Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with fonts in Coot

2021-02-23 Thread Martin Montgomery
Just to follow up, XQuartz 2.8.0_rc1 fixes the issue I found with coot in ccp4-7.1. Regards MGM > On 23 Feb 2021, at 11:33, Mark Brooks wrote: > > Hi Marc, > I hope you're well. Have you updated Xquartz recently? This may help > after what appears to be a major update to Big Sur. > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with fonts in Coot

2021-02-23 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hi, FYI coot 0.9.4.2 is working fine from the ccpem “nightly" distribution on my test laptop running Big Sur. However, I have just tried to open the coot bundled with a freshly installed ccp4-7.1 and get the following errors: % /Applications/ccp4-7.1/bin/coot dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X1

Re: [ccp4bb] XQuartz and High Sierra OSX

2017-12-04 Thread Martin Montgomery
Dear Roberto, You can install Xquartz 2.7.8 which is still available from the xquartz web site. This was the last version where Xquartz behaved properly and it runs fine on High Sierra. Regards MGM Martin G Montgomery Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit University of Cambrid

Re: [ccp4bb] Positive densities map on selective residues on Coot or Pymol

2017-03-20 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hello, You need to tell pymol what to do with the map. Load your pdb file Load the map create an object with residues you wish to display the map around. You can use the create command to do this or you can click on all the residues that you want to use in the main window then go to the objec

Re: [ccp4bb] Issues with Coot & XQuartz

2016-11-22 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hi, We have had these problems with coot and xquartz versions greater than 2.7.8. This affects coot running locally on OSX and via ssh -XY from the mac to our linux workstations. You should still be able to download the xquartz-2.7.8 package (https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.7.8.htm

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hi Randy, You could try the beta version of the forthcoming version of Word and see if the bug is fixed. Obviously, it is a beta version and therefore a bit risky but it installs along side the current version and I’ve been trying it on my laptop without issue so far. One improvement for me i

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic - Crystallisation in anaerobic glove box

2015-03-11 Thread Martin Montgomery
Dear Steve, You should not require an incubator if you have good, stable air con. We routinely grow crystals in plates stored at room temperature in wall mounted cabinets in our crystallisation lab. Another of the groups here have experience of growing crystals in an anaerobic box. Hopefully

Re: [ccp4bb] Measuring protein concentration with 2mM ATP around

2014-01-17 Thread Martin Montgomery
Dear Cedric, Try the BCA protein assay. We get reliable results with this, consistent with amino acid analysis. I should say that this is using the 2ml format. We do not get reliable results with the microplate method. We use 5 μl samples and our regular buffer is not too different from the

Re: [ccp4bb] Hgen ccp4i gui is broken

2012-11-23 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hello, I get the same error message that you are seeing on either my mac (10.8.2 with a fink installed 64 bit ccp4 6.3.0) or our main linux server, again running the latest ccp4 with all the latest patches. Regards MGM Martin G Montgomery ATP Synthase Group MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wel

[ccp4bb] Mystery density

2011-12-01 Thread Martin Montgomery
Posting on behalf of Katia Baranova (see below). Any suggestions gratefully received! Hello, we have a puzzling density and hope someone has an idea of what it may be. The pictures of it are here: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/mystery/top.png http://www.mrc-mbu.ca