Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread CRAIG A BINGMAN
Bob, Yes, Be salts are wildly toxic. They are also useful in structural studies on enzymes that perform phosphoryl transfers, almost always as beryllium fluoride complexes. The PDB contains about 200 such structures. Craig On Apr 1, 2019, at 9:37 PM, Sweet, Robert

Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Sweet, Robert
With all respect, this conversation make my skin crawl a little. I've been taught that beryllium salts are EXTREMELY toxic. Please study this: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/beryllium_chloride Hopefully, Bob Robert M. Sweet

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position in Biopolymer Secretion Systems

2019-04-01 Thread Zimmer, Jochen (jz3x)
Dear all, A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Zimmer lab at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The lab explores how cells produce extracellular polysaccharides to form protective coats and capsules, cell walls, or biofilms. Extracellular complex carbohydrates

Re: [ccp4bb] unidentified crescent-shaped electron density

2019-04-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Agreed. "PG4" - so that you don't have to go searching for it. On 02/04/19 00:22, Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville) wrote: > > Hello Zhen, > >   > > PEG comes as a mixture and the weight given on the bottle is just the > average molecular weight, so you don’t need any ‘cleavage’ to have >

Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Diana Tomchick
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Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Keller, Jacob
Is that 4+ an April fools’ joke? Pretty crazy if not…can’t think of another ion with such a charge, well except things like DNA and proteins, but not single atoms. JPK + Jacob Pearson Keller Research Scientist / Looger Lab HHMI Janelia Research

[ccp4bb] Open Research Position in Chemical Biology/ Structural Biology at St. Jude

2019-04-01 Thread Marcus Fischer
The Fischer lab is recruiting a Staff Scientist for a project that exploits the protein conformational landscape for ligand discovery in pediatric cancer. We are looking for applicants with a strong training in molecular biology, protein biochemistry, and structural biology and a keen interest or

Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Aaron Finke
American Elements sells BeCl2 but you’d have to check with them on what scale they sell it at. They tend to do custom manufacturing. https://www.americanelements.com/beryllium-chloride-7787-47-5 BeCl2 dissociates in aqueous solution to form Be(H2O)4+ 2Cl-. Aaron

[ccp4bb] Coot-0.8.9.2 released

2019-04-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear All, We are pleased to announce the release of Coot 0.8.9.2 Source: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/source/releases/coot-0.8.9.2.tar.gz Binaries: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/binaries/release/ More Linux binaries and Windows binaries will be

Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread CRAIG A BINGMAN
You can purchase beryllium oxide through a number of vendors. After careful neutralization with an appropriate amount of HCl, you should have BeCl2 in solution. I usually use pH paper to check the pH in such small volume operations. > On Apr 1, 2019, at 4:07 PM, Alexandra Deaconescu > wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Daniel Anderson
Is this for standard crystals? I think people used to use "basic beryllium acetate" for that application. A quick Google search got me nowhere. -Dan On 4/1/19 2:07 PM, Alexandra Deaconescu wrote: Hello, Is anyone aware of a company that sells Beryllium chloride in the US? Sigma does not

[ccp4bb] beryllium chloride

2019-04-01 Thread Alexandra Deaconescu
Hello, Is anyone aware of a company that sells Beryllium chloride in the US? Sigma does not carry it any longer, and a quick Google search failed to reveal alternatives. Thank you very much, Alexandra -- Alexandra Deaconescu, B.E., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Brown University Office: (401)

Re: [ccp4bb] Backup of whole synchrotrons

2019-04-01 Thread Aaron Finke
Not to toot our own horn too much, but CHESS has been ahead of the curve on this for at least 30 years. As an academic facility, we simply take our limitless supply of graduate students, wipe their memory, upload what we need, and lock them in dimly-lit facilities. No freezing in liquid

[ccp4bb] Ubiquitin & Friends Symposium 2019 (Vienna), register until 7th April

2019-04-01 Thread Clausen,Tim
Dear Colleagues, I would like to remind you to the "Ubiquitin & Friends Symposium" that will take place in Vienna on May 20-21, 2019. In fact, the deadline for registration, the 1st of April, is not too strict, such that you can sign-in until the 7th. As implied by the meeting's name, you

Re: [ccp4bb] Backup of whole synchrotrons

2019-04-01 Thread Fred Vellieux
Hi, We already have problems with the volume taken by our standard backups (they take too much space and we haven't been able to push the walls outwards in the Institute - I don't know why they keep telling us that our data should be in some clouds up in the sky). Hence I was wondering about

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Terminal Command-P

2019-04-01 Thread Stefano Trapani
Le 2019-04-01 08:53, Paul Emsley a écrit : > Dear All, Sometime I use a Mac. A niggling issue I have is that, in a > Terminal, Command-P doesn't act like Alt-P in (say) a gnome-terminal try ESC-p (not simultaneously) --- Stefano Trapani Maître de Conférences

Re: [ccp4bb] Backup of whole synchrotrons

2019-04-01 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Peter, The copies are only indistinguishable after they have been produced. So there has to be good record keeping during production. It's as easy as hanging on to rich meta-data. There was another post today on what to store in mmCIF, I'm sure we can have another record in there to cover

Re: [ccp4bb] Backup of whole synchrotrons

2019-04-01 Thread Peter Keller
Hi Robbie, On 01/04/2019 07:23, Robbie Joosten wrote: I don't think making this GDOR complient is that hard. It's all pretty well defined what you store (everything), where you store it, and why. There are some philosophical problems with allowing users to have their data deleted. Assuming the

[ccp4bb] OT: Terminal Command-P

2019-04-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear All, Sometime I use a Mac. A niggling issue I have is that, in a Terminal, Command-P doesn't act like Alt-P in (say) a gnome-terminal. I'd really quite like it if it did. If you have worked out how to do this then I'd appreciate if you let us know (actually, I suspect that it's not

Re: [ccp4bb] Backup of whole synchrotrons

2019-04-01 Thread Robbie Joosten
I don't think making this GDOR complient is that hard. It's all pretty well defined what you store (everything), where you store it, and why. There are some philosophical problems with allowing users to have their data deleted. Assuming the copy is good enough to reproducing the experiment.