Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread William G. Scott
On May 18, 2015, at 4:31 AM, Nicolas Soler nso...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk wrote: You just have to learn the (easy) equation syntax or just use this: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/18172/tex-fog William G. Scott http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/~wgscott

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Thomas, Jens
Hi Randy, It's not ideal, but until the bug gets fixed or there's a more elegant solution, could you just set up your own autosave? It'd mean opening a terminal and running a command before starting, but if you had a little script like the below running while you were working you'd at least

Re: [ccp4bb] Gadolinium complexes- phosphate buffer

2015-05-18 Thread Oliver Clarke
Dear Isa, Do you have any cysteines? I assume so given you mention class B metals... If so, and you have a ready supply of relatively isomorphous crystals, I would consider giving native SAD a go, collecting datasets from 5-10 (or however many you need) datasets at a reasonably low energy (say

[ccp4bb] Several postdoc opportunities, Shanghai University

2015-05-18 Thread Pavel Afonine
Posted on behalf of Prof. Ren Wei and Jeffrey Reimers. *Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Quantum Refinement of Protein X-ray Crystallographic Structures and related work in Biophysics, Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Chemistry, and Soft Condensed Matter* Shanghai

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Mooers, Blaine H.M. (HSC)
Hi Randy, I too suggest LaTeXiT. To add to what has already been suggested, LaTeXiT allows the assembly of a custom library of equations. You can send your collaborators this library as a file, and they could make minor edits to the equations in LaTexit gui editor without having to learn the

Re: [ccp4bb] CYS mod

2015-05-18 Thread Gert Vriend
The site swift.cmbi.ru.nl/gv/numbers/ is not official, unpublished, and still poorly maintained. But just for the fun of it, I added a list of modified cysteines. Be aware that the files are big, so better download them and read them in the editor than opening them in the browser. Gert On

[ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Randy Read
Rather off-topic, but maybe someone on the list has found a way to work around this! There’s a problem with the Equation Editor in Office 2011 for Mac (i.e. the one that is based on a stripped-down version of MathType, which you get with Insert-Object-Microsoft Equation). You can insert an

Re: [ccp4bb] MOLREP self-rotation matrix

2015-05-18 Thread Chen Zhao
Hi Eleanor, Yeah, the relationship of the XYZ with the unit cell axes is tricky too. Although I can get some clues by looking at the position of the crystallographic symmetry axes on the XY plane, it is better if I could find a definite answer... Thank you, Chen On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:24 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] MOLREP self-rotation matrix

2015-05-18 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Hmm - there are programs which give you the matrix associated with Eulerian or Polar angles. I think one is pdbset.. Or there is documentation in polarrfn or rotmat which describes how to do it.. But remember there are conventions about which axes correspond to the orthogonal X Y Z axes used to

Re: [ccp4bb] Gadolinium complexes- phosphate buffer

2015-05-18 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Hi Isa, don't discard SeMet too rapidly if there are few Mets, modern beamlines, high-redundancy data collection techniques, and processing and phasing programs can extract and use small anomalous signal to get structures even if there are less SeMets than generally accepted by the rule of

Re: [ccp4bb] MOLREP self-rotation matrix

2015-05-18 Thread Chen Zhao
I got some answers from the previous thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg36578.html But I just want to make sure what I am doing... Thanks a lot, Chen On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Chen Zhao c.z...@yale.edu wrote: Hi Eleanor, Yeah, the relationship of the XYZ

Re: [ccp4bb] MOLREP self-rotation matrix

2015-05-18 Thread Chen Zhao
Sorry for the spaming... Just want to correct that I plan to say covert the MOLREP self-RF Euler angle to RESOLVE (not SOLVE) orthogonal matrix... On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Chen Zhao c.z...@yale.edu wrote: I got some answers from the previous thread:

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] coot space bar translate rather slow at host machine but not in virtual machine

2015-05-18 Thread Marcin Wojdyr
That problem has been discussed several times on the coot mailing list. Currently a workaround is to type: (set-use-stroke-characters 1) in scheme console (Calculate Scripting Scheme). (You can also add it to coot settings). As a side effect fonts will look worse. I've just tested a better

[ccp4bb] MOLREP self-rotation matrix

2015-05-18 Thread Chen Zhao
Hi all, I am now trying to convert the NCS axis expressed by theta, phi, chi (or alpha, beta, gamma) from MOLREP to an orthogonal matrix in order to feed into SOLVE. Would anybody suggest me a correct way to do it? Thank you so much in advance! Best, Chen

Re: [ccp4bb] 1.how to use pymol to choose all the residues that have polar contacts in the complex 2.how to draw a residues-DNA interaction picture

