Re: [ccp4bb] Highest resolution of X-ray / neutron / electron crystallography, cryo EM

2020-06-09 Thread James Holton
rier terms in the map. By that metric I believe rubisco is still the champion of "information content" in the PDB. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/9/2020 6:54 AM, Edward Snell wrote: I’m reminded of a comment Wim Hol made at an ACA meeting many years ago during a discussion of resoluti

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac and hydrogens -developers

2020-05-28 Thread James Holton
not be there.  Titratable ones for example.  The philisophy explained to me once by Garib is that since it is twice as bad to put in an electron that isn't there vs leaving out one that is you want to err on the side of dropping hydrogens that don't seem to fit. HTH, -James Holton MAD Sc

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Pseudosymmetry Effects

2020-05-28 Thread James Holton
you? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/27/2020 6:49 PM, Jessica Bruhn wrote: Hello, I am wondering if pseudosymmetry can cause weak reflections that mimic the doubling of one unit cell axis' length. Has anyone seen something like this before?  I am processing data from a small molecule sample

Re: [ccp4bb] Using SFall for map conversion

2020-05-14 Thread James Holton
runs sfall with the right axis order in the event it comes up: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/pickup/ano_sfall.com -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/14/2020 3:28 PM, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Thanks to all. Mapmask works. Yes the order to change to is ZXY. Map from coefficients indeed

Re: [ccp4bb] Using SFall for map conversion

2020-05-14 Thread James Holton
; in sfall.  There are still some "gotcha" space groups in the SFALL code for density near cell edges.  I can't remember which ones now because years ago I started using SFSG 1 and the problem went away. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/14/2020 1:44 PM, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Hi Fellows, I am f

Re: [ccp4bb] Dose in diffraction patterns?

2020-05-07 Thread James Holton
, not before. On 5/7/2020 9:06 AM, James Holton wrote: Ah!  I did that last formula wrong.  Never do algebra in your head without checking. It should be: The equation then becomes: f = P/t/L/1.2e-5 Where 1.2e-5 = 0.2 cm^2/g * 1.2 g/cm^3 * 1e-4 cm/micron * 50%, f=flux and t=exposure

Re: [ccp4bb] Dose in diffraction patterns?

2020-05-07 Thread James Holton
rule, it is here: https://doi.org/10.1107/S0909049509004361 And, of course, if you are lucky enough to have accurate flux, size and shape information for the beam and sample, plus chemical composition the most accurate dose you'll get from raddose-3D: https://www.raddo.se/ -James Holton MAD

Re: [ccp4bb] Dose in diffraction patterns?

2020-05-06 Thread James Holton
in).  A few considerations, yes, but it can be a good sanity check. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/5/2020 11:48 AM, Murpholino Peligro wrote: Do diffraction patterns publicly accessible contain information about the x-ray

Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-05-06 Thread James Holton
is quite a bit less than tha main illumination.  This is true for all kinds of light. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/5/2020 11:59 PM, Tim Gruene wrote: Hi James, for us, the suggestions of cling film / plastic wrap or just swapping keyboards and mice per person is the simplest - thanks

Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-05-05 Thread James Holton
bly bleach and flake with prolonged exposure.  Ever seen a keyboard left out in the sun for a few weeks?  I'd worry a bit about this micro-damage creating crevices where bugs could hide. I encourage you to bring this up with your Health and Safety people, but make sure they are sitting down first

Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-04-29 Thread James Holton
Because as soon as I put on gloves my nose starts to itch. On 4/29/2020 12:37 PM, gianluca.sant...@esrf.fr wrote: ISO keyboards are bad. But why not just using disposable gloves to operate the instruments? On April 29, 2020 9:30:19 PM GMT+02:00, James Holton wrote: Keyboards are cheap

Re: [ccp4bb] 2fofc maps from refmac twinned refinement - clarify?

