I am not sure that sending links is the way to go. Our company blocks many websites that it considers not of professionel interest and were employees may spend too much time. More often than not I find that I cannot open the link provided to the bullitin board. E.g. I just checked the yousendit site and it is blocked. I think what Ed proposed, a map of maybe 10 Å**3 plus a pdb file with only a few residues would be better. Also properly compressed pictures (jpeg) are not that big that they cannot be sent by email.
Herman -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark J van Raaij Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] better way to post your density snapshots posting these attachments as links rather than attachments in CCP4bb messages is the way to go I think. many institutions offer this service (ours does), and there are also free and for-pay online ways to do this (for example www.yousendit.com, but there are many others). Then it is also not a problem to send (sorry, link) even large files. The only disadvantage I can think of is that they expire after some time. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij On 8 Dec 2011, at 16:39, Ed Pozharski wrote: > Colleagues, > > One recurring question on this bb is "I got this blob of density - is > it my ligand or what in the name of pink unicorns this is?" Often, a > screen snapshot is posted, which is very helpful. But it may be > better if those helping out could rotate density around in 3D. > Understandably, posting the full model/map is not the way to go. > However, I'd see no harm in posting just a small cutout of the map in > the region of interest. It's not a difficult task (fft/mapmask or > perhaps some usf magic), but is there some user-friendly approach to > cutting out a small map volume? One can use coot to mask the map and > then export it, but this seems to generate the ccp4-formatted map that > covers more than just the masked region, thus the files are fairly > large. Does anyone know of a simple solution other than placing dummy > atoms in the region of interest and running fft/mapmask combination? > (Is there phenix.cut_the_map_around_this_weird_blob ? :) > > Cheers, > > Ed. > > > -- > "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling." > Julian, King of Lemurs
