Re: [ccp4bb] Lower b-factors with increasing T

2022-09-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
rgy which raises the b-factors and this trend is universal when > comparing datasets from different temperatures. > > Thank you and happy to supply more information if that is helpful, > Matt > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742,

Re: [ccp4bb] MR solution not working

2022-03-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] interesting map problem

2021-12-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] A strange problem related to MR

2021-09-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
for it. > Please let me know if you need more information. Thank you in ahead. > > > Regards, > > Lande Fu -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 ##

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] Meaning of a pdb entry

2021-06-01 Thread Ethan A Merritt
> > Gergely > > > Gergely Katona, Professor, Chairman of the Chemistry Program Council > Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg > Box 462, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden > Tel: +46-31-786-3959 / M: +46-70-912-3309 / Fax: +46-31-786-3910 > Web: http://kato

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] (R)MS

2021-05-29 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] Linux Distro for setting up workstations - Is CentOS still a good choice?

2021-02-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] Contagious, Self-Distributing "Vaccines?"

2021-02-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
any reason, practically, why this approach would > > > not be feasible? > > > > > > Maybe we don't really know enough to manipulate A, B, C yet? > > > > > > Or maybe it's too scary for primetime...nightmare bio-warfare > > > apocalypse? > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Data 3 A

2021-01-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
cheers, Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link:

Re: [ccp4bb] possible solution with Phaser

2021-01-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] over-fitting? over-refinement?

2020-10-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
r not to B: a question of resolution?" Acta Cryst. D68, 468-477. http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/~tlsmd/ActaD_68_468.pdf cheers, Ethan > > BRS > > Sam -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center

Re: [ccp4bb] Best protocols to advance a low resolution twin

2020-09-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > > > >

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ct recommendations (optimally available at the > German Amazon). > > Cheers > > Matthias > > https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00XNMXYBY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_5YsoFbFQXTBP9 > > _______ > Buchmann Institute of Molecular Life Sciences > Goethe University

Re: [ccp4bb] [EXTERNAL] Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-07-01 Thread Ethan A Merritt
hat's the "destroy" part of "diffract and destroy". Since an XFEL pulse can be shorter than 10 fs, that observation does not contradict the idea that the measured diffraction occurs faster than the damage. Ethan > Cheers, > José -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Struc

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Pseudosymmetry Effects

2020-05-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
hat the same can happen for electron diffraction but I can't point to any prior examples in the literature. good luck! Ethan > Thanks in advance! > > Best, > Jessica > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
iformly licensed or available for code inspection/modification. I hope I have that right! Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 ##

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester > Henry Wellcome Building > Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HB > England, United Kingdom > > Skype: roversipietro > Mobile phone +44 (0) 7927952047 > Tel. +44 (0)116 2297237 > > > > _

Re: [ccp4bb] What refinement programs are fully Open Source?

2020-05-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] disinfecting keyboards

2020-04-29 Thread Ethan A Merritt
the efficiency of > injecting disinfecting through the USB cable is also under discussion, > so I heard). > > One way would be to use individual keyboards, and wearing gloves for > replugging, and to use gloves for mounting crystals. > > But maybe there are other ways that

Re: [ccp4bb] Average B factors with TLS

2020-04-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
lthough only after several rounds of discussion. good luck, Ethan > > Thanks > > Nick > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 #

Re: [ccp4bb] [3dem] Which resolution?

2020-03-08 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:08:32 PDT Rangana Warshamanage wrote: > "The best estimate we have of the "true" B factor is the model B factors > we get at the end of refinement, once everything is converged, after we > have done all the building we can. It is this "true B factor" that is a >

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Matthew: I think your nice summary leaves out an important point that has not been explicitly mentioned. That is the question of whether depositing hydrogens actually adds information to the model. I submit that for a typical protein refinement it does not. The model is adequately described by

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
TX 75390-8816 > diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu> > (214) 645-6383 (phone) > (214) 645-6353 (fax) > > On Feb 28, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Ethan A Merritt > mailto:merr...@uw.edu>> wrote: > EXTERNAL MAIL > > On Thursday, 27 February 20

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
tering factors f' and f" from the mmcif coordinate file - I have no idea what it does with twinning descriptions As a result there is often a noticeable discrepancy between the R-factors from "Depositor" and "DCC" in the validation reports. > Regards, > Alex > &

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
amp; Chemical Biology > University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Cente

Re: [ccp4bb] 1 out of 2 proteins in asymmetric unit does not fit density

2019-12-16 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ad two structures where incorrect diagnosis of tNCS prevented Phaser from finding the correct solution. If you are not using Phaser, the caveat still stands in principle. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences B

Re: [ccp4bb] Xray-dataset usable despite low completeness ?

