[ccp4bb] Examples of EM models at 4.0Å or better with serious modelling errors?

2019-12-10 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear colleagues, We are developing a new validation method that takes EM maps and models into account. In order to understand the potential, the applicability and the limitations of the method we are looking for good test cases, which turn out to be surprisingly hard to find. What we are loo

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

2020-03-11 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
If this is the case, why can't we use model B factors to validate our structure? I know some people are skeptical about this approach because B factors are refinable parameters. Rangana It is not clear to me exactly what you are asking. B factors _should_ be validated, precisely because they

Re: [ccp4bb] [g...@globalphasing.com: [ccp4bb] An error in the IUCr Online Dictionary of Crystallography] (fwd)

2020-03-11 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Sorry to have taken this matter up in such a visible manner: I noticed this very wrong formula in someone's paper, and that person then told me where he had found it. Having landed on that page, I didn't know where to go For the students: "someone" = systematic absence of information = 0

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
8-430-8565 email jeffrey.bona...@einsteinmed.org -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 11:49 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry Well, I've had this in my CSHL X-ray Course tal

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi Eleanor, Yes, I remember those meetings, when the UK was still an EU member and Sweden not yet (so Uppsala couldn't be formally involved) :-) Did Victor look into this too? I remember Gert doing it. And maybe Tom Oldfield? Best wishes, --Gerard On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Eleanor Dodson wro

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
There was a case a few years ago (not too many though) where a 1.6 Å structure had been solved using an incorrect value for the wavelength (~5% too low, leading to a cell that was slightly too small for its contents to be comfortable). It was later corrected so we could compare their validation

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
were part of them? Did you wear a Dutch hat? E On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 12:07, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Hi Eleanor, Yes, I remember those meetings, when the UK was still an EU member and Sweden not yet (so Uppsala couldn't be formally involved) :-) Did Victor look into this too? I remember

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
631-286-1339FAX: 1-631-286-1999 ========= On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: There was a case a few years ago (not too many though) where a 1.6 ? structure had been solved using an incorrect value for the wavelength (~5% too low, leading to a c

[ccp4bb] In situ Structural Biology Conference (fwd)

2020-09-29 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear all, Cross-posting this on behalf of Julia Mahamid. --Gerard --- Gerard J. Kleywegt, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK Head of Molecular and Cellular Structure ger...@ebi.ac.uk pdbe.org emdb-empiar.org PA: Roisin Dunloppdbe_ad...@ebi.ac.uk -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 28 Se

Re: [ccp4bb] EDS server

2011-09-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, Simple question, is there a way I can upload my own data into the EDS server? I see only place for it to take from data already published in the PDB. First of all, if you deposit at PDBe, EDS will be run on your deposition and you can access the results after annotation. Second, RCSB

[ccp4bb] Asset stripping the Uppsala Software Factory...

2011-09-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, Unfortunately, I am no longer able to support or maintain (let alone develop or port to new OS versions) any of my old USF programs. For this reason, Mark Harris (http://xray.bmc.uu.se/markh/email.html) has made a distribution kit with source code (yes, Fortran77...) and compilation sc

[ccp4bb] Reminder - EMBO Practical Course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function"

2011-09-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, Just a quick reminder that the deadline for applications for this EMBO practical course is 30 September. See: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_110912_structures.html#registration --Gerard -- Forwarded message -- Hi all, From 14-18 November, an EMBO Pract

[ccp4bb] Quips about greasy pockets

2011-09-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As you may recall, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) regularly produces Quips, short stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures (pdbe.org/quips). Quips address biologically interesting aspects of one or more PDB entries, coupled with interactive graphics views and of

[ccp4bb] Vacancy at PDBe for an enthusiastic junior annotator

2011-09-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) is looking to recruit an expert structural biologist to join the PDBe curation team at the EBI near Cambridge, UK. Applicants should be computer-literate and possess a recent PhD in some area of structural biology or structural chemistry

[ccp4bb] First contours of a vision for the future of validation at the PDB

2011-10-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
(Posted on behalf of wwPDB) The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB; wwpdb.org) is pleased to direct PDB depositors and users to the recommendations of the wwPDB X-ray Validation Task Force (VTF) that were published in the journal Structure this week (2011, vol. 19: 1395-1412; http://www.cell.c

[ccp4bb] Quips about "stunning" software and the first structure it helped solve

2011-10-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) regularly produces Quips, short stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures (pdbe.org/quips). Quips address biologically interesting aspects of one or more PDB entries, coupled with interactive graphics views and often a mini-tutorial

[ccp4bb] Heads-up: PDBe service interruption 21-24 October

2011-10-17 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear PDBe users and depositors, Due to essential maintenance of the computers in the campus data centre this coming weekend, all web, ftp and e-mail services of the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org), as well as most other EBI services, will be unavailable from Friday 21 October 11 a

[ccp4bb] To archive or not to archive, that's the question!

2011-10-28 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, It appears that during my time here at Cold Spring Harbor, I have missed a small debate on CCP4BB (in which my name has been used in vain to boot). I have not yet had time to read all the contributions, but would like to make a few points that hopefully contribute to the discussion an

Re: [ccp4bb] To archive or not to archive, that's the question!

2011-10-28 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
nt to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everyone. --James Carville, Clinton campaign strategist" Thanks for the comprehensive reply Regards Colin -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: 28 Oc

Re: [ccp4bb] To archive or not to archive, that's the question!

2011-10-28 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
On Friday, October 28, 2011 02:02:46 pm Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: I'm a tad disappointed to be only in fourth place, Colin! What has the Pope ever done for crystallography? http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5923051-L.jpg Fock'n'Pope! Great find, Ethan! So maybe he deserv

[ccp4bb] Vacancy for Scientific Database Curator (Structural Biology) at the EBI

2011-11-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The UniProt (uniprot.org) team at the EBI (www.ebi.ac.uk) currently has a vacancy for a structural biology curator. From the job description: "The curator will be mainly involved with the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures. (S)he

[ccp4bb] RFI on access to digital data

2011-11-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Relevant to the discussion about archiving image data: http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-28621 --Gerard ** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se *

[ccp4bb] In the mood for some LEGO DNA to celebrate PDB40?

2011-11-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, I came across this YouTube clip the other day that is well worth 3 1/2 minutes of your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhs1YO5nqXA It was made by Tommy Christensen and shows how he built a model of DNA out of LEGO bricks (of PDB entry 2DAU, to be precise) to celebrate th

[ccp4bb] Oops-a-daisy! [Re: In the mood for some LEGO DNA to celebrate PDB40?]

2011-11-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
iting before I hit ^X , obviously. --Gerard On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Hi all, I came across this YouTube clip the other day that is well worth 3 1/2 minutes of your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhs1YO5nqXA It was made by Tommy Christensen and shows how he

[ccp4bb] Quips about the receptor-binding needle of bacteriophage T4

2011-11-25 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As you may know, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) regularly produces Quips, short stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures (pdbe.org/quips). Quips address biologically interesting aspects of one or more PDB entries, coupled with animated and interactive graphics v

Re: [ccp4bb] Superpositions: Deviation by Residue

2011-11-30 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear Crystallographers, is there a ccp4 program--or otherwise--which can compute ca-ca distances of corresponding residues between two superposed structures? You mean to produce something like this? http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/pics/distplot_1chr.gif That can be done with LSQMAN - http://xray.b

[ccp4bb] (Off-topic) X-mas gift idea for cool scientists?

2011-12-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, Someone pointed me to this: http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-287176-galleryV9-qokb.jpg Apparently, it is a page from this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Ink-Tattoos-Obsessed/dp/1402783604 Personally, if I had to get a tramp stamp, it would obviously be of 1cbs (http://pdb

[ccp4bb] Heads-up: Reduced PDBe services between 24 December and 2 January

2011-12-19 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, This is to inform PDB/EMDB depositors (note: at PDBe only) and users of PDBe services (http://pdbe.org/) that we will be operating with a reduced level of service in the holiday season: - this week, we will do our best to process entries that are deposited before Friday, but cannot g

[ccp4bb] Seasonal Quips about Christmas Disease

2011-12-23 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, If you should suffer from Christmas Disease, and you were to cut yourself while carving the turkey, you could be in trouble! Find out why in the last episode for 2011 of Quips, PDBe's collection of interactive stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures. To access this Quips episo

[ccp4bb] EBI and PDBe services temporarily unavailable

2012-01-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Due to an as yet unspecified "explosion in a network duct in London", the EBI in Hinxton (where all PDBe services, including deposition, are hosted) is currently cut-off from its London data centres (through which all EBI web and ftp traffic is routed). At present, it looks like normal PDBe serv

Re: [ccp4bb] reliable/unreliable maps?

