[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
not on my machine (Suse11.3)

Jligand (1.0.25) - Load Ligand - type 3GP - the ligand looks totally 
normal, incl the C6,O6 double bond.

Cheers
Stefan

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Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

Hi,

You are right. I happen to have 1.0.7 lying around and there 3GP is fine. A bug 
must have been introduced somewhere on the way between versions. I wonder 
whether it's only 3GP.

 Cheers,

   Boaz

Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
Dept. of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel

E-mail: bshaa...@bgu.ac.il
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[wolfgang.sk...@sbg.ac.at]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:52 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

Dear colleagues,

has anyone of you experienced problems regarding regularization in JLigand? 
When I start the first tutorial and load 3'-GMP (3GP), the double bond to the 
O6 atom is about twice as long as the remainder of the molecule; the rings are 
also highly distorted. Similarly, if I modify a ligand, regularization yields a 
structure that is definitely out of shape.

I'm using JLigand 1.0.25 on Ubuntu 11.10 and tried both the current version of 
OpenJDK and Sun Java JRE 6u30; even compiling the JLigand source on my platform 
with Sun Java SE 6u30 did not help.

Kind regards,
Wolfgang Skala
--
Structural Biology Group / Department of Molecular Biology University of 
Salzburg Billrothstraße 11
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Phone: +43 662 8044 7278
http://www.uni-salzburg.at/xray


Re: [ccp4bb] RE : [ccp4bb] refmac 5.6 ccp4 6.2.0

2011-10-28 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
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Re: [ccp4bb] data processing problem with ice rings

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
try a frozen xtal ...

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:12:12 +0800
 ChenTiantian chentiantian2...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi there,
 I am processing a dataset which has bad ice rings (as you
 can see in the
 attach png file).
 I tried both XDS and imosflm, and got similar results, it
 seems that adding
  EXCLUDE_RESOLUTION_RANGE cannot get rid of the effects
 of the ice rings.
 the following is part of the CORRECT.LP which is the
 second attached file,
 you can find more details there.
 
   SUBSET OF INTENSITY DATA WITH SIGNAL/NOISE = -3.0 AS
 FUNCTION OF
 RESOLUTION
  RESOLUTION NUMBER OF REFLECTIONSCOMPLETENESS
 R-FACTOR  R-FACTOR
 COMPARED I/SIGMA   R-meas  Rmrgd-F  Anomal  SigAno   Nano
LIMIT OBSERVED  UNIQUE  POSSIBLE OF DATA
   observed
 expected  Corr
 
  4.24   371525537  5545   99.9%
  46.9% 52.7%
 371502.4850.8%19.4%   -28%   0.5135136
  3.01   553449002  9840   91.5%
  62.7% 65.1%
 551161.7668.3%48.1%   -28%   0.5207760
  2.46   84636   12699 12703  100.0%
  67.4% 84.7%
 846341.5573.0%54.2%   -19%   0.513   12104
  2.13   97910   14743 14987   98.4%
 254.5%199.3%
 979080.16   276.2%  4899.9%   -23%   0.473   14037
  1.90  110260   16846 16940   99.4%
 299.2%303.3%
 1102450.06   325.0%   -99.9%   -17%   0.422   15995
  1.74  118354   18629 18744   99.4%
1062.0%   1043.6%
 118317   -0.20  1156.4%   -99.9%   -13%   0.380   17414
  1.61  122958   20193 20331   99.3%
 967.5%   1571.1%
 1228680.10  1059.7%   987.3%-2%   0.402   18348
  1.51  125075   21554 21794   98.9%
 838.9%   1355.1%
 1249330.08   922.6%  1116.9%-1%   0.402   18977
  1.42   72057   17042 23233   73.4%
 640.8%775.3%
 703910.08   732.5%   826.7%-8%   0.425   10003
 total  823746  136245144117   94.5%
 166.4%166.7%
 8215620.40   181.1%   296.7%   -15%   0.435  119774
 
 Note that I/SIGMA of each resolution shell is 2.5, so
 how should I do to
 process the dataset properly? Any suggestion about this
 super ice rings?
 Thanks!
 
