Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown density

2013-02-25 Thread Antony Oliver
Dear Pavel, Is this density located on a symmetry axis? There is quite often a lot of noise around these regions - and it may not, in fact, be possible to model this satisfactorily. Tony. --- Dr Antony W Oliver Senior Research Fellow CR-UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group Genome Damage and

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown density

2013-02-25 Thread Albert Guskov
Dear Pavel, you should also always consider your cryoprotectant molecules, so let's say if you used PEG for cryoprotection, there's a very high probability you may see it in your structure. It's very hard to say from the snapshots, but for the patch of density depicted in fig.2 I would try PEG

[ccp4bb] Pseudo-translation?

2013-02-25 Thread Michele Lunelli
Dear all, I have an orthorhombic crystal (pointless suggests most likely space groups P 2 21 21 or P 2 21 2) with two molecules expected in the asymmetric unit. Analyzing the native Patterson map I found the following peaks (in fractional coordinates): CELL 63.0400 117.2500 133.6500

[ccp4bb] Measure Cell option in imosflm

2013-02-25 Thread Bayliss, Richard (Dr.)
Does anyone know how to access the 'Measure Cell' function in iMosflm? This function in ipmosflm allowed you to click on a pair of spots, then input the number of diffraction orders, to output a rough measure of the cell length. Any help appreciated! Thanks Richard

Re: [ccp4bb] Pseudo-translation?

2013-02-25 Thread Eleanor Dodson
The general rule is that a Patterson peak should be ~ 20% of the origin before considering it significant so none of those would really need to be considered. Eleanor On 25 February 2013 12:48, Michele Lunelli efu...@yahoo.it wrote: Dear all, I have an orthorhombic crystal (pointless

Re: [ccp4bb] Measure Cell option in imosflm

2013-02-25 Thread Harry Powell
Hi Richard I'm afraid it doesn't exist at the moment. It could be added if there's sufficient demand for it. On 25 Feb 2013, at 12:57, Bayliss, Richard (Dr.) wrote: Does anyone know how to access the 'Measure Cell' function in iMosflm? This function in ipmosflm allowed you to click on a

[ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Qixu Cai
Dear all, The matrix formats in different program always confuse me. The matrix format of the REMARK 290 SMTRY section of pdb file is: r11r12r13tx r21r22r23ty r31r32r33tz What's the matrix format accepted by the transform file keywords of the pdbset

Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Jon Agirre
Dear Qixu, here's an excerpt from the pdbset manual: TRANSFORM [INVERT] [FRACTIONAL] r11 r12 r13 r21 r22 r23 r31 r32 r33 tx ty tz I'm not sure what you mean by covert from the pdb file format to the pdbset format. Please elaborate on this. Jon 2013/2/25 Qixu Cai caiq...@gmail.com: Dear all,

[ccp4bb] Post Doctoral Position at Imperial College London in Structural Biology

2013-02-25 Thread P Freemont
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Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Qixu Cai
Dear Jon, Thanks for your reply. The matrix format in the REMARK 290 section of the pdb file (download from rcsb.org) is : r11r12r13tx r21r22r23ty r31r32r33tz And I want to extract the matrix information from the pdb file REMARK 290 section and use the matrix

Re: [ccp4bb] Measure Cell option in imosflm

2013-02-25 Thread Qixu Cai
Dear Harry, It's a useful function. Could you please added it? Thanks. Qixu Cai Email: caiq...@gmail.com School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Fujian, China 2013/2/25 Harry Powell ha...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Hi Richard I'm afraid it doesn't exist at the moment. It could be added if

Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread vellieux
Hi, Emacs, vi, any (text file) editor ? I wouldn't advise a word processing program (Word and the likes). Unless you want to do this on many pdb files in which case writing a small program or shell script would be required. Fred. On 25/02/13 14:24, Qixu Cai wrote: Dear Jon, Thanks for

Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Jon Agirre
If you just want to generate symm mates from MTRIX records, you may want to give GK's 'xpand' a go: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/xpand_man.html Otherwise, I would follow Fred's advice. Jon 2013/2/25 vellieux frederic.velli...@ibs.fr: Hi, Emacs, vi, any (text file) editor ? I wouldn't advise a

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position available : Crystallization of CFTR

2013-02-25 Thread Cedric Govaerts
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[ccp4bb] Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellowship-COLGATE UNIVERSITY

2013-02-25 Thread Roger Rowlett
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Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Qixu Cai, cut and paste is yet another option and probably quickest if it is only for a few PDB files. Best, Tim On 02/25/2013 02:30 PM, vellieux wrote: Hi, Emacs, vi, any (text file) editor ? I wouldn't advise a word processing program

[ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread lei feng
Hello everyone, I need your suggestion for slowing down crystallization for my proteinmy protein got hit in PEG/ION #5 ( 0.2 M MgCl2, 20% PEG 3350, pH 5.9), but it crystallize too fast. In 1 hr I can see tons of tiny needles. Can anyone give me some suggestion on how to slow down the process? I

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Nat Echols
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:02 AM, lei feng spartanfeng...@hotmail.com wrote: I need your suggestion for slowing down crystallization for my protein my protein got hit in PEG/ION #5 ( 0.2 M MgCl2, 20% PEG 3350, pH 5.9), but it crystallize too fast. In 1 hr I can see tons of tiny needles. Can

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Lorenzo Finci
Feng Lei, I would personally recommend slowing down the process of nucleation either by lowering the temperature of crystallization or by utilizing Al's oil. These are two powerful ways to slow the overall kinetics of crystallization. Here is a relevant reference for you:

