Re: [ccp4bb] Rejected posting to CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Gruene
I have to withdraw what I stated in the post below. I forget and overlooked that
we have bltwish installed together with ccp4i.

I would like to apologise, Tim

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:20:13AM +0200, Tim Gruene wrote:
 Dear Bill,
 
 as I pointed out in my previous post I have the impression that using wish
 (instead of bltwish) libblt provided in Debian stable now works fine with 
 ccp4,
 including loggraph etc.
 
 So it might be too late for a complaint, although my statement is based only 
 on
 a first impression rather than an extensive test.
 
 Tim
 
 On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:58:50PM -0700, William G. Scott wrote:
  Yo Hari:
  
  The symbolic link won't solve the problem.
  
  I managed to scrape together a blt for tcltk 8.5 on OSX, so it is possible. 
  Most of the hacks in turn came from a different Linux distro (gentoo) so it 
  should be possible on ubuntu.
  
  Here by the way is the patch:
  
  http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/blt-x86_64.patch
  
  
  debian and ubuntu distribute blt without the bltwish executable, and I 
  apparently put a huge weed up their arse a couple of years ago by reporting 
  this as a bug.  They are totally inflexible. Like IT support people, the 
  maintainers think you work for them rather than vice versa. It might be 
  worth flooding them with complaints and bug reports.
  
  Bill
  
  
  
   
   On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:49 AM, hari jayaram hari...@gmail.com wrote:
   
   Hi Tim,
   Thanks a tonne Tim for the pointer on how bltwish is handled in debian.
   
   A symlink from /usr/bin/wish to /usr/bin/bltwish.
   
   Seems to at-least start ccp4i. Now to see if it will also plot my graphs
   
   Hari
   
   
 
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Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

2010-04-16 Thread Philip Leonard
I have a vague recollection of a student carrying books about
crystallography getting beaten up at the start of Clockwork Orange. This
might only be in the book though...

This opens a whole new can of worms! How many films would contain
references to crystallography if only the screenwriter hadn't decide to
omit the reference in favour of something else more fun.

Phil.


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harry powell
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:16 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

Hi

Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question  
about films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects!

I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real  
science, especially crystallography might be? If they're from  
Hollywood, though, I'd guess it should be favorite...

I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is  
actually based on results from fibre diffraction - Life Story, with  
Jeff Goldblum. There must be others, though.

Harry
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Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Artymiuk


All students (and professors) should see this too - I don't know whether it is 
a crystallography paper that is under consideration, but it shows the possible 
ultimate reward for your hard work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRBWLpYCPY


best wishes
Pete Artymiuk

P.S. German speakers will have to turn the sound right down to appreciate the 
English subtitles.



On 16 Apr 2010, at 03:56, xaravich ivan wrote:

 Right you are, Chayne,
 I think it should be shown to every  Protein crystallographer graduate 
 student on their first day in the lab.
 
 ivan
 
 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Chayne Piscitelli pisci...@ohsu.edu wrote:
 The documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist is definitely 
 a must-see film.  It captures the story of life and science in a 
 crystallography lab, that of Dr. Larry Shapiro at Columbia  University, and 
 follows the graduate students journey of fortune and misfortune that 
 crystallographers know so well.  Not to sound too sappy about it, but it is 
 almost like a coming of age story for graduate students
  
 Check it out:
 http://naturallyobsessed.com/
  
 -Chayne Piscitelli
  
 From: CCP4 bulletin board [ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Brad Bennett 
 [bradbennet...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:43 AM
 
 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films
 
 Hi Harry-
 X-ray crystallography played an integral part in discoveries made in Michael 
 Crichton's Andromeda Strain. Mainly it was used to determine the elemental 
 composition and arrangement of the capsid or shell that the foreign 
 organism was found within.
 
 Best-
 Brad
 
 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:16 PM, harry powell ha...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk 
 wrote:
 Hi
 
 Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question about 
 films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects!
 
 I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real science, 
 especially crystallography might be? If they're from Hollywood, though, I'd 
 guess it should be favorite...
 
 I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is actually 
 based on results from fibre diffraction - Life Story, with Jeff Goldblum. 
 There must be others, though.
 
