[ccp4bb] PhD studentship at the University of Manchester

2014-11-12 Thread Balvinder Dhaliwal
Dear All, Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester. The project will involve the structural and functional characterization of food allergens and their complexes. The techniques used will include cloning, protei

Re: [ccp4bb] merging anisotropic datasets

2014-11-12 Thread Antony Oliver
Would the CCP4 program BLEND be a suitable initial option? And then the anisotropic server? Tony. --- sent from my mobile account --- On 12 Nov 2014, at 21:29, Robert Keenan mailto:bkee...@uchicago.edu>> wrote: I have three datasets of varying quality collected from different regions of a

Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi Wolfram, it took me a while until I realized that you mean "overfitting" when you said "o-word". You can abuse XDS in a number of ways, and I would call them "overfitting the data" although that would be using the word in a somewhat strained way: reducing WFAC1 below 1, decreasing REFLECTIO

Re: [ccp4bb] merging anisotropic datasets

2014-11-12 Thread Matthias Zebisch
Hi Bob, we have done elliptic truncation before merging/scaling as lined out in 2012 Zebisch (JMB). However, I see no reason not to scale the 3 runs together with aimless (to lets say 3.4A) and then subject the resulting merged file to the sawata server. Best, Matthias -

[ccp4bb] merging anisotropic datasets

2014-11-12 Thread Robert Keenan
I have three datasets of varying quality collected from different regions of a single crystal. In each case, the data are anisotropic (from Aimless using CC1/2>0.5): Dataset 1: 3.5, 3.5 5.5 A Dataset 2: 4.2, 4.3, 4.8 A Dataset 3: 3.7, 3.9, 4.4 A I initially took a simple-minded approach an

Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread wtempel
Hello Kay, you said the o-word, and you are familiar with the inner workings of XDS. Has the data-to-parameter ratio in even complex scaling models become so small that a doubling (worst case) of model parameters would be a serious concern? Could one detect such overfitting by, say, comparing (mole

Re: [ccp4bb] Incubator for crystallization

2014-11-12 Thread Engin Özkan
Hi, Our experience was the opposite. Ours did not work well and completely broke soon after. This incubator quickly turned into the largest door stop in the lab. I'm sure ours was just a lemon, but I thought I'd still mention it to warn others. I am still interested in hearing what models of

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Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Kay, thank you for the clarification. I had understood that using XSCALE after CORRECT does no harm, but did not understand that the reason lies in the consistent choice of support points rather than not repeating what might already having been done. Regards, Tim On 11/12/2014 04:32 PM, Kay

Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:32:04 +, Kay Diederichs wrote: ... >It then, in a second step, re-determines all scale factors (exactly as CORRECT >does for the individual data sets), at the exact same supporting points that >CORRECT used. (This avoids over-fitting which would result from a scaling

Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi Tim, this is incorrect. XSCALE determines the relative scale and B in a first step (this is what you describe). It then, in a second step, re-determines all scale factors (exactly as CORRECT does for the individual data sets), at the exact same supporting points that CORRECT used. (This a

[ccp4bb] 2014 BCA Biological Structures Group Winter Meeting: registration is now open!

2014-11-12 Thread Edward MITCHELL
*2014 BCA-BSG Winter Meeting* *The 2014 BCA-BSG Winter Meeting will take place on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) Campus (hosting the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Institute Laue Langevin), Grenoble, France on 15-17 **December 2014. *The meeting will be themed around op

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement with refmac05 and methionine density

2014-11-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Jeorge, the 'ghost' could be explained by a shift of an entire section, i.e. you have to split several residues into A+B, not only the MET. The cylR2 structure in 2XJ3 is one example where this was necessary. Best, Tim On 11/12/2014 11:23 AM,

Re: [ccp4bb] XRD basic requirement

2014-11-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Anuar, this depends on the crystal you are planning to measure. Will they be small so that you need to go for high intensity, or will they be large so that you can go for high quality (flat profile beam). Your budget will also be a limiting facto

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement with refmac05 and methionine density

2014-11-12 Thread Eleanor Dodson
That looks really odd - the whole MET has a negative/positive ghost Second conformations usually branch at the CB, and dont look like that. Are you sure you havent somehow got two MET residues in the coordinate set ? Turn on cysmmetry display in coot and look for clashes around there. Does the

Re: [ccp4bb] To scale or not to scale: XDS_ASCII.HKL input to POINTLESS/AIMLESS

2014-11-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Wolfram Tempel, there might be some confusion about terms. It is correct that xscale scales several data sets together. However, in crystallography, 'merging' might be the better term for this process. Crystallographic 'Scaling' is far more com

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[ccp4bb] XRD basic requirement

2014-11-12 Thread Dr Mohd Anuar Jonet
Hi everyone, My institute is decided to purchase an in-house X-ray diffractometer. Unfortunately i do not know what is the basic requirement that we should look for before we can select the equipment. I hope to get some guideline that will be useful for me to make a better decision on which XRD

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement with refmac05 and methionine density

2014-11-12 Thread Greg Costakes
Hi Jeorge, The simplest answer is that you have multiple positions for the Methionine. So you can try adding in an alternate position for it. However, you didn’t mention the sigma cutoff or e-/A^3 for either of your density maps. Its quite possible that your fofc map is just scaled way down and