[ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear CCP4ers, is there a program around that allows to fill an input map or mask with dummy atoms? Best regards, Dirk. -- *** Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich, A5.07 Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

[ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread Rex Palmer
Can anyone reccomend a free download program that will calculate the energy of a protein/ligand complex? The ligand has been modelled in. Thanks Rex Palmer Birkeck College

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
... maybe, to clarifiy my question a little bit: I want to fill an essentially flat cryo-EM-map with dummy atoms. So, a peak search doesn't work. I would need a program that fills this map with dummy atoms for a few things that I want to try with this atomic representation. Best regards,

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Doesnt arp/warp start with doing something like this? If you gave a 0/1 mask I wonder what the first build would look like.. You would have to invent a reflection file for the map ... E On 10/13/2010 12:49 PM, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: ... maybe, to clarifiy my question a little bit: I want to

Re: [ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Rex Palmer wrote: Can anyone reccomend a free download program that will calculate the energy of a protein/ligand complex? The ligand has been modelled in. Thanks Rex Palmer Birkeck College Hi Rex, I think any refinement program such as CNS will do this - problem is, since these programs

Re: [ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Rex, Not withstanding Fred's reply just to also mention that in our study:- G.M. Bradbrook, T. Gleichmann, S.J. Harrop, J. Habash, J. Raftery, A.J. Kalb (Gilboa), J. Yariv, I H Hillier and J.R. Helliwell “X–ray and molecular dynamics studies of concanavalin A glucoside and mannoside

Re: [ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Victor Lamzin
Dear Dirk, For filling an input map you can try ARP/wARP in an 'old-fashion' way. The script below should place DUM atoms (1.1 times the requested number) into the highest density. Prepare your map in the CCP4 format, for example in P1, extended to cover the asymmetric unit in full (0 1 0 1 0

[ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Tanner, John J.
Flood fills a map with water molecules. http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/flood_man.html On 10/13/10 6:49 AM, Dirk Kostrewa kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de wrote: ... maybe, to clarifiy my question a little bit: I want to fill an essentially flat cryo-EM-map with dummy atoms. So, a peak search doesn't

Re: [ccp4bb] Need suggestions for protein: ligand ratio for co-crystallization

2010-10-13 Thread Ed Pozharski
Lei, 1. Consider making the complex and then purifying the excess peptide away by dialysis (size exclusion may be tricky since complex may be diluted in the process). 2. Conventional wisdom would be to try to minimize the amount of excess peptide as it may interfere with crystallization. But

Re: [ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread Christina Bourne
Would APBS do what you want? http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/apbs/ It has interfaces with Pymol, VMD and others... From: Rex Palmer rex.pal...@btinternet.com To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 6:43:49 AM Subject: [ccp4bb] protein ligand

Re: [ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread Robert Esnouf
Dear Rex, It certainly matters what you mean by the energy of a protein ligand complex. And whether you are comparing a series of related similar structures or looking for an absolute energy. The problem is that there is no such thing as an absolute energy, it is always relative to something

Re: [ccp4bb] protein ligand energy

2010-10-13 Thread Martyn Winn
This is all true. And I think the bottom line is that it is extremely non-trivial to get a meaningful number. The Amber MM-PBSA script is the best established one. We have an equivalent CHARMM-based script at: http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/cbg/software/charmm/ But I guess this is beyond the

[ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Chan
Hello All, I am a graduate student working on my first merohedrally twinned data set. Like a few, I am a bit intimidated by it. After some trial and error with the help of some online resources and ccp4bb posts, I seem to have solved the structure. However, I am still unsure about some of the

[ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizens: Try not to laugh. I have an embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question: Why is it that F in this picture isn't required to be vertical (purely imaginary)? http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/~sawaya/tutorials/Phasing/phase.gif (Similarly in the Harker diagram of the intersection of

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Bernhard Rupp
The image is actually from http://www.ruppweb.org/Xray/tutorial/vectordiag.htm but the first image is missing. There you see that the 'vectors' are actually (general acentric) structure factors for a single anomalous atom, and each of those of course has a real and imaginary component. The

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Bill, the picture does not show Fa (as a vector), but the vector addition Fp+Fa+iFa (it might be a naming convention of the picture to write Fa instead of iFa, but that's a matter of taste really). Furthermore Fa has the same phase as Fa plus the contribution of i, which corresponds to the

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Daniel Anderson
The Fa vector is always a 90 degree left turn from the Fa vector. For a centrosymmetric heavy atom substructure such as 1 mercury site in P21, the Fa vector would point straight up or down. hope that helps, Citizen Dan William Scott wrote: Hi Citizens: Try not to laugh. I have an

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Jacob Keller
Isn't the simplest answer that this is not really an Argand diagram with real and imaginary axes, but simply a diagram showing the graphical addition of the component phasors of the atom's scattering components? And aren't real and imaginary relative terms anyway (in more ways than one, I

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4i has no longer control of the current database error

2010-10-13 Thread Seema Nath
Please check the project directory temporary directory is correct or not. Initially I faced the same problem for not assigning the correct project directory (I use it Windows, but the problem also occured in Linux system). If you are running CCP4 in Windows make sure that the folder CCP4

[ccp4bb] cad, freerflag, uniqueify : free set when making anomalous from merged data

2010-10-13 Thread Lepore, Bryan
[ ccp4 6.1.13 ] [ gui 2.0.6 ] if a data set with merged Bijvoet pairs and a free set is then made anomalous - i.e. re-scaled with separated Bijvoet pairs - i do not understand how acentric reflections in the free set are extended by cad or freerflag or uniqueify. the easy question : is

[ccp4bb] twinning and refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Arnon Lavie
Hello: I am puzzled (probably shows my lack of understanding) by a REFMAC output using the TWIN option. My data set is in space group 145 (P32), with a twinning factor (according to the twining server) of ~ 40% along a*,b*. In this space group there are three possible twinning operators,

Re: [ccp4bb] twinning and refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Garib N Murshudov
Hello I guess you are using 5.5. In this version in the beginning twin fractions are just initial values. They need to be refined. This are potential twin operators. Further down in the log file there should be Rmerge for each twin operator and estimated twin fractions. What are they? Can you

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Yong Y Wang
It is already vertical, relative to the real part of Fa (in red), i.e. the blue vector is always vertical to the red vector in this picture (and counter-clockwise). Yong William Scott wgsc...@chemistry.ucsc.edu Sent by: CCP4 bulletin board CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 10/13/2010 01:48 PM Please

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Garib N Murshudov
As a general rule intensity based refinement gives higher R-factor especially when intensities are weak. Truncate smoothes out data and Rfactors become lower (it is not necessary that model becomes better) In your case it may happen that your space group is higher. To check that you can do

[ccp4bb] Summary : [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread William Scott
Thanks for the overwhelming response. I think I probably didn't phrase the question quite right, but I pieced together an answer to the question I wanted to ask, which hopefully is right. On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:14 PM, SHEPARD William wrote: It is very simple, the structure factor for the

[ccp4bb] Fill map/mask with dummy atoms?

2010-10-13 Thread Alex Shkumatov
Dear Dirk You might find one of the programs mentioned by Andreas below useful for your purpose. Cheers Alex Am 28.07.2010 um 18:26 schrieb Andreas Förster docandr...@gmail.com: Here's a preliminary summary of the suggestions I got from the ccp4 community regarding the problem stated

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary : [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Bill, The discussion is becoming complicated because of the mixing of notations. There is a theory or model which describes the atomic scattering factor as f = f0 + f' +if from which the structure factor is calculated. That right angle that you see in the picture you sent us with that

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary : [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread Lijun Liu
Bill, If I understand you correctly, the problem turns to be understanding coordinate system. The coordinate system in the plot in your original email is not a complex one but a polar coordinate system [|F| and phase (polar angle)]. In order to add the contribution of an atom with

