[ccp4bb] alt conformations and solvent structure

2014-04-14 Thread William Scott
Hi folks: Is there a simple way to attach partially occupied solvent sites with a specific conformer when dealing with multiple conformations of side chains or nucleotides, for purposes of PDB deposition? (In this case the resolution is quite high.) Thanks. Bill William G. Scott

Re: [ccp4bb] Conflicting Qt on OS X 10.6

2013-10-28 Thread William Scott
It looks like it should be doing the right thing, i.e., zsh-% otool -L qtrview qtrview: @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtWebKit.framework/Versions/4/QtWebKit (compatibility version 4.9.0, current version 4.9.3)

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: Has anyone experienced problems with Apple laptop battery expansion?

2012-11-20 Thread William Scott
Presumably then it was running Linux? On Nov 20, 2012, at 7:39 AM, George M. Sheldrick gshe...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de wrote: I have never understood why Macs are so popular, although in this part of the world they are appreciably more expensive. My vintage 2005 Dell laptop does not have the

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux vs MacOS for crystallographic software

2011-09-30 Thread William Scott
opinion on the virtues of different OS environments for two days It might be of interest to look back on the original poster's question, because all she asked were a few questions about a specific computer (HP Z210 8 GB with a low end Quadro Nvidia 400 512 MB) running any Linux, and a

Re: [ccp4bb] Rigaku high voltage tank

2011-09-28 Thread William Scott
On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Artem Evdokimov wrote: Are you indeed referring to the oil-filled high voltage transformer core in the older model generators? Yes. (Newer ones tend to use solid state voltage multipliers). That sounds much more sane. I recall that there were issues with those

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac OSX 10.7 Lion

2011-09-09 Thread William Scott
Hi Phil: I've found few, if any advantages. I fear for the future. I've had problems getting coot to run stereo due to the X11 implementation in 10.7. Apart from that, no major problems with crystallographic software. Lion greedily uses memory, and any computer I have with less than 4 gig of

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac OSX 10.7 Lion

2011-09-09 Thread William Scott
On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:09 AM, William Scott wrote: (nothing us usual in of itself) I forgot to mention how delightful the spelling auto-correction feature can be. (It should have read nothing unusual in and of itself). That, at least, can be turned off.

Re: [ccp4bb] BLT wish

2011-08-17 Thread William Scott
Yeah, it was a totally delightful interaction. So much for the Ubuntu spread the love of humanity theme. They have successfully migrated from figure 3 to figure 2: http://bandcamp.tv/linux-demotivators/ As for BLT, my sense (being the unfortunate maintainer for it on fink) is that it is dead

Re: [ccp4bb] BLT wish

2011-08-17 Thread William Scott
On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Harry wrote: Hi Bill I don't think this includes BLT, does it? No. That was what I was trying to say (apparently not very well, sorry!): On 17 Aug 2011, at 22:33, William Scott wrote: if CCP4 could free itself of this dependency... …then it could make

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic: Synchrotron look alike

2011-06-09 Thread William Scott
Yeah, I know what you mean. That Zalman 3D LCD monitor put me back almost $300, and the mac mini I hooked it to, nearly another $600. My SGIs only cost $12K each in 1998. On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Mayer, Mark (NIH/NICHD) [E] wrote: The sad thing is, although Macs are great

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 for iphones

2011-02-25 Thread William Scott
Until tcl/tk gets ported, this might tide you over: http://www.readpixel.com/remotetap/index.html It is a VNC display optimized for iPod/iPhone/iPad use. -- Bill - On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Jacob Keller wrote: Hello All, is there a ccp4 app for iphones yet?

Re: [ccp4bb] Could someone can help me to explain why EDTA-2Na can formate salt crystals

2011-02-22 Thread William Scott
What other cations are present? Any divalent cations like Mg++ or Ca++? The Ksp of magnesium phosphate is about 10^-24, so even if you have a very small amount present, say as a contaminant with citrate or EDTA, it will crystallize. On Feb 21, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Yibin Lin wrote: Dear all,

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem installing CCP4 on MacOSX behind firewall?

