[ccp4bb] Job vacancy: structural analyst/programmer

2014-02-13 Thread Gary Battle
The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) is seeking to recruit a structural analyst/programmer to join the team at the European Bioinformatics Institute located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. For further information and to apply, please see the full EMBL-EBI job

[ccp4bb] Senior Scientist / Group leader Position (tenure-track); Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe-University Frankfurt

2014-02-13 Thread Martin Pos
Dear all, I am posting an advertisement for a tenure-track group leader position for structural biology on membrane proteins on behalf of Prof. Dr. Robert Tampé, Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe-University Frankfurt. Please reply to mailto:applicat...@biochem.uni-frankfurt.de

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Well - we ought to be! There is an awful lot of unpredictable slog goes on before we have the fun! Eleanor On 13 February 2014 12:50, Mike S mds...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, but did you just use the words crystallographers and modest in the same sentence? :-) On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Let me pick up Eleanor’s comment: is there something like a crystallographer today ? I mean in the true sense ? I think as a “crystallographer” you won’t be able to survive the next decade, you need to diversify your toolset of techniques as pointed out in this article

[ccp4bb] create a lower resolution data set by truncating a high resolution data

2014-02-13 Thread Mooers, Blaine H.M. (HSC)
For some simulated phasing experiments, I want to create a lower resolution diffraction data set by truncating a high resolution data set. I would like to avoid Fourier ripples due to the truncation of the high resolution data by downscaling the data such that I/sigma=2.0 in the highest

[ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-13 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Dear CC4BBers, I am trying to figure out what is the best way to determine the protein concentration of my membrane protein. My purified membrane protein is in 20mM Tris pH 7, 150mM NaCl and 0.02% DDM (CMC of DDM=0.0076%). After reading the friendly manuals and searching online, I've learned

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Pierre Rizkallah
Let me pick up Eleanor#8217;s comment:is there something like a crystallographer today ? Yes, James Holton and countless others. I mean in the true sense ?I think as a #8220;crystallographer#8221; you won#8217;t be able to survive the next decade, you need to diversify your toolset of

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Nat Echols
One comment (not a complaint) on all this: it seems like the same questions get asked over and over again. If there is a good place for a general crystallography FAQ list it is well past time for one to be put together - or maybe it just needs to be better advertised? At a minimum, for instance:

Re: [ccp4bb] Rmerge of Images

2014-02-13 Thread Jim Pflugrath
I think you are talking about the R of the reflections in an image to the set of unique reflections resulting from scaling. Here is a definition of Rmerge from a dtscaleaverage log file: In the tables below Rmerge is defined as: Rmerge = Sum Sum |Ihi - Ih| / Sum Sum Ih h i

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/2014 04:21 PM, Nat Echols wrote: Some of the other common queries (name my blob!) still need to be handled on a case-by-case basis, but it would be much more efficient for everyone if the standard answers were collected somewhere

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Eugene Valkov
Nat - two such places already exist! They are the official ccp4 wiki at http://ccp4wiki.org/ and the unofficial one (but a very useful one!) at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/ Eugene On 13 February 2014 15:21, Nat Echols nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com wrote: One comment (not a

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Bosch, Juergen
I guess somebody could add it here perhaps ? http://ccp4wiki.org/~ccp4wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Allpages or start their own wiki on Tips tricks in crystallography and why you should always have olive oil when traveling to a synchrotron (well nowadays it’s becoming more difficult to

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] create a lower resolution data set by truncating a high resolution data

2014-02-13 Thread Herman . Schreuder
By applying a high temperature factor, one should not suffer Fourier ripples, since the missing high resolution reflections have negligible intensities, or put differently, one simulates a poorly diffracting crystal. Best, Herman -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Folks, Like many other folks who read, benefit and hopefully contribute to this bulletin board, I am required to stay abreast of the latest cloning, heterologous membrane protein expression, purification, biochemistry, crystallization, and structure solution techniques, as a matter of sheer

