[ccp4bb] Off Topic: CCP4MG Help

2021-11-05 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Hello all, Looking for advice from any CCP4MG users. I am making some structural figures and have run into a problem. I posted a question to the CCP4MG-specific email list quite a while ago but received no responses, so I don't know if that list is still active. Essentially, I want to change

Re: [ccp4bb] Micro/Macro crystal seeding experience

2020-12-17 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
I want to second the recommendation to try microseed matrix screening. I recently had a case of a protein that did not yield any crystals after trying more than 500 conditions. Of those 500, one single condition gave to me what appeared to be crystalline material, but not distinct single

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-27 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
ical Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine From: Ethan A Merritt<mailto:merr...@uw.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:57 PM To: Whitley, Matthew J<mailto:mjw...@pitt.edu> Cc: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk<mailto:CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB

[ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-27 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Hello all, I am nearly finished refining the structures of two mutant proteins from crystals that diffracted to very high resolution, 1 Å and 1.2 Å, respectively. Refinement was conducted in the presence of explicit hydrogens on the models. I am preparing to deposit these models into the PDB

Re: [ccp4bb] W. Friedrich's thesis title

2019-06-10 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
In the 2019 book Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: The Birth of Radiology by Gerd Rosenbusch and Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen, there is a table of all the doctoral and/or habilitation students supervised by Röntgen. In this table, Walter Friedrich's dissertation is dated 24 July 1911 and carries the

Re: [ccp4bb] weak anomalous phasing (magic triangle I3C)

2019-04-26 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Hi Tiantian, You say you have a 'co-crystal' of your protein with the magic triangle, but how do you really know that I3C is there? The fact that you put it into the crystallization drop doesn't necessarily mean that it made it into the crystal. In fact, based on the output of shelxc that

[ccp4bb] Electron scattering factors for SHELXL

2019-03-04 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Greetings all, We have solved a small molecule structure using electron diffraction and would like to refine the structure with SHELXL. Coming from a macromolecular background, this is our first experience with SHELXL, and we are not exactly sure how to proceed. The first thing to do seems

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

2018-10-02 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
r 27, 2018 5:41 AM To: Whitley, Matthew J Cc: ccp4bb Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: 'Difficult' Datasets for Processing Practice Dear Matthew, I am also late in responding to this, but as part of a Nature Protocols paper on iMosflm (Supplementary Information for Na

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

2018-09-25 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
For some reason, the September 19th ccp4bb digest got caught in my spam filter and didn't come through until a few minutes ago, so I didn't see several responses concerning interesting datasets for processing until just now. Therefore, thanks also to Kay Diederichs, Eugene Osipov, and David

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

2018-09-25 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
later in the fall. Sincerely, Matthew --- Matthew J. Whitley, Ph.D. Research Instructor Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine On 9/19/2018 5:15 PM, Whitley, Matthew J wrote: Dear colleagues, For teaching purposes, I am looking for a s

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

2018-09-19 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Dear colleagues, For teaching purposes, I am looking for a small number (< 5) of macromolecular diffraction datasets (raw images) that might be considered 'difficult' for a beginning crystallography student to process.  By 'difficult' I generally mean not able to be processed automatically by

Re: [ccp4bb] Anderson?Evans polyoxotungstate (TEW)

2018-03-30 Thread Whitley, Matthew J.
I would also be interested in learning whether polyoxotungstate has worked wonders for anyone.  At the current price of 387 EUR/gram, it is a bit too expensive for us to seriously consider giving it a try.  Yes, a gram is a lot of compound and would probably last a long time, but there are

[ccp4bb] CCP4MG error after installation

2018-01-09 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
not active, aborted The path to the ccp4mg executable on our system is as follows: /usr/local/ccp4-7.0/ccp4-7.0/bin/ccp4mg I would appreciate any ideas about the source of the issue and how to resolve it. Sincerely, Matthew Whitley --- Matthew J. Whitley, Ph.D. Research Instructor W. Furey Lab

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

2017-06-21 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
I second (or third) the suggestion that others have given to try soaking mercury compounds into your crystal. Mercury absolutely loves free cysteines, and if you have 5, you have a great chance of getting binding. If isomorphism is maintained after soaking, the isomorphous differences will be

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB Digest - 10 Jan 2017 to 11 Jan 2017 (#2017-12)

2017-01-12 Thread Whitley, Matthew J
Hi Claire, Isn’t the simplest answer just that the EDS server is calculating the completeness for a different amount of data (high res limit of 1.92 Å), whereas in your Depositor data it was only calculated to a high res limit of 2.1 Å? This would probably be the result of you measuring