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Chan
Hello Garib, Thank you for the reply helpful insight. I ran the refinement of structure factor amplitudes without the TWIN command, and obtained much higher R and Rfree (32% and 36%). Also, in the process, I found out that I made a mistake earlier in that the amplitudes were refined as

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Chan
Hello Fred, Thank you for the response. I have made a mistake in the twin refinement settings (see the other email) and the best R Rfree values I obtained were from the twin refinement of structure factor amplitudes, which is about 1% less than the twin refinement of intensities. I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Chan
I see. Thank you for the reassuring and helpful pointers. Best, Peter Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac From: ga...@ysbl.york.ac.uk Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:55:56 +0100 CC: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK To: pc...@hotmail.com It seems that evidence is convincing:

Re: [ccp4bb] Twin - Data reduction and refinement in Refmac

2010-10-13 Thread Garib N Murshudov
It seems that evidence is convincing: twin is present. All evidences indicate that space group is P6(5) and twin is present. Theoretically that is what you would expect at the end of refinement if twin is present: Huge drop in Rfactor and marginal improvement if any in electron density.

[ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread Jacob Keller
While we are on embarrassingly simple questions, I have wondered for a long time what is the reference phase for reflections? I.e. a given phase of say 45deg is 45deg relative to what? Is it the centrosymmetric phases? Or a theoretical wave from the origin? Jacob Keller - Original

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread William G. Scott
On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: While we are on embarrassingly simple questions, I have wondered for a long time what is the reference phase for reflections? I.e. a given phase of say 45deg is 45deg relative to what? Is it the centrosymmetric phases? Or a theoretical wave

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread James Holton
It is relative to a single point electron at the origin. -James Holton MAD Scientist On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu wrote: While we are on embarrassingly simple questions, I have wondered for a long time what is the reference phase for

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread Lijun Liu
When talking about the reflection phase: While we are on embarrassingly simple questions, I have wondered for a long time what is the reference phase for reflections? I.e. a given phase of say 45deg is 45deg relative to what? = Relative to a defined 0. Is it the centrosymmetric

[ccp4bb] crystal growth

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Hsu
Hi all, I found some microcrystals the other day in some trays grown at 4C. Strangely enough, they disappeared the next day after putting them back in the fridge overnight, but after letting the tray sit at RT for 5-10 min, the microcrystals reappeared. Leaving them at RT for 2-3 hrs, and then

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary : [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread William G. Scott
On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Tim Gruene wrote: Dear Bill, The discussion is becoming complicated because of the mixing of notations. There is a theory or model which describes the atomic scattering factor as f = f0 + f' +if from which the structure factor is calculated. That right angle

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread Jacob Keller
So let's say I am back in the good old days before computers, hand-calculating the MIR phase of my first reflection--would I just set that phase to zero, and go from there, i.e. that wave will define/emanate from the origin? And why should I choose f000 over f010 or whatever else? Since I have no

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Does f000 mean the direct beam? Having a hard time imagining such a miller index or the corresponding planes... No, F000 is NOT the direct beam. I may not have made that clear enough in some of my drawings and captions, and it will be emphasized in the second printing/ebook. There is in fact

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal growth

2010-10-13 Thread Seema Nath
I used NaF in the precipitant thrice for three different proteins to be crystallized each time I got crystals and they were all salt crystals ! I thought low solubility of NaF causes this quick crystallization of salt. Recently I got crystals of a protein at 20 degree grown in gradient

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread Lijun Liu
So let's say I am back in the good old days before computers, hand-calculating the MIR phase of my first reflection--would I just set that phase to zero, and go from there, i.e. that wave will define/emanate from the origin? I do not think this could be done to get the origin correctly

Re: [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question (another)

2010-10-13 Thread James Holton
An interesting guide to doing phasing by hand is to look at direct methods (I recommend Stout Jensen's chapter on this). In general there are several choices for the origin in any given space group, so for the first reflection you set about trying to phase you get to resolve the phase