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Philippe Leone
Le 25/02/13 17:02, lei feng a écrit : Hello everyone, I need your suggestion for slowing down crystallization for my protein my protein got hit in PEG/ION #5 ( 0.2 M MgCl2, 20% PEG 3350, pH 5.9), but it crystallize too fast. In 1 hr I can see tons of tiny needles. Can anyone give me some

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Felix Frolow
a. Go with phase diagram gradually changing concentrations of protein, precipitant, salt concentrations and pH. Find where you are going out of crystallisation. Define region for streak seeding. b. Screen for ratios of precipitant to protein from 1:9 to 9:1. Dr Felix Frolow Professor of

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Lei Fang, I cannot tell what technique you are using for crystallization. Also, many details like protein concentration, temperature of crystallization etc. are missing in your email so it's hard to guess what's going on. In any case, here are my thoughts. I used to get a shower of needles

Re: [ccp4bb] Measure Cell option in imosflm

2013-02-25 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Richard, adxv has this functionality and you do not even need to put in the diffraction orders, just drag the mouse pointer through two adjacent reflections (or more and do the maths yourself). Cheers, Tim On 02/25/2013 01:57 PM, Bayliss,

Re: [ccp4bb] How to slow down crystallization? Need hep!

2013-02-25 Thread Roksana Ogrodowicz
Try using dioxane as an additive. I'd suggest adding 5- 15% dioxane into your well solution. This should inhibit nucleation resulting in fewer, larger crystals. On 25/02/13, Felix Frolow mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: a. Go with phase diagram gradually changing concentrations of

[ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hello, Does anyone know a good method to compare B-factors between structures? I would like to compare mutants to a wild-type structure. For example, structure2 has a higher B-factor for residue X but how can I show that this is significant if the average B-factor is also higher? Thank you for

Re: [ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Hello, Does anyone know a good method to compare B-factors between structures? I would like to compare mutants to a wild-type structure. For example, structure2 has a higher B-factor for residue X but how can I show that this is significant if the average B-factor is also higher? Thank you for

Re: [ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Jacob Keller
Why not normalize each to its average b-factor? And...maybe they are not significantly different in the first place? JPK On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Yarrow Madrona amadr...@uci.edu wrote: Hello, Does anyone know a good method to compare B-factors between structures? I would like to

Re: [ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Thanks Nat, I was planning on plotting B-factors vs. residue anyway, so maybe this will save me time. I will take a look. -Yarrow Not a CCP4 solution, but the structure comparison program in the Phenix GUI will plot B-factors for different structures of the same protein. (I am happy to make

Re: [ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Yarrow Madrona
Thank you Manfred, To be honest I have tried to understand the Pearson linear CC since reading the nature crystallography methods paper by Karplus and diederichs, but I am having trouble. I do not clearly understand what it represents. Do you know any good resources that could help me out?

Re: [ccp4bb] How to compare B-factors between structures?

2013-02-25 Thread Francisco Hernandez-Guzman
Hi Yarrow, I'm sure other visualizing tools can do this, but I just wanted to share that our free Discovery Studio Visualizerhttp://accelrys.com/products/discovery-studio/visualization-download.php can do this quite easily. Contact me off the list and we can set up a time when I can show

[ccp4bb] Autodock Vina output files

2013-02-25 Thread Harman, Christine
Hi All, I am sure that some of you have used AutoDock Vina so I thought I would give it a go and ask two questions. I performed a round of docking and obtained an output file containing 9 different models. The affinity (kcal/mol) ranged from -4.5 to -3.0. My first question is what is

[ccp4bb] CCPBioSim workshop on MD and Annual Conference

2013-02-25 Thread Martyn Winn
Dear All, CCPBioSim are once again running a 1-day workshop covering the basics of setting up Molecular Dynamics simulations for biological systems. The workshop is on Wednesday 20th March 2013 at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge. The deadline for

Re: [ccp4bb] the matrix format

2013-02-25 Thread Qixu Cai
Thanks. That's what I need. Qixu Cai Email: caiq...@gmail.com 在 2013-2-25,下午9:38,Jon Agirre jon.agi...@gmail.com 写道: If you just want to generate symm mates from MTRIX records, you may want to give GK's 'xpand' a go: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/xpand_man.html Otherwise, I would follow

Re: [ccp4bb] Unknown density

2013-02-25 Thread Pavel Natashin
Dear all, Thank you very much for help! The problem was solved very easy (thanks Dominik A. Herbs). I just used another program for refinement (Refmac5 instead Phenix.refine) and this noisy density almost disappeared. http://www.4sync.com/photo/--e2gHrG/Density-Refmac5.html Thanks a lot for

[ccp4bb] How to split a dataset with PST?

2013-02-25 Thread Yuan SHANG
Dear all, currently, I have a data set scaled in P22121 which containing a PST of (0.5,0.5,0.111). The structure were successfully solved by molecular replacement. However, the R free factors remained as high as ~33% in the refinement. I search the literature and found that it was common to

Re: [ccp4bb] Autodock Vina output files

2013-02-25 Thread chandan kishore
Dear Christine, Your fist question is regarding range of energy in high affinity. In Autodock Vina high affinity energy varies from -9 to -11 Kcal/mol.  In my opinion  -4.5 to -3.0 Kcal/mol is moderate affinity for ligand. Second question is how to save individual orientation of Vina output

Re: [ccp4bb] Autodock Vina output files

2013-02-25 Thread Quentin Delettre
Hi Christine, You can split outputs by this way (vina site) : Separate models All predicted binding modes, including the positions of the flexible side chains are placed into one multimodel PDBQT file specified by the out parameter or chosen by default, based on the ligand file name.