Re: [ccp4bb] SciVee - YouTube for scientist

2007-08-23 Thread Ronnie Berntsson
Hi all, Great idea! As being relatively new to the field, I definitely find this idea appealing. Actually hearing the talks would indeed be quite educational. Cheers, Ronnie Berntsson On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Clemens Vonrhein wrote: Hi Eleanore, On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:56:40PM

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral positions in crystallography in Stockholm, Sweden

2007-08-23 Thread Adnane Achour
Dear group members, I would like to bring following the openings to your attention: ANNOUNCEMENT TITLE: Postdoctoral positions in crystallography in Stockholm, Sweden DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 25 October 2007 TYPE OF POSITION: Post-Doc(s) INSTITUTION/DEPARTMENT: Center for Infectious Medicine,

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Mischa, I don't think that the field of nanotechnology crumbled when allegations against Jan Hendrik Schon (21 papers withdrawn, 15 in Science/Nature) turned out to be true. I don't think that nobody trusts biologists anymore because of Eric Poehlman (17 falsified grants, 10 papers with

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Jordi Benach
Dear colleagues, 1) I think Ajees et al. should make available the raw diffraction images of the structure in paper that has caused so much literary commotion, unless they haven't already done so. Perhaps simply put them in an open ftp server? As I imagine, unless I have missed something, these

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal with precipitation

2007-08-23 Thread Rob Gruninger
Hi Shivesh I had something like this recently and found that changing the pH stopped the precipitation and the size of the crystals improved. If the crystals are large enough even if there is ppt present I would still try and collect data on them. This is likely not the case for you or you

[ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-23 Thread William Scott
Sorry for the repost, but I think my question got lost in the earlier thread. I've found $CCP4/x-windows/ipdisp/src/pack_c.c, pack_f.f and so forth, but they apparently don't build by default, and when I try to, I get You need to make mosflm-bits in the library for the image-packing stuff

Re: [ccp4bb] diffraction images images/jpeg2000

2007-08-23 Thread James Holton
Well, I know it's not the definitive source of anything, but the wikipedia entry on JPEG2000 says: The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format is still more space-efficient in the case of images with many pixels of the same color, and supports special compression features that JPEG 2000 does

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-23 Thread Winter, G (Graeme)
Hi Bill, It seems it would be good to have available if we are all going to put our images on our web-servers. Probably easier to either just bzip2 the images (which works reasonably well but is somewhat slow) or use one of the imgCIF jiffy programs to do this, which will correctly retain

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal with precipitation

2007-08-23 Thread James Whisstock
Sorry - this may have been mentioned previously, but have you tried banging in some glycerol (5-10%)? J shivesh kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I welcome all the suggestions regarding my crystals which is coming with the precipitation.The pI of the protein is 4.2 and the drop

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal with precipitation

2007-08-23 Thread mshah
I agree to this last suggestion. For one of my protein, I had to add at least 10 % of glycerol in my buffers to keep my protein stable while purifying. For crystallization, I diluted it to 20 % glycerol (vapour diffusion method) which allowed it to be stable in the crystallization drop and

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 pack_images program?

2007-08-23 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Is there any advantage to bzip2-ing the individual images rather than making one bzip2-ed tarball with tar cvfj? Yes. If you have folks sending you images by sftp or e-mail, then you don't have ensure a tarball of Giga or Tera bytes works. You can send the smaller multiple files and restart

[ccp4bb] alternate indexing / cubic space group

2007-08-23 Thread Green, Todd
Hello All, I have a question about some data with which I have been grappling. The crystal appears to be primitive cubic(p23). Are there alternate ways to index cubic data? I ask this question without regard to anomalous data. I have looked at several datasets in Xtriage. I wanted to merge

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Jenny Martin
I've been reading the contributions on this topic with much interest. It's been very timely in that I've been giving 3rd year u/g lectures on protein X-ray structures and their validation over the past week. As part of the preparation for the lectures, I searched the PDB for structures with

Re: [ccp4bb] SciVee - YouTube for scientist

2007-08-23 Thread Ronnie Berntsson
Hi all, Great idea! As being reasonably new to the field, I would definitely welcome those videos. Not that I don't read Acta D papers, but it is always nice to hear the talks directly, and would certainly be quite educational. Cheers, Ronnie Berntsson -- Ph.D. Student

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Dale Tronrud
In the cases you list, it is clearly recognized that the fault lies with the investigator and not the method. In most of the cases where serious problems have been identified in published models the authors have stonewalled by saying that the method failed them. The methods of

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Petr Leiman
- Original Message - From: Jenny Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools My question is, how could crystals with 80% or more solvent diffract so well? The best of the

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-23 Thread Axel T. Brunger
Another example of a structure with intervening layers of weak electron density at 1.75 A resolution is Pb2+ bound calmodulin that Mark Wilson solved in my laboratory: M.A. Wilson and A.T. Brunger, / Acta Cryst./D59, 1782-1792 (2003), PDB ID 1NOY. The intervening layers are not entirely