[ccp4bb] update to iMosflm/Mosflm - version 7.1.3

2015-02-20 Thread Harry Powell
Hi folks We are pleased to announce the release of iMosflm/Mosflm 7.1.3; if you are collecting data on beamline I24 at Diamond using their new vertical goniostat, you *must* use this version to process your data - see the release notes for further details. In addition to support for I24, the

[ccp4bb] INSTRUCT Training Course announcement: ISBio2015 in Caparica, Portugal

2015-02-20 Thread Ana Luísa Moreira de Carvalho
Dear CCP4BB community, we are pleased to announce that the period for applications to attend the second edition of the INSTRUCT-COST Training Course ISBio2015 http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/PosterISBio-2015.pdf is open until June 15. Integrative Structural Biology tools for the study of

[ccp4bb] Two four year fully-funded PhD project co-sponsored by King's College London and National Physical Laboratory

2015-02-20 Thread Chris Lorenz
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Non-Equilibrium Systems (CANES) has two fully-funded four-year PhD projects that are co-sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory for Sept. 2015 entry: 1) De novo peptide self-assembly for antimicrobial and gene

Re: [ccp4bb] Thymine methyl in coot

2015-02-20 Thread Paul Emsley
On 19/02/15 21:03, Phoebe A. Rice wrote: When trying to adjust the chi angles of a dT in coot 0.8.1, the methyl and its H's (which I called C5M to make phenix happy) rotate with the sugar, producing a rather base bizarre geometry. Hello Phoebe, I suspect things are going wrong because C7

Re: [ccp4bb] how to reduce protein solubility

2015-02-20 Thread Enrico Stura
Ursula, Most compounds used for cryosolutions glycerol, ethylene glycol, propane diol increase protein solubility. A warning, these compounds are also hygroscopic, you need to change your vapour diffusion methodology. Vera L., Czarny B., Georgiadis D., Dive V., Stura E.A. (2011) Practical

[ccp4bb] post-doc position in Oulu, Finland

2015-02-20 Thread Petri Kursula
Hi, I’d like to bring the following position into the attention of any suitable candidates: - POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN MOLECULAR MATERIALS RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND A two-year interdisciplinary postdoctoral position in molecular materials research is available in the Research

[ccp4bb] clarification Re: Density fit analysis in Coot, and FEM

2015-02-20 Thread Emilia C. Arturo (Emily)
Thank you for the multiple kind off-list responses I received regarding how to interpret map colors in Coot. I'm very grateful for the references, but it seems that I did not state my issue clearly :-) What I was referring to was the tool that Coot has under Validate Density Fit analysis. The

Re: [ccp4bb] Density fit analysis in Coot, and FEM

2015-02-20 Thread Paul Emsley
On 19/02/15 11:00, Emilia C. Arturo (Emily) wrote: Hello all. Hello Emilia (Emily), I'd like to understand what it is I'm looking at when I use Coot's density fit analysis tool. I recognize that there was a post related to this topic on the Coot bb a while ago --the discussion was on how

Re: [ccp4bb] how to reduce protein solubility

2015-02-20 Thread Enrico Stura
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:07:18 +0100, Pietro Roversi pietro.rove...@bioch.ox.ac.uk wrote: Dear Enrico, I wonder if trying different protein:precipitant ratio is also a valid strategy to crystallise very soluble proteins. Please let me know if my reasoning is flawed and if so why! Yes and

[ccp4bb] PhD position at the ICR, London, UK

2015-02-20 Thread Alessandro Vannini
Dear CCP4bb readers, a PhD position (starting in October 2015) is available in my laboratory (www.icr.ac.uk/alessandrovannini) at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR, Chelsea, London, UK), to undertake crystallographic, single particle electron microscopy analysis and biochemical analysis of

Re: [ccp4bb] how to reduce protein solubility

2015-02-20 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
I use a syringe with a needle and poke through the tape into the reservoir and top it off Another approach is to poke holes in the tape with a needle, and just let the drops slowly evaporate and dry out. I'm told it works! On 17 February 2015 at 09:19, Bernhard Rupp hofkristall...@gmail.com

Re: [ccp4bb] The discrepancy for determination of Ramachandran outliers by Coot and MolProbity

2015-02-20 Thread B.Lohkamp
Just recently, we updated Coot to use the Ramachandran plot according to some newer distribution as defined by MolProbity (thanks to Kevin Cowtan's clipper). This is available from Coot rev 5581. However, please keep in mind as pointed out by Gert that there are different version of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Thymine methyl in coot

2015-02-20 Thread Phoebe A. Rice
To those in the same spot, the fix was to first run this: http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/remediator.php And then remove all the H's and let your favorite refinement software put them back: grep -v H 52remediated.pdb 52remediated_noH.pdb Sorry for bothering those of you who