2010-10-14 Thread William Scott
Two ideas: 1. Create a file in your home directory called ~/.curlrc and in it put the following line: -P - ftp 2. Use wget first, install wget with fink Then put the line DownloadMethod: wget into the file /sw/etc/fink.conf (or /sw64/etc/fink.conf ). I use wget. It seems to be

[ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizens: Try not to laugh. I have an embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question: Why is it that F in this picture isn't required to be vertical (purely imaginary)? http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/~sawaya/tutorials/Phasing/phase.gif (Similarly in the Harker diagram of the intersection of

[ccp4bb] Summary : [ccp4bb] embarrassingly simple MAD phasing question

2010-10-13 Thread William Scott
Thanks for the overwhelming response. I think I probably didn't phrase the question quite right, but I pieced together an answer to the question I wanted to ask, which hopefully is right. On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:14 PM, SHEPARD William wrote: It is very simple, the structure factor for the

Re: [ccp4bb] Zalman

2010-10-01 Thread William Scott
Hi Allen: I have a smaller Zalman monitor, but I defined buttons to set the screen size (and toggle stereo) like this: coot_toolbar_button(FullScreen, set_graphics_window_size(1680,999), gtk-network) Making the vertical dimension an odd number seems to be required to ensure that stereo is

[ccp4bb] Assistant Professor faculty position: Santa Cruz, CA

2010-07-31 Thread William Scott
Dear Colleagues: If you know of anyone who might be interested in an assistant professor position, would you please be kind enough to bring the following advertisement to their attention? http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/154054-Assistant-Professor Many thanks. Bill Scott

Re: [ccp4bb] how to improve Rfree?

2009-10-19 Thread William Scott
Two very low-brow suggestions that might help: 1. Do a round of idealization in Refmac, to tighten up the geometry as much as possible. Then return to your current approach. 2. Try using phenix.refine (with the same mtz, test reflections, latest PDB, etc). The difference can sometimes be

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread William Scott
I always Look on the Bright Side of Life, so I take a certain solace in the fact that while this may be true, most postdoc positions pay about as well as my job, if not better. On Wed, September 30, 2009 5:52 pm, Artem Evdokimov wrote: I personally am not peeved at all, but I am getting

Re: [ccp4bb] Jobs

2009-09-30 Thread William Scott
No, just California Dollars, which I think are on a par with those printed in Zimbabwe prior to April 12th. On Wed, September 30, 2009 8:27 pm, aaleshin wrote: Are the salaries compared in orders of magnitude? Or you mean other pays? On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:30 PM, William Scott wrote: I

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and hkl2000

2009-07-30 Thread William Scott
Is it the gui or mosflm itself that crashes? The new gui is dependent upon a number of external dependencies, so you are at the mercy of the stability of those. The old gui still works fine, at least last time I checked. On Thu, July 30, 2009 4:40 pm, Marius Schmidt wrote: We have a little

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i, OS X 10.5.7, security enforcement

2009-07-26 Thread William Scott
When I do this with /bin/zsh, it does the right thing. The source command in the bltwish shell gives me ccp4i. When I run the commands interactively in bash or sh (which is bash on os x), the command exec ${CCP4I_TCLTK}/bltwish $0 -- ${1+$@} terminates the shell session instead of turning it

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i, OS X 10.5.7, security enforcement

2009-07-26 Thread William Scott
On Sun, July 26, 2009 5:38 pm, Edward A. Berry wrote: William Scott wrote: .. So I think your process is getting killed before you look at the cat in the box. If it is a question of ${CCP4I_TCLTK} not getting assigned, the error you should see looks like this: bash: /bltwish: No such file

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i, OS X 10.5.7, security enforcement

2009-07-26 Thread William Scott
On Sun, July 26, 2009 6:07 pm, William Scott wrote: On Sun, July 26, 2009 5:38 pm, Edward A. Berry wrote: William Scott wrote: .. So I think your process is getting killed before you look at the cat in the box. If it is a question of ${CCP4I_TCLTK} not getting assigned, the error you

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand PDB

2009-07-21 Thread William Scott
Dear protein.chemist: Try elbow.builder or phenix.elbow or whatever it is currently called. It will optimize the geometry. Good.luck Bill.Scott On Tue, July 21, 2009 1:23 pm, protein.chemist protein.chemist wrote: Dear All, What is the best way to find the coordinates of a ligand. I

