Re: [ccp4bb] how can i cinfirm the ligand bindind

2011-02-17 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Afshan, From your question it is not completely clear where your problem lies. However, I assume you have soaked/cocrystallized your protein (crystal) with a ligand and collected a data set and want to know whether or not your ligand has bound. In that case I would do a few cycles of

[ccp4bb] EMBO 2011 Practical Course - Exploiting Anomalous Scattering - ESRF - 6 - 10 June 2011

2011-02-17 Thread Daniele de Sanctis
Deadline in 10 days!! DEADLINE TO APPLY FEBRUARY 28th COURSE ANNOUCEMENT EMBO 2011 Practical Course - Exploiting Anomalous Scattering in Macromolecular Structure Determination ESRF-EMBL, Grenoble, France, 6 - 10 June 2011 The EMBO 2011 Practical Course on Exploiting Anomalous Scattering in

[ccp4bb] Molrep with two models

2011-02-17 Thread Christian Roth
Dear all, I tried MolRep with a two domain protein. I have cut the two domain as one domain rotates which prevent a search with the complete model. After I finished the first run. I put this solution as fixed input model in the second molrep run with the second domain. The resulting solution

Re: [ccp4bb] Molrep with two models

2011-02-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~alexei/molrep.html#stick On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 19:32 +0100, Christian Roth wrote: Dear all, I tried MolRep with a two domain protein. I have cut the two domain as one domain rotates which prevent a search with the complete model. After I finished the first

[ccp4bb] Freezing crystals in a contained system

2011-02-17 Thread R Conners, Biochemistry
Dear all, We are working on a Category 3 protein which must be contained so we have our crystals mounted in a loop and then covered with a plastic Mitegen cover which is glued in place. We're currently collecting at room temperature, but wondered if anyone has any experience of using a

Re: [ccp4bb] Molrep with two models

2011-02-17 Thread Vellieux Frederic
The molecular replacement program does not know about your molecule being a single polypeptide chain. The problem is fit two bodies therefore the program fits two bodies. The centre of mass of whatever you wish to position is placed the standard asymmetric unit used by the program. If it

[ccp4bb] Collaborations Workshop (CW11) on 3-4 March 2011

2011-02-17 Thread Eugene Krissinel
Posted on behalf of Simon Hettrick, The Software Sustainability Institute: If you want to use software to advance your research, the Collaborations Workshop (CW11) on 3-4 March 2011 is the perfect opportunity to meet the researchers, software developers, funders and other software experts that

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystals in a contained system

2011-02-17 Thread Patrick Loll
How low? Back in the old days when we mounted xtals in capillaries, you could sometimes see significant reduction in radiation damage by data collection temperature from room temp to ca. 0 deg C (zero is generally safe, since the PEGS/salts in your mother liquor will depress the freezing

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystals in a contained system

2011-02-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
It was my understanding that Mitegen plastic capillaries only work for crystal evaluation, since they are permeable enough to cause crystal to dry up within few hours - hopefully that is enoug time to get a complete dataset, but one should be concerned about changes in unit cell parameters as

[ccp4bb] strange P21 cell dimensions

2011-02-17 Thread Peter Grey
Dear CCP4 and XDS users, I have a P21 case with some strange ratios in the cell dimensions : a, b=a, c=1.5a, 90, 105, 90. The native patterson shows a strong peak (40% of origin) at (x,0.5,0) indicating some pseudo symmetry. Such cell dimension and peak prompted me to think that the actual space

[ccp4bb] Pleasee-mail your US congressional representative and senators - US Congress weighing huge cuts in DOE Office of Science Funding

2011-02-17 Thread Beth A Wurzburg
To my fellow scientists, If you use the US National Laboratories or facilities, please take 5 minutes of your time now to tell your congressmen/women about it - why the facilities are important to your research and why your work is important. As scientists, we don't often communicate the

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystals in a contained system

2011-02-17 Thread Nian Huang
Mitegen plastic capillaries can actually last about a week from a Mitegen seminar I attended. I also got ice when I tried to freeze it once and I didn't further pursue it. Maybe coat the capillary with glycerol will help? Nian Huang, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at

[ccp4bb] .pir file

2011-02-17 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 mailing list I have a relatively simple question. How do I get sequence file in .pir format which is required for many programs? I normally use fasta format but some programs eg arpwarp do not allow me to use that Thanks for your help Careina

Re: [ccp4bb] .pir file

2011-02-17 Thread Albert Guskov
Hi Careina, just change extension of your sequence file, i.e.: change yoursequencefile.extension (where extension could be .txt .fasta, etc) to yoursequencefile.pir It should work then. Cheers, Albert Albert GUSKOV (Dr) | Research Fellow | Division of Structural Computational Biology | Nanyang

Re: [ccp4bb] .pir file

2011-02-17 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Careina, There are several places on the web that describe the PIR format (also called NBRF) E.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/help/formats.html#pir http://www.bioinformatics.nl/tools/crab_pir.html etc. The program readseq -- either via command line or webserver -- e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] strange P21 cell dimensions

2011-02-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
On 02/17/2011 09:35 PM, Peter Grey wrote: Dear CCP4 and XDS users, I have a P21 case with some strange ratios in the cell dimensions : a, b=a, c=1.5a, 90, 105, 90. The native patterson shows a strong peak (40% of origin) at (x,0.5,0) indicating some pseudo symmetry. Such cell dimension and