 Harry
 --
 Dr Harry Powell,
 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
 Hills Road,
 Cambridge,
 CB2 0QH
 
 





Re: [ccp4bb] N-terminal sequencing

2010-04-16 Thread Andreas Förster

Beyond these (posted three weeks ago), I don't know any.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg15004.html

I use Jeff Keen's service, which very reliable and adaptable.


Andreas



On 16/04/2010 9:23, F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth wrote:

Dear CCP4ers,
does anybody know of a company that accurately but affordably makes
N-terminal sequencing ?
Thanks a lot in advance to everybody.
Best regards,
Xavier
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[ccp4bb] How to show bonds between ligands and metal which are around 1.8-2.0 Ao far away, in pymol..??

2010-04-16 Thread Hussain Bhukyagps
Hi!

their is no connection between the metal and ligand in my pdb..
how can i generate bonds between them using pymol..??
by the way the distance between ligands and metal is 1.8-2.0 Ao...??

Hussain


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Re: [ccp4bb] Summary: Phasing statistics

2010-04-16 Thread Marc SCHILTZ
Since it is suggested to run SHARP in order to obtain the phasing 
statistics, I take the liberty to provide a link where the expressions 
for relevant quantities are specified :


http://www.globalphasing.com/pipermail/sharp-discuss/2003-March/001490.html


As a general problem, all these statistical indicators were defined in 
the early days of protein crystallography, in the context of the Blow  
Crick (1959) framework (i.e. assuming error-free native measurements) 
using MIR data (i.e. essentially yielding unimodal phase probability 
distributions). The R-Cullis was initially defined for centric 
reflections only.


Modern maximum-likelihood phasing methods have abandoned the Blow  
Crick concept of error-free native measurements and use a full 
2-dimensional probability distribution for acentric structure factors on 
the complex plane. The methods are therefore capable of adequately 
dealing with highly bimodal probability distributions (e.g. SIR, SAD) 
and with data where there is no native (or otherwise special) data set 
(e.g. MAD).


It is not entirely evident how the Blow  Crick Phasing-Power, 
R-Cullis and FOM can be extended and generalized. The approach adopted 
in SHARP is described in the page whose link is given above.


Concerning the FOM, it is not strictly true that the FOM, evaluated on a 
2-dimensional probability distribution is equal to the cosine of the 
phase error., This is only the case if one assumes the native 
amplitude to be error-free. However, the cases discussed by Ian (bimodal 
distributions in SIR or SAD) will be correctly dealt with by SHARP.


Things become also more tricky when computing and using 
Hendrickson-Lattman (1970) coefficients since, in the general case, 
these can not be calculated in a meaningful way for the native phase 
probability distribution (see the discussion in section 8 of Bricogne et 
al. (2003) [Acta Cryst D.59, 2023-2030]. This is a very important issue 
in connection with the subsequent use of density-modification 
techniques, but it is often overlooked.



Marc




Harmer, Nicholas wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I am very grateful to everyone who contributed to the discussion regarding 
phasing statistics that I initiated. I certainly found it very informative. 
Below is a summary of the technical responses that I regarding this problem.

1) Use some of the statistics that SHELXD and SHELXE do provide (e.g. CC/CCfree 
for SHELXD, CCfree and connectivity for SHELXE). These could be compared to 
statistics produced for well determined structures (e.g. see Debreczeni et al. 
2003 Acta Cryst. D., D59, 688-696).

2) Take the results from SHELX and put them into SHARP to generate the 
statistics.

3) Take the results from SHELX and put them into phaser_er, CRANK, or MLPHARE 
(perhaps with more difficulty) to generate the statistics.

Thanks to Rick Lewis, Boaz Shaanan, Ed Lowe and Eleanor Dodson for suggestions.

Cheers,

Nic Harmer

[For anyone interested, I took approaches 1 and 2. I got a good figures for 
phasing power from SHARP (somehow I failed to find the Rcullis, never mind), 
quoted the FOM at the end of SHELX, and the values for CC/CCfree from SHELXD, 
and the map contrast in the original and inverted hands from SHELXE. These all 
looked quite convincing, so hopefully my referees will be happy.]