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i permission problem

2009-07-09 Thread William Scott
% fink describe ccp4 Information about 9170 packages read in 3 seconds. snip Invoke optional ccp4i gui for the first run using sudo ccp4i on 10.4, or sudo /bin/zsh followed by source /sw/bin/init.sh ;ccp4i on 10.5 to permit global configuration. Thereafter, you can invoke

[ccp4bb] small-angle scattering and radiation damage control

2009-07-09 Thread William Scott
Hi folks: A colleague of mine here is doing small angle X-ray scattering at SSRL and finding his samples are suffering significant radiation damage. He asked me for advice as to what potential radical scavengers might be useful. I told him to take 10 mg of ascorbic acid and to call me in

Re: [ccp4bb] error in ccp4i

2009-05-17 Thread William Scott
The answer to this was to ensure that the file /etc/hosts is present and contains the line 127.0.0.1 localhost William G. Scott Contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/ On May 16, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote: hi there, I'm using ccp4 installed via fink

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 updates and the problem pages

2009-05-11 Thread William Scott
I just did the same today. Those that are missing from the 4-03 patch (at least the src version) included: scala.f version.fh refmac5.tcl scalepack2mtz.com dtrek2mtz.com pname2.com import_scaled.script also there was a tcl++ fix William G. Scott Contact info:

Re: [ccp4bb] imosflm in ccp4 6.1.0 in linux problems

2009-01-06 Thread William Scott
Hi Paula: Here is more info: http://sage.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/CCP4-6.1.0_on_Ubuntu_Ibex (There is no reason why you would have to do step 1.) Sorry, but I couldn't figure out how to append the link using my iPod while undergoing mind-numbing boredom in an interminable

Re: [ccp4bb] imosflm in ccp4 6.1.0 in linux problems

2009-01-06 Thread William Scott
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:10 PM, William Scott wrote: (There is no reason why you would have to do step 1.) Sorry, that should have been no reason ... to do step THREE.

[ccp4bb] OS X 10.4.11 and mmdb in ccp4-6.1.0 libtool: internal link edit command failed

2008-12-12 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizens: When compiling ccp4 on OS X v. 10.4.11, I get the following failure for libmmmdb.dylib: It works fine on 10.5.5, and mmdb v. 1.19 itself (used for coot) compiles fine under the same conditions. gcc -dynamiclib -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -fPIC -fno-common -

Re: [ccp4bb] COOT Problem

2008-12-12 Thread William Scott
Does ccp4i work? On Thu, December 11, 2008 8:06 pm, Jayashankar wrote: since its a same coot problem, i have one more, i am using mac 10.5 leopord osx the thing is, i dont get any pop upped table even after i do a translate and do a real space refinement . is it a bug or is it a

Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-01 Thread William Scott
Yo Thierry: The periplasmic domain of the aspartate receptor, in the absence of ligand, 1lih, is a dimer, but crystallizes as a monomer in the sense that there is one monomer per asymmetric unit. There is a disulphide bond between two Cys36 that maintains it as a dimer (and indeed

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-18 Thread William Scott
Hi Anna: I think the main thing to emphasize in summary is that any of the options various people have suggested would be far more than adequate to do refinement or model building with coot. In my limited personal experience, unless you have something as big as the ribosome, you won't

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic computing platform recommendations?

2008-11-18 Thread William Scott
The main differences aren't cosmetic, but rather free accessibility of updates and distributions, as well as attitude aka philosophy. Advantages of Ubuntu include frequent OS updates, debian-based package management system (which admittedly is a matter of taste, but it is one of the

Re: [ccp4bb] terminal window

2008-10-20 Thread William Scott
Friends, I recently followed William Scott page and followed his advice to install fink and crystallographic softwares... But out of my curiosity i once tried to install arpwarp as per the instructions and it was done successfully, no problem, but whenever i open a new terminal window,i see

[ccp4bb] off-topic: Enzymology textbook recommendations?

