Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-02-01 Thread James Holton
-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: 29 January 2010 09:43 To: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections All I'm saying is that when I calculate the average general scattering from 8192 random configurations

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-29 Thread Frank von Delft
On 28/01/2010 20:20, Ian Tickle wrote: On another point you said you wanted an 'operational' definition of I(Bragg). I'm not entirely clear what you mean by that. Are you saying I believe he means something that is relevant to real life where crystals are small, diffraction weak, and

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-29 Thread James Holton
All I'm saying is that when I calculate the average general scattering from 8192 random configurations of one disordered atom per unit cell: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/diffuse_scatter/xtal_diffuse.gif and then subtract from that the general scattering from an occupancy-weighted model with

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-29 Thread Ian Tickle
can be fitted by a planar background function. Cheers -- Ian -Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: 29 January 2010 09:43 To: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Nave
images instead of only reflections On Wednesday 27 January 2010, John Badger wrote: Colin, Your point: I think the point here (probably the one you are making) is that if crystallographers produce a pseudo rigid body motion (or static disorder) model described by TLS parameters

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear James, Am 27.01.10 10:08, schrieb James Holton: snip I'm still not really sure what the difference is between a Bragg spot and a feature under it. Why not define a Bragg intensity operationally? Subtracting local background with a least-squares plane is pretty much universally done,

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Phil Evans
This is the basis of the TAILS correction in Scala, but I'm not convinced it works very well, particularly if you don't have lots of fully recorded reflections Phil On 28 Jan 2010, at 15:41, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: Dear James, Am 27.01.10 10:08, schrieb James Holton: snip I'm still not

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread John Badger
Hi Ethan, Your effort to play devils advocate is appreciated - I have not seen much debate on the applicability of TLS so at risk of diverging into a separate thread: I would not argue that TLS is necessarily a valid model for correlated motion in proteins because it 'works' in fitting the

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:57:31 John Badger wrote: Hi Ethan, Your effort to play devils advocate is appreciated - I have not seen much debate on the applicability of TLS so at risk of diverging into a separate thread: I would not argue that TLS is necessarily a valid model for

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Ian Tickle
If all cells are completely unsynchronized, then the occupancy-weighted average electron density map of all the conformers will fully explain the background-subtracted spot intensities, but if there is cell-to-cell synchronization: it won't! This is not correct: as I tried to explain in a

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-27 Thread James Holton
Of James Holton Sent: 21 January 2010 08:39 To: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk mailto:CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections It is interesting and relevant here I think

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-27 Thread Colin Nave
...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: 27 January 2010 09:09 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections John R Helliwell wrote: Dear James, I enjoyed your simulations. Thank you! Re your conclusion:- However

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-27 Thread John Badger
Colin, Your point: I think the point here (probably the one you are making) is that if crystallographers produce a pseudo rigid body motion (or static disorder) model described by TLS parameters then it would make specific predictions of diffuse scatter. These predictions could be used to test

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-27 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, John Badger wrote: Colin, Your point: I think the point here (probably the one you are making) is that if crystallographers produce a pseudo rigid body motion (or static disorder) model described by TLS parameters then it would make specific predictions of

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-26 Thread John R Helliwell
Regards Colin -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Tickle Sent: 22 January 2010 10:54 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections -Original Message

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-25 Thread James Holton
...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Tickle Sent: 22 January 2010 10:54 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections -Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of James Holton

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-24 Thread Colin Nave
...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pierre Rizkallah Sent: 24 January 2010 00:55 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Hi Colin, I was slightly disappointed you missed out one thing in your categories: The ice rings. Now if you can model

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-23 Thread Colin Nave
Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Tickle Sent: 22 January 2010 10:54 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections -Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-23 Thread Pierre Rizkallah
- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Tickle Sent: 22 January 2010 10:54 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections -Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Tickle
-Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: 21 January 2010 08:39 To: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections It is interesting and relevant

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-21 Thread James Holton
! -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:00 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Hi Jacob, I see you're still

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-21 Thread Colin Nave
] On Behalf Of James Holton Sent: 21 January 2010 08:39 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections It is interesting and relevant here I think that if you measure background-subtracted spot intensities you actually are measuring the AVERAGE

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-21 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Jacob, Your approach I think it is a sound one for exploring how to gain a significant potential improvement by harnessing the diffuse diffraction, which looks rich and varied in many cases ie must surely contain good structural information. The separation of the various experimental and

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-21 Thread Jacob Keller
*** - Original Message - From: John R Helliwell To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:49 AM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Dear Jacob, Your approach I think it is a sound one for exploring how

[ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Jacob Keller
Dear Crystallographers, One can see from many posts on this listserve that in any given x-ray diffraction experiment, there are more data than merely the diffraction spots. Given that we now have vastly increased computational power and data storage capability, does it make sense to think

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Bernhard Rupp
] Refining against images instead of only reflections Dear Crystallographers, One can see from many posts on this listserve that in any given x-ray diffraction experiment, there are more data than merely the diffraction spots. Given that we now have vastly increased computational power and data

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread William G. Scott
Dear Jacob: I think the main impediment is that more diffuse scattering, for example, isn't as easy to model as Bragg crystalline diffraction. But it is definitely useful. One example is tRNA: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?am0009 Acta Cryst. (1994). D50, 210-218[

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
. - -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Keller Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:47 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Dear

[ccp4bb] FW: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Colin Nave
] Refining against images instead of only reflections Dear Crystallographers, One can see from many posts on this listserve that in any given x-ray diffraction experiment, there are more data than merely the diffraction spots. Given that we now have vastly increased computational power

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Smith
detector which makes the process of analyzing images moot. --Paul --- On Wed, 1/20/10, Jacob Keller j-kell...@md.northwestern.edu wrote: From: Jacob Keller j-kell...@md.northwestern.edu Subject: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Date

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
images instead of only reflections Dear Crystallographers, One can see from many posts on this listserve that in any given x-ray diffraction experiment, there are more data than merely the diffraction spots. Given that we now have vastly increased computational power and data storage capability

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Edward Snell
- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:00 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Hi Jacob, I see you're still in the crystallography business. While you have

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Jacob Keller
! -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:00 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections Hi Jacob, I see you're still

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Klaus Fütterer
against images instead of only reflections Hi Jacob, I see you're still in the crystallography business. While you have an interesting idea, I doubt refining structures against entire images would be of any use in obtaining higher quality macromolecular structures. Much of what you see

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-20 Thread Harry
...@hwi.buffalo.edu Telepathy: 42.2 GHz Heisenberg was probably here! -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:00 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only