2020-04-29 Thread James Holton
accurate than Iobs, which is the typical result of small-molecule refinements.  I expect that is why they are not nearly as afraid of twinning as we are. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/28/2020 2:19 PM, Frank von Delft wrote: Hi all - feel free to point me to the docs if it's already clear som

Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-04-29 Thread James Holton
Keyboards are cheap.  Why not everyone get their own? Then we can all stop fighting about whether the key should be shaped like an "L" or not. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/29/2020 11:53 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: Dear all, can you make suggestions for how to disinfect computer

Re: [ccp4bb] SARS-CoV-2 test on a smartphone

2020-04-10 Thread James Holton
with individual pixels only a few nanoseconds apart.  It should be possible to differentiate the light from a long-lived fluorophore from background. However, I don't think anyone has tried that yet. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/4/2020 5:48 PM, Jurgen Bosch wrote: Here’s another link I

Re: [ccp4bb] SARS-CoV-2 test on a smartphone

2020-04-02 Thread James Holton
or pine genomes?  I doubt it, but I also doubt that anyone has checked. Thank you for the suggestions so far!  Very interesting and helpful! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/31/2020 11:46 PM, Sahil Batra wrote: Dear Prof. Holton, An innovative idea; however all of the 30 kb genome may not

Re: [ccp4bb] Paired refinement proves data quality goes beyond the spatial limits of the detector

2020-04-01 Thread James Holton
NMR spectroscopists are ~50 years ahead of us on this.  They call it "zero filling".  Fortunately, these extra data compress very well. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/31/2020 9:36 PM, Petr Kolenko wrote: Dear colleagues, We, the developers of a program for paired refinement,

[ccp4bb] SARS-CoV-2 test on a smartphone

2020-03-31 Thread James Holton
s in already in the hand of half the people on the planet. Comments? Insights? -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1

[ccp4bb] Postponed until 2022 - Diffraction Methods GRC

2020-03-26 Thread James Holton
thy.  None of us are easily replaced, and there is a lot of work to do. -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB vs COVID19

2020-03-22 Thread James Holton
wouldn't want to try crystallizing the whole thing, but I wonder if this might be an excellent target for cryoEM?  A challenge for that "we can classify our way out of anything" philosophy?  And the result would most certainly be interesting. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/21/20

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB vs COVID19

2020-03-22 Thread James Holton
paper says it is a transcription factor that up-regulates chaperones, another says it is a secreted imunosuppressor. So, my question remains: why haven't we solved it yet? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/21/2020 9:12 AM, Rigden, Dan wrote: Hi James 5o32I is not a homolog of ORF8 - the BLAST e

[ccp4bb] CCP4BB vs COVID19

2020-03-20 Thread James Holton
ologous region contains the S84L site (Val I544 in 5o32).  I had a quick look and appears to be a cavity-filling mutation to me.  Not very big, but maybe something could fit in there.  To be sure we'd need a structure of ORF8. Good luck to you all, and stay healthy. -James Holton MAD Scientist

Re: [ccp4bb] A question of density

2020-03-09 Thread James Holton
reen peak in one part of the map without creating red peaks elsewhere. You only have 2-3 numbers to play with and they impact every nook and cranny in your model.  If bulk can't be made to explain the difference peak, then try modelling a water into that peak, and then look at the bulk solvent

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-09 Thread James Holton
I'd say they are 1 bit each, since they are the answer to a yes-or-no question. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/27/2020 6:32 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: How would one evaluate the information content of systematic absences? JPK On Feb 26, 2020 8:14 PM, James Holton wrote: In my opinion

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-09 Thread James Holton
west "true" B factors.  Atoms with high B factors don't really play a role in determining the outer resolution limit. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/9/2020 1:07 AM, Dale Tronrud wrote: Just a note: James Holton said "true B-factor" not "true B-factors". I belie

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-07 Thread James Holton
everything is converged, after we have done all the building we can.  It is this "true B factor" that is a property of the data, not the model, and it has the relationship to resolution and map appearance that I describe below.  Does that make sense? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/7/2020

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-06 Thread James Holton
nd Rfree higher than they are with the "natural" B factor.  You can also make your Rwork Rfree much lower by applying a positive B factor to your data before starting refinement.  This comes with absolutely no improvement in model quality, so please don't try this at home. -James Holton MAD Scien

