[ccp4bb] Why Does Detwinning Not Work?

2016-10-10 Thread Keller, Jacob
Dear Crystallographers, Based on some data sets I have looked at and anecdotal-type evidence here and there I have gotten the impression that detwinning does not help in structure solution. (Please let me know if you have a case where detwinning saved the day.) Is there a clear answer to this

[ccp4bb] Research assistant and PhD scholarship

2016-10-10 Thread Forwood, Jade
Dear CCP4 bulletin board, We have two positions available in our lab. One is for a research assistant with experience in protein expression, purification, and protein crystallography. The other is for a PhD student, with an interest, but not necessarily experience in the above fields. Areas of

[ccp4bb] Winter School of Cryo-EM Workshop at Arizona State University (ASU)

2016-10-10 Thread Po-Lin Chiu
Winter School of Cryo-EM Workshop at Arizona State University (ASU) This will be the workshop on cryo-EM at ASU and will take place immediately after the TEM winter school. Please forward this information to anyone else who may find it useful. If you have any question, please contact Dr. Brent

[ccp4bb] Metrics for hkl2map (Fe SAD)

2016-10-10 Thread Mohamed Noor
Dear all I am trying to solve a structure using Fe SAD collected with mini-kappa from several non-isomorphic crystals (following on from the previous thread https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1608=CCP4BB=0=35088). Xtriage suggests weak anomalous signal to 4 A. For the SHELX

[ccp4bb] BCA Biological Structures Group Winter Meeting: "Seeing the Wood for the Trees in Structural Biology".

2016-10-10 Thread Jonathan Cooper
Registration is now live for the British Crystallographic Association, Biological Structures Group Winter Meeting 2016.  "Seeing the Wood for the Trees in Structural Biology." The meeting will be held on Monday December 19th 2016 at Birkbeck College London starting at 11.00 am. The aim of the

[ccp4bb] core facility manager position at Brown University

2016-10-10 Thread Deaconescu, Alexandra
Dear Colleagues, We at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) are recruiting a new Facility Manager for the Structural Biology Facility. This position would be ideal to someone familiar with both X-ray and NMR instrumentation. Please see the job posting at the following link :

[ccp4bb] NEW DEPARTMENT/NEW POST: Head of Research Computing at the Oxford Big Data Institute

2016-10-10 Thread Robert Esnouf
Dear All, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS EMAIL ON TO OTHER RELEVANT MAILING LISTS AND ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED The University of Oxford Big Data Institute is looking for a highly skilled research computing manager to establish a significant computing capability in Oxford over the next

Re: [ccp4bb] Instrument help: any comments on bench-top SPR

2016-10-10 Thread Jan Gebauer
Hi Cheng, it's not strictly a SPR, but does very similar (=the same) things: BlItz from fortebio (blitzmenow.com) I guess it costs around 20K€ currently (?) We have one of those and are very satisfied. The low limit for analytes is around 10 kDa. So in your case, you might need to couple the