For the second time today I have to apologize. In no way I wanted to discourage anyone and especially people new to crystallography from posting questions to this BB. Especially good thoughtful questions.
Sincerely, Petr On Dec 8, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Petr Leiman wrote: > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > What a brilliant idea! If only this could be implemented in academia. Our > Ph.D. students would stop asking stupid questions on this BB but instead read > books and journal articles. Yes, everything except PDB, sciencedirect, > webofscience, pubmed and arxiv (this one is for real science geeks) must be > blocked! > > Petr > > > >> >> >> -----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
