Re: [ccp4bb] educational opportunity: Difference between SIRAS and SAD?

2009-02-19 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hi - Single isomorphous replacement with anomalous scattering uses two datasets that are isomorphous while using the anomalous signal in one (here scattering and dispersion are synonymous?). How does SIRAS use the anomalous scattering signal that's different than a single wavelength anomalous

[ccp4bb] Default anisotropic B-factor refinement in phenix.refine?!

2009-02-19 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4ers and phenix developers, although, this is not the phenix mailing list, this might still be useful for users as a pointer and for the developers of phenix for, maybe, improving phenix. If you refine a macromolecular structure with phenix.refine using TLS and isotropic

Re: [ccp4bb] educational opportunity: Difference between SIRAS and SAD?

2009-02-19 Thread Ian Tickle
-Original Message- From: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Francis E Reyes Sent: 18 February 2009 23:32 To: ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: educational opportunity: Difference between SIRAS and SAD? (here scattering and dispersion are

[ccp4bb] First Announcement: 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology

2009-02-19 Thread Li Yazhuo
Title: First Announcement: 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology Hi Cristina, there is another symposium which is might be very interesting. http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009 panda First Announcement: 7th INTERNATIONAL NCCR SYMPOSIUM ON NEW

[ccp4bb] Drug Discovery Informatics Workshop, Oxford July 2009, Bursary awards available

2009-02-19 Thread barry . hardy
We are running the eCheminfo drug discovery workshop week at Oxford University this year the week of 20 - 24 July. Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using computational drug discovery methods and discuss issues highlighted by examples and Case Studies presented by

[ccp4bb] Rational design of ligands

2009-02-19 Thread Ray Changrui Lu
Hello all, Does anybody happen to know any programs capable of designing small inhibitors from a known protein-ligand crystal structure? Many thanks. best, Ray Changrui Lu Cornell University

Re: [ccp4bb] Default anisotropic B-factor refinement in phenix.refine?!

2009-02-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Dirk, thanks a lot for your feedback. If you refine a macromolecular structure with phenix.refine using TLS and isotropic B-factors, the resulting PDB file will have the effective isotropic B-factors and their anisotropic corrections as ANISOU cards from both the TLS components and the

[ccp4bb] Van der Waals Interaction Distances

2009-02-19 Thread Jim Fairman
Fellow CCP4 Board Members, What is the general consensus of the structural biology community for a range of distances that would be considered a Van der Waals contact/interaction (eg: hydrogen bonds are usually considered to be 2.5-3.5 angstroms not including the hydrogen atoms)? Cheers, Jim --

[ccp4bb] Offtopic-ish: Ubuntu Laptop

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen Weeks
Dear BBers, I would like to treat myself to a new laptop which will be my primary use machine (i.e I want to run all the usual crystallography packages, hopefully write a few papers, watch Lost online and pay the bills when needs be). Although I am an ardent Apple fan I find it difficult

Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic-ish: Ubuntu Laptop

2009-02-19 Thread James Stroud
You don't need a MacBook Pro. The bottom of the line MacBook will work fine for crystallography ($999). On the other hand, my experience with Ubuntu is that it is also fine for crystallography software. The only real issues are hardware drivers (especially video, sound, wireless). But if

Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic-ish: Ubuntu Laptop

2009-02-19 Thread Anthony Addlagatta
Stephen, Its not my intention to woo you to buy an apple product. I bought an ibook (NOT the macbook pro) more than 5 years ago (1.2 GHz, upgraded to 1.25 GB RAM and 160 GB hard drive). Still as fast as many new pc based laptops (I have two of these in my home but rarely use them). I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Van der Waals Interaction Distances

2009-02-19 Thread Pius Padayatti
Table 1 Numerical data for X–H···Y contacts with H···Y 3.0 Å (2.7 Å for H···H contacts). Data for normalised H-atom positions MeanMeanMean Contact typeNumber H···Y (Å) X···Y (Å) X–H···Y (°) C(sp3)–O–H···ONC33301.974(6)

Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic-ish: Ubuntu Laptop

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen Weeks
Agreed, the Macbook is a good price (plus I overlooked the Core2Duo processor - thanks) but I was thinking of getting something with more screen real estate after being spoiled looking at cinema displays all day. For some reason the Pro just seems poorly priced when you compare it on features

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: ligand enrichment

2009-02-19 Thread Charlie Bond
Yingjie Peng wrote: .. After I have solved my strucutre, I have found my target ligand bound at the potential binding site. Also, I have found that there are two more ligand molecules bound along the path from solvent to the binding site. I think this can enrich the ligand to binding site,