Re: [ccp4bb] summary: off topic: advice for crystallography workstation/server

2010-12-16 Thread Ronnie Berntsson
Hi, First of all, thanks for all the suggestions and comments! I'll sum up a few of the replies here. It seems that most people would favor going for the route of having multiple, individual computers (iMacs, mac minis, etc) instead of having one workhorse. This mainly due to the fact that

Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotectant for protein crystal grown from Di-sodium hydrogen phosphate

2010-12-16 Thread Enrico Stura
80% saturated lithium sulfate should have about the correct ionic strength to match your crystallization conditions. The crystals need to be transfered with as little mother liquor as possible to avoid lithium phosphate crystallization. Robert Kirchdoerfer suggestion is also excellent, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
Dale The reward of the full calculation is that all the complications you describe disappear. An atom that sits 0.001 A from a special position is not unstable in the least. That's indeed a very interesting observation, I have to admit that I didn't think that would be achievable. But there

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
I think this is how the Oxford CRYSTALS software ( http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html ), which has been around for at least 30 years, deals with this issue, so I can't accept that it can't be made to work, even if I haven't got all the precise details straight of how it's done in practice.

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Harry Powell
Or you could write and ask the author, who is always willing to help (sorry, David!)... On 16 Dec 2010, at 11:24, Ian Tickle wrote: I think this is how the Oxford CRYSTALS software ( http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html ), which has been around for at least 30 years, deals with this issue,

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Ian, You still have an arbitrary threshold: at high resolution you see two disordered atoms off-axis and at low resolution you see one ordered atom on-axis. However, somewhere in between you or the program has to decide whether you still see two atoms or if the data (resolution) does not

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
You still have an arbitrary threshold: at high resolution you see two disordered atoms off-axis and at low resolution you see one ordered atom on-axis. However, somewhere in between you or the program has to decide whether you still see two atoms or if the data (resolution) does not warrant

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Jon Wright
On 16/12/2010 12:24, Ian Tickle wrote: I think this is how the Oxford CRYSTALS software ( http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html ), which has been around for at least 30 years, deals with this issue, so I can't accept that it can't be made to work, even if I haven't got all the precise details

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Jon, try this: http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/download.html -- Ian On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Wright wri...@esrf.fr wrote: On 16/12/2010 12:24, Ian Tickle wrote: I think this is how the Oxford CRYSTALS software ( http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html ), which has been around for at

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Ian, Of course there is no dicontinuity, but you create one the moment you decide that certain symmetry operators no longer apply to certain atoms. Confusion arises e.g. when you download a pdb file of fairly high resolution and find a water molecule with an occupancy of e.g. 0.45 at 0.02

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
Ooops sorry that's only the executable, I guess to have to contact David for the source. -- Ian On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jon Wright wri...@esrf.fr wrote: On 16/12/2010 12:24, Ian Tickle wrote: I think this is how the Oxford CRYSTALS software ( http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html ),

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2010-12-16 Thread Shuishu Wang
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Re: [ccp4bb] Map Sharpening

2010-12-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 03:53 +0100, Raspudin wrote: I hope, am not mixing up different things together. Perhaps you are. Map sharpening (iiuc) is done by applying B-factor-like correction to amplitudes and has only, according to coot manual, an educational value. Meaning that it's great if it

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Ian Tickle
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, herman.schreu...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: Of course there is no dicontinuity, but you create one the moment you decide that certain symmetry operators no longer apply to certain atoms. Change 'atoms' in that statement to 'reflections', or to 'map grid

[ccp4bb] Fw: Virus alert

2010-12-16 Thread REX PALMER
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Re: [ccp4bb] Fw: Virus alert

2010-12-16 Thread First, Eric
Well, there are postcard viruses, which is why you should always open e-cards through the company's web site rather than by clicking on the link in the e-mail message. This particular message, however, is a hoax (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp). Eric

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Dale Tronrud
On 12/16/10 03:06, Ian Tickle wrote: Dale The reward of the full calculation is that all the complications you describe disappear. An atom that sits 0.001 A from a special position is not unstable in the least. That's indeed a very interesting observation, I have to admit that I didn't

Re: [ccp4bb] Cys auxotroph

2010-12-16 Thread Paula Salgado
For those interested in our paper using non-auxotroph strains for SE-Cys labelling, it's now published: http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2011/01/00/dz5216/index.html http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2011/01/00/dz5216/index.htmlPlease cite this reference if you use our method in the future.

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2010-12-16 Thread Robert Sweet
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Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Wyckoff positions and protein atoms

2010-12-16 Thread Dale Tronrud
On 12/16/10 06:47, Ian Tickle wrote: For the sake of argument let's say that 0.02 Ang is too big to be rounding error. So if you see that big a shift then the intention of the refinement program (or rather the programmer) which allowed such a value to be appear in the output should be that

[ccp4bb] Coot 0.6.2 CRYST1 problems ?

2010-12-16 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Dear BB, I finked my MacPro (Snow Leopard)ti the latest and greatest version of Coot 0.6.2-pre-1 (revision 3290) [with guile 1.8.7 embedded] [with python 2.7.1 embedded] and found out that I can not display any symmetry related molecules anymore. Coot complains about a problem in the CRYST