--
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Re: [ccp4bb] How to show bonds between ligands and metal which are around 1.8-2.0 Ao far away, in pymol..??

2010-04-16 Thread Vellieux Frederic

Hussain Bhukyagps wrote:

Hi!

their is no connection between the metal and ligand in my pdb..
how can i generate bonds between them using pymol..??
by the way the distance between ligands and metal is 1.8-2.0 Ao...??

Hussain



Hi,

What about specifying the bonds with CONECT records in the PDB file?

From the PDB specs section:

CONECT
Overview
The CONECT records specify connectivity between atoms for which 
coordinates are supplied. The connectivity is described using the atom 
serial number as found in the entry. CONECT records are mandatory for 
HET groups (excluding water) and for other bonds not specified in the 
standard residue connectivity table which involve atoms in standard 
residues (see Appendix 4 for the list of standard residues). These 
records are generated by the PDB.

Record Format
COLUMNS DATA TYPEFIELD   DEFINITION
-
1 -  6 Record name  CONECT
7 - 11 Integer  serial  Atom serial number
12 - 16 Integer  serial  Serial number of bonded 
atom
17 - 21 Integer  serial  Serial number of bonded 
atom
22 - 26 Integer  serial  Serial number of bonded 
atom
27 - 31 Integer  serial  Serial number of bonded 
atom
32 - 36 Integer  serial  Serial number of 
hydrogen bonded

atom
37 - 41 Integer  serial  Serial number of 
hydrogen bonded

atom
42 - 46 Integer  serial  Serial number of salt 
bridged

atom
47 - 51 Integer  serial  Serial number of 
hydrogen bonded

atom
52 - 56 Integer  serial  Serial number of 
hydrogen bonded

atom
57 - 61 Integer  serial  Serial number of salt 
bridged

atom
Details
* Intra-residue connectivity within non-standard (HET) residues 
(excluding water) is presented on the CONECT records.
* Inter-residue connectivity of HET groups to standard groups (including 
water) or to other HET groups are represented on the CONECT records.
* Disulfide bridges specified in the SSBOND records have corresponding 
CONECT records.

* Hydrogen bonds and salt bridges have CONECT records.
* No differentiation is made between donor and acceptor for hydrogen bonds.
* No differentiation is made between atoms with excess negative or 
positive charge.
* Atoms specified in the connectivity are presented by their serial 
numbers as found in the entry.
* All atoms connected to the atom with serial number in columns 7 - 11 
are listed in the remaining fields of the record.
* If more than four fields are required for non-hydrogen and 
nonsalt-bridge bonds, a second CONECT record with the same atom serial 
number in columns 7 - 11 will be used.
* These CONECT records occur in increasing order of the atom serial 
numbers they carry in columns 7 - 11. The target-atom serial numbers 
carried on these records also occur in increasing order.
* The connectivity list given here is redundant in that each bond 
indicated is given twice, once with each of the two atoms involved 
specified in columns 7 - 11.
* For nucleic acids, Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds between bases may be 
listed, but this is optional.
* For hydrogen bonds, when the hydrogen atom is present in the 
coordinates, PDB generates a CONECT record between the hydrogen atom and 
its acceptor atom.
* For NMR entries, CONECT records for all models are generated 
describing heterogen connectivity and others for LINK records.

Verification/Validation/Value Authority Control
Connectivity is checked for unusual bond lengths.
Relationships to Other Record Types
CONECT records must be present in an entry that contains either 
non-standard groups or disulfide bonds.


Example
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
CONECT 1179  746 1184 1195 1203
CONECT 1179 1211 1222
CONECT 1021  544 1017 1020 1022 1211 1222  1311

Known Problems
Only five digits are available for the atom serial number, but some 
structures have already been received with more that 99,999 atoms. 
Changing the field length would make earlier entries incorrect.
CONECTs to atoms whose coordinates are not in the entry (e.g., 
symmetry-generated) are not given.