2012-01-10 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
There can be many different reasons why EDS calculates an R-value that is different from the one reported by the authors - some of these are listed here: http://eds.bmc.uu.se/eds/eds_help.html#PROBLEMS Back in the "dark ages" (actually, the late 90s) we arbitrarily decided to use a tolerance o

[ccp4bb] Winter wotsits from the Protein Data Bank in Europe (pdbe.org)

2012-02-03 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) releases new, improved and updated versions of its tools and resources twice a year. Now it's time for the winter update. Below is a brief description of new features and services. As always, the URL http://pdbe.org will take you

[ccp4bb] Quipping about clamping...

2012-02-03 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As many of you know by now, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) regularly produces Quips, short interactive stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures (http://pdbe.org/quips). Quips articles address biologically interesting aspects of one or more PDB entries fro

[ccp4bb] EMBO Practical Course: Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function

2012-02-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, In April we will once again organise the EMBO practical course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function". The application deadline is only a week away - 24 February. For more information about the course and how to apply, surf to: http://www.e

Re: [ccp4bb] Server or software for B factor analysis

2012-02-23 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
MOLEMAN2 is your friend. Stats: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/moleman2_man.html#S50 Plots: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/moleman2_man.html#S57 --dvd Will you please tell me a server of software which can draw a curve for the B factor of the atoms in a protein PDB file from the first residue to the

[ccp4bb] Let's GO, with Dora the PDBeXplorer!

2012-03-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As you may recall, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) has launched a number of PDB archive browsers in the past two years. These allow users to explore and analyse what is in the PDB based on concepts and classifications they are familiar with, such as the EC syste

Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication]

2012-04-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Is it to late to refer to data as if there were more than one of them? Is it too late to explain the difference between "to" and "too"? --A much mellowed CD

Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication

2012-04-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
http://trololololololololololo.com/ Trollus, Trollum, Trolli, Trollo, Trolli, Trollos, Trollorum, Trollis. David C. Briggs PhD Father, Structural Biologist and Sceptic University of Manchester E-mail: david.c.bri...@manchester.ac.uk ==

Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication]

2012-04-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear Manfred, Outside Germany, such excursions are called "humour". If you are interested, here is the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour --Gerard PS: It was on a Sunday so all levity was perpetrated in people's own time. Today we'll all be serious again and frown and

Re: [ccp4bb] one datum many data? [was Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication]

2012-04-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
ure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_humor Andreas (still living on Sunday time) On 02/04/2012 4:03, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Dear Manfred, Outside Germany, such excursions are called "humour". If you are interested, here is the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.or

[ccp4bb] CCP-EM positions now available

2012-04-05 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
[Cross-posted from the 3DEM mailing list.] --Gerard -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:34:39 +0100 From: Helen Saibil To: 3DEM Mailing List <3...@ncmir.ucsd.edu> Subject: [3dem] CCP-EM positions now available Dear Colleagues, We have been awarded a Partnership gr

[ccp4bb] A creative and challenging job in science communication - join PDBe as its Outreach Coordinator!

2012-04-11 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Are you an aspiring science communicator who has a wonderful way with words? The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/) is looking for an enthusiastic 'jack of all trades', to coordinate its outreach activities. We are looking for someone who will raise the profile of PDBe through

Re: [ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi Paul, You saw the wwPDB/CCDC JPG in my PPT at GSK :-) Yes, wwPDB and CCDC have signed an MoU. In pounds and pennies it means, amongst a number of other things, that wwPDB will be allowed to use Mogul in its validation pipeline and that wwPDB will be allowed to incorporate and redistribute

Re: [ccp4bb] sequence format conversion

2012-05-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
A good tool should leave "b" as is: it is ASX (the standard ambiguity code for ASP or ASN). "j", "o" and "u" are a different matter :-) http://www.uniprot.org/manual/non_std "Selenocyteine [sic!] and pyrrolysine are represented in the sequence using the one-letter codes U for selenocysteine an