2019-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 28 November 2019 16:51:15 Jurgen Bosch wrote: > Think of completeness with an analogy to turkey. > Say you happen to find a one-legged turkey (incomplete by conventional > standard) you could still stuff it and put it in the oven and enjoy 93% of > the turkey. The 7% missing, who

Re: [ccp4bb] Resonant Scattering Directionality

2019-07-25 Thread Ethan A Merritt
stake, please reply to this message and follow > with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the > future. > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the f

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT over SSH

2019-06-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
; > > > possibly relevant: > > > > https://mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu/pipermail/3dem/2019-February/006519.html > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > > htt

Re: [ccp4bb] translational NCS & twinning

2019-01-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
##### > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Was

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic question

2019-01-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
cribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 #

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
> > On Nov 13, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Ethan A Merritt > > wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 11:51:55 AM PST Zhijie Li wrote: > >> If somebody is going to send these files by email, please send one to me > >> too. Thanks in advance. I actual

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
corrupted? Assuming native format. > >>>>>>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:End of File (Error) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > >>>> https://w

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Ethan A Merritt
rom the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB=1 > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.u

Re: [ccp4bb] A question related to Fe-S proteins

2018-03-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
S. > > > > > > *So, my question is, has anyone encountered such situation, > > where the As-purified Fe-S protein having a completely different oligomeric > > state compared to the in vitro reconstitution protein? * > > > > > > Looking for

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
he order of secondary structure elements. This is relevant if you are looking for evolutionary relatedness, but not if you just want to ask "does it look like this". For the latter question, I suggest the VAST server at NCBI. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/VAST/vast.shtml

Re: [ccp4bb] microdiffraction data assembly method

2017-11-21 Thread Ethan A Merritt
this is only a still image. In the paper you cite it was more than that, but still very small compared to "normal" data sets. Ethan > Their data improved not only in resolution, but also in the statistics. The > method seems impressive. > Thanks! > > Charles >

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
e entire subdomain XX". This is not the same thing as saying individual B factors are higher or lower. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac output

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Way is forgotten duty and justice appear; > Then knowledge and wisdom are born along with hypocrisy. > When harmonious relationships dissolve then respect and devotion arise; > When a nation falls to chaos then loyalty and patriotism are born. > -- / Lao Tse /

Re: [ccp4bb] normalization of B-factor values from different crystal structures

2017-08-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Do you want to compare B factors for different residues in the same structure, or B factors for the same residue in different structures, or something else entirely? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] CYS modification and choice of PEG

2017-05-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
suggestions? Could it be that a cloning error introduced a Cys->Arg mutation? -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot render tool missing

2017-03-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
ndle also. If render is not being found, you may have a PATH error. Is your Coot finding other CCP4 programs? Ethan > > Paul. > > p.s. Draw -> Additional Representation -> Ball & Stick makes things a > bit nicer, as does Extensions -> Representation -> Highlig

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factors/Occupancies Versus "Local Resolution"

2017-03-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
crystallographers learn from or > appropriate the concept of local resolution to good benefit, or perhaps vice > versa? Anyway, if there is a good reason for the discrepancy, fine, but > otherwise, having these different measures prevents straightforward > comparisons which would otherw

Re: [ccp4bb] Estimating the amount of missing electron density for a model

2017-02-22 Thread Ethan A Merritt
wants from the output of SIGMAA run from the ccp4i interface? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Estimating the amount of missing electron density for a model

2017-02-21 Thread Ethan A Merritt
n provide an estimate of how good/bad wrong/right your current model is. But that still doesn't tell you whether the current model is bad because pieces are missing or bad because existing pieces are in the wrong place. Ethan > Or am I missing something? > > Cheers

[ccp4bb] TLSMD server down with disk problems

2017-01-26 Thread Ethan A Merritt
It has been refusing connections for already two days? > > Perhaps a mirror exists somewhere ? > > > Best > > > Carlos > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Anisotropy and temperature