2008-09-11 Thread William Scott
Hi Folks: I just found out that in a couple of weeks I am going to be teaching a graduate student-level enzymology course. Can anyone recommend a good text, and possibly good websites authored by people who are predisposed to consider plagiarism the highest form of complement? Many

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4i on MacPro under Leopard

2008-08-25 Thread William Scott
Glad it worked. I should have written sudo /bin/bash or sudo /bin/zsh or sudo /bin/tcsh followed by sourcing the appropriate startup script. However, if I run the tcsh command, I get this error: limit: stacksize: Can't remove limit (Invalid argument) oddly, this does not happen with a

Re: [ccp4bb] DNA building program

2008-08-12 Thread William Scott
coot On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Raja Dey wrote: Dear Friends, Does anyone can refer a reliable program for building 3D model of a double stranded straight DNA from sequence? Thanking you in advance... Raja

Re: [ccp4bb] Ammonium citrate tribasic buffer

2008-08-07 Thread William Scott
Wikipedia claims Hasselbach is a misspelling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson-Hasselbalch_equation Since Wikipedia has now replaced the social consensus as the final arbiter of truth ... On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Juergen Bosch wrote: Just on a side note, can someone clarify why

Re: [ccp4bb] sequential renumbering of a messed up pdb file

2008-07-31 Thread William Scott
Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 945025-7015 Phone: 650 926 2992 Fax: 650 926 3292 On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:09 PM, William Scott wrote: Hi folks: I am hoping there is a simple answer I have overlooked to the following question. I have a pdb file in it that has multiple residues that have the same

Re: [ccp4bb] Idealizing helix

2008-07-30 Thread William Scott
Refmac should be able to do this without moving stuff too much. CNS (no simulated annealing) also can do this kind of thing. If it becomes problematic, you can restrain the backbone. You can also do this via coot (which uses refmac I am pretty sure). William G. Scott Contact info:

Re: [ccp4bb] os x wiki

2008-07-23 Thread William Scott
Hi Patrick: I'm afraid all the insidious stupidness originates from moi. Anyway, the machine hosting this thing has a roached power supply, thanks to the fact that the University electrical supply resembles that produced by, in terms of its stability and reliability, an underfed gerbil-

Re: [ccp4bb] creat 3D small molecules

2008-07-22 Thread William Scott
My favorite is the elbow builder in phenix. You give it a smiles string and it will build (and optionally, optimize either classically or quantum-mechanically) your small molecule structure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_molecular_input_line_entry_specification

[ccp4bb] Fwd: DNA/RNA base stacking restraint add-on to CNS avaliable.

2008-07-14 Thread William Scott
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:22:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin.Laurberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: DNA/RNA base stacking restraint add-on to CNS avaliable. Dear all, A DNA/RNA base stacking restraint add-on to CNS version 1.21 is avaliable for

[ccp4bb] Is there an easy way to down-weight figures of merit?

2008-07-11 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizens: I realize this is one of those warranty-violating questions, but is there a simple way to down-weight figures of merit, or the equivalent in terms of Hendrickson-Lattman coefficients? I'm trying to generalize and automate a procedure for solving RNA structures without

[ccp4bb] summary: headhunters [off-topic]

2008-06-26 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizens: I've taken the liberty of summarizing/anonymizing/interpreting a bit with the varied and colo[u]rful responses. They fell into three general categories. Thanks to all who responded and offered sage advice... 1. The unanimous consensus was that headhunters aren't useful for

Re: [ccp4bb] Reminder - still no 3D stereo under OS X 10.5

2008-06-26 Thread William Scott
Is this true for native aqua gui programs, or just the X11 ones? On Thu, June 26, 2008 1:50 pm, eortlund wrote: Hi Everyone, I am writing everyone just to remind all those who are thinking of upgrading to 10.5 that currently quad-buffered stereo will not work for coot, pymol etc... since

Re: [ccp4bb] query on DNA-protein complex preparation for crystallization

2008-06-22 Thread William Scott
Check the purity of the DNA in solution: A(260 nm)/A(280) = 1.8 for fully deprotected DNA, and you should see a nice clean simple curve with a peak very close to 260 nm. Check it on a denaturing gel. Smearing indicates incomplete deprotection. This is usually the cause of solubility