Re: [ccp4bb] I really need a file(such as .pdb) contains pseudo tanslation

2010-10-12 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
For an older paper with several examples, see: Acta Cryst. (1993). D49, 505-512 [ doi:10.1107/S0907444993003737 ], Orientation of non-crystallographic symmetry axes in protein crystals, X. Wang and J. Janin My favourite example is 1cel: pdbe.org/1cel and pdbe.org/download/1cel (see: http://www

[ccp4bb] Sweet and discreet tweets about helices and sheets - @PDBeurope

2010-10-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Following feedback from students, collaborators and other structural biologists, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) has become aware of a need for a social networking presence to strengthen the link with current and potential users of its resources. So if you would like to be

[ccp4bb] Job opportunities at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (pdbe.org)

2010-11-11 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, We have two new openings at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (http://pdbe.org - part of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK) to work in the Databases & Services team: - Software/Database Engineer http://ig14.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_embl01.asp?s=AdmOlRWtGeVHmJjVeb&jobid

Re: [ccp4bb] generating 2D projections

2010-12-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Not sure if this helps, but MAPMAN contains options to make 1D and 2D projections - see http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/mapman_man.html#S45 Many moons ago, I also wrote a script to generate general projections (e.g., onto the plane of an aromatic ring) using various USF programs - you may want to tr

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure based and motif based sequence alignment

2010-12-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
This was one of the things that Indonesia was written for (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away), although I'm not sure if it will still run. If you're desperate, see http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~dennis/ --Gerard On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Muhammed bashir Khan wrote: Dear All; I have structures

Re: [ccp4bb] Can LSQKAB calculate RMSTAB for two pre-superposed structures?

2010-12-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
If you have LSQMAN, this is trivial - read your superimposed files and use the RMsd_calc command - http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/lsqman_man.html#S59 --Gerard On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Huiying Li wrote: Another question on RMSD: I have two structures of the same protein superposed with the LSQ Super

[ccp4bb] Reduced PDBe services between 23 December and 10 January

2010-12-22 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, This is to inform PDB/EMDB depositors (at PDBe only) and users of PDBe services (http://pdbe.org/) that we will be operating with a reduced level of service in the next few weeks: - on 23 and 24 December we are operating with a skeleton crew, especially in the depositon and annotatio

[ccp4bb] From 7 to 70,000: The PDB Reaches a New Milestone (fwd)

2010-12-23 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Cross-posted from pdb-l --Gerard -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:35:10 -0500 From: Christine Zardecki To: pd...@rcsb.org Subject: pdb-l: From 7 to 70,000: The PDB Reaches a New Milestone From 7 to 70,000: The PDB Reaches a New Milestone As the year 2010 dr

[ccp4bb] Post-doc position on Validation of Low-resolution Models

2011-01-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, There is an EMBL Inter-disciplinary Post-doc (EIPOD) position available to work on "Validation of low resolution structural models". For details, see: http://www.embl.de/training/postdocs/eipod/app2011-1/svergun.pdf The post-doc will be based at EMBL Hamburg and supervised jointly b

Re: [ccp4bb] ID mapping

2011-01-31 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi, SIFTS provides mappings between PDB and UniProt (and a number of other resources) - see pdbe.org/sifts This file may contain the info you need: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/msd/sifts/text/pdb_chain_uniprot.lst --Gerard On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Sridharan, Sudharsan wrote: Hi all,

[ccp4bb] Special symposium celebrating the 40th birthday of the PDB

2011-02-25 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, In October 2011, the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB; wwpdb.org) will host a scientific symposium in Cold Spring Harbor, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the inception of the PDB and the many scientific contributions it archives. The program will showcase the scientific impact m

[ccp4bb] EMDB-1k and an NAR cover

2011-02-25 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
[Forwarded on behalf of the EMDataBank.org Team] We are proud to announce that the cryoEM community has reached a significant milestone: more than 1000 maps representing a wide variety of biological assemblies are now archived in the EM Data Bank. In addition, structures from EMDB and PDB wer

[ccp4bb] Kewl new features on the Protein Data Bank in Europe website - pdbe.org

2011-03-02 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As you may recall, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) announced a substantial make-over of its website last summer, including the release of a number of new features (such as PDBprints - http://pdbe.org/pdbprints - and a biologist-friendly structure browser - http

[ccp4bb] PDBportfolio - slideshows of salient images for all your favourite PDB entries

2011-03-10 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent winter update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) released a new widget, called PDBportfolio, that we hope will find widespread use. It displays a slideshow of images that convey important information about the entry (or entries). Every image

Re: [ccp4bb] map format conversion

2011-03-10 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi, MAPMAN can read and write a number of formats - see: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/mapman_man.html#H8 While it doesn't write "cube" format, it can produce maps in various ASCII formats (e.g., NEWEZD, CNS, X-PLOR) that you should be able to convert into something that suits your needs.