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-04 Thread James Holton
1/2 or FSC dropping off to insignificance at 1.8 A doesn't mean you are going to see holes in Tyr side chains.  However, if you measure your weak, high-res data really well (high multiplicity), you might be able to sharpen your way to a much clearer map. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/27/202

Re: [ccp4bb] A question of density

2020-03-04 Thread James Holton
solvent mask (MSKOUT in refmac; use phenix.fmodel with "solvent_radius" and "shrink truncation radius" taken from phenix.refine log), and looking to see where it begins and ends. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/4/2020 6:04 PM, Jessica Besaw wrote: Hello friends, I have a "blo

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular Dynamics

2020-02-28 Thread James Holton
Which molecular dynamics package are you using? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/28/2020 7:00 AM, Firdous Tarique wrote: Hello everyone I am trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation of a protein which has a Zn atom and few phosphorylated PTMs (Thr is phosphorylated). PTMs and Zn play

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-02-26 Thread James Holton
/www.grc.org/diffraction-methods-in-structural-biology-conference/2020/ So, please, let the discussion continue! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/22/2020 11:06 AM, Nave, Colin (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) wrote: Alexis This is a very useful summary. You say you were not convinced by Mari

Re: [ccp4bb] MX data processing with GPUs??

2020-02-26 Thread James Holton
re technology should be headed. Applications are open if you'd like to join us! https://www.grc.org/diffraction-methods-in-structural-biology-conference/2020/ -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/19/2020 1:21 PM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Dear Ana, it is easy to ask the question (and I've been asked

[ccp4bb] investing in methods - applications open for 2020 Diffraction Methods GRC

2020-02-09 Thread James Holton
ave others.  Will you be one of them? -James Holton MAD Scientist and Chair, 2020 GRC on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bi

Re: [ccp4bb] SFALL change (?) affecting END_RAPID ?

2020-01-29 Thread James Holton
Looks like the error is coming from mapmask, not sfall.  Probably my determination of the axis order got broken somehow.  Can you send me log files/example input off list? Cheers, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/29/2020 8:37 AM, Schulz, Eike-Christian wrote: Dear all, Yesterday, I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Figure of merit in refinement

2019-10-16 Thread James Holton
an FOM-weighted map. Is there a way to "change up" the statistical distribution that assigns FOMs to hkls?  Or are we stuck with this systematic error? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/4/2019 9:31 AM, Randy Read wrote: Hi James, I'm sure you realise this, but it's important

Re: [ccp4bb] Figure of merit in refinement

2019-10-04 Thread James Holton
imating these maps, which gives a much more intuitive view of the "noise".  You can also look at variation of model parameters like the refined occupancy of a ligand, which is a good way to put an "error bar" on it.  The trick is finding the right source of error to propagat

Re: [ccp4bb] challenges in structural biology

2019-09-18 Thread James Holton
structure, the genome is incomplete. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/16/2019 12:24 AM, John R Helliwell wrote: Dear James, Here you go, a “grand challenge” suggestion to consider for funding from the “James Holton Foundation for structural biology research”:- “The human genome/proteome in 3-D”

Re: [ccp4bb] challenges in structural biology

2019-09-13 Thread James Holton
lbl.gov/~jamesh/challenge/diffuse/ Coming soon: dial-a-resolution model building challenge XFEL data processing reference set -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/25/2019 10:07 AM, Keller, Jacob wrote: >>It would seem to me that an important issue is also: do get all information out of

Re: [ccp4bb] Semet derivative dying almost immediately in beam

2019-08-30 Thread James Holton
even money on equipment vs the sample. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/30/2019 11:48 AM, Green, Todd Jason wrote: Certainly not trying to be insulting by the suggestions but could it be as simple an alignment issue with the crystal, issues with the beam alignment or crystal damage