[ccp4bb] Entering mosflm keywords in imosflm 1.0.4

2010-04-16 Thread Huw Jenkins
Hi

I know there is (or certainly used to be in previous versions) a way to enter 
mosflm keywords from the imosflm gui (something like going to the log file in 
the history tab and hitting a certain key) but I can't remember what it was and 
google is finding me nothing other than:

For expert users, iMosflm now has the option of specifying ipmosflm
keywords for the very specialised options that are only rarely used
and are not yet included in the iMosflm GUI explicitly.

but not the details of how to do it!

Thanks,


Huw 


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Re: [ccp4bb] Entering mosflm keywords in imosflm 1.0.4

2010-04-16 Thread Huw Jenkins
Hi again,

I have just remembered what the magic keystroke combination was. I assume there 
is a reason this feature is undocumented so I'd better not post it


Huw
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University of Leeds


Re: [ccp4bb] N-terminal sequencing

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Keys

Just one more, which we are now using..

The protein analysis facility at University of Giessen offers a range of 
services to academic and non-academic customers:

http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb11/institute/biochemie/forschung/protein-analytik/gebuhrenubersicht-und-anforderungsformulare

They offer good rates for academic customers and we are pleased with our first 
results.

All the best,
Tim




-Original Message-
From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Andreas Förster
Sent: Fri 16.04.2010 11:25
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] N-terminal sequencing
 
Beyond these (posted three weeks ago), I don't know any.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg15004.html

I use Jeff Keen's service, which very reliable and adaptable.


Andreas



On 16/04/2010 9:23, F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth wrote:
 Dear CCP4ers,
 does anybody know of a company that accurately but affordably makes
 N-terminal sequencing ?
 Thanks a lot in advance to everybody.
 Best regards,
 Xavier
 --

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 Paul Freemont  Xiaodong Zhang Labs
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 http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk




Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

2010-04-16 Thread Felix Frolow
You are absolutely right, it was not a student but an elderly scholar, probably 
professor
of crystallography in one of the London colleges  or Universities. Maybe 
Imperial (so we can also trace this person). Anthony Burgess, the author,
probably projected someone he knew into the book. In the movie there is a scene 
of Alex's gang
beating an elderly scholar, but the list of books that were in his possession 
is not there. 
I think it is still counts. I whatched the film after I have reading the book, 
and knew that crystallography
book is there.
;--) 
Dr  Felix Frolow
Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel

Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor

e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il
Tel:   ++972 3640 8723
Fax:  ++972 3640 9407
Cellular:   ++972 547 459 608

On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:33 , Philip Leonard wrote:

 I have a vague recollection of a student carrying books about
 crystallography getting beaten up at the start of Clockwork Orange. This
 might only be in the book though...
 
 This opens a whole new can of worms! How many films would contain
 references to crystallography if only the screenwriter hadn't decide to
 omit the reference in favour of something else more fun.
 
 Phil.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
 harry powell
 Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:16 PM
 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
 Subject: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films
 
 Hi
 
 Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question  
 about films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects!
 
 I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real  
 science, especially crystallography might be? If they're from  
 Hollywood, though, I'd guess it should be favorite...
 
 I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is  
 actually based on results from fibre diffraction - Life Story, with  
 Jeff Goldblum. There must be others, though.
 
 Harry
 --
 Dr Harry Powell,
 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
 Hills Road,
 Cambridge,
 CB2 0QH
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Re: [ccp4bb] Entering mosflm keywords in imosflm 1.0.4

2010-04-16 Thread A Leslie



The required keystrokes are described (although somewhat hidden) under  
the heading What's new in version 1.0.0 in the imosflm web page. (www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/imosflm/ver104) 
.


There are good reasons for this option not being well advertised. One  
is that if keywords entered in this way set parameters that can also  
be set via the Experiment Settings or Processiong Options menus,  
the value set by the keyword will be overwritten and have no effect.  
Another is that we would like users to tell us which additional  
parameters they would like to be able to set (via the menus mentioned)  
so that we can assign priorities. Allowing all possible keyword  
options would make these menus unreasonably complicated which defeats  
one of the design goals for the interface.


Andrew and Harry

On 16 Apr 2010, at 11:23, Huw Jenkins wrote:


Hi again,

I have just remembered what the magic keystroke combination was. I  
assume there is a reason this feature is undocumented so I'd better  
not post it



Huw
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Re: [ccp4bb] How to show bonds between ligands and metal which are around 1.8-2.0 Ao far away, in pymol..??