2017-01-19 Thread Ethan A Merritt
copy over time to multiple copies in a frozen crystal is the basis for TLSMD analysis. In the special case of a single molecule per unit cell I suppose a one-group TLS treatment reduces to what you originally asked about - vibration of whole unit cells - but in general it does not. cheers,

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Diffraction as a Single-Photon Process; was RE: [ccp4bb] Twinning Question

2015-11-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
this) but assume that the driving > force, amplitude of oscillation and damping all balance out to give a steady > state. As you imply, more frequency points would be useful. > > Colin > > > From: Ethan Merritt [mailto:merr...@u.washington.edu] > Sent: 05 November 2015 1

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Diffraction as a Single-Photon Process; was RE: [ccp4bb] Twinning Question

2015-11-04 Thread Ethan A Merritt
r maybe this is a red herring. > But, to change topics a bit: part of the reason I am wondering about this is > anomalous scattering. Since the resonance energy of an atom is a fixed > amount, how can one photon provide that energy simultaneously to the > requisite number (at least thousands, I would think) of resonant scatterers? > Something's very funny here. > Or, come to think of it, perhaps resonant scattering is no worse than normal > scattering: if the energy is divided up between the all the > normally-scattering electrons, you even have a problem with the one-photon > picture, since the emerging radiation is still of the same energy. You want > to have everything being scattered with a certain energy, but you also want > all the scatterers to scatter. The concept of "energy" seems to get strange. > Does one then need two terms, in which "energy" is just a characteristic of > radiation, like a color, and then there is some other attribute like > "probabilistic intensity," which describes how much "photon" is there? > It is striking to me how much depth these everyday occurrences really have > when one starts wondering about them. > Jacob > > > > -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: mapping PDB to mmCIF data quantities

2015-07-07 Thread Ethan A Merritt
header for everything in mmCIF but I do for the reverse case). Thanks Phil Jeffrey Princeton -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned data refinement

2015-06-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
, such as softwares to use, tricky strategies to choose, etc. I really appreciate any recommendations you would come up with my situation! Thank you in advance! Best, Mengbin -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Rmeas in space group determination

2015-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
! Sincerely, Chen -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Rmeas in space group determination

2015-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
the Rmeas is horrible. Ethan Thanks a lot, Chen On May 13, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Ethan A Merritt merr...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May, 2015 17:51:59 Chen Zhao wrote: Hi all, I am sorry about this question which I should have figured out earlier. For point

Re: [ccp4bb] [RANT] Reject Papers describing non-open source software

2015-05-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
, not the NSF's. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] 3BDN, 16.5% Ramachandran Outliers!!!!!

2015-04-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
me how reliable this structure of Lambda repressor bound to DNA is? Thanks Misbha -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] nVidia quadro Update for Linux

2015-04-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
EndSubSection EndSection Section Extensions Option Composite Disable EndSection -- cheers, lukasz -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Structure with high B-factor

2015-03-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
it still continues to be in the same range. I will look forward to any suggestions. Thank you. What was the Wilson B factor reported by Aimless or Truncate? What is the resolution of the data? -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University

Re: [ccp4bb] Basic Anomalous Scattering Theory

2015-03-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 12 March, 2015 10:41:46 Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Thursday, 12 March, 2015 13:11:10 Keller, Jacob wrote: If projects a middle-C-tone into a piano, do all of the lower notes resonate as well, according to the Kramers-Kronig relation? If you press the right pedal the harmonics

Re: [ccp4bb] Absence of contact between layers in a crystal

2015-02-06 Thread Ethan A Merritt
-- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

[ccp4bb] How to apply NCS restraint to a ligand in refmac?

2015-01-30 Thread Ethan A Merritt
in all 3 copies? Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] How to apply NCS restraint to a ligand in refmac?

2015-01-30 Thread Ethan A Merritt
, but that doesn't actually help. It restrains the ligand copies to look like each other internally, but does not restrain their binding pose relative to the surrounding protein. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University

Re: [ccp4bb] Continuous-Single Versus Coarse-Multiple Sampling

2015-01-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Pearson Keller, PhD Looger Lab/HHMI Janelia Research Campus 19700 Helix Dr, Ashburn, VA 20147 email: kell...@janelia.hhmi.org *** -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle

Re: [ccp4bb] Normal mode refinement

2014-10-20 Thread Ethan A Merritt
the advent of jellybody refinement. But note that jellybody is primarily useful when you already have a high-qualityl, good geometry, starting model. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] monitoring refmac refinement

2014-10-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
are responsible. Thanks for any pointers, Alastair Fyfe UCSC -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Hosed-Up X-Ray Structures: A Big Problem

2014-06-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
/ -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

[ccp4bb] ccp4 ligand tools + wwPDB validation = bug reports?