 Tiantian
 
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[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] changing residue numbering in Coot

2011-06-28 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi,

worth to try moleman
- %moleman
Choose READ_pdb_file
- your_pdbfile.pdb
Choose AUTO_chain_segid
Choose WRITE_pdb_file
- out.pdb

Or the tedious NEDIT way 
Open your pdb.file in nedit, mark ONLY the chain ID column - put your cursor 
before the first X, press  [Shift][Ctrl], go the the last X in your chain. 
Then perform a replace/Find by selecting only the Selection option ... 
done. Repeat for each chain.

Cheers
Stefan
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Re: [ccp4bb] How to create a link-record

2011-06-22 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
dear Subhangi,
have a look at 
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/mxstat/JLigand/tutorial_link.html#link

cheers
Stefan

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:04:31 +0100
 Subhangi Ghosh subhang...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello All,
 
 I have a covalent link in my structure model that I
 created using JLigand. I manually typed the link record
 in the header information of the pdb file, however when I
 refine the structure using this pdb, the output pdb does
 not show the link record. Please can anyone help me with
 establishing a link record in the pdb?
 
 Thank you very much,
 Subhangi

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[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Calculating shape complementarity (sc) parameter using CCP4

2011-06-01 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi Li Chen,

try 

#!/bin/sh -f
sc xyzin 1XOU.pdb   eof-sc
Molecule 1
CHAIN A
MOLECULE 2
CHAIN B
end
eof-sc


in a small script lets say sc.com

then run %sc.com |tee sc.log


and you'll get something like this :

Summary of results: 

   D(A-B)  D(B-A) D(A-B)+D(B-A)/2 
 Mean   0.6790.6860.682
 Median 0.5810.5800.581

   S(A-B)  S(B-A) S(A-B)+S(B-A)/2
 Mean   0.6340.6290.631
 Median 0.6840.6820.683

 Shape complementarity statistic Sc =0.683


Logfile attached !!
 :)


cheers
Stefan




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Betreff: [ccp4bb] Calculating shape complementarity (sc) parameter using
CCP4

Dear all,

I am trying to use the sc program in CCP4 suite the calculate the shape
complementarity parameter, but there is problem with reading the PDB file.
Unfortunately the examples webpage is not active anymore so I have no idea
how to fix it.

I attached the output log as follows:

BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
html !-- CCP4 HTML LOGFILE --
hr
!--SUMMARY_END--/FONT/B
BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
pre

 ###
 ###
 ###
 ### CCP4 6.1: SC   version 6.1 : 17/09/07##
 ###
 User: li  Run date: 30/ 5/2011 Run time: 20:18:39


 Please reference: Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4. 1994.
 The CCP4 Suite: Programs for Protein Crystallography. Acta Cryst. D50,
760-763.
 as well as any specific reference in the program write-up.

!--SUMMARY_END--/FONT/B
 Sc (Version 2.0): A program for determining Shape Complementarity

 Copyright Michael Lawrence, Biomolecular Research Institute
 343 Royal Parade Parkville Victoria Australia

 This program is designed to compute Sc between two molecules.
 It also allows the normal products to be merged into grasp surface  files
for display in grasp.

 ___


FORMATTED  OLD file opened on unit   7
BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
Logical name: SCRADII, Filename:
/home/li/NMRsoftwareInstruction/CCP4/ccp4-6.1.13/lib/data/sc_radii.lib
!--SUMMARY_END--/FONT/B

 Number of radii read from sc_radii file:   78

 Opening PDB input file with logical name XYZIN

  Logical name: XYZIN  File name: 1XOU.pdb
  PDB file is being opened on unit 1 for INPUT.

