[ccp4bb] Vivaspin vs Amicon Ultra

2011-10-05 Thread Jan Gebauer
Dear all, sorry, for the slightly off-topic theme, but I wonder if anyone has compared the above mentioned ultracentrifugation devices, thoroughly. Currently, we are using the Amicon Ultra, but as the Vivaspins are considerably cheaper we are considering to change. I used both with

Re: [ccp4bb] Overlapmap

2011-10-05 Thread Ian Tickle
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Adam Ralph adam.ra...@nuim.ie wrote: Hi Brigitte, You are correct, the columns labeled Fobs and Fcal refer to density. The columns should be: averaged density for Obs and Cal for the main chain, then averaged density Obs and Cal for the side chains. I have

Re: [ccp4bb] Vivaspin vs Amicon Ultra

2011-10-05 Thread Florian Brückner
Hi Jan I have used Vivaspins for membrane proteins and they generally work fine. The exact pore size might be different though between Vivaspin and Amicon with the same specifications, say e.g. 100,000 MWCO. So you might find that your protein is retained in one of them, while it is in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Vivaspin vs Amicon Ultra

2011-10-05 Thread Peter Gutte
Hi Jan, In our lab we use both the Amicon Ultras and the Vivaspins (soluble and membrane proteins). What I can tell you is that me and a few other colleagues had the experience (and still do) of specific soluble proteins precipitating on the Cellulose membrane of the Amicon. By switching to

Re: [ccp4bb] Vivaspin vs Amicon Ultra

2011-10-05 Thread Roger Rowlett
The vivaspins are the best thing in ultrafiltration since sliced bread. I learned about them while I was at the NIH several years ago and haven't looked back. Fast and low-binding. PES membranes are superior for minimizing protein binding, and are also less

Re: [ccp4bb] software for surface curvature

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:25 -0700, Jun Liao wrote: I want to calculate the surface curvature for my proteins in a quantitative way and show the results in a graphics software such as Pymol Surface Racer http://apps.phar.umich.edu/tsodikovlab/index_files/Page756.htm will output curvature per

Re: [ccp4bb] Overlapmap

2011-10-05 Thread Ian Tickle
Adam, sorry I don't use overlapmap, for the reasons you mention (and many others!). In fact I decided it was in such a mess that it was irrecoverable so I wrote my own program EDSTATS to do all all these electron density stats (and more). I talked about it at the last CSW (

Re: [ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:36 +0800, Jobichen Chacko wrote: I looked into our previous posts and tried to locate the ccp4.LOCK file, but I cannot find one in my system. Curiously, neither can I with the ccp4i currently running. Maybe this info is outdated, and you should try deleting

[ccp4bb] Parrot NCS averaging

2011-10-05 Thread Peter Canning
Dear CCP4'ers, I am working on refining the structure of a protein complex consisting of two different chains. Data were collected to 2.3A in space group C2 and phased by molecular replacement without any problem, but the ASU contains 6 complexes (so 12 chains in total). In the ASU, the 6

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot NCS averaging

2011-10-05 Thread Savvas Savvides
Dear Herman In some cases density modification starting with MR phases can indeed prove very powerful. We recently used Parrot to bootstrap a difficult case at 4.3 angs and were able to obtain very good maps for entire missing domains. See Supplementary Fig 1 in:Verstraete et al 2011 BLOOD

Re: [ccp4bb] Parrot NCS averaging

2011-10-05 Thread Kevin Cowtan
On 10/05/2011 03:42 PM, Peter Canning wrote: When I run Parrot to do density improvement and NCS averaging, Parrot works beautifully (final FOM is 0.87) but NCS averaging causes the average NCS correlation coefficient to drop (from 0.94 to 0.64) and the average mask volume to increase from 0.31

[ccp4bb] Industry position job posting

2011-10-05 Thread plario
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Re: [ccp4bb] Database access failure during program execution

2011-10-05 Thread Jon Schuermann
If I'm not mistaken it is caused by /tmp/'username' not existing or being writable... Jon -- Jonathan P. Schuermann, Ph. D. Beamline Scientist NE-CAT, Building 436E Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 email: schue...@anl.gov Tel:

Re: [ccp4bb] Vivaspin vs Amicon Ultra

2011-10-05 Thread Ho Leung Ng
Hello Jan, I've used both with soluble and membrane proteins happily. I haven't seen significant differences with protein behavior or performance in one or the other, but of course, your favorite protein may differ. I've found that buffer condition is a more important variable than membrane

[ccp4bb] not so good news

2011-10-05 Thread Bosch, Juergen
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Re: [ccp4bb] not so good news (Steve Jobs RIP)

2011-10-05 Thread William G. Scott
On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Bosch, Juergen wrote: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ May innovation continue to lead the future. Jürgen I've been quite saddened about this all evening. Even though we knew it was coming, it is still incredibly sad, especially at his age (only 56). Although

Re: [ccp4bb] not so good news (Steve Jobs RIP)

2011-10-05 Thread Ashley Buckle
Bill So eloquently put, much of what you say resonates with me. Very sad day. Cheers Ashley Sent from my iPhone On 06/10/2011, at 3:13 PM, William G. Scott wgsc...@ucsc.edu wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Bosch, Juergen wrote: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ May innovation continue to