2015-05-18 Thread Sampson, Jared
Hi Weifei - The first image looks like it was drawn using a vector drawing program like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. If you're looking for something automatically generated, two of the first hits from a Google search for protein interaction diagram are LigPlot+

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Murpholino Peligro
sharelatex makes them learn latex, because they can see the output and the input... also they can play with lots of examples 2015-05-18 9:57 GMT-05:00 Thomas, Jens jens.tho...@liverpool.ac.uk: Hi Randy, It's not ideal, but until the bug gets fixed or there's a more elegant solution,

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Ho,Shing
Of course, if you are working with a .docx instead of a .doc file in Word2011 for a Mac, you can always simply insert and “Equation” directly, rather than the MathType version of Microsoft Equation under the “Insert/Objects” menu. This seems to work fairly seamlessly, unless you convert the

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] coot space bar translate rather slow at host machine but not in virtual machine

2015-05-18 Thread Paul Emsley
Thanks Marcin, I thought I'd patched this already some time ago (shortly after you mentioned it to me), but now that I try to find it in the logs, it seems to have been missed/lost. Paul. On 18/05/15 19:00, Marcin Wojdyr wrote: That problem has been discussed several times on the coot

Re: [ccp4bb] Two kinds of solvent-accessible-surface ?

2015-05-18 Thread Nadir Mrabet
Hi Edward, I just need to comment on this. To define contact atoms, you must use solvated united atoms that is atoms with implicit hydrogens where needed (united radius), this radius being further increased by that of a molecule of water. Why is that? In vacuum, it was shown that at a

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] coot space bar translate rather slow at host machine but not in virtual machine

2015-05-18 Thread Jorge Iulek
Dear Marcin, Yes, it worked pretty fine. As for the side effect , I could not, for while, observe any degradation. Thank you very much. Jorge On 05/18/2015 03:00 PM, Marcin Wojdyr wrote: That problem has been discussed several times on the coot mailing list. Currently a

Re: [ccp4bb] Gadolinium complexes- phosphate buffer

2015-05-18 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Also you can treat your SeMET as heavy atom derivative with your native dataset. J?rgen .. J?rgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe

[ccp4bb] Postdoc and PhD student positions

2015-05-18 Thread Lari Lehtiö
​Open positions in the laboratory of Lari Lehtiö at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Biocenter Oulu,University of Oulu, Finland. The research group focuses on structure, function and inhibition of ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTDs/PARPs). We use protein X-ray

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal morphology

2015-05-18 Thread jai mohan
Dear Bishwa,What about Hamptons Izit dye. S.M.Jaimohan, Ph.D On Monday, 18 May 2015 7:50 AM, Engin Özkan eoz...@uchicago.edu wrote: Magnesium phosphate crystals? I've definitely seen salt crystals with that morphology before. Check out the Ksp for Mg3(PO4)2. Engin On 5/17/15

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal morphology

2015-05-18 Thread Saba Shahzad
Hi Mohan, I have seen these too with the C row of morpheus, unfortunately they are most likely to be salt. Try repeating the same screen but skipping adding extra Mg to the macromolecule. Good luck. Regards Saba Shahzad | PhD candidate, Martin Hallberg group Department of Cell and Molecular

[ccp4bb] Gadolinium complexes- phosphate buffer

2015-05-18 Thread isabelle Lucet
Hi All, We recently obtained a native data set to 2.8A. With no molecular replacement available we are now moving to heavy atom (not enough methionine coverage for seleno-met). Unfortunately crystals grow is in 1.4 Na/K H phosphate pH 8 and we do not have much room for improvement. Any

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Martin Montgomery
Hi Randy, You could try the beta version of the forthcoming version of Word and see if the bug is fixed. Obviously, it is a beta version and therefore a bit risky but it installs along side the current version and I’ve been trying it on my laptop without issue so far. One improvement for me

[ccp4bb] Third CCP4-OIST workshop in Okinawa, second call

2015-05-18 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to announce the third CCP4 structure solution school at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa. All details can be found at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/OIST-2015 Title: CCP4 school: From data processing to structure refinement and

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Keller, Jacob
There is the possibility of using one of the open-source versions, like openOffice, but those I guess also have their issues. JPK -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Randy Read Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 4:11 AM To:

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Jonathan Davies
Do your collaborators need to edit the equations? If not you can use LaTeXiT (sorry I'm that person!) which allows you to write your equation in LaTeX then export directly into word as a pdf. Link below.. http://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/ Regards, Jonathan Davies PhD Student Department of

Re: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac

2015-05-18 Thread Nicolas Soler
Hi Randy, although learning Latex as a whole can for sure be time-consuming, an alternative solution is to use a Latex equation editor like Latexit. You just have to learn the (easy) equation syntax and then you can drag and drop the formatted result into Word or Page, it's rock solid :