[ccp4bb] Reminder: Phenix user workshop at the ACA2022 in Portland

2022-07-05 Thread Dorothee Liebschner
Dear Colleagues,



The Phenix developers will be holding a day-long satellite workshop on July
29th, prior to the ACA meeting in Portland, Oregon. This Phenix user
workshop will focus on using predicted models for crystallography and
cryo-EM.


*Please note: Registration closes on July 8th!*



The format of the workshop will be demos of the use of Phenix programs
combined with slides to explain the theory. We expect an interactive
meeting where attendees can ask questions for the Phenix team to answer. Topics
will cover aspects of macromolecular structure determination in Phenix.



For registration, see the ACA 2022 website:
https://www.acameeting.com/aca-wk2. You need to register for the main
meeting in order to participate in the workshop. This is an in-person
workshop (no hybrid option).



Lecturers: Pavel Afonine, Dorothee Liebschner, Billy Poon, Tom Terwilliger



Looking forward to seeing you there!


The Phenix team

Detailed Program:



8:00

Welcome: Introduction to Phenix, Introduction to the GUI, set up Phenix

8:45

Overview -- Strategy for X-ray or Cryo-EM structure determination using
AlphaFold models (lecture)

9:15

Predicting your structure with AlphaFold and trimming it with
ProcessPredictedModel (demo)

9:45

Solving an X-ray structure automatically by MR with PredictAndBuild (demo
with pre-computed data)

10:15

Break

10:45

Evaluating X-ray data with Xtriage

11:00

Xray refinement (lecture)

11:30

Xray refinement with AlphaFold reference models (demo)

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Ligands (lecture & demo)

13:30

Cryo-EM Data evaluation with Mtriage (short lecture & demo)

13:45

Cryo-EM map manipulations, map improvement with LocalAnisoSharpen and
ResolveCryoEM (demo)

14:30

Break

15:00

Automatic cryo-EM map interpretation with PredictAndBuild (demo with
pre-computed data)

15:30

Cryo-EM refinement (lecture and demo)

16:00

Model validation (lecture & demo)

16:30

Q

16:50

finish: workshop survey and wrap up

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[ccp4bb] Phenix user workshop at the ACA2022 in Portland

2022-05-26 Thread Dorothee Liebschner
Dear Colleagues,



The Phenix developers will be holding a day-long satellite workshop on July
29th, prior to the ACA meeting in Portland, Oregon. This Phenix user
workshop will focus on using predicted models for crystallography and
cryo-EM.



The format of the workshop will be demos of the use of Phenix programs
combined with slides to explain the theory. We expect an interactive
meeting where attendees can ask questions for the Phenix team to answer. Topics
will cover aspects of macromolecular structure determination in Phenix.



For registration, see the ACA 2022 website:
https://www.acameeting.com/aca-wk2. You need to register for the main
meeting in order to participate in the workshop. This is an in-person
workshop (no hybrid option).



Lecturers: Pavel Afonine, Dorothee Liebschner, Billy Poon, Tom Terwilliger



Looking forward to seeing you there!


The Phenix team




Detailed Program:



8:00

Welcome: Introduction to Phenix, Introduction to the GUI, set up Phenix

8:45

Overview -- Strategy for X-ray or Cryo-EM structure determination using
AlphaFold models (lecture)

9:15

Predicting your structure with AlphaFold and trimming it with
ProcessPredictedModel (demo)

9:45

Solving an X-ray structure automatically by MR with PredictAndBuild (demo
with pre-computed data)

10:15

Break

10:45

Evaluating X-ray data with Xtriage

11:00

Xray refinement (lecture)

11:30

Xray refinement with AlphaFold reference models (demo)

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Ligands (lecture & demo)

13:30

Cryo-EM Data evaluation with Mtriage (short lecture & demo)

13:45

Cryo-EM map manipulations, map improvement with LocalAnisoSharpen and
ResolveCryoEM (demo)

14:30

Break

15:00

Automatic cryo-EM map interpretation with PredictAndBuild (demo with
pre-computed data)

15:30

Cryo-EM refinement (lecture and demo)

16:00

Model validation (lecture & demo)

16:30

Q

16:50

finish: workshop survey and wrap up

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Berkeley, CA 94720
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Re: [ccp4bb] phenix.refine with ligand with ambiguous electron density

2020-11-25 Thread Dorothee Liebschner
Hi Nika,

- As Herman wrote, you should use common sense to interpret a polder map:
if the ligand is not there, this kind of map may show only bulk solvent. So
the appearance of some density in the area of the ligand does not "prove"
that the ligand is there. Also, map interpretation should be done while
keeping in mind data quality, data resolution and the state of the model
(how far along you are in refinement). Ligand density may not be clear yet
if the model is fresh out of MR, but it may become better once the model is
finalized. At high resolution, negative density may appear if the occupancy
is too high and it may disappear if you refine it (of course, don't let it
refine to unreasonably low occupancy...).

- There is no need to refine against a polder map. If the ligand is placed
in the model, the bulk solvent mask is calculated accordingly, so
refinement is aware that there is no bulk solvent in this area.

