Re: [ccp4bb] 回复:Re: [ccp4bb] pointless problem

2011-11-17 Thread Graeme Winter
Hmm I am not sure about directly importing the .x files into pointless, but you could run them through scalepack in P1 and write out no merge original index, pointless can read that. Best wishes, Graeme 2011/11/17 wangping...@sina.com: Dear Graeme, I processed my data with HKL2000, How

Re: [ccp4bb] Distinguish NH4 from Na?

2011-11-17 Thread Benini Stefano (P)
Dear Jacob, You may find useful this web site by Marjorie Harding about metal coordination sites in proteins http://tanna.bch.ed.ac.uk/ best regards Stefano Benini, Ph.D. Assistant Professor http://pro.unibz.it/staff2/sbenini/ Bio-organic Chemistry Laboratory

Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ed, you can probably set hklout to /dev/null in order to not produce the output mtz-file, but this would not prevent refmac5 from doing the calculations. Tim On 11/17/2011 06:44 AM, Ed Pozharski wrote: Is there some way to make refmac *not* to

Re: [ccp4bb] Distinguish NH4 from Na?

2011-11-17 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Jacob, for NH4+, you would expect a (partial) tetrahedral coordination with typical H-bond distances of ~2.9 A. For Na+, you would expect a (partial) octahedral coordination with Metal-to-ligand distances of ~2.4 A (see Harding, Acta Cryst., D62, 678-682 (2006); Harding, Acta Cryst.,

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless problem

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, dear Phil, how can a dataset be merged if the space group is unknown? Does pointless require the Friedel pairs present in the file, too? Tim On 11/17/2011 08:34 AM, Graeme Winter wrote: Dear Ping, You need the unmerged data for this -

[ccp4bb] CCP4 GUI problem

2011-11-17 Thread Gohlke, Ulrich
Dear colleagues, I am suddenly having a problem with starting the ccp4 Interface. Logged on as a normal user (username, group users) the Interface window pops up but hangs almost immediately (the top bar says CCP4Interface 2.1.0, the only program tab shown is Coordinate Utilities and the

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless problem

2011-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Aaagh - you merge the POINT group! Not the spacegroup... Eleanor On 11/17/2011 09:32 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, dear Phil, how can a dataset be merged if the space group is unknown? Does pointless require the Friedel pairs present in

Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
If you dont like it - delete it.. Eleanor On 11/17/2011 09:29 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ed, you can probably set hklout to /dev/null in order to not produce the output mtz-file, but this would not prevent refmac5 from doing the calculations. Tim

Re: [ccp4bb] 回复:Re: [ccp4bb] pointless problem

2011-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It doesn't matter about running scalepack in P1 - just set the nomerge option and read that sca file into pointless. Infuriationly - that file does NOT have the cell or the wavelength in the header so you have to add that by hand in the GUI Eleanor On 11/17/2011 09:03 AM, Graeme Winter wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] odd arginines

2011-11-17 Thread Dean Derbyshire
Hi all, Has anyone observed 'odd' arginine residues, missing the NH1 atom; and possibly related.. very close Chlorine-arginine (NH1 again) distances. I have a 1.3Å structure and am having trouble getting my head around some very odd density features. I have 2 molecules in the assym. with the

Re: [ccp4bb] odd arginines

2011-11-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Yes - I have seen something similar at a lower resolution, but very ugly! I tried to model it as a solvent molecule - possible but not too convincing.. Cl should give an anomalous signal - try a DANO map and see what it shows.. Eleanor On 11/17/2011 11:09 AM, Dean Derbyshire wrote: Hi all,

Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Bosch, Juergen
I was wondering yesterday why one would do this and I'm sure the original poster has a particular reason for it - I just don't understand it. Are you burning CPU cycles for benchmarking proposes and don't want to bias the result based on slow hard discs or SSD's ? Jürgen On Nov 17, 2011, at

Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Ian Tickle
I can think of at least one good reason: you might want to optimise the weights using different starting values. In that case there's no need to look at the maps until the end. But as Eleanor says you can always delete them. I would do the weight optimisation with a customised script, so this