Re: [ccp4bb] environ.def / default.def

2008-05-17 Thread William Scott
of necessary unix knowledge - I will try to circulate it among my colleagues. Thanks again and all the best. Eike On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 08:13 -0700, William Scott wrote: Hi Eric: You shouldn't have to source or do anything with the def files. There seems to be some problems with the ccp4.setup

Re: [ccp4bb] No permission to CCP4I_TOP dir

2008-05-16 Thread William Scott
execute: No such file or directory bash-3.2# Raja - Original Message - From: William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:44 am Subject: Re: No permission to CCP4I_TOP dir To: Raja Dey [EMAIL PROTECTED] The easiest thing is probably to initialize a shell with sudo

Re: [ccp4bb] environ.def / default.def

2008-05-16 Thread William Scott
On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:06 pm, Eike Schulz wrote: Hello everybody, setenv CCP4_MASTER /usr/local/software/ccp4 setenv CCP4 $CCP4_MASTER/ccp4-6.0.2 For bash, zsh, etc, you need to start with export

Re: [ccp4bb] My New Address

2008-05-16 Thread William Scott
Can someone delete the old address from the ccp4bb? I've tried emailing but to no avail. On Fri, May 16, 2008 2:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Your message has been automatically forwarded to my new address which is: sanjukta.aich at usask.ca (replace at with the @ symbol) At

Re: [ccp4bb] environ.def / default.def

2008-05-16 Thread William Scott
the error persists when I try to run refmac from the ccp4i GUI - it complains not to be able to extract data from an .mtz file. Did I miss anything important? Kind regards Eike On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:37 -0700, William Scott wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:06 pm, Eike Schulz wrote: Hello

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for high resolution

2008-05-15 Thread William Scott
, Modulated Crystals, Crystal Perfection, X-ray Topography, Interests: ThimbleTack, skateboarding, RAGBRAI, and rollerskating ** William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: CCP4 bulletin board CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 05/15/2008 12:09

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for high resolution

2008-05-15 Thread William Scott
On May 15, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote: I was just trying to protect poor creatures, after all they [hydrogens] only got one electron to hold on to (:-) Ed. A less radical view (pun intended) suggests two. ;)

Re: [ccp4bb] poll: cutoff for high resolution

2008-05-14 Thread William Scott
On May 14, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Mark Del Campo wrote: At what refinement resolution or resolution ranges would you call a structure high resolution vs. low resolution? I realize that this may boil down to semantics (e.g. some may classify structures as medium resolution), but I wanted to get

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 and gcc4 - redux

2008-05-07 Thread William Scott
mosflm is an incredibly great program, not to mention free as in beer... On May 7, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Chris Waddling wrote: my frustration at HKL2000 not working

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 and gcc4

2008-05-05 Thread William Scott
On ubuntu, you can get this in the libg2c package. I agree with James Stroud. Fire the sysadmin and divvy the salary up amongst those who really need it. Time to raise the black flag and start slitting throats. On May 5, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Chris Waddling wrote: Basically, the newest

[ccp4bb] Eden crystallography web site

2008-04-25 Thread William Scott
Hi: If anyone needs EDEN (Abraham and Hanna Szöke's density modification program), the original edencrystallography.org site is gone. As a quick remedy, I've created (with their permission) a google-code page here: http://code.google.com/p/edencrystallography/ The code is GPL-ed, fwiw.

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 install on Leopard

2008-04-25 Thread William Scott
You need to run source /sw/bin/init.sh if you use bash or zsh or source /sw/bin/init.csh if you use tcsh. this will automatically set up the environment variables and then it will do what you want it to (which is to set up the ccp4 environment according to whichever shell you might be

Re: [ccp4bb] density_modify.inp is not running in cns1.2 but runs in cns1.1

2008-04-23 Thread William Scott
Could one or both of you try this with the pre-compiled intel version that comes from the CNS website? If it works on that, it might be something introduced in the compiling process for the osx-optimized version made by David. Thanks. Bill On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Sean Johnson

