[ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-01-28 Thread REX PALMER
What programs are available for processing Laue data to produce an intensity data set? Are explanatory notes or publications available?   Rex Palmer Birkbeck College

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-01-28 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Rex, I can speak for the 'Daresbury Laue Software Suite', which is available with full documentation and tutorials from :- http://www.srs.ac.uk/px/jwc_laue/laue_top.html A wide range of validation tests involving both biological and chemical crystallography have been made of the software and

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-01-28 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Rex, the most popular one seems the Daresbury Laboratory Laue Software Suite, available via http://www.srs.ac.uk/px/jwc_laue/laue_top.html I have not, though, managed to compile the whole suite. There is also a commercial product from renzresearch.com, as M. Blakeley has pointed out to me.

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Re: [ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-01-28 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Hao Quan, Yes I forgot about CHESS; apologies. Charles Ballard helped with the recent installation at the Diamond Test Beamline. The modifications to read the Photonic Science detector Laue images on the Diamond Test Beamline have been made by Karen Ashton and Steve Kinder based at the

[ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread José Trincão
Hello all, I have been trying to squeeze the most out of a bad data set (P1, anisotropic, crystals not reproducible). I had very incomplete data due to high mosaicity and lots of overlaps. The completeness was about 80% overall to ~3A. Yesterday I noticed that I could process the data much

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Jürgen Bosch
Bad data = processing with XDS Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab:

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Ian Tickle
Jose - you're missing the fact that the same dataset processed in different ways are not statistically independent datasets! Increasing the multiplicity for independent data reduces the uncertainty because the calculation of the SU assumes statistical independence. Cheers -- Ian On Fri, Jan

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread José Trincão
Ah, yes, I was missing that. The statistics will be wrong. But in principle I will get an mtz with better data, because I am integrating more observations which would have been rejected by being missed at low resolution if the mosaicity was set too low or being rejected by overlaps at high

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Jürgen, is this an assignment operator or an equal sign? For if it's the latter it could read that the result of processing data with XDS are bad data, which is rather rude and probably not what you meant. Tim On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:55:43AM -0500, Jürgen Bosch wrote: Bad data =

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Bosch, Juergen
I was a bit reductive with my statement (iPhone) The equation below is suppose to read: If you have bad data, then you need to process with XDS in order to get the maximum out of your data. Thanks Tim, Jürgen - Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
I have heard this before. I'm wondering though, does anybody know of a systematic study where different data processing programs are compared with real-life, non-lysozyme data? Bert On 1/28/11 7:58 AM, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: I was a bit reductive with my statement

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Yes. But we have not published this. Mark Robien and I did a systematic study on about 30 data sets while we were at SGPP. The easy cases can be processed with anything the difficult cases worked only with XDS. This was mostly SeMet data or HA data, so de novo phasing no MR stuff. If you compare

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Bert, here is one anecdotal evidence: a couple of years ago, I had one real in-house 3 A data set from a crystal after a quick iodide soak and processed the images with denzo/scalepack, mosflm/scala and xds/xscale. I got lower Rsym, higher I/sig(I) and better anomalous signal with xds.

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
Interesting! But when will it be published? :-) On 1/28/11 8:45 AM, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: Yes. But we have not published this. Mark Robien and I did a systematic study on about 30 data sets while we were at SGPP. The easy cases can be processed with anything the difficult

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
... but, back to the main point, my advice would be to only limit the mosaicity, to get better completeness by avoiding overlaps. Its not ideal, in the sense that you would be over-estimating the partial fraction of most partial reflections, and thus systematically underestimating

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Hovestreydt, Eric
James Swindell, UGeorgia had a presentation Evaluating the role of data reduction approach on the success rate on Sulfur-SAS phasing for a moderately diffracting crystal at PittCon, Oct 2009, comparing HKL, d*TREK, XDS, Proteum2 Mosflm MfG, rgds, Eric Phone: +49 (721) 50997-5311 /

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Bryan Lepore
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:45, Bosch, Juergen jubo...@jhsph.edu wrote: Mark Robien and I did a systematic study on about 30 data sets while we were at SGPP. can you name the detector(s)? -Bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Herman . Schreuder
My experience (unpublished) is that XDS works very well for high-mosaicity crystals due to the 3-dimensional profile fitting. For low mosaicity crystals, I did not notice much of a difference between different programs. However, since bad crystals tend to have a high to very high mosaicity, I

[ccp4bb] research software developer vacancy at EMBL Hamburg

2011-01-28 Thread Victor Lamzin
Dear all, There is a staff member vacancy for a Research Software Developer at the EMBL Unit in Hamburg, Germany. The post holder will have a leading role in technical implementation and scientific development of the ARP/wARP software for crystallographic structure determination and the

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Colin Nave
Can people say how high mosaicity is defined. High relative to what? Is it high relative to the rotation range for each image, high relative to the incident beam divergence, high relative to the (angular) detector resolution or something else? Regards Colin From: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Herman . Schreuder
For me, it means a reflecting-range (as defined by XDS) of 5-10 or more degrees and spots being visible on at least 5 or more frames (when using 1° frames). Good crystals (in our hands) have reflection-ranges in the order of 0.5-1.0°. Of course we trust that the synchrotron where we measure

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-01-28 Thread Marian Szebenyi
A version of the Daresbury Laue programs that can process ADSC CCD data (Q-210, Q-315, etc.), and also has some improvements to the indexing routine for the case of sparse diffraction patterns, is available from CHESS, ftp://waterline.chess.cornell.edu/pub Some documentation (as text files)

