[ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread joybeiyang
Hi everyone, I am preparing a crystallization manual for our group, however, I found that it is very difficult to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicrystalline and precipitation, especially when the precipitation was shiny, like the grit on the beach. Is there a way to distinguish the three?

Re: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread Poul Nissen
Whether the shiny precipitate can be redissolved or not is an important observation. If not: bad. If yes: good Also one can check if the shiny precipitate can be used for streak-seeding in new drops. If not: bad/neutral. It yes: good. A bad shiny precipitate also often forms a large connected

Re: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread ferrer
What about X-ray screening, in situ? We do that on BM30A at the ESRF with the G-Rob (http://www.esrf.eu/UsersAndScience/Experiments/CRG/BM30A/description_fip/Experiment/robots/dropx). With crystalline precipitate we observe rings at low resolution. JL On 06/10/2010 08:06 AM, joybeiyang wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear Joy   - microcrystalline in most cases would be birefringent - this is difficult to observe these days in our plastic boxed crystallization world with colours everywhere. But if you really want to know you can pipette the droplet onto a glass coverslip and dim the room

Re: [ccp4bb] How to distinguish microcrystalline, quasicystalline and precipitation?

2010-06-10 Thread Emmanuel Saridakis
Hi Joy, Yes, I agree that it is very difficult to distinguish those and it is even more difficult to put it in words or in writing: experts have been talking about shininess, transparency (rather than brown colour) and birefringence as far as I know. All these methods have some grain of truth

Re: [ccp4bb] sketcher

2010-06-10 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear All can people confirm that the failing cif files only have one monomer description in them. I have one example, but that contains two monomer descriptions. Remove one of the and coot successfully reads the file. Charles Ballard CCP4 On 9 Jun 2010, at 14:34, Yahui Yan wrote: Hello

[ccp4bb] Processing to detector corners with XDS

2010-06-10 Thread Nicholas Keep
Sorry this is off topic. I am trying to push a data set into the corners of the detectors as Mean I/SIGI looks strong for the circle that the XDS integrates to. The resolution appears to be hard coded in the detector header (and is reported back by XDS in the .LP files) which seems to override

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing to detector corners with XDS

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Winter
Dear Nick, In XDS.INP, set TRUSTED_REGION=0.0 1.41 This will integrate to sqrt(2) * radius of the inscribed circle, provided that the resolution ranges are set appropriately. Best wishes, Graeme On 10 June 2010 12:09, Nicholas Keep n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk wrote: Sorry this is off topic.

[ccp4bb] Thanks for the many responses

2010-06-10 Thread Nicholas Keep
Thanks for the many responses. I had been setting the parameters right. The problem was I was not telling xds to go back as far as INIT in the reprocessing. JOB ALL was the answer Best wishes Nick -- Prof Nicholas H. Keep Executive Dean of School of Science Professor of Biomolecular Science

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2010-06-10 Thread Schertler Gebhard
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[ccp4bb] Fwd: Referee report for Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology almost due

2010-06-10 Thread Charles W. Carter, Jr
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[ccp4bb] 3D wish list

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2010-06-10 Thread Laura Spagnolo
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