Re: [ccp4bb] OT: "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"

2013-10-10 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
nation of some of us, can be solved by simply improving the peer-reviewing procedures. Cheers, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (UMR7257) CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université Case 932, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France Tel:

Re: [ccp4bb] announcement: (another) GUI for XDS

2013-06-26 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hmm, My XDS-Viewer.app installation is not in a standard place, more likely you need: cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /Applications/XDS-Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/xds-viewer-bin . Cheers, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (UMR7257) CNRS, Aix-Marseille

Re: [ccp4bb] announcement: (another) GUI for XDS

2013-06-26 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hi Sebastiano, Yes, you have to put the xds-viewer executable in your PATH. In the Mac and assuming /usr/local/bin is in your PATH: cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /Applications/Sci/Struct/XDS-Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/xds-viewer-bin . Cheers, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Architecture et Fonction des

Re: [ccp4bb] Program or server to predict Kd from complex structure

2013-04-18 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
ome of the components of the binding energies, like electrostatic and apolar binding and polar/apolar solvation terms, you could use something like APBS (http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/apbs/) Cheers, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (UMR7257) CNRS, Aix

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot 0.7 Saving Dialog opens behind main window

2012-10-31 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 30/10/12 20:28, Jason Busby a écrit : > Another work-around is to use the command-tilde (⌘ + ~) keystroke. That will > cycle through all the windows of the current program. > > Jason. > > -- > Jason Busby > PhD Student > Laboratory of Structural Biology > School of Biological Sciences > Univ

Re: [ccp4bb] DNA geometry

2012-08-28 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 28/08/12 09:57, cuisheng2007 a écrit : > Dear all: > > Is there software or web-server that can measure DNA geometry (PDB > coordinates) precisely, such as groove width, helix diameter, helix > axis, base tilt angle, helix rise per base pair… > > It is surely doable to measure and estimate the

Re: [ccp4bb] DNA in coot

2012-02-16 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 15/02/12 11:36, Tim Gruene a écrit : > Hello Lisa, > > which version of coot do you use? Maybe it is outdated and that function > not yet properly implemented. I can confirm Bill's comment, and we work > with coot 0.6.2. > > Cheers, > Tim > > On 02/15/2012 09:01 AM, LISA wrote: >> Hi all, >

Re: [ccp4bb] writing scripts-off topic

2012-01-25 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hi Yuri, To add something nobody else has mentioned yet. If you are interested in statistics and analysis you may find interesting the R package. There is an excelent module, called Bio3D for the analysis of protein structure and sequence data. Have a look here: http://bio3d.pbworks.com/w/page/78

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with getting Rfree and Rf down

2012-01-25 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 24/01/12 21:18, Dale Tronrud a écrit : > On 01/24/12 11:52, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: >> El 24/01/12 18:56, Greg Costakes escribió: >>> Whoops, I misspoke... I meant Rsym and Rmerge increase with higher >>> redundancies. >>> >> >> But then suppose that one merges data from a crystal that is

Re: [ccp4bb] native gels

2012-01-19 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 19/01/12 14:03, anita p a écrit : > Hi All, > Has anyone run a native gel for proteins at pI>8 . > I want to pour my own native gel. Do I run a discontinuous page or a > continuous one?? Please help with regards to the buffer system to be > used, and the dye to be used. > With regards > Rashmi

Re: [ccp4bb] Choice of heavy atom derivatives

2012-01-11 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 11/01/12 12:23, Federica Basilico a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I have crystals of a protein of 176 residues, with 5 Cys, 8 His, 3 Met. > Native crystals grow in 10% MPD, 100mM Bicine pH 9.0. They show a nice > diffraction, but appear to be perfectly twinned. > I have crystallised a SeMet deriva

Re: [ccp4bb] image compression

2011-11-08 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 08/11/11 10:15, Kay Diederichs a écrit : > Hi James, > > I see no real need for lossy compression datasets. They may be useful > for demonstration purposes, and to follow synchrotron data collection > remotely. But for processing I need the real data. It is my experience > that structure soluti