Re: [ccp4bb] Semet derivative dying almost immediately in beam

2019-08-30 Thread James Holton
, that leaves either a genuinely ultra-sensitive protein, or some kind of undetected equipment malfunction.  Either way, we at the ALS are very interested in this result. Would you mind trying again? And let me know when you are coming? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/29/2019 11:07 AM, Kimberly Stanek

Re: [ccp4bb] Semet derivative dying almost immediately in beam

2019-08-29 Thread James Holton
What exposure time are you using?  And which beamline? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/29/2019 10:26 AM, Kimberly Stanek wrote: Hi folks, We have a protein that we have been trying to solve the structure of for a while now but so far haven't been able to get any diffraction better than

Re: [ccp4bb] SeMet data

2019-08-29 Thread James Holton
u could provide your exposure time, and perhaps your crystal's rough size, I think you will get a lot better suggestions about what to try next. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/27/2019 11:14 AM, Nukri Sanishvili wrote: Hi Lindsey, As I mentioned to you in the separate email, 180 degrees for each

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement with native and anomalous data

2019-01-04 Thread James Holton
you could also be seeing radiation-induced changes, and those are perhaps not what you are looking for?  Which data set was collected first? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/4/2019 2:16 AM, Steiner, Roberto wrote: Dear Piotrek You can find some info on the use of prior phase information in re

Re: [ccp4bb] Experimental phasing vs molecular replacement

2018-12-06 Thread James Holton
  That's what is counter-intuitive: 2mFo-DFc amplitudes are "designed" to be used with the slightly-wrong phase of PHIcalc, not PHItrue. That's what I was trying to say. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/5/2018 7:36 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: That said, model phases are not so bad.  In fact

Re: [ccp4bb] Experimental phasing vs molecular replacement

2018-12-05 Thread James Holton
the model-phased 2mFo-DFc map always has the best correlation to the "true" map.  If you substitute the "true" phases and use the 2mFo-DFc coefficients you actually make things worse.  Counter-intuitive, but true. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/5/2018 12:07 AM, 香

Re: [ccp4bb] buying a cluster

2018-12-04 Thread James Holton
r multi-CPU programs nicely up to this puzzling 8-10 core ceiling, but still has the GHz to run single-threaded programs nice and fast.  It's not ridiculously expensive either. My $1,440 worth, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/2/2018 10:56 PM, graeme.win...@diamond.ac.uk wrote: Re: publishing be

Re: [ccp4bb] Long term storage for raw images/ crystallographic data sets

2018-11-30 Thread James Holton
are famous as "write-only media", but so far over the last 10 years I haven't had any real trouble reading back an old LTO tape.  -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/29/2018 12:54 PM, Lieberman, Raquel L wrote: Dear All, How do your labs handle long-term raw data backups? My lab is m

Re: [ccp4bb] buying a cluster

2018-11-30 Thread James Holton
fine. My two cents, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/26/2018 1:10 AM, V F wrote: Dear all, Thanks for all the off/list replies. To be honest, how much are they paying you to take it? Can you sell it for scrap? May be I will give it a pass. To compare, two dual CPU servers with Skylake Go

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread James Holton
MTZ I have is only from 1996. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 11/9/2018 4:47 AM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: Anyone any idea what to do about this?? Created in 1992!! Seems unreadable.. No CTYP lines input for file:  1     Indices output even if all data items flagged "missing"  Warning,

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: 'Difficult' Datasets for Processing Practice

2018-09-22 Thread James Holton
It was brought to my attention that the link to the preprint I provided below doesn't work, but this one does: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/18/394965 Thanks to Folmer Fredslund for pointing this out to me! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/21/2018 3:50 PM, James Holton wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: 'Difficult' Datasets for Processing Practice

2018-09-21 Thread James Holton
lots of short wedges together.  May or may not be too advanced a topic for your students?  Or maybe not. As you can guess I'm experimenting with biorxiv.  So far, no comments. Good luck with your class! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/19/2018 5:15 PM, Whitley, Matthew J wrote: Dear colleagues,

Re: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

2018-08-26 Thread James Holton
t all, and in those situations you should really worry because your competitor is also having an easy time.  It is when things don't go well that being a critically-thinking scientist is an advantage.  And that, I hope, is also good news. Good luck! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/14/2018 2:58

Re: [ccp4bb] Fishing crystals from volatile solvent as precipitant

2018-08-23 Thread James Holton
hol vapor, especially isopropanol.  You don't want to breathe that in.  Best to keep away from open flames and work in a well-ventilated area, like the hood.  Ethanol is less toxic but on a per-capita basis more dangerous.  At the very least, don't drive yourself home afterwards. -James Holt

Re: [ccp4bb] Should we still keep copies of all raw data?