  MATRICES DERIVED FROM CRYST1 CARD IN COORDINATE FILE


 RF  RO

0.028  -0.000  -0.000  -0.000   35.422   0.000   0.000  -0.000
   -0.000   0.014  -0.000   0.0000.000  72.383   0.000   0.000
0.000  -0.000   0.010  -0.0000.000   0.000  95.679  -0.000
   -0.000   0.000  -0.000   1.000   -0.000   0.000  -0.000   1.000


UNFORMATTEDSCRATCH file opened on unit   7
BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
Logical name: SCTEMP, Filename: /tmp/li/sc_dots.09428
!--SUMMARY_END--/FONT/B


 Number of atoms read from PDB file:  1238


 GRASP mode disabled - no Grasp output will be produced

 Selection commands:
 ---
molecule 1

  Molecule 1
molecule 2

  Molecule 2
chain A
  Number of atoms selected in chain A =565
chain B
  Number of atoms selected in chain B =673
zone A 170 B 24
  Number of atoms selected in zone=345
at_excl A 170 N
  Atom A 170  Nexcluded
end

 Parameter values
 
 Dot density  :15.00 per square Angstrom
 Interface separation : 8.00 Angstroms
 Trim width   : 1.50 Angstroms
 Probe radius : 1.70 Angstroms
 Weight factor: 0.50 per square Angstrom

 Selected atoms:
 ---
  Number of atoms for first molecule 0
  Number of atoms for second molecule 1237
  Total number of atoms   1237

 Setting up atoms for surfacing:
  Potential interface atoms  0
  Blocked atoms   1237
  Atoms in Molecule 10
  Atoms in Molecule 2 1237

 Output diagnostics from Connolly subroutine MDS:

UNFORMATTEDSCRATCH file opened on unit   7
BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
Logical name: SCDOTS, Filename: /tmp/li/sc_dots.09428
!--SUMMARY_END--/FONT/B

  Number of surface points:
 Convex  0
 Toroidal0
 Concave 0
 Total   0

BFONT COLOR=#FF!--SUMMARY_BEGIN--
 SC:   No atoms found in 

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Detergent/lipid crystal diffraction pattern?

2011-03-22 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi Pius

DS_1.png - protein diffraction !
DSA6E.png - surface ice formation and protein crystal which did not survive
the freezing !!
DSA2F.png -  protein crystal which does not diffract, but cryo condition is
right ! 
Psp4f.png - internal ice formation plus some surface ice also protein
crystal 

Cheers
Stefan


[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Can procheck or other tools report bad geometry for ligand?

2011-03-11 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Dear Roberto,

I believe there are many badly modeled ligands with distorted geometry
deposited in the PDB.
Basically, because they haven't been checked properly beforehand, so I think
running a geometry check of you desired ligand against the PDB.

I think running  your modeled geometry against the CSD would flag up easily
issues. MOGUL http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/products/csd_system/mogul/  has been
a great tool, which can be easily incorporated into COOT (ouuups). :)

Cheers
Stefan



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An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Can procheck or other tools report bad geometry for
ligand?

Hi Halliang,
If the ligands are in the pdb het dictionary I think MolProbity will look at
bonds and angles...maybe even dihedrals.
Cheers,
-bob

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Hailiang Zhang zhan...@umbc.edu wrote:
 Hi there,

 I want to found some bad geometry for my ligand (sugar rings). The 
 procheck .out file seems only shows the bad bond length or angles for 
 protein. Is there any way we can get these information for sugar rings?

 Thanks in advance!

 Hailiang



[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] coot

2011-02-28 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi Zheng

I think, it's much easier to go this way:
Coot - Extensions - NCS - Copy NCS Chain or Copy NCS Residue Range

Cheers
Stefan

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Gesendet: Montag, 28. Februar 2011 12:13
An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] coot

Hi, Stefanie

Are those 6 molecules related by NCS? If so, you can model one first, and
use transform_coords_molecule (imol, rtop) to generate others.

I used to do this five times for a pentamer:

output_pdb='template'
for i in range (2,6):
transform_coords_molecule (1, [[x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, x3, y3, z3],
[a, b, c]])
filename=output_pdb+str(i)+'.pdb'
save_coordinates (1, filename)

I think you can write all the the tranformation matrix out instead of the
loop if they differ significantly. Others may have more experience.