2014-06-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Earlier this year for the first time I got back a validation report from the PDB for a deposited structure that included wwPDB validation of a ligand. This is great stuff. I approve. I am happy. Unfortunately the validation check reported problems with my ligand. This is bad. I am unhappy. What

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-11 Thread Ethan A Merritt
*a ! ** -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] EDSTATS for an extracted fragment

2014-06-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
(the unmodified part)? I am reluctant to do that since I have many such fragments I have extracted and modified and wish to compare with the native. Thank you, George -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University

Re: [ccp4bb] Bfactors too high after TLS refinement

2014-06-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Cryst. A67, 512-516. E. A. Merritt (2011). Ethan Thanks in advance, Carles Palanca. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Observations-to-parameter ratio in Refmac

2014-06-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
or not to B: a question of resolution? Acta Cryst. D68, 468-477. http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444911028320 -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone

2014-05-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
for the less informed users. At least that will give users some warning in the case of particularly worrisome structures. The authors of course could still reply to defend their structure, and it may encourage some people to even correct their errors. -- Ethan A Merritt

Re: [ccp4bb] High B-factors

2014-05-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
things, it will create a nice picture of your 3 chains colored by B factor. Ethan Best Regards, Oarabile Kgosisejo -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg MS 357742, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] EDS server - R-value

2014-04-04 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday, 04 April, 2014 10:44:18 Nat Echols wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Alastair Fyfe af...@ucsc.edu wrote: Reconstructing the refinement may be necessary in some cases but there are other applications (pdb-wide map statistics, development of map analysis tools, quick model

Re: [ccp4bb] SO4 geometry

2014-03-31 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Monday, 31 March, 2014 19:01:33 Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote: Colleagues, Sorry to bother for something really minor. The Refmac usually always recognizes tetrahedral SO4 groups and there were no problems related to its geometry. Two attached files demonstrate SO4 geometry before and after

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot Performance on Intel HD Graphics 5000

2014-03-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday, 28 March, 2014 12:35:57 mesters wrote: The OpenGL performance is rather poor on intel HD chips up to and including the HD 4600 My experience differs. I have not seen dramatically different performance in practice between coot running on nvidia and the same program version running

Re: [ccp4bb] Weird MR result

2013-11-14 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 14 November, 2013 18:58:27 Niu Tou wrote: Dear Phil, I used PHASER to do the task. I have double checked and both files have the same prefix, so they are from the same output. I have also checked the headers again, they have the same spacegroup. Actually I was trying to search

Re: [ccp4bb] Problematic PDBs

2013-10-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 17 October, 2013 10:51:08 Lucas wrote: Dear all, I've been lecturing in a structural bioinformatics course where graduate students (always consisting of people without crystallography background to that point) are expected to understand the basics on how x-ray structures are

Re: [ccp4bb] how to cut back resolution of a well-refined model

2013-10-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 10 October, 2013 22:44:34 Jim Pflugrath wrote: Please tell me why Rpim should be looked at. Cannot one have meaningless data and have lots of multiplicity to drive Rpim lower without any real benefit? Under what conditions is Rpim useful? And suppose one looks at I/sigI (and

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] expanding reflections from C2221 to P21

2013-10-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Wednesday, 02 October, 2013 17:31:06 wtempel wrote: Tim, I agree with your statement. Consider this situation: Macromolecular sample MA produces crystal CA. Data scale well in C2221 and refinement proceeds smoothly to give stuctural model SA. Slightly modified macromolecular sample MA*

Re: [ccp4bb] tricky mr problem

2013-09-23 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Monday, 23 September, 2013 22:01:32 RHYS GRINTER wrote: Hi all, I have been attempting to find a MR solution for a low resolution data set (3.9A), with pretty poor merging stats of a 22 strand membrane beta barrel I'm working on. I've created a trimmed poly-alanine from a structure