2018-07-14 Thread James Holton
e middle-of-the-road with a data retention policy like "we'll do what we can, but can't promise anything".  Even at the same synchrotron policies can vary from beamline to beamline.  So again: do you feel lucky?  Do you? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/13/2018 2:30 AM, Sergei S

Re: [ccp4bb] Interpretation of Cromer-Mann coefficients

2018-06-28 Thread James Holton
lot, but other languages I'm sure will work with a little editing. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/28/2018 4:50 AM, Aaron Oakley wrote: Dear CCP4ers, The Cromer-Mann coefficients ai, bi, c (i = 1 to 4) describing the non-dispersive part of the atomic scattering factor f(s) for a neutral atom as a

[ccp4bb] Diffraction Methods GRC - last chance to register!

2018-06-26 Thread James Holton
the ACA, giving you plenty of time to get to Boston and get on the bus. Hope to see you there! -James Holton MAD Scientist To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin

Re: [ccp4bb] (arcane) How to generate complete set of indices at low res

2018-04-05 Thread James Holton
idea to replace the low-angle resolution limit with A.  Just be sure your beamstop was properly masked off. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/5/2018 10:55 AM, Pearce, N.M. (Nick) wrote: Could you expand a bit on what you mean by a “putative” systematic absence? (e.g. why only the lowest order

Re: [ccp4bb] (arcane) How to generate complete set of indices at low res

2018-04-05 Thread James Holton
matter what the "true" space group is, it only matters what is in the mtz header when you run uniqueify. Could that be what is going on? -James Holton MAD Scisntist On 4/5/2018 3:52 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: Hello - can anybody shed light on this mystery: We need (for PanDD

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: removing selected ligand hydrogens after making a link

2018-03-29 Thread James Holton
After outputting the hydrogens, delete the ones you don't want and from then on do refinement with: make hout Y make hydr Y When you do that, refmac will keep the hydrogens you put in, and also put them in the output. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 3/29/2018 2:11 PM, Phil Jeffrey wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] Issues with latest XDS (20171218)

2018-01-31 Thread James Holton
get better data by turning it off once the parameters are known, that is really interesting too! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/31/2018 1:07 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: Dear all, a new BUILT of XDS is available for academic users at http://xds.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de . This reverts to the ol

Re: [ccp4bb] coordinate transformation

2017-12-18 Thread James Holton
uld be a call to "reforigin", or origins.com, using "ref.pdb" as the reference pdb file.  Many other useful one-liners can be found at DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380090403 Does that help? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/18/2017 11:19 AM, Edward A. Berry wrote: Neat idea! And do you have

Re: [ccp4bb] coordinate transformation

2017-12-14 Thread James Holton
at ambiguity, and also biases the result toward having all-positive x,y,z values. In case it is interesting, my script is here: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/scripts/origins.com You need to have the CCP4 suite set up for it to work.  Run it with no arguments to get instructions. -James Holton

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: Another troublesome dataset (High Rfree after MR)

2017-10-16 Thread James Holton
e that are too fluttery to peak above 1 sigma.  The list goes on, but doing the weak-data rejection test really helps narrow it down. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 10/16/2017 3:55 AM, herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: Dear Michael, Did you ask Phaser to check for all possible space groups? Th

Re: [ccp4bb] Aperiodic protein crystals

2017-09-18 Thread James Holton
I believe Gloria Borgstahl's lab at UNMC has done a little bit of work on this. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/16/2017 9:18 PM, Stewart, Charles E [BIOTC] wrote: Dear all, I am looking for suggestions on research groups that study or have experience with aperiodic crystals

Re: [ccp4bb] PAK=0 problem

2017-09-15 Thread James Holton
it is the difference map that tells you what to do next. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/15/2017 4:32 AM, rohit kumar wrote: why R/Rfree not going down from 21/25?

