[ccp4bb] B-factor distributions

2020-07-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
Posted on behalf of Gert Vriend: This article didn't make it to Nature Methods (...), but might be of interest to theoreticians interested in B-factor distributions: https://journals.calstate.edu/pump/article/view/2409/2168 Gert Vriend #

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread Pavel Afonine
> If I am not wrong, I remember that someone proposed to standardize > B-factors of protein atoms as “BS = B - Bave”, where Bave is the average > B-factor of the protein. This will make some of BS negative (if B

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Oliviero, On one aspect of your query, this analysis dissected the different sources of disorder contributions to B factors:- Diamond, R Acta Cryst (1990). *A46*, 425-435 All best wishes, John On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Oliviero Carugo < oliviero.car...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > Dears, >

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, 05 April 2018 15:49:44 Oliviero Carugo wrote: > Dears, > > everybody knows that B-factors may change amongst different crystal > structures and that they need to be standardized when different protein > crystal structures are compared. > > If I am not wrong, I remember that someone

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
Oliviero, We published a paper in 2003 in which we normalized B-factors to do a comparison of relative mobility or flexibility. The reference is: Gourinath et al. Structure 11:1621-1627 (2003). The jargon we used for Bave of the protein is . In our case, to be conservative in our interpretatio

[ccp4bb] B-factor standardization

2018-04-05 Thread Oliviero Carugo
Dears, everybody knows that B-factors may change amongst different crystal structures and that they need to be standardized when different protein crystal structures are compared. If I am not wrong, I remember that someone proposed to standardize B-factors of protein atoms as “BS = B - Bave”

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-19 Thread Tim Gruene
g to my request below. > > To be explicit, my question relates to B-factor blurring (+B correction), not > to B-factor sharpening (-B correction). > > thanks > > Mike > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Mike Lawrence >> Subject: [ccp4bb

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-18 Thread Mike Lawrence
My sincere thanks to all who are responding to my request below. To be explicit, my question relates to B-factor blurring (+B correction), not to B-factor sharpening (-B correction). thanks Mike Begin forwarded message: > From: Mike Lawrence > Subject: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-18 Thread Ho Leung Ng
Another useful reference: Liu C & Xiong Y (2014). Electron Density Sharpening as a General Crystallographic Technique. *J. Mol. Biol.* 426, 980-993. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24269527 Ho Leung Ng University of Hawaii at Manoa Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry h...@hawaii.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-17 Thread Pavel Afonine
Mike, you can have a look here (from page 52 and on): http://phenix-online.org/presentations/fem_06MAY2014.pdf There it is shown that map kurtosis can be used as an optimization criterion for choosing the best sharpening B. Pavel On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Mike Lawrence wrote: > Dear

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-17 Thread Tomas Malinauskas
Hi Mike, my favourite summary on B factor sharpening/blurring is here: Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Aug;62(Pt 8):923-32. Epub 2006 Jul 18. Considerations for the refinement of low-resolution crystal structures. DeLaBarre B, Brunger AT. Hope that helps, Tomas On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at

[ccp4bb] B-factor blurring

2014-11-17 Thread Mike Lawrence
Dear all can anyone help me with literatures references to B-factor blurring as a technique to reveal low resolution features in an electron density map? I have seen the poster from Andrea Thorn at http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~athorn/pdf/thorn_iucr2014_poster.pdf but was wondering if there wer

[ccp4bb] B-factor statistics around an ion - Summary

2014-01-28 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear all, I received a few replies to my request, all but Pavel's privately. Those included suggestions of using moleman2, pymol, baverage (from ccp4). Several required manual intervention like visual selection of the responding atoms, which made them less appealing to me. I used Robbie Joosten'

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor statistics around an ion

2014-01-23 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Tim, a non-ccp4 solution (since you haven't gotten any suggestion yet).. 1) Get atom selection of atoms involved into ion coordination: phenix.metal_coordination model.pdb 2) Using atom selection from above extract portion of PDB that contains atoms in question: phenix.pdb_atom_selection mode

[ccp4bb] B-factor statistics around an ion

2014-01-23 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, could anyone suggest a way to get the average B-factor from a PDB-file of those atoms a specific ion binds to (e.g. as judged by header LINK records or a distance interval)? I would like to get this number for all K-ions from a set of PDB-f

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor of the loop

2013-03-03 Thread John Fisher
Indeed! If the B factors are rather large compared to the globular protein core (assuming there is a globular core being that the protein crystallized), one can make the assumption, especially within a loop region, that this is an indirect measurement of flexibility. However, as Jürgen pointed out,