Best,

Joe

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM, FREITAG-POHL S.
stefanie.freitag-p...@durham.ac.uk wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 Currently I am refining my 6 x 220 amino acid structure and I was 
 wondering if COOT is automatically writing a kind of protocol what I 
 am changing in my pdb file when I am fitting-in new residues or mutate 
 amino acids. If so where can I find it?

 Thanks a lot,

 Stefanie

 Dr. Stefanie Freitag-Pohl
 Durham University
 Chemistry Dept
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 Durham.  DH1 3LE
 Tel:  0191 3342143
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[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] SC

2010-11-11 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi,

 

you should be able to run SC from the command line or from a short shell
script:

 

#!/bin/sh -f

sc xyzin FAb-antigen.pdb   eof-sc

Molecule 1

CHAIN A

MOLECULE 2

CHAIN B

end

eof-sc

 

cheers

Stefan

 

 

 

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intekhab alam
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. November 2010 09:14
An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: [ccp4bb] SC

 

I want to calculate the shape comlementarity statitics (SC) of a dimeric
protein using CCp4. I am using CCP4 6.1.3 on windows but the SC program is
not available in that suite.

Which version of CCP4 has that program. Are there any other programs that
can calculate that.

 

Thanks

-- 
INTEKHAB ALAM
LABORATORY OF STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS
KOREA UNIVERSITY, SEOUL



[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] bruker smart and mosflm

2010-11-09 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
I'd have to say, in general the easiest thing to do when confronted with
Mosflm issues is to get in touch with the authors and ask them. We are all
very friendly, approachable people who will do our best to help!


I cannot agree more with this...

Many thanks with all your help provided so far... (more needed surely soon
:) )

Cheers
Stefan


[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Format conversion of Shelx coordinate file

2010-08-31 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Coot MacGyver



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An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Format conversion of Shelx coordinate file

Hi,

What is the motto/slogan of coot?
I read so often about it on ccp4bb.

If there is not one yet, I propose:
coot, the crystallographer's swiss knife
:'D

Regards,
F.

Tim Gruene wrote:
 Hello Florian,
 
 you can read the .hat-file into coot and save it from there, changing the
 suggested file-extenstion from .ins to .pdb.
 
 In case coot crashes when it reads the .res-file, edit the file and make
sure
 there is only one END-card.
 
 Maybe shelxpro would also work.
 
 Tim
 
 On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:36:37PM -0400, Florian Schmitzberger wrote:
 Dear All,

 What is currently the quickest/easiest way to convert a .hat file with  
 fractional coordinates of heavy atoms generated by ShelxE to PDB format 
 and/or a file format accepted by Sharp?

 I tried to use coordconv from ccp4, but it failed to make the  
 conversion.

 Thank you.

 Regards,

 Florian

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[ccp4bb] NAD cif in Jligand

2010-08-25 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Dear all,

I'm trying using Jligand for generating a new ligand describition. Have to
say I'm using it for the first time, but so far it look very nice.

I trying to optimize a new lib file for a modified NAD molecule.
I'm using a nad_ebi.cif file of NAD supplied by Garib a while ago which
works fine in Refmac.

Now I working on a hydroxylated molecule of NAD (NADOH), OH group at C6N of
the nicotinamid ring of NAD.


what I have done:
starting jligand
importing the nad_ebi.cif file 
showing hydrogens
changing atom type and name of H6N to O6N of the nad_ebi.cif file
change the ligand ID to XAD
regularize XAD (ligand  regularize  XAD)
and I am always ending up with a screwed up nicotinamid ring! 

the C5N carbon atom is moving out of the aromatic ring.
I tried to change the bond type to aromatic and/or delocated of the
nicotinamid ring but it is always the same result. 

Am I doing something very bad here? Please could you advice me how to get it
right??

It is worse when I start with the original NAD dictionary directly within
Jligand !