Re: [ccp4bb] Risk assessment for heavy atom soaking - examples?

2017-09-12 Thread James Holton
t is always prudent to read the MSDS before you open a bottle, and then read the MSDS of something similar just to put it in perspective. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/6/2017 12:59 PM, James Holton wrote: Was just pointed out to me off-list that my anchovy data was off, so I just double-che

Re: [ccp4bb] Risk assessment for heavy atom soaking - examples?

2017-09-06 Thread James Holton
oz can, that's still ~ 1 microgram Hg as the Anchovie Pizza Equivalent. And it looks like one piece of bigeye tuna sushi could be as much as ~14g*1.816ppm = 25 APEs -James Holton MAD Scientist On 9/6/2017 11:44 AM, James Holton wrote: Something that could perhaps be of use here is what I like

Re: [ccp4bb] Risk assessment for heavy atom soaking - examples?

2017-09-06 Thread James Holton
s almost 50% bismuth by weight, a metal that is right next to mercury on the periodic table. Brominated vegetable oil contains no bromine, by the way.  And dandruff shampoos such as Selsun Blue make an excellent and surprisingly radiation-hard reference for the selenium edge. -James Holton MAD Scie

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown positive electron density

2017-08-25 Thread James Holton
fine to convergence. What is the peak value now? 3) set the Ba atom's f" value to twice what you expect theoretically.  Re-refine. Now what do you see? Once you've done this, you should have a good feeling for how much of your anomalous peak is coming from your model vs from your data. -Ja

Re: [ccp4bb] "reset" a structure before re-refinement

2017-08-19 Thread James Holton
in the backbone trace, or even a rotamer assignment, then doing a 0.5A jiggle isn't going to reset that mistake. But if your trying to test the influence of data between 1.5 A and 1.4 A, then I'd say do a jiggle of at least half that distance. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/17/2017

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread James Holton
on them. That is, re-refine the structures of interest after jiggling the coordinates and setting all the B factors to a constant. See how reproducible the final B factors are. This will give you an idea of how big a change can happen by pure random chance, even with the same data. Hope t

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread James Holton
and setting all the B factors to a constant. See how reproducible the final B factors are. This will give you an idea of how big a change can happen by pure random chance, even with the same data. Hope that helps! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 8/2/2017 12:09 PM, Asmita wrote: Hi, This mi

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac output

2017-08-01 Thread James Holton
Kind of ties your hands. I have always been a fan of erring on the side of providing information in output files. How hard is it to delete something? How hard is it to get it back after you deleted it? My two cents, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/31/2017 8:57 AM, Edwin Pozharski

Re: [ccp4bb] weird diffraction pattern

2017-08-01 Thread James Holton
once might help: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/xtallife.html . These days, there is no reason not to know how long your crystal will last before you push "collect", and it is definitely worth knowing. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/28/2017 12:21 AM, Tang Chenjun wrote: Hi, Thank

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-20 Thread James Holton
noise when deciding on an exposure time and spindle rotation rate. You should either fine-slice properly, or not at all. And you should certainly point this out when writing a grant to get an Eiger, which has a read-out time of 3 microseconds. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/13/2017 3:0

Re: [ccp4bb] Rmergicide Through Programming

2017-07-08 Thread James Holton
or precision? Personally, I prefer to know both. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/8/2017 11:02 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: It is quite easy to end up with low multiplicities in the low resolution shell, especially for low symmetry and fast-decaying crystals. It is this scenario where Rmerge (lowres

Re: [ccp4bb] Rmergicide Through Programming

2017-07-08 Thread James Holton
What does Rmeas tell us that Rmerge doesn't? Given that we know the multiplicity? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/8/2017 9:15 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: Anyway, back to reality: does anybody still use R statistics to evaluate anything other than /strong/ data? Certainly I never look