[ccp4bb] Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-18 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Hi community, I have been waiting for someone more knowledgeable to write about the passing away of Dennis Ritchie (8 October) especially after the recent obituaries posted in the list. I confess I know little about him, except: 1/ He created the C language ( and together with Brian Kernighan wro

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral position @ AFMB Marseille

2011-10-10 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Message on behalf of Christian Cambillau. Please send your enquiries/applications directly to his address: cambil...@afmb.univ-mrs.fr - Dear Colleagues, Within the framework of a French « Agence Nationale de la Recherche » (ANR) contract, we are studying at A

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and DNA

2011-09-09 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
On 09/09/11 17:29, Ed Pozharski wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:58 +0200, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: >> Perhaps the Nd/DN issue was solved between revisions 3470 and 3628 ? > > Indeed. I just built the rev 3633 and it works fine. Autobuild scripts > used to have some prob

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and DNA

2011-09-08 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
On 08/09/11 15:35, Ed Pozharski wrote: > After switching (finally) to 6.2.0 and therefore to Refmac 5.6.0117 I > have found a problem working with DNA that I have not seen with > 6.1.13/5.5.0109. Namely, > > - if I use the pdb file produced by Coot (0.7.pre-1.3470) that seems to > output DNA as A

Re: [ccp4bb] loop building with ARP/wARP - REFMAC/gfortran problem? and work-around

2011-09-06 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
On 06/09/11 16:48, Huw Jenkins wrote: > On 25 Aug 2011, at 14:12, Gregory Bowman wrote: > >> When I try to run ARP/wARP classic for loop building, I get the following >> message in the logfile: >> >> QUITTING ... ARP/wARP module stopped with an error message: >> REFMAC > > I get the same error r

Re: [ccp4bb] Another paper & structure retracted

2011-08-11 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
On 11/08/11 09:13, Nian Huang wrote: > To make my idea a little bit clearer, the reviewers first make the > acceptance decision just based on the paper itself, on the condition the > coordinate matches the description of the paper. Then the editor > promises the publication date and the pdb can be

[ccp4bb] Trouble compiling ccp4 in osx: stalled at "checking for working non-fixed mmap"

2011-08-02 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Dear all, I have successfully compiled ccp4 6.2.0 on an OSX (10.6.8) machine but I'm failing to do the same in a different one, though with the same system setup. In the machine giving me trouble I want to install ccp4 in a nfs disk mounted. When I run configure using exactly the same input as in

[ccp4bb] MrBUMP, P43212 and P41212

2011-05-13 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Dear all, I get this unexpected (by me) message from MrBUMP: Reindex Warning: spacegroup P43212 does not have an enantiomorph I thought P41212 and P43212 were enantiomorphs... So, am I wrong ? (PS: I'm looking for indications on how to use MrBUMP on a cluster with a SGE queueing system. Any poi

Re: [ccp4bb] What happened to this innovative method by MV King?

2011-04-01 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Le 01/04/11 12:39, REX PALMER a écrit : > Dear Protein Crystallographers > I would like to share with you something I came across today. > Unfortunately I was only able to copy the first 4 pages of the article > by MV King as I need to post the email before 12am and the quality of > the copy is som

Re: [ccp4bb] helix stability

2008-06-26 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Fred, I would say that the helix stability will generally be affected by its context within the protein, unless it is (unlikely?) separated from the core of the protein and it has intrinsic stability (some peptide sequences do). Also, in a particular context, you may have mutations that unfold

[ccp4bb]

2008-06-22 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi, Water is not very nice a medium for a polyanion such as DNA when concentrated. Better use a basic buffer, even 10 mM Tris pH 8.0-8.5 would do. Another important thing is, as you have already partly tried, ionic strength but also the nature of the ions. You need monovalent cations as well. I wo

[ccp4bb] Off topic? [was: 2 Job Post at IRB Barcelona]

2008-06-13 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Dear list members, Sorry to bother you with a personal reflection that somehow asked for a way out of my mind after the umpteenth announcement of this kind. Please, no bad feelings for that post, no more than for any other of its kind, anyway. As it often happens, my reflection takes the form of

Re: [ccp4bb] Still cannot read .mtz + another ?