2010-04-16 Thread Ganesh Natrajan


On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:31:02 +0530, Hussain Bhukyagps  wrote:  

   
Hi!

their is no connection between the metal and ligand in my pdb..
how
can i generate bonds between them using pymol..??
by the way the distance
between ligands and metal is 1.8-2.0 Ao...??

Hussain  

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Re: [ccp4bb] How to show bonds between ligands and metal which are around 1.8-2.0 Ao far away, in pymol..??

2010-04-16 Thread Ganesh Natrajan


I am sorry for sending that blank email earlier. 

Hussain, 

 A good
way to do that is to use the pymol distance measuring wizard. It draws a
dotted line between the atoms, and writes out the distance in numbers. You
can hide the numbers and leave the dotted line behind. 

ganesh 

On Fri,
16 Apr 2010 14:50:41 +0530, Hussain Bhukyagps  wrote:  

  Hi!

their is no
connection between the metal and ligand in my pdb..
how can i generate
bonds between them using pymol..??
by the way the distance between ligands
and metal is 1.8-2.0 Ao...??

Hussain  

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Re: [ccp4bb] Rejected posting to CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

2010-04-16 Thread hari jayaram
Hello ,

I applied a few of the patches that Bill Scott suggested  ( esp this blt
x86_64 
patchhttp://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/blt-x86_64.patch?revision=1.1)
and compiled blt2.4z , x86_64 (amd64) with Tcl 8.5 and Tk 8.5. ( gcc version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 4.4.3)

Although the compilation proceeded ( with a modification of the Makefile
-diff below)  without any glitches
ccp4i failed to launch with the errors given below.


For some reason gcc 4.4.3 or make didnt support the --compatibilty_version
and --current_version flags.

I did manage to use a gcc 4.2.4 compiled binary from another amd64 machine
on this machine .

Thanks for your help
Hari

###
ccp4i startup erros
###

Application initialization failed: invalid command name tcl_findLibrary
Top level CCP4 directory is /home/hari/ccp4src-try/ccp4-6.1.3
Using CCP4 programs from /home/hari/ccp4src-try/ccp4-6.1.3/bin
Error in startup script: invalid command name ::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler
while executing
::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler ::tclPkgUnknown msgcat 1.4
(package unknown script)
invoked from within
package require msgcat 1.4
(uplevel body line 2)
invoked from within
uplevel \#0 {
package require msgcat 1.4
if { $::tcl_platform(platform) eq {windows} } {
if { [catch { package require registry 1.1 }] } {
 ...
(file /usr/lib/tcl8.5/clock.tcl line 23)
invoked from within
source -encoding utf-8 [file join $TclLibDir clock.tcl]
(procedure ::tcl::clock::format line 3)
invoked from within
clock format $secs -format %d %b %Y  %H:%M:%S 
(procedure GetDate line 43)
invoked from within
GetDate
(procedure CreateSessionLog line 12)
invoked from within
CreateSessionLog
(procedure taskbrowser line 30)
invoked from within
$system(RUN_MODE)
(default arm line 9)
invoked from within
switch  $system(RUN_MODE) \
  script {
# Run a script ($CCP4I/scripts/project.script) with parameters from def file

source [file join $env(CCP4I_...
(file /home/hari/ccp4src-try/ccp4-6.1.3/ccp4i/bin/ccp4i.tcl line 163)
invoked from within
source [file join $env(CCP4I_TOP) bin ccp4i.tcl]
(file /home/hari/ccp4src-try/ccp4-6.1.3/ccp4i/bin/ccp4i line 5)


