolutions down to ~3.7A when the phases are very good. However, when the starting phases are poor, it struggles. I've recently been analysing some of the hard cases from my test data - in particular one case at 3.0 and

Re: [ccp4bb] Electron Density Maps

2009-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
If you want to display CNS maps in Coot and have them on the right scale, then you need to do one of two things. Either: 1. Don't use the map file, use the reflection file containing the map coefficients, or 2. Change the setting in CNS which controls the extent of the output map. Instead

[ccp4bb] Reporting crashes to CCP4BB...

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! We've had a few program crashes reported to the BB and by email recently, and working out what is going on can be quite difficult and time consuming. It is useful to consider when writing such a report how interested you are in receiving a helpful answer. If you just want us to know

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and hkl2000

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Sorry, I was not trying to criticise. I have been trying to deal with a number of queries on and off the board recently where identifying the problem has involved an excessive number of extra exchanges to obtain information. I therefore thought it appropriate to provide some suggestions on

Re: [ccp4bb] Density modification

2009-07-27 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This message means that the starting electron density map is completely flat, which makes any density modification impossible. There are several possible reasons for this: 1. No FOM specified on LABIN. 2. FOM specified, but all FOMs are equal to zero. 3. All F's equal to zero. 4. Input map

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral fellow position in Japan...

2009-07-03 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Replies to kamzh...@riken.jp Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Computational Structural Biology at the Zhang Initiative Research Unit, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced computational structural biologist to join the Zhang Initiative

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2various is broken [ was: Another pointless question ]

2009-06-11 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Not sure if this is relevant, but all clipper programs (and I think all programs wince 6.0) take the symmetry operators as the source for the spacegroup rather than the spacegroup symbol. So I would expect changing the spacegroup number or symbol would not affect most programs in any way.

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 compatability with other software suites

2009-05-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Maps generated by CCP4 are CNS-formatted and they are not accepted with Discovery Studio (DS) and Maestro. DS and Maestro use only CNX-generated maps. There's your problem. CCP4 application do not generate CNS-formatted maps, they generate CCP4-formatted maps. The two formats are

Re: [ccp4bb] phasing with se-met at low resolution

2009-05-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
This is absolutely correct - in the analysis you present, the non-anomalous scattering drops with resolution, but the anomalous part does not. And since counting noise varies with intensity, we should actually be better off at high resolution, since there is less non-anomalous scattering to

Re: [ccp4bb] phasing with se-met at low resolution

2009-05-13 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Marc SCHILTZ wrote: I agree with everything but would like to add the following: if we assume an overall atomic displacement parameter, the drop-off in both the anomalous and non-anomalous scattering is the same. Therefore, the ratio of anomalous differences over mean intensity (which is what

Re: [ccp4bb] open mask with coot

2009-04-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Coot will read CNS maps. Is the CNS mask format different to the CNS map format? If so, convert your CNS mask to a CNS map first. (I presume CNS can do this - I've not used it.) Xiaowei Pan wrote: hello Crystallographers I have generated a solvent mask by CNS ,how can I open the .mask file

Re: [ccp4bb] New human genome policy - please read.

2009-04-01 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Why molecular weight? That's just arbitrary. There is a simple way of referring to proteins which avoids any ambiguity - by it's sequence. When referring to a protein, we should use its sequence as an identifier. No ambiguity. Now, I understand that some smart people in America are now

Re: [ccp4bb] What can a learning student should post in our forum- are any restrictions for discussing science[what is science?] with intellectuals :)

2009-02-27 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Jayashankar wrote: I am still confused with what is right and wrong in this world of research where the point of reference changes with time and condition. Some body made me to accept that science and philosophy are verymuch different?Are they ? No,

Re: [ccp4bb] cbuccanner.exam failed with libFFTW generated by Intel MKL

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Charles Ballard wrote: no idea why buccaneer fails. The best I can do is try to reproduce the problem and take a look at the core dump to determine why. We have just received a small update from Kevin, so it would be good to see if this fixes the problem. The fix I sent will make no

Re: [ccp4bb] generating omit maps

2008-12-12 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I hacked up a little program to do composite omit maps a couple of years back. The purpose of the program was to try out an idea I had - an ML-omit map based on real space restraints on the rest of the density, using the same mathematics as is used for statistical density modification. This

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolve to CCP4...

2008-11-26 Thread Kevin Cowtan
is the easiest method. sftools checks the Free-R flag and asks if you want to fix it. I did this: sftools read resolve.mtz Y write ccp4.mtz Kevin Cowtan wrote: Is there any way on the CCP4 GUI to covert the free-R flag from a resolve mtz file (where 95%=0, 5%=1) to a CCP4 style free-R flag

Re: [ccp4bb] ESCET

2008-11-07 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Collins wrote: I have been trying to contact Dr. Thomas Schneider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). But this email address, listed in the ESCET documentation, just comes back with delivery problems. So does anyone has current contact info for Dr. Schneider? If not can anyone

Re: [ccp4bb] mapmask flip the cutted map if input map is huge

2008-11-01 Thread Kevin Cowtan
The size of the cell makes no difference. The size of the grid might - but this is checked for. The program should stop if the grid is too big. Unless you've got a map which won't fit in 4GB of RAM... Kevin Jinghua Tang wrote: Mapmask behaves normally with small input map. But when I try it

Re: [ccp4bb] SOme wquestions about refining.......

2008-10-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Fire up a recent version of coot and go through every step on the validation menu - but most im protantly the Ramachandran plot, the density fit analysis, unmodelled blobs, rotamer probabilities and finally and most importantly difference maps peaks. Then run molprobity (via the web site if

Re: [ccp4bb] Bin Number (0 -19) Put in Mtz file in Place of Rfree Flag -and- 5MC in DNA

2008-10-01 Thread Kevin Cowtan
John R. Horton wrote: I've tried several ways to get an Rfree flag into my mtz file...converting from a CNS to mtz (with existing flags) and scalepack to mtz and etc etc...with the same result, i.e. that the bin number that the reflection is in (0-19) is put in mtz file as the Rfree flag and

Re: [ccp4bb] Reading the old literature / truncate / refinement programs

2008-09-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Another factor may be that phenix.refine does not make a full use of experimental phase information in its calculation of the error parameters - I've been discussing this with Peter, Randy and Ralph. I don't know that this is the cause, but I see inferior results when recycling buccaneer with

Re: [ccp4bb] Superposition of maps in diferent spacegroups

2008-07-30 Thread Kevin Cowtan
OK, the first problem is whether you are using maprot in mode 'from' or 'to'. Depending on which you are using, the operators may be the inverse of what you expect. The second problem arises from the distinction between crystallographic and non-crystallographic maps. A crystallographic map

Re: [ccp4bb] Definition of Fourier coefficients

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
to calculate something like a 3mFO-2DFc map. Thanks, Pete -Original Message- From: Kevin Cowtan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/7/2008 10:18 AM To: Meyer, Peter Cc: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Definition of Fourier coefficients Probably because in the classic

Re: [ccp4bb] coot 0.4.1 on ubuntu 8.04

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Hi! The interesting thing is that it works on other systems. So there is something odd about your ubuntu system. Ah - maybe I have it. You are from Switzerland? What is your locale set to? Could the commas in the symops be being interpreted as decimal points? Does it make a difference if

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