2008-02-04 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Don't know for the phaser problem, I had it once, but it was because I had phenix installed as well and I had set them both up in the same shell. That was something suggested already, so I guess it's not your problem. As for refmac: the tar.gz file you download from Garib's webpages is not a CCP4i

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Calculate dipole moment of ligands from their coordinates

2008-01-28 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
field supported by pd2pqr. It produces a "bild" object that can be loaded in the program Chimera from the UCSF. But it can be easily re-written to produce output for other graphic programs. Feel free to do it! Cheers, Miguel 2008/1/26, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculate dipole moment of ligands from their coordinates

2008-01-26 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Zheng, I have python script that does so if you have the program 'pdb2pqr' installed (http://pdb2pqr.sourceforge.net/) Let me know if you're interested. Cheers, Miguel 2008/1/19, Zheng Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, All > > Sorry about non-CCP4 questions. It is the best board I find so

Re: [ccp4bb] self-rotation interpretation, 5 minutes

2007-08-20 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Unless there is pseudo-symmetry, I would say that the self-rotation indicates that crystal point group is 422... Did the indexing program suggested something with this symmetry? Cheers, Miguel 2007/8/20, Wim Burmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yanming Zhang a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Would some e

Re: [ccp4bb] initial model built in Fo map not refining

2007-07-26 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Satinder, Did you checked if your SAD dataset (2.9A) and the dataset you're using in the refinement (2.3A) are in the same setting? The 'cad' program can do that for you. Cheers, Miguel 2007/7/27, Satinder K. Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > I have a SAD data set to 2.9A and a na

Re: [ccp4bb] Help with coordinate file

2007-07-24 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Mona, No idea what format may be that file, but if you find it out, most often in these cases openbabel (http://openbabel.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) is your friend. M. 2007/7/24, Mona N. Rahman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello all, I have a coordinate file of an energy minimized molecule

Re: [ccp4bb] resolution and solvent accessible surface area

2007-07-23 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hello Hyunchul Kim, I found this paper very interesting: Novotny M, Seibert M, Kleywegt GJ. On the precision of calculated solvent-accessible surface areas. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2007 Feb;63(Pt 2):270-4. Epub 2007 Jan 16. PMID: 17242521 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] http://www.n

Re: [ccp4bb] study weekend archive

2007-07-08 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Bernhard, You can get this one and the others from here: http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/index Search for 'CCP4' and you'll find it among other jewels. HTH, Miguel 2007/7/8, Bernhard Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Wonder where I might find the older study weekend archives on the CCP4 site... loo

Re: [ccp4bb] compiling problems ccp4-6.0.2 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-06-28 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
g FC=g77 F77=g77 ./configure linux (you should use g77 rather than gfortran. The programs compile but do not work properly, especially with mosflm in Harry Powell's experience). Tim On Thursday 28 June 2007 20:32, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote: > Dear all, > > Has anyone succeeded

[ccp4bb] compiling problems ccp4-6.0.2 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-06-28 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Dear all, Has anyone succeeded at compiling the latest release of CCP4 with gcc-4.1.2 This is the compiler version in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) At the very beginning (ccif lib compilation), I get this error: /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output I looked around and

Re: [ccp4bb] Squashed density

2007-06-27 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Simon, What graphics program are you using to inspect the density? Are you reading in directly the maps produced by CNS or converting them to some other format? If you convert it, the most likely culprit is the conversion procedure... Miguel 2007/6/27, Kolstoe S.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [ccp4bb] Partial binding of ligand to multimer

2007-06-23 Thread Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía
Hi Michal, Hmmm... Was it kicked out upon crystallisation or was crystallisation possible because most of your pentamers were not fully occupied by ligand so allowing the possibility of good contacts? ;-) What was the excess of ligand? Do you know its affinity? Miguel 2007/6/24, Michal Harel