Makefile modifications to get blt2.4z to compile on gcc 4.4.3

diff --git a/src/shared/Makefile b/src/shared/Makefile
index 78153cb..aec1d1c 100644
--- a/src/shared/Makefile
+++ b/src/shared/Makefile
@@ -145,14 +145,14 @@ $(lib_so): $(OBJS)
   $(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) -DBLT_LIBRARY=\$(scriptdir)\ \
   $(srcdir)/bltInit.c
   $(RM) $@
-   $(SHLIB_LD) $(SHLIB_LD_FLAGS) -o $@ -install_name $(libdir)/$@
-compatibility_version 2.0 -current_version 2.4 bltInit.o $(OBJS) \
+   $(SHLIB_LD) $(SHLIB_LD_FLAGS) -o $@ -install_name $(libdir)/$@
 bltInit.o $(OBJS) \
   $(SHLIB_LIB_SPECS) $(LIBS)

 $(tcl_only_lib_so): $(TCL_ONLY_OBJS)
   $(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) -DTCL_ONLY -DBLT_LIBRARY=\$(scriptdir)\ \
   $(srcdir)/bltInit.c
   $(RM) $@
-   $(SHLIB_LD) $(SHLIB_LD_FLAGS) -o $@ -install_name $(libdir)/$@
-compatibility_version 2.0 -current_version 2.4 bltInit.o
$(TCL_ONLY_OBJS) \
+   $(SHLIB_LD) $(SHLIB_LD_FLAGS) -o $@ -install_name $(libdir)/$@
 bltInit.o $(TCL_ONLY_OBJS) \
   $(SHLIB_TCL_ONLY_LIB_SPECS) $(TCL_ONLY_LIB_SPECS)

Thanks
Hari



On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Tim Gruene t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote:
 I have to withdraw what I stated in the post below. I forget and
overlooked that
 we have bltwish installed together with ccp4i.

 I would like to apologise, Tim

 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:20:13AM +0200, Tim Gruene wrote:
 Dear Bill,

 as I pointed out in my previous post I have the impression that using
wish
 (instead of bltwish) libblt provided in Debian stable now works fine with
ccp4,
 including loggraph etc.

 So it might be too late for a complaint, although my statement is based
only on
 a first impression rather than an extensive test.

 Tim

 On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:58:50PM -0700, William G. Scott wrote:
  Yo Hari:
 
  The symbolic link won't solve the problem.
 
  I managed to scrape together a blt for tcltk 8.5 on OSX, so it is
possible. Most of the hacks in turn came from a different Linux distro
(gentoo) so it should be possible on ubuntu.
 
  Here by the way is the patch:
 
 
http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/blt-x86_64.patch
 
 
  debian and ubuntu distribute blt without the bltwish executable, and I
apparently put a huge weed up their arse a couple of years ago by reporting
this as a bug.  They are totally inflexible. Like IT support people, the
maintainers think you work for them rather than vice versa. It might be
worth flooding them with complaints and bug reports.
 
  Bill
 
 
 
  
   On Apr 14, 2010, at 

Re: [ccp4bb] How to show bonds between ligands and metal which are around 1.8-2.0 Ao far away, in pymol..??

2010-04-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
Use bond command

bond atom1, atom2

once you do that, any subsequent line and stick renderings will connect
the atom1 and atom2 (you can right-click on the corresponding atom to
see their full string representation).  I assume you are trying to do
something like this

http://tinyurl.com/y2cdezj

In this figure, metal ion was connected to its ligands by lines, not
sticks.  Lines become thicker once you do ray-tracing.

If you want to remove the connection, use the unbond command on the same
atoms.

HTH,

Ed.



On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:31 +0530, Hussain Bhukyagps wrote:
 Hi!
 
 their is no connection between the metal and ligand in my pdb..
 how can i generate bonds between them using pymol..??
 by the way the distance between ligands and metal is 1.8-2.0 Ao...??
 
 Hussain
 
 
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Re: [ccp4bb] Proportion of MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT in PDB

2010-04-16 Thread Jaime Prilusky
According to Nicholas keep n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk:
 Does anyone have a good estimate of the proportion of molecular 
 replacement structures in the PDB?

This is what OCA has: From un total of 64,623 PDB structure files, 
30,784 have 'MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT' as Method for Structure Determination.

However, you must remember that we have a large number of false negatives
Several reasons: 

- Only 47,557 structure files from the total of 64,623 report which 
method was used for structure determination. For example, 1CRY whose
title reports using the MR method does not include the info in the
proper REMARK.

