Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Is there any parameter which i had to check. Yes, the contour levels of your mFo-DFc map... (My guess is that you are contouring at an arbitrary low level - say, 3 sigma.) --dvd ** Gerard J.

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Eleanor Dodson
The obvious Q is whether there is some additive in the crystallisation or cryo which could be showing up in the maps.. But in such a high symmetry space group is it possible that the blobs are on some symmetry axis? I sometimes observe awful holes or peaks on 3 fold axes, where I think any

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread George M. Sheldrick
As Eleanor says, errors in an electron density map tend to accumulate on special positions, i.e. on rotation axes (there are plenty of them in F432). There are statistical reason for this and the effect is often observed in small molecule crystallography. In such cases attempts to put atoms (e.g.

[ccp4bb] CCP4 Study Weekend - live stream

2010-01-06 Thread charles . ballard
Dear All hopefully there will be a live stream of this years events (weather permitting as the UK is suffering travel restrictions due to snow and ice) at http://extrplay.dl.ac.uk/ the session links should go live about 15 minutes before the session begins Charles Ballard CCP4 -- Scanned by

Re: [ccp4bb] Anions in protein structures

2010-01-06 Thread Stephen Graham
A good place to start is P. Müller, S. Köpke and G. M. Sheldrick (2003) Is the bond-valence method able to identify metal atoms in protein structures? Acta Cryst. (2003). D59, 32-37[ doi:10.1107/S0907444902018000 ] Cheers, Stephen 2010/1/5 Clayton, Gina Martyn gina_clay...@merck.com:

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
Rajan, I'll second what Eleanor and George have said - high symmetry space groups with noisy Intensity measurements (perhaps it was a weak data set with high Rmerge?) really exaggerates the amount of garbage that you see in the maps. Cheers- Steve From:

[ccp4bb] Cavity filling

2010-01-06 Thread Simon Kolstoe
Dear ccp4bb A structure I have recently finished has a cavity with four waters in it. I am wondering if I might be able to fit a small molecule in the same place. Does anyone know a way of making some type of map of this cavity and then searching through a small molecule library to see

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Rajan, Likely you have the habit, like me and I suspect most people, to contour difference maps at +/- 3 sigma. In the beginning of refinement, these difference map will have significant peaks at 3 sigma, i.e. positive peaks were there is nothing and there should be atoms and negative

Re: [ccp4bb] Cavity filling

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Gruene
If I remember correctly, arp/warp and/or phenix/resolve can do something of that kind. Did you check the documentation of these programs? Tim -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Simon Kolstoe wrote:

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral training fellow in Computational Biology and Chemogenomics at The Institute of Cancer Research

2010-01-06 Thread Rob vanMontfort
Dear all, See below a post-doc position available at the Institute of cancer Research posted on behalf of my colleague Bissan Al-Lazikani which might be interesting for someone with a structural background. Please don't reply to me. Rob van Montfort The Institute of Cancer Research (a

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Artem Evdokimov
In addition to what the others have mentioned, if you're curious about sigma levels to contour you may want to deliberately omit an atom from your structure (say an ordered oxygen in a good portion of the structure) - the height of the difference density peak would be meaningful and you then could

[ccp4bb] Practical workshop on the use of longer wavelength in Structural Biology - ESRF 18-19 February 2010 - REMINDER - January 24 Deadline

2010-01-06 Thread Daniele de Sanctis
This is just to remind you, after the holidays, that the deadline for the applications is approaching... = Practical workshop on the use of longer wavelengths in Structural Biology *The routine accessibility, on some macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines at SR sources, of

Re: [ccp4bb] Judging a homology model

2010-01-06 Thread Raja Dey
Hi, I agree, that dissimilarities in residues will propagate error in the model. But, at the same time more similarities supposed to increase the quality of the model. Similarities and identities between A and B and also between B and C are more than that between A and C. Dissimilarities are as

[ccp4bb] Announcement: SDsearch 2.0 released

2010-01-06 Thread John Badger
The SDsearch software is used to search compound libraries in the form of SD files over chemical properties and chemical substructures. SDsearch 2.0 now adds multi-conformer docking to check the steric compatibility of compounds that contain positioned subfragments within protein target sites.

Re: [ccp4bb] Cavity filling

2010-01-06 Thread Oliv Eidam
Hi Simon, I suggest docking with the free web service DockBlaster: http://blaster.docking.org/start.shtml DockBlaster runs DOCK 3.5.54 and gives you the freedom to dock any molecule you want into your structure. Check out this page for more information:

[ccp4bb] open source project announce: parallel/distributed execution of commands

2010-01-06 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, In order to process things in parallel I developed a simple tool to run (for the moment) parameter sweep applications. I.e. you want to run many times the same program with only different input parameters. It can be used to parallelize execution on a multi processor machine or even to