[ccp4bb] PDBe introduces a compound-based browser for the PDB archive

2011-03-18 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent winter update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) introduced a new, chemistry-based module of its PDB archive browser (a.k.a. PDBeXplore). It can be accessed at: http://pdbe.org/compounds As you may (or may not) know, th

[ccp4bb] PDBe introduces Quips - QUite Interesting PDB Structures

2011-03-25 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent winter update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) introduced Quips - "QUite Interesting PDB Structures". Quips are short stories about one or more interesting or topical structures, coupled with an interactive viewer and often a tutorial that

[ccp4bb] Disordered sidechains - a statement by the revolutionary non-dictator

2011-04-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
People of the disordered sidechains, ave! - perhaps the IUCr and/or PDB (Gerard K?) should issue some guidelines along these lines? And oblige us all to follow them? (Mark J van Raaij) - this discussion has flared up many times in the past, and maybe it's time for a powerful dictat

[ccp4bb] Quick-and-dirty searches of both PDB and EMDB at PDBe

2011-04-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent winter update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/) has improved its facility that allows for tandem searches of PDB and EMDB. It was designed to allow users to carry out many of their day-to-day searches (without the need to fill out a complex

[ccp4bb] Advanced motif searches of the PDB (was: disulfide bond question)

2011-04-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The following question was posed on the CCP4 bulletin board earlier this week: I have a question related to protein structure, but not crystallography per se. Has anyone see a disulfide forming between the two cys of "CXC" in the middle of a loop, and create a sharp turn, where X is not

[ccp4bb] PDBe annotates its 10,000th structure

2011-04-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
In June 1999, staff of the Macromolecular Structure Database (MSD; nowadays known as the Protein Data Bank in Europe, http://pdbe.org/) at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/) began annotating PDB entries. Now, eleven years later, PDBe has annotated its 10,000t

[ccp4bb] Two vacancies at PDBe

2011-04-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) has vacancies for a (possibly junior) scientific programmer and for a system administrator/software engineer. For links to the job descriptions, surf to: http://pdbe.org/jobs The deadline for applications is 15

[ccp4bb] Call for papers for a special issue on Cryo-EM-based modeling

2011-05-27 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, This may be of interest to those methods developers amongst us who are ogling the rich potential bounties to be reaped by applying low-resolution X-ray model-building and refinement methods to EM maps... --Gerard -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:52:48

[ccp4bb] New episode of Quips - Quite Interesting PDB Structures

2011-06-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, A fresh installment of Quips (interactive stories about interesting entries from the PDB) is now available on the PDBe website. It is called "Getting a good rate of exchange - the mitochondrial ADP-ATP carrier" and can be found here: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe-apps/quips?story=ATPexchan

[ccp4bb] More cool stuff from the Protein Data Bank in Europe (pdbe.org)

2011-07-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As you may recall, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) carried out a substantial make-over of its website last summer, including the launch of several new features (such as PDBprints - http://pdbe.org/pdbprints - and a biologist-friendly structure browser - http://p

[ccp4bb] PDB40 - Celebrating the 40th birthday of the PDB

2011-07-07 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB; wwpdb.org) is organising a scientific symposium in Cold Spring Harbor this autumn to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the inception of the PDB and the many scientific contributions it archives. The meeting ("PDB40") will kick off with an evening receptio

[ccp4bb] EMBO Practical Course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function"

2011-07-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, From 14-18 November, an EMBO Practical Course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function" will be held at the EBI in Cambridge (UK). The course is organised by James Watson, Rosemary Wilson, Gerard Kleywegt, Victor Lamzin, Christine Orengo and Gert Vriend

[ccp4bb] NMR resources at PDBe (pdbe.org/nmr)

2011-07-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/) continues to improve its services to the scientific community. As part of our recent website update, we have reorganised and simplified the way information about NMR entries is shown. We have also released Vivaldi (Visualisation

Re: [ccp4bb] Multi crystal averaging : data on same scale before averaging?