Re: [ccp4bb] problem about coot on MacOSX

2008-04-22 Thread William Scott
I think this version of coot tries to set the DISPLAY variable and that will sabotage launching it in 10.5.2. May I suggest trying this: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Coot-0.5-pre-1-968_for_Intel_10.5_only On Tue, April 22, 2008 7:53 pm, zhangtao wrote: Dear All: I

Re: [ccp4bb] Installing coot on MacOSX 10.5

2008-04-17 Thread William Scott
Dear Chris et al, My guess is something needs ruby built as a build-time dependency, but coot doesn't require it. In any case, I've got the latest version of ruby built and anyone who needs it can download it from one of my servers as described on this page: http://tinyurl.com/h2lzq

Re: [ccp4bb] Installing coot on MacOSX 10.5

2008-04-17 Thread William Scott
I have i librsvg22.9.5-11SAX-based render library for SVG files i librsvg2-gtk2.9.5-11Enable GTK to use SVG data i librsvg2-shlibs 2.9.5-11SAX-based render library for SVG files Do you have all of those installed? If not, the package

Re: [ccp4bb] Installing coot on MacOSX 10.5

2008-04-17 Thread William Scott
Dear Buz: Not sure why you have to install ruby. But if you describe the problem, I might be able to help. Meanwhile you can use what I pre-compiled: http://tinyurl.com/h2lzq This will speed things up by a few orders of magnitude. Bill On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Buz Barstow wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] upgrade coot via fink on OS X

2008-04-14 Thread William Scott
This is a gtk+2 phenomenon. Same happens with gimp-2. On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: Hey Klaus, after I installed coot 0.5 via fink for the first time, I encountered stalling during startup as well. However, this resolved itself within a minute. Startup resumed, and

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] crystallisation robot

2008-04-14 Thread William Scott
Does this include the customary grieving period? On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:10 PM, JOE CRYSTAL wrote: Hi, Does anyone have information about how long it takes to set up a 96- well tray for the crystallization robots available? Besides cost per tray and maintenance cost, another important

Re: [ccp4bb] Low resol structure

2008-04-11 Thread William Scott
On Apr 11, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Jim Naismith wrote: However, does anyone know how to convince editors and non- xtallographers that 3.45A is valid? You have to introduce them to the resolution vs. biological interest trade-off matrix, and how it ought to be diagonaliz(s)ed. Bill

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Real funny until someone loses a Happy Meal

2008-04-04 Thread William Scott
As opposed to putting McDonald's food into their stomachs? On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Ezra Peisach wrote: I saw that toy - Personally, I do not like the idea of encouraging children to aim a light (low powered led) directly at one's eye... Ezra P Hubbard wrote: I took my 5 year old niece

Re: [ccp4bb] Mg++ binding to N7 of G

2008-04-02 Thread William Scott
Sorry, I should have been less cryptic: On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: Forgive the naive questions: To what do the terms hard and soft refer here? In inorganic chemistry, hard refers to bonding where the Coulomb potential dominates, and soft where orbital terms dominate.

Re: [ccp4bb] advice regarding computer hardware purchase

2008-04-01 Thread William Scott
Hi Chu-Young: I would recommend either a PC running Ubuntu Linux (my personal favorite distribution -- they are all more or less the same thing) or else Apple Mac OS X, depending upon your other needs, budget, etc. I've got a lot of propaganda for OS X here: http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot problems on mac...

2008-03-25 Thread William Scott
HI Simon: The X11 guy at Apple is very interested in trying to help. If you could join the Apple X11 mailing list and document this as carefully as possible, it would be a real benefit. He's out of town for a few days but is interested in dealing with this as soon as he returns. There

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i - Directories Project Directory Error

2008-03-25 Thread William Scott
In both cases, you have to make sure you are setting up the environment appropriately for ccp4, unique to the unix shell you are using. In the case of the ccp4 package you compile with the aid of the fink script, at the start of a shell session, you, or your dot file, needs to issue

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i - Directories Project Directory Error

2008-03-25 Thread William Scott
That is exactly how it is supposed to work with 10.5. No need to use an xterm, and it sets the DISPLAY variable automatically. I assume you have write-permissions in the directory it is trying to make the .CCP4 directory? On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Kurt Padilla wrote: Sue,

Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4i - Directories Project Directory Error

2008-03-21 Thread William Scott
If I move my .CCP4 directory out of the way and start ccp4i, it makes a new one: zsh-% ccp4i 22:14:16 Creating a home directory for CCP4 at /Users/wgscott/.CCP4 22:14:16 Creating CCP4i shadow area at /Users/wgscott/.CCP4/CCP4I_TOP 22:14:16 Creating shadow subdirectory

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal scoring sheets for iPhones/Pocket-PCs

2008-03-19 Thread William Scott
Sounds great. You can jailbreak an iPhone/iPod touch and install a whole BSD subsystem on it. So printing should be possible at some point... This of course also suggests that iPod touch is a valid research expense ... William G. Scott Contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/

Re: [ccp4bb] changing names of many files

2008-03-11 Thread William Scott
Install zsh. Then invoke it. Then issue: autoload -U zmv alias mmv='noglob zmv -W' Then you are ready for some fun: mmv 1105\ A*.osc A*.osc Then if you decide to make your default shell zsh, you can put that in your .zshrc file and all you have to remember in the future is mmv Raja Dey

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging CCP4i projects from two computers

2008-03-07 Thread William Scott
Syncing directories with unison (use the same version of the program on all computers) or rsync can help. Lately I've been using svn, which is I think the best way to deal with this. Setting up a server on linux is probably easiest. You can do this with any type of file, by the way, it

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging CCP4i projects from two computers

2008-03-07 Thread William Scott
NFS is alive and well (even on OS X 10.5), but having separate copies on different computers and/or an svn server has the additional merits of being a backup system and one you can use with computers that don't have static IPs. David J. Schuller wrote: Back in the good old days, we were able

Re: [ccp4bb] phenix.refine and refmac

2008-03-04 Thread William Scott
phenix.refine also produces an mtz file by default, and that can be auto-opened with coot, along with the coordinates. On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:27 AM, yang li wrote: Since the map from phenix couldnot be opened by coot directly--or I donnot know how to--I used refmac to get a mtz map file.

Re: [ccp4bb] seeing if this list can be put on gmane

2008-02-27 Thread William Scott
Here is an example: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.textmate.general Charles Ballard wrote: Dear Mark gmane has an obscure e-mail address function. We would use that. Charles On 26 Feb 2008, at 16:58, Mark J. van Raaij wrote: Dear Charles, it would perhaps be good to make sure

Re: [ccp4bb] suggestion: CCP4BB on gmane.org

2008-02-26 Thread William Scott
I agree! I suggested this about a year ago too. All they need is permission from ccp4. The current system of archives is hard to use (and for mentally deficient people like me, impossible). Bill Kay Diederichs wrote: Dear all, I love CCP4BB, but I hate going on holidays because when I come

[ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary information are invisible

2008-02-22 Thread William Scott
Hi Citizenry: This is worth reading: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/451887d.html Without knowingly doing so, I've short-cited coot and probably other crystallographic software in this way. I hope one day to redeem myself. Bill

Re: [ccp4bb] cns and refmac refinement

2008-02-21 Thread William Scott
Then I used CNS to do annealing, then use refmac to do rigid body refinement. That can be why the R-factors went up. Rigid-body subsequent to simulated annealing will (if anything) undo the refinement ... Anastassis Perrakis wrote: Just to point out that I have missed the NCS presence; Lijun

Re: [ccp4bb] microsoft 3-button wheel mouse with OS X 10.5

2008-01-23 Thread William Scott
Yes, thanks, that does it for the Terminal.app, but not for any of the rest. It would be great to have such a feature globally. mb1pja wrote: Dear Bill William Scott wrote Aqua simply behaves by slightly different rules. Although I am a slobbering OS X fan, this lack of customizability

Re: [ccp4bb] antibody crystallization

2008-01-22 Thread William Scott
I want to thank the very many people who responded to my inquiry. I'm overwhelmed and really appreciative. I've still got to read through it all, but a clear (near-unanimous) consensus is emerging. All the best, and again thanks very much for the help. I really appreciate it. Bill