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Bryan Lepore
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:35 AM, herman.schreu...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: [...] due to the 3-dimensional profile fitting. what is the specific difference between 3-d profile fitting and using a sliding window of more than one image? -Bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Jim Pflugrath
You should know that your crystal mosaicity is a physical property of your crystals and the diffraction experiment. Generally, it is anisotropic though most programs output a single value. How can that single value describe what is really happening in your experimental data? You can do

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Jim's comment brings us back to the Dauter in us, or better the Dauter which should be in us. Data Data Data ! Before shooting take a moment and think about the experiment. How do you collect the best possible data from a bad crystal. Investing time at the beginning always pays off (unless the

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Pete Meyer
A few things that might be worth looking at: 1. How is your beam divergence varying as you fix mosaicity at different levels? Does it look relatively stable at a realistic value for the beamline? If I'm remembering correctly, mosaicity and beam divergence are highly correlated within

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Edward A. Berry
I see two questions here: -Can we assume an unrealistically low mosaicity in order to reduce overlaps. -Is there any benefit in merging data from the same frames integrated with different strategy? As for cheating on the mosaicity, which I euphemistically call peak sampling, I think it can

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align electron density maps?

2011-01-28 Thread RONG hui Rong
Dear All, I have the problem as follows, but I can not find the corresponding solution. Can somebody give me some suggestions? Many Thanks, Hui Rong * [PyMOL] aligning electron density maps Eksterowicz, John

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align electron density maps?

2011-01-28 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Hui, (sorry for non-ccp4 recipe) IF I understand correctly what you want to do, then I guess you can achieve this using Map Superposition: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/superpose_maps.htm and/or Structure Comparison tools in PHENIX:

[ccp4bb] iMosflm execution error

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew T. Torelli
To the CCP4bb, I am working on installing the latest version of iMosflm (version 1.0.5) on my computer (running Ubuntu 10.10 (Meerkat). I've followed the installation instructions at the following link. I also have CCP4 ver. 6.1 and ActiveTcl ver. 8.4.19.3 installed and working (as

Re: [ccp4bb] iMosflm execution error

2011-01-28 Thread Harry
Hi Andy I haven't seen that one before. I have a Maverick Meerkat at work, so I can check on Monday to see if it's something that is peculiar to that. On my old Jaunty Jackalope at home, I don't see the error when I install the 32-bit Linux version. Can you let me know if iMosflm works

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align electron density maps?

2011-01-28 Thread RONG hui Rong
It does work well. That is great! Many Thanks! On 1/28/11, Pavel Afonine pafon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hui, (sorry for non-ccp4 recipe) IF I understand correctly what you want to do, then I guess you can achieve this using Map Superposition:

[ccp4bb] FW: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Colin Nave
Herman Thanks. 5-10 degrees is certainly high whatever definition one uses. In the list I gave, I didn't include relative to the angular separation of the diffraction spots in reciprocal space. I would like to say that I didn't include it to see if anyone else came up with this one.

Re: [ccp4bb] Noisy difference maps with high solvent content?

2011-01-28 Thread Dale Tronrud
Hi, This sort of problem can occur if you are missing your lowest resolution data and/or your model for the bulk solvent is inappropriate. You might want to double check these issues. With 80% solvent you have to be careful when choosing your contour level. If you are a fan of normalized

Re: [ccp4bb] Noisy difference maps with high solvent content?

2011-01-28 Thread Jacob Keller
Are you sure that the space group is right? P4132 is cubic, so the spots should have equal spacing on the detector, i.e., squares. Don't you have rectangles? Even the least distorted spots towards the beamstop (bottom right?) seem to be non-square rectangles. JPK On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread Johan Turkenburg
Hi Dirk, This example compares integration software in combination with the scaling program, which is what usually happens. Obviously, the scaling program does more than just scaling, it also handles rejections. It is possibly this procedure that makes most of the difference. For example, the

[ccp4bb] Buffers for crystallization

2011-01-28 Thread Ray Brown
Hi Chandan, The answer to your question about buffers is to use any buffer that does not bind to metal ions like zinc for example. I have used TRIS and MES myself successfully for crystallization of zinc finger proteins. What kind of zinc fingers do you have? If there is histidine then you

Re: [ccp4bb] Noisy difference maps with high solvent content?

2011-01-28 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Todd, in addition to all other suggestions, here is some basic sanity check that you can do in no time: - how the R-factor vs Resolution plot looks like? - did the bulk-solvent correction was done right (what are k_sol and B_sol values)? - plot the scatterer graph Fobs vs Fmodel and see if

Re: [ccp4bb] iMosflm execution error

2011-01-28 Thread Leiman Petr
Dear Andy, We have seen this error since forever on our Ubuntu boxes (I believe starting from ubuntu ver. 8.04). This is what the latest version of imosflm outputs on startup: lbbspc2 ~ imosflm MOSFLM_EXEC set to /usr/local/lbbs/ccp4/current/bin/ipmosflm [: 180: =: unexpected operator testing

[ccp4bb] Singapore Research, facts and comments?

2011-01-28 Thread Jacob Wong
Dear All, sorry for this off-topic inquiry. I am interested in knowing about the current scientific research in Singapore but have had hard time finding the most up-to-date articles/comments on this. All I could find are the articles a few years back in Science and Nature. Would appreciate a