2011-07-14 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
This is correct - see http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/dataman_man.html#S27 At the time I wrote this (1993...), I was a recovering NMRtist and The Other Gerard was doing a sabbatical in Uppsala and in fact in the office next to mine. He pointed out that I had to do this and also provided code. --The

[ccp4bb] PDBe introduces UniPDB - a UniProt-PDB sequence-coverage widget

2011-07-21 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent summer update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) introduced UniPDB (http://pdbe.org/unipdb), a widget for graphical display of the coverage in the PDB of any UniProt entry (e.g., http://pdbe.org/unipdb?uniprot=P19909). The widget can be used

[ccp4bb] Lion kills moleman (and all other USF programs on the Mac)

2011-07-22 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, Just a heads-up - if you upgrade to OSX Lion, your trusty old USF executables will no longer work. Help is on its way - in the near future the indefatigable and intrepid Lion-taming heroes of the USF will release a distribution kit that includes source code. However, for now you may

[ccp4bb] Improved EM-related resources at PDBe

2011-08-10 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) continues to improve its services to the scientific community. As part of our recent website update, the EM resources at PDBe (http://pdbe.org/emdb) have been improved. EMDB (http://emdatabank.org) contains over 1000 maps and is

[ccp4bb] PDBe introduces PDBeXpress - easy-to-use yet powerful PDB analysis tools

2011-08-18 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, As part of its recent summer update, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) introduced PDBeXpress (http://pdbe.org/express), an umbrella name for a set of easy-to-use yet powerful PDB analysis tools. The first two modules can be used to answer questions such as "what r

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding obsolete pdb entries

2011-08-24 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
!Hola! About 6 years ago I noted a couple of structures I was interested in were removed from the pdb. I saw in a recent email discussion that it is possible to access obsolete entries, however unfortunately I do not have the pdb code of the structure I am interested in - and neither does the

Re: [ccp4bb] {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: [ccp4bb] {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Re: [ccp4bb] units of the B factor

2009-11-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
What a funny & pleasant piece of discussion ! Given any physical quantity "Something", having any kind of dimension (even as awful as inches^2*gallons*pounds^-3) Would it exist any room for a discussion about the dimension of 2*Something ? And what about 1*Something ? (1) You can always con

Re: [ccp4bb] warning message: bound resonance

2009-11-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
'Allo! 'Allo! I suspect that you are looking for the CCPN mailing list rather than the CCP4 one. You have just confused thousands of innocent crystallographers! --dvd On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Julien Litt?rature wrote: Hi, Since the newest upgrade of analysis, I get this warning message once in

[ccp4bb] More job opportunities at PDBe/EBI!

2009-11-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear colleagues! I would like to draw your attention to two new job opportunities that have opened up at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) at the EBI (Hinxton, UK) and that will hopefully interest some of you: - Software Engineer/Scientific Programmer - to work on database integration a

[ccp4bb] Disruption of services at the EBI

2009-12-09 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi folks, If you have been trying to access PDBe or other EBI services today, you may have found them to be less than responsive. There has been a major hardware failure today and the EBI systems team is trying hard to fix things. However, you may find that many services are unavailable and ma

[ccp4bb] wwPDB statement on Retraction of UAB PDB entries

2009-12-17 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
wwPDB statement on Retraction of UAB PDB entries - In its December 4, 2009 issue, the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) retracted an article by H.M. Krishna Murthy et al. describing the structure of dengue virus NS3 serine protease published 1

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D search for peptide conformers?

