*Ahem*

*ISOLDE

 
 
Tristan Croll
Research Fellow
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
University of Cambridge CB2 0XY
 

 

> On 13 Jul 2017, at 08:02, Tristan Croll <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is more-or-less exactly the task I'm building ISODE for. It's early 
> days, still quite rough around the edges and by no means complete, but if you 
> have a machine with a decent GPU running a modern Linux distro, then it's 
> easily available as a plugin to ChimeraX after installing the latest daily 
> build from https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html. Think of it as 
> an interactive real-space refinement environment, and you won't be far off. 
> This video is getting a little dated now, but should give you some idea of 
> what it can do: 
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6uMjfjuw4k8aUdyTEJWeEJ1UnM. I'm currently 
> working on a longer, narrated demo/tutorial video showing all the latest 
> features (interactive position/rotamer/secondary structure assignment, a very 
> fun tool for shifting stretches in register, ...).
> 
> There are some caveats:
> - It doesn't yet do any building (adding or removing of atoms/residues)
> - It requires all residues to be complete including hydrogens
> - Currently only protein, nucleic acid and metal ions are supported (although 
> the metal ions need more work to be properly useful)
> 
> Let me know if it's of interest, and we can talk more offline.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tristan
> 
>> On 2017-07-13 00:17, Rhys Grinter wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I'm currently in the process of refining a low(ish) resolution
>> structure at 3.2 Ang, with a fair level of anisotropy. I processed the
>> data through the anisotropy server
>> (https://services.mbi.ucla.edu/anisoscale/ [1]), which elliptically
>> truncated the data to 4.0, 3.8 and 3.2 Ang. This really improved the
>> maps and allowed me to trace the majority of the chain and build most
>> side chains.
>> The R-factors are reasonable (0.29 work and 0.35 free respectively).
>> but I'm having trouble with over fitting in refinement as I continue
>> to refine. What parameters/restraints would the community generally
>> use when refining this kind of structure? Additionally Refmac doesn't
>> seem to read the structure factors from the anisotropy server output
>> file properly, giving vastly inflated R values and strange looking
>> maps.
>> Cheers,
>> Rhys
>> --
>> Dr Rhys Grinter
>> Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow
>> Monash University
>> +61 (0)3 9902 9213
>> +61 (0)403 896 767
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] https://services.mbi.ucla.edu/anisoscale/

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