I wrote the polder tool, so if you want, I can have a look at the maps.
Send me the model with the refined ligand + data (+ cif restraints if
applicable). If you send files, be mindful to do so off-list (reply only to
me).

Best wishes,

Dorothee


On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:29 AM Nika Žibrat  wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I have a question about protein-ligand, of which ligand displays an
> ambiguous electron density. I am solving a structure of protein with
> ligand  which was obtained via soaking. Structural characteristics indicate
> the ligand is present however the electron density is quite vague and too
> small for the size of the whole ligand. I did a Polder map which showed
> much larger area of green density. After insertion of my ligand into the
> green density in Polder I ran phenix.refine and there is a lot of red on
> the spot where the ligand is which was to be expected. This leaves me
> wondering how, if even do I incorporate the polder map data into my refine
> input.
>
>
> My question is, how do I continue refining and validating the structure in
> this case?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Nika Žibrat
>
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Re: [ccp4bb] Turning off the bulk solvent modelling in Refmac5 to generate Polder maps?

2019-02-04 Thread Dorothee Liebschner
Hi,

Please note that for polder maps, the bulk solvent is reset locally.
Turning bulk solvent off entirely most likely deteriorates maps.

Best wishes,

Dorothee

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:50 AM Samuel Davis (PG Research) <
s.w.da...@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to turn off the bulk
> solvent modelling in Refmac5, for the purpose of generating Polder maps? I
> know that an option for Polder maps is directly implemented in Phenix, but
> we ideally want to use Refmac5, as we have used it for the rest of our
> refinement and want to keep it consistent if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Samuel.
>
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[ccp4bb] Announcement: SpringerBriefs in Crystallography

2019-01-28 Thread Dorothee Liebschner
Hi everyone,

I would like to circulate the announcement of a new series of
crystallography monographs entitled “SpringerBriefs in Crystallography” (
https://www.springer.com/series/16236). Areas of interest include
structural biology. The announcement below is on behalf of the
editor-in-chief, Prof. M. Nespolo.

Best wishes,

Dorothee Liebschner
Series editor for biological crystallography, SpringerBriefs in
Crystallography

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Dear Colleagues,

It  is  my  pleasure  to  announce  the  launch  of  a  new  series of
crystallography   monographs   under   the  title  “SpringerBriefs in
Crystallography”.   They   cover   a   new   discipline   within   the
“SpringerBriefs”  collection,  which publishes concise monographs with
an intermediate scope
(
https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/springerbriefs
).

SpringerBriefs  already  covers  84  fields spanning a wide range from
natural  sciences to law, social sciences and more; crystallography is
now the 85th field.

The  new  series  is published under the auspices of the International
Union of Crystallography and all the manuscripts will be peer-reviewed
by  the  series editors, as well as external reviewers when necessary.
It  takes  an intermediate and so far uncovered place between articles
published by the IUCr journals and full monographs.

The   IUCr  publishes  several  types  of  articles  in  its  journals
(https://journals.iucr.org):
•  Research Papers, which are full-length manuscripts that normally do
not exceed 15 journal pages (about 15 000 words);
•  Short  Communications,  for  the  presentation of topics of limited
scope or for preliminary announcements of novel research findings;
•  Lead  Articles,  authoritative,  comprehensive  and forward-looking
reviews of major areas of research interest (by invitation);
•  Feature  Articles,  focused  surveys covering recent advances in an
area  of  current  research, which do not aim to be comprehensive, and
are generally about ten journal pages (10 000 words);
•  Topical Reviews, which aim to capture the current trends of a field
and  are  expected  to  be  relatively  short  (about 6000 words and a
maximum  of 50 references, with half of those having been published in
the last three years);
•  Letters to the Editor, which may deal with non-technical aspects of
crystallography, its role, its propagation, the proper function of its
Societies etc.
•  Scientific  Commentaries,  which  discuss  articles  of  particular
importance for the readership of the journal.

Full  monographs  spanning  hundreds  of  pages  are  published in the
IUCr/OUP   monographs,   and   textbooks   in   the   IUCr/OUP   texts
(https://www.iucr.org/publications/iucr-oup).

SpringerBriefs   in   Crystallography   aims   at  publishing  shorter
monographs,  typically between 50 and 125 pages, where specific topics
are  dealt  with more in detail with respect to what one could do in a
Lead  Article  or Topical Review, in particular with a more pronounced
accent   on  the  background.  Also,  more  space  is  given  to  some
fundamentals  which  would not find place in a Lead Article or Topical
Review,  with  the  aim  of  providing  the  reader a more pedagogical
introduction  (whenever suitable) without the need to look for it in a
separate  text.  Publications in this series help support the Outreach
and  Education  Fund  for  the  International Union of Crystallography
(https://www.iucr.org/iucr/sponsorship/iucr-outreach-fund).

The   website   of   the  new  series  is  available  at  the  address
https://www.springer.com/series/16236,  where you find more details as
well  as  the responsible editor contact information, who upon request
can  provide  you  with a proposal form. On submission the responsible
editor  will  then forward it to the series editors for discussion and
approval.

Please,  feel  free to forward this information to your colleagues who
may be interested in publishing a monograph in this series.

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