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic, visualization

2013-09-05 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, 05 September, 2013 13:30:21 Arthur Glasfeld wrote: I am hoping to create some images of protein cross-sections where the atoms are depicted as spheres, and the spheres that are cut by the slab are shown as solids with the same color as the surface. An example of what I'm after

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know of an accurate way to mine the PDB for what percent of total X-ray structures deposited as on date were done using molecular replacement? I got hold of a pie chart for the same from my Google search for 2006 but I'd

Re: [ccp4bb] Against Method (R)

2010-10-27 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Frank von Delft wrote: So, since the experimental error is only a minor contribution to the total error, it is arguably inappropriate to use it as a weight for each hkl. I think your logic has run off the track. The experimental error is an appropriate weight for the

Re: [ccp4bb] cross-section view of (protein) molecules in pymol?

2009-03-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
or PyMol or ccp4mg that feed the information to Raster3D for rendering. But nothing is currently in place that would allow a label no actual brains were consumed in producing this figure. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS refinement

2009-03-03 Thread Ethan A Merritt
program that indeed does not run. Sorry, I didn't see the rest of your post. I had sc running and producing meaningful results back in 2006-2007, I can check which version etc. Ed -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] scaling a SAD data set

2009-02-02 Thread Ethan A Merritt
from both datasets into the SAD phasing program. Let it do the scaling jointly. Better yet would have been to collect the data in smaller wedges using inverse beam mode. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] structure (factor) amplitude

2009-01-10 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Saturday 10 January 2009, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear All, I am getting conflicting comments on the use of 'structure factor amplitude' vs. just 'structure amplitude' for |F|. ??? That's just... odd. |F| is the amplitude of F. But no way F is a structure. -- Ethan A Merritt

[ccp4bb] A primer on linux shared libs [was: ccp4-6.1.0: iMosflm libtermcap.so.2 error - SOLVED]

2008-12-22 Thread Ethan A Merritt
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Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-11 Thread Ethan A Merritt
? What criteria would I use to argue that it is a crystal artifact? Yes, of course ideally one would go back to the lab and survey for solution measurements that are consistent with tetramerization, but that is not always practical, and may lead right back to your original question. -- Ethan

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to fill unitcell randomly

2008-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
-neighbor distances? Uniform fractional coodinates? Must the placement conform to space group symmetry? It is probably impossible to satisfy all of the above jointly. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] RNA Torsion Angle Measurement Error

2008-11-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
intuitive feel for the answer. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Choosing TLS groups.

2008-11-13 Thread Ethan A Merritt
are applied to residual B-factors too (although I didn't test it systematically). Applyinig NCS restraints to B factors is a whole separate area for discussion. Let's not go there just now :-) -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] half occupancy question-further information

2008-10-18 Thread Ethan A Merritt
91125 626-395-2453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.br.caltech.edu/cmclab -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: GPU accelerated crystallographic calculations

2008-09-18 Thread Ethan A Merritt
. Whether the cloud computing fad will extend to crystallography remains to be seen. Note that distributed (cloud) data storage has been seriously proposed as a possible solution to the problem of archiving raw diffraction images. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington

Re: [ccp4bb] birefringent spacegroups

2008-06-12 Thread Ethan A Merritt
Laboratory F. Searle 1-240 2240 Campus Drive Evanston IL 60208 lab: 847.491.2438 cel: 773.608.9185 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of anisotropic data

2008-05-20 Thread Ethan A Merritt
. This is not a big structure with no more than 1000 residues in 2 molecules. I wonder why the R values keep so high. Do I need to run anisotropic refinement for such resolutions? Or any other reasons? Thanks! -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary: Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-17 Thread Ethan A Merritt
of scattering factors. If you have refined a SAS data set, e.g. a Se-edge dataset of a SeMet metallo-protein, then the R factors may vary by 1% just because of incorrectly reproduced f' terms for the Se and metal atoms. Ethan Merritt I loaded this into Refmac and asked for zero cycles

Re: [ccp4bb] anomalous signal of Mn and Ca ions

2008-02-28 Thread Ethan A Merritt
! Sun Tang -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

Re: [ccp4bb] significant drop in Rfree ?

2008-02-24 Thread Ethan A Merritt
such a discussion on BB before, leads welcome. Probably addressed in some Rf-ree paper? Thx, br -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742

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