Re: [ccp4bb] Rmergicide Through Programming

2017-07-08 Thread James Holton
gible read-out noise. But when micro crystals only give off a handful of photons each before they die, low multiplicity might be all you have. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/7/2017 2:33 PM, Edward A. Berry wrote: I think the confusion here is that the "multiplicity correction"

Re: [ccp4bb] Rmergicide Through Programming

2017-07-07 Thread James Holton
history to realize that future generations seldom thank their ancestors for "protecting" them from information. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 7/5/2017 10:36 AM, Graeme Winter wrote: Frank, you are asking me to remove features that I like, so I would feel that the challenge is for you to pr

Re: [ccp4bb] RMSD between unaligned structures

2017-07-03 Thread James Holton
ays run a Phaser job to avoid thinking about symmetry, but that is a lot of CPU to burn up just to find a symmetry operator. Zanuda does this internally, but doesn't seem to have a way of generating symmetry-allowed alignments without re-refining everything. Or am I missing something? -James

Re: [ccp4bb] Se-Met and Se-Cys double labelling

2017-06-22 Thread James Holton
. (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1107%2FS1399004714012310 Good luck! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/21/2017 8:46 AM, Vito Calderone wrote: I am working on a protein having 360 residues. In its sequence there are 3 Met and 5 free Cys. I will need MAD to solve the structure since based on the sequenc

Re: [ccp4bb] similar unit cell

2017-06-18 Thread James Holton
about nearest-cell: https://app.strubi.ox.ac.uk/nearest-cell/nearest-cell.cgi is up, but doesn't seem to be working. Can't find 4y42 using Dong Xiao's cell below. Perhaps the maintainers of these pages could chime in? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/17/2017 10:43 AM, James Holton wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] similar unit cell

2017-06-17 Thread James Holton
symmetry going on. The paper reporting 4y42 describes it as a " serendipitous crystallization". What happens if you try to refine your data against the model deposited as 4y42? Hope that helps, -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/17/2017 12:07 AM, dongxiaofei wrote: Dear ALL,

Re: [ccp4bb] High Rfree: Phasing issue or partial crystal disorder

2017-04-19 Thread James Holton
. All this is done automatically by the program Zanuda, but even Zanuda cannot un-merge data. You need to provide the P1 structure factors and then see what it tells you. Does that help? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/18/2017 5:56 PM, gnufreebsd wrote: Dear Pravin for a kinase, n lobe is quite f

Re: [ccp4bb] How many is too many free reflections?

2015-06-04 Thread James Holton
/parameters is becoming too precious, then perhaps more robust (aka time-consuming) cross-validation protocols are called for? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 6/2/2015 3:26 AM, Graeme Winter wrote: Hi Folks Had a vague comment handed my way that xia2 assigns too many free reflections - I have

Re: [ccp4bb] PyMOL v. Coot map 'level'

2015-06-03 Thread James Holton
have to carve for your density to be clear? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/29/2015 1:15 PM, Emilia C. Arturo (Emily) wrote: Hello. I am struggling with an old question--old because I've found several discussions and wiki bits on this topic, e.g. on the PyMOL mailing list (http

Re: [ccp4bb] on b-factor

2015-05-24 Thread James Holton
nor loose information in a Fourier transform, you just switch between representations for the same data. HTH -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/23/2015 10:49 PM, Smith Liu wrote: Dear All, In the PDB file, the b-factors were only determined by the quality of the map, is this view right

Re: [ccp4bb] on resolution and explaination of the intersubunit bonds

2015-05-24 Thread James Holton
be? These are the games you play when you don't have a beautifully clear image. It is true, however, that if the crystal doesn't diffract at all, then you can't use data from it to draw any conclusions. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 5/24/2015 2:54 AM, Smith Liu wrote: Dear All, In order to acceptably

Re: [ccp4bb] PAD images

2015-04-27 Thread James Holton
In the ADXV viewer: http://www.scripps.edu/tainer/arvai/adxv.html Go to Edit:Settings and click on the Small Spots radio button. This solves most of the I can't interpret the spots problems you describe. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/27/2015 3:31 PM, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D

Re: [ccp4bb] Picking water molecules at 4A structure.