2009-12-18 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
And if you liked SPASM, you'll love the SPASM web-server that Mark Harris has made: http://eds.bmc.uu.se/eds/spana.php?spasm The decapeptide search is similar to the quest for left-handed helices described in the original publication. Recipe: - from the start page, upload a small

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot pudding? (a.k.a N-linked carbohydrate addition)

2009-12-23 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Summary of this thread: FUC-MAN-NAG-NAG-NAG Merry Flying-Spaghetti-Monster-mas (*) everybody! --Gerard (* http://www.venganza.org/) ** Gerard J. Kleywegt Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology U

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Is there any parameter which i had to check. Yes, the contour levels of your mFo-DFc map... (My guess is that you are contouring at an arbitrary low level - say, "3 sigma".) --dvd ** Gerard J. Kleywe

Re: [ccp4bb] naming convention for the guanidine group of Arginine

2010-01-19 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Is there any convention to define the order of the two terminal nitrogens (NH1 and NH2) of the arginine side chain. For example, should the name NH1 be assigned to the nitrogen that is in trans position with respect to the CD carbon, and NH2 to the nitrogen in cis (or viceversa)? Yes there is

Re: [ccp4bb] Per-residue RMSD for multiple structures?

2010-02-23 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Thanks Stephen! I was going to suggest that, but I was afraid of the self-appointed CCP4BB Gestapo that has been seen goose-stepping in this neighbourhood recently (Tassos recently accused me of becoming mellow and diplomatic in my dotage, so I hope I've set the record straight now). However,

Re: [ccp4bb] units of f0, f', f''

2010-02-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi Tim, Maybe it's too early in the day for me, but why can't electrons be a unit? You seem to be confusing physical (in-)divisibility of an entity with the symbolic use of fractions of that entity in calculations. We can speak of the average number of cows per acre of land without having to c

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
But it still won't solve Miri's problem. I think what she is asking for is a program that detects which atoms should be matched to which, irrespective of their names (i.e., not assuming they are called " CA ") and order (i.e., not nicely sequential such as amino-acid residues), and then applies

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
eficient at the moment, but that seems worth trying. Steve -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:50 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting But it still won't

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
: How about LSQMAN ? with ATOM_types Side_chain ? That should do the trick. J?rgen P.S. sorry it's not really a CCP4 related program, but I use it very frequently in conjunction with the CCP4 suite :-) On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Ed Pozharski wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:50 +0100,

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D fitting

2010-02-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
So it's really a non-CCP4 non-solution... --G On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Pavel Afonine wrote: On 2/26/10 8:35 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: Nope - LSQMAN would still be looking for stretches of sequentially ordered residues and would only match atoms with identical names (" CB &

[ccp4bb] PDBe to retire the OCA search system in October 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear PDBe users, The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) will retire the OCA search system in October 2010. Users and developers relying on this service are advised to direct their links to the OCA site at the Weizmann Institute instead - http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocamain De

Re: [ccp4bb] Possible sulphate

2010-04-09 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
You may also want to look at some other structures at similar resolution and see what the density and interactions for their sulfates look like. E.g., if you go to HIC-Up, get to the SO4 page and then click on the link to EDS statistics - http://xray.bmc.uu.se/hicup/SO4/so4_eds_stats.html - it w

[ccp4bb] EMBO Practical Course "Computational aspects of protein structure determination and analysis: from data to structure to function"

2010-04-26 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Now open for registration: EMBO Practical Course 'Computational aspects of protein structure determination and analysis: from data to structure to function' Dates: 6-10 September 2010 Venue: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Registration Deadline: 23 July 2010 - 12 noon (GMT) Accep

[ccp4bb] Three job openings for software engineers or scientific programmers at PDBe

2010-06-16 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
The Protein Data Bank in Europe has *three* openings for software engineers or scientific programmers (one-year contracts): (1) The PDBe Team has an opening for a software engineer or scientific programmer to work in the NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) project. The post holder will work with

[ccp4bb] Welcome to the new PDBe website (pdbe.org)!

2010-07-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
PDBe launches its redesigned website (pdbe.org) --- The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org) has launched its redesigned website with lots of new features, enhancements and improvements. This so-called "Midsummer Make-over" is the first

[ccp4bb] Project Leader Electron Microscopy - position available at PDBe

2010-07-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) has a vacancy for the Project Leader Electron Microscopy position. For more information: http://www.embl.de/aboutus/jobs/jobs_embl_ebi_hinxton/2010/w_10_059_ebi/index.html PDBe is the founder of the worldwide archive of 3D cryo-EM data, the Ele

[ccp4bb] Introducing PDBeXplore - a browser of structural knowledge

2010-07-07 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Traditionally, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) has been accessed mostly by PDB accession code, or by searches based on information regarding, for instance, a publication, a molecule name, a sequence or a related 3D structure. While these methods are valuable for locating a specific PDB entry or grou

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