[ccp4bb] why not read mmcif cell if rpesent?

2013-05-16 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear Developers, I wonder if there is any particular reason why, if present in an mmcif, cell parameters and SG are not read from the mmcif file when using 'convert to mtz'? Best, BR

Re: [ccp4bb] why not read mmcif cell if rpesent?

2013-05-16 Thread A Leslie
Hi Bernhard, When I have used the convert program via ccp4i, the cell and symmetry have indeed been read from the mmcif file and written to the MTZ file. Andrew On 16 May 2013, at 13:50, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear Developers, I wonder if there is any particular reason why, if present

Re: [ccp4bb] why not read mmcif cell if rpesent?

2013-05-16 Thread A Leslie
Yes, this is indeed what I see as well and it confused me too ... those fields should not be orange highlighted according to my understanding of the way CCP4i works. Andrew On 16 May 2013, at 14:33, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Ah – let me rephrase that – cif2mtz ultimately seems to read them,

Re: [ccp4bb] Unidentified blobs

2013-05-16 Thread Mario Sanches
It looks like structured PEG to me. Did you have PEG as a precipitant in you crystallization solution? This is a quite normal feature, you will find many examples in the PDB. You could try to model it and see how it fits the density, how your R-factors behave, etc. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in Switzerland

2013-05-16 Thread Petr Leiman
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Re: [ccp4bb] Unidentified blobs

2013-05-16 Thread Uma Ratu
Dear All: I thought that it is possible to be the PEG. The crystallization condition contains 3% of PEG. Thank you for your comments and input Uma On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Mario Sanches mario...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like structured PEG to me. Did you have PEG as a precipitant

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread James Holton
Just a few things to add: If you have a _current_ version of ADXV, then that disappearing sharp spots problem has been fixed. Try downloading a new copy. Its free. To answer the OP's question: there was a paper written about practical Pilatus data collection recently:

Re: [ccp4bb] Unidentified blobs

2013-05-16 Thread Nicholas Keep
It is most likely to be something in your crystallisation condition, your cryoprotectant, or the buffer you stored your protein in. Could be a detergent carried through several steps of purification Could for example be some part of a PEG molecule that gets ordered round a more hydrophobic bit

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear James, A week ago I wrote what I thought was a perhaps excessively long and overly dense message in reply to Theresa's initial query, then I thought I should sleep on it before sending it, and got distracted by other things. I guess you may well have used that whole week composing

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread Frank von Delft
Dear Gerard - thanks, very informative! Two questions: 1. Do I understand correctly, that you say XDS will throw together for integration counts from many images even if they're spaced widely throughout the dataset, i.e. through the various passes? i.e. if I set up my data collection as 5

Re: [ccp4bb] Unidentified blobs

2013-05-16 Thread Faisal Tarique
I THINK IT IS PEG.. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Nicholas Keep n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk wrote: It is most likely to be something in your crystallisation condition, your cryoprotectant, or the buffer you stored your protein in. Could be a detergent carried through several steps of

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Frank, Very good question. You are right: in this statement I used XDS rather metaphorically, in the sense that this grouping together of all the counts will happen at merging time rather than at integration time. In the end you will have a counting-statistics contribution to the

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread James Holton
Gerard, Thanks! Actually, I was sitting on that one for a while and debating the wisdom of posting it. With multi-million-dollar equipment, people tend to get sensitive about opinions. But, yes, I suppose I didn't answer Theresa's second question about anomalous data collection and rad

Re: [ccp4bb] CCDs + Re: PILATUS data collection

2013-05-16 Thread James Holton
Frank, Kay or Wolfgang can obviously answer better, but I am pretty sure the answer to your second question is no. XDS does not consider images collected at 0 and 360 to be one image. In fact, I think the phi direction is internally represented as detector Z, where Z has units of the

[ccp4bb] Crystals

2013-05-16 Thread Yibin Lin
Hi fork, I am working with a membrane protein. I got some crystals from peg400. All of these crystals don't diffract. I tried to use a needle to break crystal. They didn't break into small one, look like gel, or oil, something like that. Do anybody has deal about these crystals. Detergent

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] reference for true multiplicity?

2013-05-16 Thread Colin Nave
And Kay Diedrichs suggested today that averaging out possible errors in the Lorentz correction is a potential benefit of collecting real redundant data. (this would apply to both SR and lab sources). Colin -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On

[ccp4bb] the seventh parameter in anisotropic pdb

2013-05-16 Thread Ezequiel Noguera
Hi all: