Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Quing, My first suggesting is a no-brainer: try to get better data. At 4.3Å model building and refinement will remain painful, whatever you try. Getting better data includes improving your crystals (ligands, additives etc.) and the cryoconditions. You could also try to collect data on say

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Randy Read
Seeing Herman's message reminds me that I forgot to send this reply to the BB as well. Herman makes many of the same points, and a very good additional point that you want to examine whether the molecular replacement solution in the lower symmetry space group actually has the higher symmetry.

Re: [ccp4bb] [COOT] CCP4 6.3.0 released

2012-09-07 Thread Chris Richardson
On 17 Jul 2012, at 22:34, William G. Scott wrote: On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:25 AM, Felix Frolow wrote: I will wait for fink version if it will be one… :-\ Does anyone use or want this anymore? Apologies for reanimating this long-dead discussion, but did you reach a conclusion about putting

Re: [ccp4bb] protein interactions

2012-09-07 Thread LEDU Marie-Helene 161111
Search for homologous binding partners with close or remote homologies with your own sequences can also be addressed from the InterEvol database http://biodev.cea.fr/interevol/ It seems you can upload the sequences there : http://biodev.cea.fr/interevol/interevalign.aspx Hope this can help

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
On 09/06/2012 07:48 PM, Qing Luan wrote: I built a molecular replacement model What is the model based on (i.e. how much sequence identity you have)? Did you try something other than CNS (specifically for twinning detection)? Did you check the patterson map and/or self-rotation for off-origin

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
And also - I presume p6 does not work? On 09/06/2012 07:48 PM, Qing Luan wrote: which I can scale in P3, P31, P32, P321, P3121 and P3221 with similar statistics:

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Franklin
Hi Qing - Just a couple of observations on your story, without a real solution: - Your space group is almost certainly P31 2 1. Your scaling statistics and Phaser results point to this - if your true space group was P31, then your statistics would be noticeably (even dramatically) worse in

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Hi Matt, You may be right, but how do you distuinguish you between a crystallographic 2-fold and perfect twinning? A solution that refines to an Rfree of 55.6% is not exactly a textbook example of a correct solution. Poor data, low-resolution and twinning/pseudosymmetry can cause all kinds of

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Just a comment - Your space group is almost certainly P31 2 1. Your scaling statistics results point to this - if your true space group was P31, then your statistics would be noticeably (even dramatically) worse in the higher symmetry space group. I've seen a dramatic counter-example to

[ccp4bb] Post-doc position available

2012-09-07 Thread Meng-Chiao Ho
Dear All, The Ho lab at the Institute of Biological Chemistry of Academia Sinca in Taiwan seeks a motivated structural biologist at post-doctoral level with interest in structure and activity studies of pharmaceutically important enzymes. The laboratory currently works on the

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Edwin Pozharski
Matt, On 09/07/2012 09:56 AM, Matthew Franklin wrote: I'm also a bit dubious about the 4.3 A limit; your useful data may be ending around 4.6 instead, despite the high I/sigma numbers. Why? I would rather suggest Qing extends resolution to where I/sigma~1. Other than Rmerge, I don't see

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Matthew Franklin
Dear Ed - I agree with you, and I felt a little funny giving that advice, since I know that Rmerge is rather outdated as a resolution cutoff. What I was really reacting to was the slope of I versus resolution; if you look at Qing's Scalepack table, you can see that average I plateaus in the

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position at EMBL Hamburg + EMBL Grenoble

2012-09-07 Thread Thomas R. Schneider
Dear CCP4BBers we have an opening for an EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoc (EIPOD) position to develop data collection procedures for the new high-precision diffactrometer on the P14 beamline at EMBL Hamburg. Beamline P14 will be fully tunable and have a sub-10-micron focus and is equipped with

[ccp4bb] Cryo-EM postdoctoral position: Rubinstein Laboratory, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

2012-09-07 Thread John Rubinstein, U of T
Dear Colleagues, Please pass this ad on to any interested candidates. Thanks and best wishes, John -- John Rubinstein Molecular Structure and Function Program The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Rm. 3330 Toronto, ON Canada M5G 1X8 Tel: (+001) 416-813-7255 Fax: (+001)

[ccp4bb] Cryo-EM postdoctoral position: Rubinstein Laboratory, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

2012-09-07 Thread John Rubinstein, U of T
Dear Colleagues, Please pass this ad on to any interested candidates. Thanks and best wishes, John -- John Rubinstein Molecular Structure and Function Program The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Rm. 3330 Toronto, ON Canada M5G 1X8 Tel: (+001) 416-813-7255 Fax: (+001)

[ccp4bb] Calculating water accessible volume in active site

2012-09-07 Thread Yarrow Madrona
I have a buried active site and would like to determine if there is room for a water molecule in various mutants. Does anyone know of a good program to calculate this? I have heard of GRID and VOID but have never used them. Thanks. -- Yarrow Madrona Graduate Student Molecular Biology and

[ccp4bb] where to get jre 1.5_22 for mac osx 10.6

2012-09-07 Thread Ramasubbu, Narayanan
All: Sorry for the non-CCP4 question. But please help!! I have to install jre 1.5_22 on my mac to have the COEUS (MIT software premium). My computer already has java 1.6 How to install the old version. If this old is not on the computer, then the install commands do not work. Thanks a lot

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating water accessible volume in active site

2012-09-07 Thread Robert Nicholls
Hi Yarrow, You can use the likes of areaimol to calculate the surface accessible area, with or without accounting for crystal symmetry: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/areaimol.html There are other alternatives, but I hope that helps, Rob On 8 Sep 2012, at 00:37, Yarrow Madrona wrote: I have a