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor of the loop

2013-03-03 Thread Bosch, Juergen
yes - but keep in mind your protein is in the context of the crystal lattice, so flexible regions in solution are likely to be stabilized in the crystal lattice. So if you color by B also look at the symmetry mates. And you should also submit both structures to the TLSMD server and look at those

[ccp4bb] B factor of the loop

2013-03-03 Thread Faisal Tarique
Dear all Can B factor in the crystal structure be the criteria to look into the flexibility of a region or domain.? Also if two structures are at different resolutions. Faisal --

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor

2011-05-13 Thread Arjen
Hi Amit, you can manually define the range of a spectrum in PyMol: spectrum [parameter], [spectrum type], minimum=[min], maximum=[max] --> if you want to color according to B-factor this will translate to e.g. : spectrum b, blue_white_red, minimum=0, maximum=50 hth, Arjen On May 12, 2011,

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor

2011-05-13 Thread Arjen
Hi Amit, you can manually define the range of a spectrum in PyMol: spectrum [parameter], [spectrum type], minimum=[min], maximum=[max] --> if you want to color according to B-factor this will translate to e.g. : spectrum b, blue_white_red, minimum=0, maximum=50 hth, Arjen On May 12, 2011,

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor

2011-05-12 Thread vandana kukshal
hello sir , in chimera its available in module Render by Attribute. go through this link http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/render/render.html . regards On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Luthra,Amit wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to make one ribbon dia

[ccp4bb] B factor

2011-05-12 Thread Luthra,Amit
Hey all, I would like to make one ribbon diagram of the structure showing the B factor in different colors (contour levels). I am using pymol but it is not representing the perfect contour level of B factor. Is any other program where I can change the color according to B factor? Thanks Ami

[ccp4bb] B-factor-weighted Superposition

2011-03-24 Thread Jacob Keller
Dear Crystallographers, do any of the commonly-used superposing algorithms weight superpositions by b-factors? Seems like it would be a good idea, so I assume it is implemented somewhere? Jacob Keller -- *** Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Me

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Clayton, Gina Martyn
Hi All Seems Roberts suggestion has worked. Thank you Robert Best Gina -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Clayton, Gina Martyn Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:34 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] B factor

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Clayton, Gina Martyn
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol Hi Gina, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:34 -0400 "Clayton, Gina Martyn" wrote: > I am trying to colour a structure by B factor in Pymol. More > specifically I am colouring conserved residues (value in b factor). I > want to use 4

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Clayton, Gina Martyn
b Nicholls Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:14 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol Hi, I'm aware of two ways to do this: by writing the colour as a word, e.g: color white, (mypdbfile//A/*/*) which will colour a whole chain. Or by using rgb colours,

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Gina, On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:34 -0400 "Clayton, Gina Martyn" wrote: > I am trying to colour a structure by B factor in Pymol. More > specifically I am colouring conserved residues (value in b factor). I > want to use 4 colours - say white, yellow, orange, red. However it > seems that Pymo

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Rob Nicholls
Hi, I'm aware of two ways to do this: by writing the colour as a word, e.g: color white, (mypdbfile//A/*/*) which will colour a whole chain. Or by using rgb colours, e.g: set_color newcolor0 = [1,1,1]; color newcolor0, (mypdbfile//A/2/*) which will colour individual residues (residue 2 in this

[ccp4bb] B factor Coloring in Pymol

2010-03-31 Thread Clayton, Gina Martyn
Dear Everyone Slightly off topic... I am trying to colour a structure by B factor in Pymol. More specifically I am colouring conserved residues (value in b factor). I want to use 4 colours - say white, yellow, orange, red. However it seems that Pymol now only allows 3 colours to be used - I t

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-23 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Sampath Natarajan wrote: Dear All, I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the output PDB file shows many splits in the residues. So I us

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-21 Thread Debajyoti Dutta
Hi, What is the lower limit of the weighting term one can use. If the data is around 2A can one use 0.04 or less and which type of refinement is more useful when one is doing the initial refinement (isotropic, aisotropic, overall or mixed). sincerely Debajyoti On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 Roger R

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 17 June 2008 09:08:24 am Sampath Natarajan wrote: > Dear All, >I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I > could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I > refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the output PDB file

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-17 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
On 17 Jun 2008, at 19:56, Roger Rowlett wrote: Sampath Natarajan wrote: Dear All, I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the ou

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-17 Thread Roger Rowlett
Sampath Natarajan wrote: Dear All, I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the output PDB file shows many splits in the residues. So I

[ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-17 Thread Sampath Natarajan
Dear All, I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the output PDB file shows many splits in the residues. So I used 'auto' as a weighting te

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor calculation

2008-06-05 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
in ccp4, "baverage" does the job. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 4 Jun 2008, at 21:40, xu zhen wrote: Hi, everyone, I am preparing the table of data collection and ref

