[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position at Umeå University, Sweden

2012-04-13 Thread Karina Persson
Dear All, A two year post-doctoral position (stipend) is available in the laboratory of Karina Persson at Umea University, Sweden. The project will involve structural characterizations of adhesins and associated proteins from Gram-positive bacteria using X-ray crystallographic methods.

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT Real Space Refinement keyboard shortcut??

2012-04-13 Thread Petra Lukacik
Dear Chris Are you trying to use the standard key binding a refine with auto-zone? Mine does not work whilst others such as m and n for zooming out and in do. For a I get the following message in the terminal: (graphics-general-key-press-hook 97) Key 97 not found in (scheme) key bindings Any

Re: [ccp4bb] Yeast plasmid DNA miniprep problem

2012-04-13 Thread Philipp Ellinger
Hi Zhen, I also had problems with low amounts of plasmid from yeast using 5 ml o/n cultures. But when increasing the culture volume it worked: Large-scale (0.5­1 l for obtaining preparative plasmid amounts) overnight yeast cultures were harvested, washed in cold water once, and then resuspended

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT Real Space Refinement keyboard shortcut??

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Are you trying to use the standard key binding a refine with auto-zone? Mine does not work whilst others such as m and n for zooming out and in do. For a I get the following message in the terminal: (graphics-general-key-press-hook 97) Key 97 not found in (scheme) key bindings Any ideas on how

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in DNA replication/repair at the LMB, Cambridge

2012-04-13 Thread Meindert Lamers
Dear all, We have a postdoctoral position available for a talented and highly motivated individual to undertake single molecule microscopy studies on bacterial DNA replication and DNA repair. The lab focuses on the structural aspects of DNA replication and translesion synthesis DNA repair,

[ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Emsley
I remember reading somewhere (or maybe at a seminar presentation?) of an agreement between the wwPDB and the CCDC. I can't find a reference to it on the web - is there such a thing? Thanks (even lmgtfy answers happily received), Paul.

Re: [ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paul, you are not referring to Gerard Bricogne's announcement for the grade-server, are you? http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg25770.html If not - what type of agreement do you have in mind? Tim On 04/13/12 15:14, Paul Emsley

Re: [ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Paul Emsley
On 13/04/12 14:30, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paul, you are not referring to Gerard Bricogne's announcement for the grade-server, are you? http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg25770.html :) No. If not - what type of agreement do you

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny

2012-04-13 Thread Gregory Bowman
Hi Prem, The first thing I would do is to make certain that you really have prot+DNA crystals, and not DNA alone. If you can isolate enough crystals (you may need 15 or 30, depending on how large they are), SDS page would be informative. Run protein and DNA alone and together in the same gel

Re: [ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Randy Read
Hi Paul, What you might be remembering is the following paragraph from our Validation Task Force report: The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has recently entered into collaboration with the wwPDB partners. As part of the agreement, wwPDB will have access to Mogul, which will be

Re: [ccp4bb] wwPDB and CCDC

2012-04-13 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi Paul, You saw the wwPDB/CCDC JPG in my PPT at GSK :-) Yes, wwPDB and CCDC have signed an MoU. In pounds and pennies it means, amongst a number of other things, that wwPDB will be allowed to use Mogul in its validation pipeline and that wwPDB will be allowed to incorporate and redistribute

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny

2012-04-13 Thread Phoebe Rice
I'd suggest: - Find a dinosaur from my generation who can suck one into a capillary and check diffraction at room T. - Try using those loops that look like miniature tennis paddles to give the crystal a little more support - To minimize strain on the crystal when pulling it out of the drop,

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT Real Space Refinement keyboard shortcut??

2012-04-13 Thread Petra Lukacik
A works as described but t is better! In coot 0.6.2 I added the line (add-key-binding Triple Refine t (lambda () (manual-refine-residues 1))) to the file ~/.coot-preferences/coot-preferences.scm Many thanks Petra From: CCP4 bulletin board

[ccp4bb] Rigaku R-axis IIC X-ray diffraction system

2012-04-13 Thread Ng Chyan Leong
Dear all, Do you know is anyone still using Rigaku R-axis IIC X-ray diffraction system with support services? It seems Rigaku no longer support this systems. Thank you in advance. Best Regards, Leong