2015-04-17 Thread James Holton
, negative sigmas. Everything above that is real (Lang et al. 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302823110). Just difficult to build into. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 4/13/2015 12:12 PM, Phoebe A. Rice wrote: At 4A, I wouldn't unless I had an exceptionally good reason

Re: [ccp4bb] absolute-scale and noise maps

2015-04-14 Thread James Holton
own kicked.mtz data files using my kick_data.com scripts, run the refinements however you like, and then generate the RAPID map yourself using the map_rmsd.com script that ships with the END/RAPID package. HTH! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 2/5/2015 1:03 AM, Isabel Garcia-Saez wrote: Dear all

Re: [ccp4bb] phase shift vs non-isomorphism

2015-01-27 Thread James Holton
). In practice, if you try just pasting in DANO from one dataset up against the F column from another dataset then maximum likelihood phasing programs will get very cross with you. Still trying to figure out why... -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/27/2015 12:28 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: Hi all

Re: [ccp4bb] Redundancy vs no of frames

2015-01-19 Thread James Holton
for good is to write a really amazing computer program that everyone will have to use and make it print out the term you like? -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/17/2015 1:05 PM, rohit kumar wrote: Dear all, Can anyone tell me how to calculate number of frames from redundancy or vica versa

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-17 Thread James Holton
multiplicity when you are actually averaging over errors, but redundancy when you are not. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/15/2015 4:14 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: I think a summary is that: Background levels and errors thereof can be estimated very precisely as a percentage of the level

Re: [ccp4bb] X-ray Source Differences (WAS: RE: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?)

2015-01-15 Thread James Holton
that. Nevertheless, if you count 1,000,000 photons, the sigma of that count is 1000, or 0.1% error. Something else is getting in the way. Unfortunate really, because if we could routinely get R-meas = 0.1% we would never need to make metal derivatives again. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/8/2015 9

Re: [ccp4bb] Bulk solvent

2015-01-12 Thread James Holton
. Finding some way to transfer information from the differences in the working set into the free set is challenging, and indeed this is the central problem of model building. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 1/11/2015 11:05 AM, Alastair Fyfe wrote: A related/follow-on question, hopefully on the same

Re: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?

2014-12-30 Thread James Holton
the same volume evenly-cooked to 0.5 MGy is still a very good question. Yes, it gets complicated, doesn't it? This is why I generally recommend trying to use a beam that matches your crystal size. -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/29/2014 2:17 AM, Mohamed Noor wrote: Dear all In a metal

Re: [ccp4bb] How far does rad dam travel?

2014-12-30 Thread James Holton
of that at the center. At twice that distance from the center, you are down to 6.2%. The equation is exp(-log(16)*(x/hwhm)**2) where hwhm is 1/2 of the FHWM. HTH! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/30/2014 12:10 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: Yes, it gets complicated, doesn't it? This is why I generally

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS orientation matrix inconsistent with Mosflm, DENZO

2014-12-29 Thread James Holton
rotation. Good luck! -James Holton MAD Scientist On 12/28/2014 3:12 PM, Igor Petrik wrote: Takanori and Pierre, Thank you for your quick responses. If you read my post you will see that I used the xds2mos.py script to convert the xds orientation to Mosflm format, but this gives me a result

Re: [ccp4bb] making sure related molecules occupy the same space

2014-09-12 Thread James Holton
. It ain't fast. But I'm pretty sure it works. -James Holton MAD Scientist On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Eleanor Dodson eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk wrote: Here is a very common scenario for me. You run several MR jobs, say to search for 2 mols/asymm unit , maybe with different models

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz map data

2014-09-02 Thread James Holton
and noise is that you find the signal interesting. Your detector doesn't know the difference. To separate the two you may find that you need to learn as much about the noise as you do about the signal, and that is what the concept of optimal filtering is all about. HTH -James Holton MAD

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