Please try out for yourself, any help is much appreciated

Many thanks for your help
Stefan


Re: [ccp4bb] Understanding Conformational Differences

2010-04-29 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Hi Jacob,

please have a look at the program ESCET from Thomas
Schneider, which I have used to look at changes in over
hundred structures of kinases upon ligand binding.

cheers
Stefan



On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:18:38 -0500
 Jacob Keller j-kell...@md.northwestern.edu wrote:
 Dear Crystallographers,
 
 I am looking at ~20 unique crystal structures of the same
 protein in somewhat different conformations, although not
 radically different, and would like to order them somehow
 to gain an understanding of how the protein can move. Is
 there software that does this somewhat automatically?
 
 Thanks for your consideration,
 
 Jacob Keller
 
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[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] is my crystal twinned or not?

2009-07-23 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
Dear Matt,

as Eleanor pointed out your obtained solution is certainly correct, and for
2.8ang resolution almost as good as it could get. 

But could it not just be that the residual density you observed in your
electron density (There is some density for the receptor ) isn't the
receptor but another Fab fragment? Speaking from own experiences that is
very often the case if you are working on antibody-antigen complexes.

Cheers
Stefan

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2009 14:50
An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] is my crystal twinned or not?

It seems very likely your crystal is twinned - the moments and 
cumulative intensity are a good indicator of twinning, especially when 
there isnt much NCS.

But your solution is almost certainly partially correct - the Rfactor is 
pretty low.

It is a good idea to run pointless which gives you the correlation 
Coefficient for each symmetry operator. see if there is any difference 
between the different ones.)
You could have twinning with either 4-fold or 222 symmetry.

the 222 is less likely seeing that would mean the a=b axes are 
accidently equal.

  If you decide the symmetry is really PG 4 you need to remerge the data 
in that point group  ( no need to reintegrate - the cell dimensions will 
still be the same)

 The most likely solution is that one of your P43212 molecules is 
corrrect, but it is probably a good idea to run the MR search again.

Use your refined antibody molecule as the search model to save work later..

 Eleanor




Matthew Franklin wrote:
 Hi all -

 I'm trying to solve the structure of an antibody-receptor complex, and
I've hit a wall which may be due to a twinned crystal form.  This crystal
has the apparent space group P43212, with cell constants a=64.02 c=274.83.
Solvent content analysis using this space group suggests 1 mol/asu, with 47%
solvent, which would be fairly consistent with the diffraction limit of
about 2.8 A.  I've been able to place the antibody using molecular
replacement and refine it to R=0.289, Rf=0.338.  There is some density for
the receptor, which represents about 20% of the mass of the complex, but not
clear enough to build into, and all efforts to improve the density or place
the receptor by molecular replacement have failed.

 Well, tough luck, you might say, but I noticed at the very beginning of
the process that this crystal form may be a perfect twin.  The 4th moment
of E graph from Truncate shows nearly all resolution bins with values of
1.4 - 1.6, except in the very topmost few bins where the values rise up to
2.  The other moment graphs are likewise at their perfect twin values
across the resolution range.  The cumulative intensity distribution graph
shows the observed values are about 30% lower than the expected values for
both acentric and centric reflections.  As I understand it, both of these
are strong indicators of twinning, and the twin fraction analysis in DETWIN
suggests a twin fraction of ~0.5.

 So what do I do now?  I think I'm supposed to reprocess the data in the
space group without the twin transformation (which would be P43), then run
molecular replacement which should show me solutions for both halves of the
twin.  However, all I'm seeing is two copies of the antibody in the (P43)
asymmetric unit, which don't overlap, and both of which need to be present
in the same unit cell in order to form a 3-dimensional lattice.  This is
exactly what I would expect to see if there were no twinning present.

 So my question is, is this crystal form twinned or not?  Is there some way
that the intensity statistics could be misleading me?  On the other side, am
I doing something wrong with the structure determination if the crystal is
twinned?  How should I proceed?

 Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

 - Matt


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