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny

2012-04-13 Thread aaleshin
- Find a dinosaur from my generation who can suck one into a capillary and check diffraction at room T. - Try to find conditions where the crystals don't start to redissolve while you mount them As a matter of fact, people begin to forget that capillaries are good not only for checking the

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny

2012-04-13 Thread mjvdwoerd
Hi Prem, In addition to other remarks made: - You could dissolve one or more crystals in water and have mass spec done to verify that your crystals are a complex. It takes many crystals (20-30) to make sure on an SDS-PAGE. You will probably need to silver stain the gel to enhance the

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny

2012-04-13 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Considering myself a meso-dinosaur, I would suggest to simply grow your crystals in capillaries and then wick off the liquid and shoot them like this without much handling. A very efficient and simple trick is to stick a capillary in an Eppendorf tube with the lid on using the Eppendorf tube as

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in structural and chemical immunology

2012-04-13 Thread Yoonsang Cho
The laboratory of Dr. Yoonsang Cho in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine invites a highly motivated and creative postdoctoral fellow who is enthusiastic to study ligand-receptor systems involved in inflammatory diseases and cancer. The

Re: [ccp4bb] Disorder or poor phases?

2012-04-13 Thread James Holton
Francis, I think in the cases you describe the region in question is disordered. Time and time again I have users coming to my beamline wanting to clean up a questionable region by getting experimental phases. Ahh! If only I had a nickle for each one. Oh wait, I suppose I kind of do? I

Re: [ccp4bb] Disorder or poor phases?

2012-04-13 Thread Gloria Borgstahl
a recent experience in our lab with molecular replacement (wt and disordered point mutant; same space group and unit cell) was solved with a combination of two methods. 1. We made omit maps in the disordered region at several lower resolutions. The region became interpretable after suffereing

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread James Holton
I myself recently had the misfortune of trying to get a java program relying on the (apparently 32-bit only) JMF package to run on 64-bit linux. This wasted almost an entire week of my life! I tried downgrading the operating system to 32-bit, but that reduced the number of CPUs available in

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I tell you.  Technology just doesn't work. developers and user's don't, technology is usually ok, but I feel your pain.

[ccp4bb] Good way to check ion sites on Coot

2012-04-13 Thread Andre Godoy
Dear all. can someone tell me what is the best way to check for ion binding sites on my structure? I mean, a text with coordination examples, or maybe a tool on coot for it ... best wishes Andre 

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread James Stroud
On Apr 13, 2012, at 1:24 PM, James Holton wrote: I tried downgrading the operating system to 32-bit, but that reduced the number of CPUs available in the system from 24 to 8. Still don't know why that is I'm probably wrong, but I'll guess that a 32 bit operating system can only spare 3

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
No, that's a limit set by the ubuntu 32 bit kernel maintainers when they configured and compiled the kernel (again, see my comment about the problem being with developers and users). I think the limit is 256 for x86, 4096 for ia64 (itanium), even old versions of RHEL supported 16 and 32 logical

Re: [ccp4bb] Good way to check ion sites on Coot

2012-04-13 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi This is what I do: ValidateHighly coordinated waters From: Andre Godoy Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:57 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Good way to check ion sites on Coot Dear all. can someone tell me what is the best way to check for ion binding sites on my

Re: [ccp4bb] Who is using 64-bit Linux?

2012-04-13 Thread Pete Meyer
On the whole, however, I have not seen any significant performance advantage of 64 over 32 bit running crystallography programs side-by-side on equivalent hardware. I have also been unimpressed with the supposed memory access advantages of 64 bit. I had to do a LOT of recompiling programs in

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position at the University of Edinburgh

2012-04-13 Thread Julie Welburn
Dear all, A postdoctoral position is available in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, for combined crystallographic and biochemical studies of microtubule associated proteins and molecular motors. The advert is below and applications can be made online until May

Re: [ccp4bb] Good way to check ion sites on Coot

2012-04-13 Thread Marc Kvansakul
Hi Andre, Majorie Harding wrote a few nice papers on metal ion binding sites and their associated coordination geometry, examples are: Harding MM (2006) Acta D vol. 62 pp. 678-82 or Harding MM (2004) Acta D vol. 60 pp. 849-59 Best Marc Dr. Marc Kvansakul Laboratory Head, NHMRC CDA Fellow