Re: [ccp4bb] Why appear the grid on the low resolution areas

2010-09-14 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Interesting! it appears to be some kind of secondary order...I hope someone wise/experienced can shed more light on this. the diffraction spots appear to fall consistently in the middle of the hexagonal(ish) grid lines, so it must be some partial order effect related to the unit cell. do you

Re: [ccp4bb] Why appear the grid on the low resolution areas

2010-09-14 Thread Felix Frolow
Xingliangzhang These are Kikuchi lines that usually are observed in the electron diffraction from thick specimen. For X-ray they are called Kossel lines. Well, if you are so called high throughput structural biologist, you can forget about that, It is hard core diffraction physics. But if you

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular replacement question

2010-09-14 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Paul Holland, I would spend some time in improving the search model, first. If there are more than one possible search molecules in the PDB, I usually do a structural alignment (ssm superposition) to get an idea about the flexibility of the search molecules. Then I remove all parts that

Re: [ccp4bb] Why appear the grid on the low resolution areas

2010-09-14 Thread Daniel Picot
Dear Xingliang, This is vaguely reminiscent to a pattern that was observed by Zora Markovic-Housley on precession picture of crystals of ornithine aminotransferase: the even layer (l=2n) had a nice pattern diffracting to high resolution while the odd layer (l=2n+1) had a honeycomb

Re: [ccp4bb] Method to calculate the axis of an alpha helix

2010-09-14 Thread Ian Tickle
Yuan, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, 商元 shangyuan5...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, lan. For quaternions, it needs w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2=1, thus reduces variables to 3. The number of degrees of freedom is of course reduced to 3 but the number of variables is still to all intents and purposes 4, since

[ccp4bb] Improved Uniformity of the EMDB Map Archive

2010-09-14 Thread Cathy Lawson
Dear CCP4 List Members, We are pleased to announce that a more uniform set of 3DEM map files is now available through EMDataBank.org search services and ftp mirror sites. Over this summer, our team carried out a comprehensive remediation project involving every map file archived in the EMDB.

[ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Dr. Mark Mayer
Here's one for the community, which I'll post to both Phenix and CCP4 BBs. Where does the crystallographic community stand on deposition of coordinates with riding hydrogens? Explicit H are required for calculating all atom clash scores with Molprobity, and their use frequently gives better

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:34:00 am Dr. Mark Mayer wrote: Here's one for the community, which I'll post to both Phenix and CCP4 BBs. Where does the crystallographic community stand on deposition of coordinates with riding hydrogens? I do not favor depositing riding hydrogen

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Even though SHELXL refinements often involve resolutions of 1.5A or better, I discourage SHELXL users from depositing their hydrogen coordinates. There are three reasons: 1. The C-H, N-H and O-H distances required to give the best fit to the electron density are significantly shorter than

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Ethan, I do not favor depositing riding hydrogen coordinates for the same reason that I do not like the recent PDB preference for depositing ANISOU records for structures that have been refined with TLS. In both cases the enumeration of these many thousands of parameter values gives the

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 12:44:37 pm Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Ethan, I do not favor depositing riding hydrogen coordinates for the same reason that I do not like the recent PDB preference for depositing ANISOU records for structures that have been refined with TLS. In both

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Ethan, yes, you are absolutely right, you would need to define somehow where your model is... But you could, at least hypothetically, use non-atomic models for this! Like cylinders (*), spheres and similar shapes. This is what the density looks like at those super-low resolutions. (*)

[ccp4bb] Sep 15, 2010 deadline- User proposal submission for Collaborative Crystallography at BCSB

2010-09-14 Thread Banumathi Sankaran
Dear Users, The deadline for Nov/Dec 2010 Collaborative Crystallography proposals will be *Sep 15, 2010. * Through the Collaborative Crystallography Program (CC) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS),

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular replacement question

2010-09-14 Thread xaravich ivan
Two questions. What is the resolution of your data? what is the percentage sequence identity? even if you are confident of C2, try using PHASER with all space groups and searching for 2-4 monomers. Ivan On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Paul Holland pholl...@umd.edu wrote: Hello fellow

[ccp4bb] How to get a seq.data file from a FASTA file?

2010-09-14 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, First, sorry for this not directly CCP4-related question. I have some software here that requires a seq.data file as one of its inputs: any idea on how to create such a file from a FASTA file? Here is how the expected file looks like for protein 101M (it is named seq.dat): --- 1

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get a seq.data file from a FASTA file?

2010-09-14 Thread Francois Berenger
Reply to myself: The author changed his program so that only the 2 first columns are needed now, and they are obvious enough. Regards, F. Francois Berenger wrote: Hello, First, sorry for this not directly CCP4-related question. I have some software here that requires a seq.data file as one

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2010-09-14 Thread Ed Pozharski
Mark, On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:34 -0400, Dr. Mark Mayer wrote: Where does the crystallographic community stand on deposition of coordinates with riding hydrogens? Surely community is divided on this. There could be arguments made both ways. Personally, I think that riding hydrogens can be