[ccp4bb] antibody crystallization

2008-01-20 Thread William Scott
Hi folks: A colleague has an antibody they would like a crystal structure of, bound to a peptide. Currently it is a whole antibody. From my superficial search of the literature, it looks like everyone uses Fab fragments in such cases. Is this true, and is it stupid to try the whole

Re: [ccp4bb] differences between Rsym and Rmerge

2008-01-18 Thread William Scott
I had learned that Rsym compared symmetry-related reflections within an image or film (in the context of a rotation exposure), and Rmerge compared symmetry-related reflections on different images or films with one another. Is that wrong? Bill Manfred S. Weiss wrote: Dear Mohd and all others,

Re: [ccp4bb] PERL system call to CCP4

2008-01-14 Thread William Scott
This looks promising: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/newsletters/newsletter36/13_perl.html Ezra Peisach wrote: You may wish to look at the occp4-pm perl package by E. Courcelle and J.P. Samama (formerly available from ftp://ftp.ipbs.fr/pub/occp4 - but this no longer works...) I no longer have a copy

Re: [ccp4bb] ideal bond length and bong angel

2008-01-09 Thread William Scott
Hi Yang Li: Macromolecular crystal refinement programs use ideal bond lengths and angles. The simplest ones just assume any carbon-carbon single bond (C-C) is the same as any other, and use one average value, and any carbon-carbon double bond (C=C) is the same as any other, and use another

Re: [ccp4bb] apologize

2008-01-09 Thread William Scott
Dear Yang Li: Happy New Year to you, too, (ahead of Feb. 7th). You certainly owe us no apology; the reverse may not be true. Your question is an important one, as is what you have written below. I'm not certain I have a completely satisfactory answer. The reason is that ideal bond lengths

Re: [ccp4bb] bond lengths, angles, ideality and refinements

2008-01-09 Thread William Scott
molecules might tend to distort a bond by a couple hundredths of an Ångstrom. William Scott wrote: Dear Yang Li: Happy New Year to you, too, (ahead of Feb. 7th). You certainly owe us no apology; the reverse may not be true. Your question is an important one, as is what you have written

Re: [ccp4bb] Malic Acid interferes heavy metal binding?

2008-01-09 Thread William Scott
Dear Jinjin: Malic acid, a diprotic acid, has a pKa of about 3.4 for the first dissociation and a second at about 5.1. So it is best as a buffer within a pH range of about 2.4 to 6.1, and it at its best around best in the range of 3.4 to 5.1. If the pH of your solution is indeed 7, then it is

Re: [ccp4bb] Any programs other than GRASP have a surface scribing function?

2008-01-08 Thread William Scott
Just to add to that, on OS X, if you install the apbs and pymol packages via fink, everything will be set up for you. I think this is also true of at least Ubuntu and other debian linux varieties. As far as I am aware, the plugin is not compatible with the non-X-windows PyMOL on OS X. On Tue,

Re: [ccp4bb] Gastroeneterology position, Metro Tennessee area.

2008-01-07 Thread William Scott
Hi Jessica: Thanks for posting these gastroeneterology and dermatology adverts to the CCP4 bulletin board. Many of in macromolecular X-ray crystallography are contemplating just such a career change, and although the retraining procedure may take 7 to 10 years, I am sure you would be willing

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein DNA complex refinement

2008-01-03 Thread William Scott
Also, the PDB now uses prime (') instead of asterisk (*) for the ribose numberings, and uses OP1 instead of O1P, and so forth. Do the new refmac dictionaries have that (I haven't been able to get it to work in the context of coot). Garib Murshudov wrote: If you take new dictionary with new

Re: [ccp4bb] Difference Map in COOT - Possible lignad but clash with structure?

2007-12-28 Thread William Scott
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:55:39 + Brenda Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am fairly new to this lark No problem. With a name like Patterson, your future is guaranteed (unless of course you see everything in the world with intensity but no phase). I have a

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot 0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4

2007-12-24 Thread William Scott
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Coot: http://tinyurl.com/24mchk This one will work on intel, both 10.4 and 10.5. If there are any problems let me know. PPC version to follow in the next few days. It is designed to be stand-alone, and to inflexibly install into /usr/local/coot I used a

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