Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear David, I dare claim that rather you do not know how to use the listed programs in the case for small molecule data rather than none of them were optimised. E.g. 10degree frames loose all the possible accuracy in the phi-direction so I am not surprised you had trouble indexing. There is no

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Felix Frolow
Dear Tim, I am sure your statement is too general and is not very precise. 10 deg oscillation range is as precise as 0.1 deg. Positions of diffraction spots on the area detector have defined position on rotation axis within the precision/accuracy of the stepping motor and the spacial

[ccp4bb] Validation reports now available for all X-ray structures

2014-03-25 Thread Gary Battle
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partners are pleased to announce that validation reports for all X-ray crystal structures in the PDB archive are now publicly available. The new validation reports are set to become an indispensable resource for both crystallographers and the consumers

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Felix, as far as I understand we are talking about the frame width, not the total data range for indexing (10 degree rotations to get enough spots per frame). I have used 180degrees of data for indexing. At least XDS places the reflection at the centre of the frame so that with a 10deg frame

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Felix Frolow
Dear Tim, My most experience is with HKL2000 which during the index doing something quite mysterious and not very well described such as a brute search for the correct reciprocal lattice. I do not know where initially the reflections are placed by HKL2000, but finally it converges. In the moment

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread George Sheldrick
Indexing involves storing all the reflection positions in orthogonal reciprocal space and then finding a reciprocal lattice that fits most of them. For a 10 degree frame all we know is that a reflection lies somewhere on a sort of 10 degree arc; only two of the three coordinates are precisely

[ccp4bb] PhD position at Trinity College Dublin

2014-03-25 Thread Amir Khan
Applications for a PhD position are invited for the protein X-ray crystallography group at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The project involves a structural investigation of a viral protein in complex with a newly characterized sensor of the innate immune system. More information and a

[ccp4bb] Dock two substrates into enzyme

2014-03-25 Thread Haiying Bie
Good morning, Everyone, We are trying to dock two small molecule ligands into a big active site of the enzyme. We tried to dock two simultaneously using Autodock Vina, but one always got kicked out. Is there a way we can dock both ligands? Thanks for your suggestions. Best, Haiying

[ccp4bb] iMosflm update available - version 7.1.1

2014-03-25 Thread Harry Powell
Dear all We are pleased to announce an update to iMosflm available at http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/imosflm which addresses two main issues - (1) The QuickSymm and QuickScale options did not work correctly under some circumstances, e.g. on MS-Windows and also when running the

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Zbyszek Otwinowski
There are detectors that are small and have fast readout time and others that have much larger size and slower readout time. Large detector size reduces background level very effectively by allowing data collection with larger crystal-to-detector distance. For well ordered crystals, level of

Re: [ccp4bb] Dock two substrates into enzyme

2014-03-25 Thread Jeff Holden
As I recall autodock vina is not set up to dock two ligands at once. That might be a better question to ask the autodock listserve. Regardless, I would recommend docking one compound at a time to generate a reasonable amount of docking poses. From the first round of docking you could then treat

[ccp4bb] 2014 workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology

2014-03-25 Thread Meilleur, Flora
Second announcement Fifth Workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology Oak Ridge, TN. June 16 - June 20, 2014 Application deadline: April 18, 2014 The workshop on Neutron Scattering Applications in Structural Biology aims at enabling structural biologists to fully

[ccp4bb] summary - small molecule crystallography

2014-03-25 Thread Andreas Förster
Thanks again for all the responses to my question about small-molecule crystallography. I almost regret having sent the student to the chemist. Trying this at home sounds like a fun afternoon. On the ccp4 wiki, there was already a section describing how to solve a small-molecule structure.

[ccp4bb] sf_convert

2014-03-25 Thread Eric Williams
Does anyone here have experience running sf_convert? I know it's not part of CCP4, but it does rely on CCP4 for converting structure factors to MTZ format. When I try to run it, I get errors that suggest that my shell isn't bash, but it really is. The program output is as follows. sf_convert -o