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Francis Reyes
The CCP4bb is great.. it truly is. The access to experts and their experience (probably the most valuable) is unparalleled. However, mailing lists to organize discussions and disseminate new ideas is just so ... 90s. Wikis? maybe you've just crossed into the new millenium. These days, if

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-13 Thread R. M. Garavito
Roger, While I agree with your list, the BCA assay does not use molybdate (as we make it from scratch with bicinchoninic acid, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium tartrate, and cupric sulfate pentahydrate). For membrane proteins, I prefer the BCA assay until the protein is pure

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Francis, could you elaborate how something like Quora (what is it) would save you time compared to en email based? From what I gathered at wikipedia, Quora is web based, and in my experience web based services usually follow Wirth's law: they are slow. Cheers, Tim On 02/13/2014 05:47

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-13 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Everyone, Thanks very much for your helpful responses and suggestions. I will use the BCA assay. Cheers, Raji On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:27 AM, R. M. Garavito rmgarav...@gmail.comwrote: Roger, While I agree with your list, the BCA assay does not use molybdate (as we make it from

[ccp4bb] 3letter code

2014-02-13 Thread Faisal Tarique
Hi everyone Can anyone please tell me the three letter code for D-Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate.. Thanks in advance -- Regards Faisal School of Life Sciences JNU

Re: [ccp4bb] 3letter code

2014-02-13 Thread Mario Sanches
It is RUB. http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hicup/RUB/index.html On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Faisal Tarique faisaltari...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone Can anyone please tell me the three letter code for D-Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate.. Thanks in advance -- Regards Faisal School of Life

Re: [ccp4bb] How to find the unfound part of a big protein

2014-02-13 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Hi Bingfa, first suggestion would be to process your data with the anomalous flag turned on - just in case you happen to have some metal bound coincidentally and you happen to have collected at a decent wavelength to pickup some anomalous scattering. ~30% of proteins in the PDB have a metal

[ccp4bb] Acetyl link problems.

2014-02-13 Thread Ian Tickle
All, I'm having problems refining a structure with an N-terminal acetylated MET residue. I'm trying it with both Refmac Buster. Buster works fine gives perfect planar geometry for the ACE-MET linkage. Refmac gives a pyramidal acetyl group after refinement which to my eyes is wrong (sp2 C

Re: [ccp4bb] How to find the unfound part of a big protein

2014-02-13 Thread Francis Reyes
On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Sun Bingfa sunbin...@gmail.com wrote: Now we have dataset to ~4.2 Angstrom and using extracellular homolog structure we can find a solution for this part(~45% of the whole molecule MW) through molecular replacement, and the molecules are packed as layers, and

[ccp4bb] Postbac position in membrane protein structure and function at the NIH

2014-02-13 Thread Anirban Banerjee
Dear all, I am looking for a postbac for a membrane protein structure-function project in my lab at the NIH. The NIH Postbac IRTA program provides recent college graduates who are planning to apply to graduate or professional (medical/dental/pharmacy) school an opportunity to spend one or two

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-13 Thread Ho Leung Ng
Hi Raji, There are also some proprietary stains such as the 660 nm (can't they think of a better product name?) stain from Pierce that are detergent compatible. I used this briefly with success when comparing against Abs 280 nm. Ho Ho Leung Ng University of Hawaii at Manoa Assistant

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-13 Thread Niks
Dear All, May be a stupid question. But if we take buffer with detergent as control (Blank), would not the difference in ODs using any of the methods used e.g. Bradford assay, gives protein concentration? Regards Nishant On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Roger Rowlett rrowl...@colgate.edu wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Sister CCPs

2014-02-13 Thread Kay Diederichs
Nat, that's why I set up the CCP4 wiki at http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Main_Page ! The idea is that everybody benefits: experienced crystallographers/biologists can concentrate on the new and difficult questions coming up on the bulletin board, and novices find