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor calculation

2008-06-04 Thread Roger Rowlett
xu zhen wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I am preparing the table of data collection and refinement statics. In this > table, I need to list the average B factor of protein, ligand and water > seperately, can you tell me how to calculate thoes numbers? > > Zhen > __

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor calculation

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Afonine
For example, this will show you complete statistics about B-factors: phenix.pbdtools your_model.pdb --show-adp-statistics this will show you complete statistics about stereochemistry: phenix.pbdtools your_model.pdb --show-geometry-statistics For more information: http://www.phenix-online.org/

[ccp4bb] B factor calculation

2008-06-04 Thread xu zhen
Hi, everyone, I am preparing the table of data collection and refinement statics. In this table, I need to list the average B factor of protein, ligand and water seperately, can you tell me how to calculate thoes numbers? Zhen _

[ccp4bb] b-factor sharpening and FFT/CAD

2007-10-11 Thread Roni Gordon
Hi all, I know this was most addressed by Eleanor back on June 14, 2007... and I've had no problems making such "sharpened" maps. But I'm confused as to why FFT decides to put "SCALE 2.0 -100.0" in the command file by default, and not "SCALE 1.0 -100.0"; I've been correcting this manually. Any th

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot

2007-06-14 Thread Eleanor Dodson
There is a CAD option to apply a scale and B factor to any set of data, and an FFT option to apply a scale and B factor to any column in the map. Check the documentation for whether you need SCALE 1 -10.0 or SCALE 1 +10.0 ! Eleanor Jeff Lee wrote: Hi, I have a question for everyone. I want

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot

2007-06-13 Thread Soisson, Stephen Michael
:23 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot Eleanor was kind enough to modify truncate years ago for me to do this - I would guess the feature is still there. Thanks again Eleanor! Steve -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot

2007-06-13 Thread Soisson, Stephen Michael
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot Hi, I have a question for everyone. I wanted to up-weight my high resolution terms in my electron density map by applying a B-factor sharpening term. I have mtz files produced from DM and I usually use Coot to generate my

[ccp4bb] B-factor sharpening in CCP4 or Coot

2007-06-13 Thread Jeff Lee
Hi, I have a question for everyone. I wanted to up-weight my high resolution terms in my electron density map by applying a B-factor sharpening term. I have mtz files produced from DM and I usually use Coot to generate my electron density maps. I was wondering is there an easy way to a

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:19, Edward A Berry wrote: > You have a good point there and I would be interested in hearing > some other opinions, so I take the liberty of reposting- > > My instinctive preference is that each structure should be > supported solely by the data that is deposited with it

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Bart Hazes
I think the relevant point in this discussion is that the original paper discussed the apo and substrate complexes of the protein. For the structure with lower resolution data you may indeed get a better model by taking the high resolution model and just applying rigid body refinement to it. Af

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Wouldn't the desirability of this depend on the extent to which the molecule has moved between the high-resolution and low-resolution datasets ? I would have thought that there was an effective information transfer between R-work and R-free once the rigid body movements became too large, which

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Edward A Berry
You have a good point there and I would be interested in hearing some other opinions, so I take the liberty of reposting- My instinctive preference is that each structure should be supported solely by the data that is deposited with it - (one dataset one structure) but in terms of good science we

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Ibrahim M. Moustafa
Hi All, Thanks a lot for all reply with valuable inputs. In my original post: I meant a = b "does not equal" c. I used # for "does not equal". Many asked where is that paper published! Actually the paper is under revision. When reading, I assumed the unit cell dimensions (or the space g

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Yes; a==b for P6i - prob. a typo.. B factors at 3.2A are hard to fix - it will depend on scaling convention to some extent.. Can you download the data and re-run refinement for your own satisfaction. If R ==Rfree for the complex then I suspect they did not transfer the FreeR flags from the a

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread David Briggs
Hi Ibrahim, On 04/06/07, Ibrahim M. Moustafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, While reading a crystallographic paper describing the structure of an apo-protein and its complex I noticed that the authors described the space goup as P6122 for the unit cell: a=141.9, b=143.9, c=380.4

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-04 Thread Edward A Berry
Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote: The last question: In the same paper, for the complex structure R and Rfree are equal (30%) is that an indication for improper refinement in these published structure? I'd love to hear your comments on that too. Several times I solved low resolution structures using

[ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-04 Thread Ibrahim M. Moustafa
Hi all, While reading a crystallographic paper describing the structure of an apo-protein and its complex I noticed that the authors described the space goup as P6122 for the unit cell: a=141.9, b=143.9, c=380.4 ! Could this be considered as a typo or I'm missing something here! the