[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position in Amsterdam

2015-01-20 Thread Titia K. Sixma
A post-doctoral position is available in the Netherlands Cancer Institute in the group of Titia Sixma The Netherlands Cancer Institute is a center of excellence with a high standard of biological research and an interactive atmosphere. It is located in Amsterdam, with all its cultural

[ccp4bb] Configuring updates through a firewall

2015-01-20 Thread Guenter Fritz
Hi, I am using CCP4 on Sci Linux machines and running now into some trouble with update manager and our firewall. I connect through a proxy and defined the proxy in the ccp4-setup.sh. Running update-manager gives me an error message; a new window pops up telling me Downloaded data is corrupt,

[ccp4bb] PhD positions-Structural Biology (IRB Barcelona)

2015-01-20 Thread Esther Fernandez
*PhD positions-Structural Biology* The *La Caixa- Severo Ochoa/IRB Barcelona International PhD Programme* call has been opened. · A total of *9 doctoral fellowships in several fields, including Structural Biology, * are available for the academic year *2014-2015*, under the auspices of la Caixa,

Re: [ccp4bb] chloride or water

2015-01-20 Thread Oliviero Carugo
Hi Rohit, you might be interested in the following paper: Buried chloride stereochemistry in the Protein Data Bank BMC Structural Biology 2014, 14:19 doi:10.1186/s12900-014-0019-8 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6807/14/19 Best, Oliviero On Tue, January 20, 2015 10:53, Eleanor Dodson

Re: [ccp4bb] active 3D monitors: successor of Asus VG278HR?

2015-01-20 Thread Kay Diederichs
Having configured my CentOS-7 workstation for Stereo today, I have also updated the Stereo article in the CCP4 wiki ( http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Stereo ). It turns out that there seem to be 8 active monitors (i.e. built-in emitter) that can be bought in Germany

[ccp4bb] fitting peptide with non-standard and standard amino acids

2015-01-20 Thread ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΣΑΡΕΙΔΑΚΗΣ
Dear All, I wonder if you could help me with this. I am trying to do some regularisation/real space refinement of a ligand with Coot. The ligand is a pseudopeptide with two non-standard aminoacids, followed by several standard ones. I assume that to do this correctly, I would need a cif file

Re: [ccp4bb] fitting peptide with non-standard and standard amino acids

2015-01-20 Thread Paul Emsley
On 20/01/15 15:32, ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΣΑΡΕΙΔΑΚΗΣ wrote: Dear All, I wonder if you could help me with this. I am trying to do some regularisation/real space refinement of a ligand with Coot. The ligand is a pseudopeptide with two non-standard aminoacids, followed by several standard ones. I assume

Re: [ccp4bb] fitting peptide with non-standard and standard amino acids

2015-01-20 Thread Horrell, Sam
Hi Emmanuel, I've never tried something quite as complex as a pseudopeptide but if you can build your lingand in the coot ligand builder coot will generate a cif file for you. Previously I have built my ligand, used real space refinement to get it into position, merged the protein and ligand

Re: [ccp4bb] fitting peptide with non-standard and standard amino acids

2015-01-20 Thread Robbie Joosten
Dear Emmanuel, Is the modified residues are really new, you can make restraint files with jligand or acedrug (both in CCP4). Make sure the backbone atoms have the same names as in standard amino acids. Now open de cif-file(s) in a text editor and set the residue type to 'peptide' (you can use

Re: [ccp4bb] fitting peptide with non-standard and standard amino acids

2015-01-20 Thread Karim Rafie (PG Research)
Hi Emmanuel, Additionally you can also use the PRODRG server straight away and just pipe in the coordinates for your peptide and it will give you one cif file for it. Cheers, Karim ## Karim Rafie; M.Sc. PhD research studentDaan van Aalten lab MRC

Re: [ccp4bb] chloride or water

2015-01-20 Thread Keller, Jacob
Try each one, refine, compare resulting b-factors and bond lengths to surrounding atoms. It’s a chloride though. JPK From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Zhijie Li Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:53 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] chloride

Re: [ccp4bb] A basic question about Fourier Transform

2015-01-20 Thread Steven Chou
I would say you cannot measure the diffraction pattern of a single biological molecule accurately thus far, because biological molecules are not strong scatters and can be damaged easily. For other molecules, actually you can! In high-resolution electron microscopy, the diffraction pattern in the

Re: [ccp4bb] A basic question about Fourier Transform

2015-01-20 Thread Keller, Jacob
The question is, as I rephrased it, assuming we are able to measure the diffraction pattern of a single molecule with acceptable accuracy and precision (comparable to what we have now for the common crystals), is it better than we measure the diffraction spots from a crystal, given that the

Re: [ccp4bb] A basic question about Fourier Transform

2015-01-20 Thread Chen Zhao
Dear Steven, Thank you for your reply! I understand that it is nearly impossible to measure the diffraction of a single molecule, and I am just bringing this up as a thought experiment to help understand the basics in crystallography. But I never thought that some molecules actually allow such

[ccp4bb] Ramachandran outlier

2015-01-20 Thread Dialing Pretty
Dear All, Real space refinement in COOT is one important strategy to reduce Ramachandran outlier, right? Dialing

Re: [ccp4bb] A basic question about Fourier Transform

2015-01-20 Thread Chen Zhao
Hi Jacob, Thanks a lot for your reply! Yes, by comparable data quality I did mean the comparable resolution and SNR. I now understand the original question and kinda confirm what I thought. But I am also learning myself and I don't quite get why the continuous sampling would get rid of the phase

Re: [ccp4bb] A basic question about Fourier Transform

2015-01-20 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:18:35 PM Chen Zhao wrote: Dear all, I am sorry about this slightly off-topic question. I am now a graduate TA for crystallography course and one student asked me a question that I didn't ask myself before. I don't have enough knowledge to precisely answer this

Re: [ccp4bb] chloride or water

2015-01-20 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi Rohit, If it is of some significance you may consider replacing NaCl with KI or NaI in your crystallization condition and collect a dataset at 1.5-2 Angstrom. The Iodide anomalous signal might be of some help for identifying Chloride binding sites. Without further evidence for a Cl ion,