- Users are allowed to write almost anything as the METHOD USED TO DETERMINE 
THE STRUCTURE, making it difficult an accurate report. OCA found PDB italian 
speaking structure files reporting 'MOLECULARE REPLACEMENT' ...
This and other problems are being reported to RCSB.

OCA makes public some of its internal statistics on PDB, like
http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/PDBSizeDistribution.html,
http://bip.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/pdbRecNames and
http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Believe_It_or_Not

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Jaim
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Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

2010-04-16 Thread James Stroud


On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Judith Murray-Rust wrote:

The list of books is here.

http://kubrickmovies.hostei.com/aconovel.html


Dim and Pete doing a tug-of-war with The Rhombohedral System. The
starry prof type began to creech: 'But those are not mine, those are the
property of the municipality, this is sheer wantonness and vandal  
work,' or
some such slovos. And he tried to sort of wrest the books back off of  
us, which

was like pathetic. 'You deserve to be taught a lesson, brother,' I
said, 'that you do.' This crystal book I had was very tough-bound and
hard to razrez to bits, being real starry and made in days when things  
were made
to last like, but I managed to rip the pages up and chuck them in  
handfuls of
like snowflakes, though big, all over this creeching old veck, and  
then the
others did the same with theirs, old Dim just dancing about like the  
clown he

was.

Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films

2010-04-16 Thread James Holton

Well, I have to admit that that whole R32 vs H32 thing bugs me too ...

James Stroud wrote:


On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Judith Murray-Rust wrote:

The list of books is here.

http://kubrickmovies.hostei.com/aconovel.html


Dim and Pete doing a tug-of-war with /The Rhombohedral System/. The
starry prof type began to creech: 'But those are not mine, those are the
property of the municipality, this is sheer wantonness and vandal work,' or
some such slovos. And he tried to sort of wrest the books back off of us, which
was like pathetic. 'You deserve to be taught a lesson, brother,' I
said, 'that you do.' This crystal book I had was very tough-bound and
hard to razrez to bits, being real starry and made in days when things were made
to last like, but I managed to rip the pages up and chuck them in handfuls of
like snowflakes, though big, all over this creeching old veck, and then the
others did the same with theirs, old Dim just dancing about like the clown he
was.


Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films and BOOKS

2010-04-16 Thread Felix Frolow
I would also suggest CP Snow, The search, written in 1934
Very crystallographic, very touching, probably inspired by CP Snow friend JD 
Bernal
This is about  our life, friends...
FF
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Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel

Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor

e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il
Tel:   ++972 3640 8723
Fax:  ++972 3640 9407
Cellular:   ++972 547 459 608

On Apr 16, 2010, at 21:38 , James Holton wrote:

 Well, I have to admit that that whole R32 vs H32 thing bugs me too ...
 
 James Stroud wrote:
 
 On Apr 16, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Judith Murray-Rust wrote:
 The list of books is here.
 
 http://kubrickmovies.hostei.com/aconovel.html
 
 Dim and Pete doing a tug-of-war with /The Rhombohedral System/. The
 starry prof type began to creech: 'But those are not mine, those are the
 property of the municipality, this is sheer wantonness and vandal work,' or
 some such slovos. And he tried to sort of wrest the books back off of us, 
 which
 was like pathetic. 'You deserve to be taught a lesson, brother,' I
 said, 'that you do.' This crystal book I had was very tough-bound and
 hard to razrez to bits, being real starry and made in days when things were 
 made
 to last like, but I managed to rip the pages up and chuck them in handfuls of
 like snowflakes, though big, all over this creeching old veck, and then the
 others did the same with theirs, old Dim just dancing about like the clown he
 was.


[ccp4bb] Arp Waters vs coot find waters!

2010-04-16 Thread xaravich ivan
Hi everyone,
I am in the process of refining my structure. I have built almost the whole
protein. Now its time to add waters. Should I do refinement in refmac5 with
(adding waters running coot) or should I use Arp/wArp waters or both?.  I
have 2.15 Angs near  data and about 1200 residues.
Does it matter which program I use to add water? Is there something specific
I should look for? I apologise in advance if this question has already been
asked before.

Thanks,
Ivan