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless problem

2011-11-17 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Eleanor, Sorry, but I don't see how your comment answers any of my two questions. Tim On 11/17/2011 12:10 PM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: Aaagh - you merge the POINT group! Not the spacegroup... Eleanor On 11/17/2011 09:32 AM, Tim

Re: [ccp4bb] odd arginines

2011-11-17 Thread Jacob Keller
I also have seen similar. I was thinking it was potentially some kind of radiation damage? Is there a good paper which examines what chemistries are seen in rad damage? Jacob On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Eleanor Dodson c...@ysbl.york.ac.uk wrote: Yes - I have seen something similar at a

Re: [ccp4bb] odd arginines

2011-11-17 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Jacob, A couple of years ago, I put together a list of papers that touch on radiation damage: http://www.p212121.com/2009/11/17/ultimate-list-on-cryocrystallography-radiation-damage/ To answer your question more directly - see pg. 40 of the following paper:

Re: [ccp4bb] how to skip map calculation in refmac

2011-11-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 11:10 +, Eleanor Dodson wrote: If you dont like it - delete it.. Eleanor I know. But what I want is to skip the calculation in some cases when the map is not needed. This currently is impossible without modifying the refmac code. Ian provides an excellent example

[ccp4bb] Magnetic anti-flag beads

2011-11-17 Thread Harman, Christine
Hi all, Sorry for the off-topic question, but I wanted to find out anyone's experience with using magnetic anti-flag beads (Sigma). I have been having a problem with the anti-flag antibody leaching from the beads during low pH elution ( which shouldn't be happening I am thinking) and was

[ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Yi-Liang Liu
Hi CCP4ers, I know it is not quiet related to CCP4. I am now working on a protein-protein complex system. I am wondering which kits I should try in a higher priority? I appreciate everyone's suggestions, and maybe there are some papers I can read first. Lucas

[ccp4bb] crystal orientation during data collection

2011-11-17 Thread yanwu huo
Hi, I worked on a crystal sensitive to radiation damage, So I need to merge many crystal to obtain complete dataset, Does anyone know such program that can tell crystal orientation after first frame exposure. Thank you in advance. -- Thank you very much and all the best, Yanwu Huo Postdoctoral

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal orientation during data collection

2011-11-17 Thread Jim Pflugrath
All the currently used diffraction image processing programs can tell the crystal orientation from a single diffraction image. Some programs like d*TREK can calculate new orientations for the crystal if the crystal is mounted on a reasonable goniometer such as the Rigaku Kappa goniostat or the

Re: [ccp4bb] Magnetic anti-flag beads

2011-11-17 Thread Ho Leung Ng
If it's the M1 antibody, you can elute with EDTA + Flag peptide. You could also try a little higher pH like 3.5. Ho Leung Ng University of Hawaii at Manoa Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry holeung...@hawaii.edu On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM, CCP4BB automatic digest system

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Ho Leung Ng
There is at least one paper describing the success of PEG precipitants for complexes, but I can't find the reference right now. Ho Ho Leung Ng University of Hawaii at Manoa Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry holeung...@hawaii.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Edward A. Berry
Ho Leung Ng wrote: There is at least one paper describing the success of PEG precipitants for complexes, but I can't find the reference right now. Is this it? http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0021889802013973 J. Appl. Cryst. (2002). 35, 674-676[ doi:10.1107/S0021889802013973 ]

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:03 -0600, Yi-Liang Liu wrote: Hi CCP4ers, I know it is not quiet related to CCP4. I am now working on a protein-protein complex system. I am wondering which kits I should try in a higher priority? I appreciate everyone's suggestions, and maybe there are some papers

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex Screening

2011-11-17 Thread Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]
I would recommend Qiagen's ProComplex and JCSG+, and Emerald's Precipitant Synergy. - Original Message - From: Ho Leung Ng [mailto:h...@hawaii.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 07:23 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Protein Complex

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal orientation during data collection

2011-11-17 Thread Frank Murphy
Yanwu, I surmise from your question that you are inquiring how to go about collecting from many crystals optimally. Merging data ex post facto is a totally different kettle of fish. In my opinion, the most robust way to go about this is to use a kappa goniometer as Jim suggested (I am most