Re: [ccp4bb] Criteria For Solvent Components

2011-06-15 Thread Jan Dohnalek
I do not think we are there yet especially when partial occupancies come into play. Then it is a real mess. We always collect all available evidence (databases, CSD, PDB seraches, anomalous, distances, geometry, fluorescence spectrum at beamline etc.) and then try to make the best guestimate ..

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to analyze water mediated interactions?

2011-06-15 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It helps to keep the same water naming convention in all the complexes. distang is a slow tool but it will list all contacts to a given set of atomic radii. I use that output a lot to check on interesting contacts.. But in the end it boils down to thoughtful book-keeping.. Eleanor On

Re: [ccp4bb] Unit cell change - was Re: [ccp4bb] XDS question

2011-06-15 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It looks like a rhombehedral data set with small deviations from the exact H3 symmetry to give the weak spots. The standard H3 setting has origins at (0,0,0) (1/3, 2/3, 2/3) and (2/3,1/3,1/3) so to get your translation vector to match the conventional H3 one, you will have to reindex the P321

Re: [ccp4bb] 96-well block storage

2011-06-15 Thread Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]
Brian, We use a PlateLoc Thermal Microplate sealer from Agilent. Works very well, pricey though ... Cheers, Carsten -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Brian Mark Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:19 PM To:

Re: [ccp4bb] non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-15 Thread Stephen Graham
You might also want to try: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=12499536 Cheers, Stephen On 15 June 2011 02:09, Robbie Joosten robbie_joos...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Wolfram, This was an early study on the subject: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8594192 The software is still

[ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread tommi kajander
Dear all, Does anyone have suggestions for 6 Å resolution phasing with large number (40-50) Se sites (SAD so far)?? Thanks a bunch, Tommi Tommi Kajander, Ph.D., Docent Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Research Program in Structural Biology and Biophysics Institute of Biotechnology P.O.

Re: [ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Tommi, Give it a try? You give very little information, e.g. - the data quality, - possible radiation damage, - isomorphism with a native data set, and - what you have tried so far. If you have a native data set with an isomorphous unit cell, try SIRAS instead of SAD. Tim On Wed, Jun

Re: [ccp4bb] how to estimate bond length error from crystal structure

2011-06-15 Thread Dale Tronrud
If you have atomic resolution data you could use shelxl to invert the least-squares matrix and calculate standard uncertainties for all the bond lengths and angles. Dale Tronrud On 06/15/11 07:57, Tian-Min Fu wrote: Dear friends, A zinc atom is located in the active center of my

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex - Ref 292

2011-06-15 Thread Antony Oliver
[ Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex - Ref 292 ] An MRC-funded post is available in the laboratory of Professor Laurence Pearl and Dr Antony Oliver to study the structure and function of the Smc5/6 complex. This project forms part of a

Re: [ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread Phoebe Rice
Based on the dents in my own forehead from banging it on similar brick walls, it would probably be more efficient to get a heavier atom with fewer binding sites, and work your way in from there. If your data set really only extends to 6A, even when you do find all those Se atoms their phasing

[ccp4bb] Follow-up: non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-15 Thread wtempel
Thank you everyone for your replies. The Nayal Di Cera (1996) paper may be what I had in mind. I was looking for some estimate of how often water atoms are placed in protein models where they do not belong, and I expected a relatively high percentage. Simply extrapolating from the 0.01% water -

[ccp4bb] Cryotools

2011-06-15 Thread John R. Walker
While we are on the subject of tools for crystallography, I wanted to bring to your attention a nice tool that we use at the SGC to assist in the harvesting of crystals into Rigaku style pucks. The Quick Puck Loader is available at 1degreebio.org. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okdJfi3kFI John