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Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac and sigma value

2012-04-27 Thread Robert Nicholls
Hi Uma, Altering sigma affects the strength of geometry restraints throughout the model - bonds, angles, etc. Choosing a very low sigma will cause geometry to be more tightly restrained towards ideal values, which is why you observe improvements in Coot validation. Note that strengthening the

[ccp4bb] Summary Re: anyone scrapping an Raxis-IV?

2012-04-27 Thread Peter Moody
Thank you for all your suggestions. Rigaku have discovered that shorting a couple of the output leads together means the new type can be used as a replacement for the old type. I'm very happy to say that it works! This is a similar solution to that suggested by Herman Schreuder. Kevin Roberts

Re: [ccp4bb] Publication ethics Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Supplying PDB file to reviewers

2012-04-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
have a look at this case, no danger of your coordinates going to anyone but yourself if you do it this way: http://publicationethics.org/case/author-creates-bogus-email-accounts-proposed-reviewers On 26 Apr 2012, at 12:02, Jrh wrote: Dear Colleagues, I have followed this thread with great

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac and sigma value

2012-04-27 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Uma, The optimal weight is indeed resolution dependent, but hard to predict. In Refmac you can follow LLfree when you optimize the restraint weight and also keep an eye on the gap between R and R-free (it should not be too wide). Like Rob said, your geometry should be 'reasonable'. This

Re: [ccp4bb] commercially available proteins

2012-04-27 Thread Stephen Weeks
Just in case you are blocking with BSA, how about, e. coli beta-galactosidase (114 KDa) ?. It's commercially available but you probably have cells already making it in the lab On 26 April 2012 19:29, Peter Hsu hsuu...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the very off topic problem. I'm

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac and sigma value

2012-04-27 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Two points. 1) the fit to ideal geometry as flagged in coot validation does not guarantee a correct model - the best model should be the one that fits the experimental data best, without having unlikely geometry. You could easily get a model with perfect geometry which was incorrectly placed in

Re: [ccp4bb] negative density at some places in the side chain of residues

2012-04-27 Thread Eleanor Dodson
What I would do - not net ideal! 1) the ASP looks in the wrong place - shift it into green density and one OE is probably a water.. 2) MET notoriously hard to model - I suspect there often are multiple conformations.. And of course at some wave lengths the S contribution should be down weighted

[ccp4bb] X-PLOR

2012-04-27 Thread Nadir T. Mrabet
Hi, Could someone explain to me the scientific details of the protocols used in X-PLOR to (1) build explicit hydrogen atoms onto X-ray structures and (2) optimize their positions? Many thanks in advance. Greetings, Nadir -- Pr. Nadir T. Mrabet Structural Molecular Biochemistry

Re: [ccp4bb] detergent crystal?

2012-04-27 Thread R. M. Garavito
Hongjun, I am in agreement with Bert as DDM is exceedingly difficult to crystallize, even in organic solvents. This is one of the reasons it is so expensive. However, you can produce a lot of quasi-crystals that do show low resolution diffraction. As Bert said, you may have

[ccp4bb] protease inhibitor

2012-04-27 Thread rashmi panigrahi
Hi All, Does any one add protease inhibitor to purified protein just before setting trays? If yes what is the typical % that should be added ? regards rashmi

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac and sigma value

2012-04-27 Thread Uma Ratu
Dear All: Thank you very much for you comments and advices. Now I have a better understanding on this issue. regards Ros On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Eleanor Dodson eleanor.dod...@york.ac.ukwrote: Two points. 1) the fit to ideal geometry as flagged in coot validation does not

Re: [ccp4bb] detergent crystal?

2012-04-27 Thread Jacob Keller
Wouldn't the lack of solubility of the alpha form of DDM suggest an easy purification protocol for the beta form? JPK On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:40 AM, R. M. Garavito rmgarav...@gmail.comwrote: Hongjun, I am in agreement with Bert as DDM is exceedingly difficult to crystallize, even in

Re: [ccp4bb] X-PLOR

2012-04-27 Thread Francisco Hernandez-Guzman
Nadir, There is an explicit bulletin board for questions regarding CNS and XPLOR. I would suggest posting your question there. http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/cnsbb/ Cheers, Francisco -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of

Re: [ccp4bb] detergent crystal?

2012-04-27 Thread R. M. Garavito
Jacob, The solubility of the alpha anomer of DDM is actually not bad (it's only really bad for the alkyl glucosides), just the phase behavior is different. Still getting pure beta anomer is the tough problem, which is part of the reason it is so expensive. Michael

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Florian Schmitzberger
Dear All, With my most recent PDBe deposition, in addition to the native data, I had intended to deposit the anomalous data, used for structure determination, and make it available for download. This turned out to be less straightforward than I had anticipated, because the current PDB

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
again, it looks like this is particular to the US portal. We submit via the European www.pdbe.org and can submit multiple datasets. See 2XGF for an example. Note: I think from www.rcsb.org only one file can be downloaded, but www.pdbe.org clearly shows both. Although you are in the US, you can

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Florian Schmitzberger
Dear Mark, This is interesting. I also had submitted my data via the PDBe (European portal). While they allow deposition of multiple datasets, only a single file can apparently be made available for download from the site. In contrast to your case, for my deposition the second deposited

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, April 27, 2012 11:23:13 am Florian Schmitzberger wrote: Dear All, With my most recent PDBe deposition, in addition to the native data, I had intended to deposit the anomalous data, used for structure determination, and make it available for download. This turned out to be

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Jens Kaiser
It might be a portal issue. But the pdb staff is very helpful in getting this deposited. We deposited data of I think 4 crystals and 3 wavelengths with different phase sets in 2008. (The data was anisotropic, 3.5/4.2 A resolution, model building was not straight forward, so we wanted to preserve

[ccp4bb] water picking

2012-04-27 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
All, For those who still don't use Coot is there an automatic water picking procedure in CCP4? Many years ago there was a peakmax which is now for Patterson peaks only. Then there was routine through Arp/wArp. Now is Coot only. Is this right? Thanks. Vaheh Oganesyan, PhD Antibody Discovery

[ccp4bb] Anisotropic diffraction

2012-04-27 Thread Theresa Hsu
Dear crystallographers A very basic question, for anisotropic diffraction, does data truncation with ellipsoidal method change the symmetry? For example, if untruncated data is space group P6, will truncated data index as P622 or P2? Thank you. Theresa

Re: [ccp4bb] Anisotropic diffraction

2012-04-27 Thread David Schuller
Anisotropic truncation should have no effect on the space group symmetry. On 04/27/12 15:18, Theresa Hsu wrote: Dear crystallographers A very basic question, for anisotropic diffraction, does data truncation with ellipsoidal method change the symmetry? For example, if untruncated data is

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
We (JCSG) too have been depositing multiple data sets (including unmerged original index intensities for each wavelength and even for multiple crystals when one was used for phasing and another for refinement, and MAD phases and DM modified map coefficients) since 2004 without problems. These

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread VAN RAAIJ , MARK JOHAN
so perhaps the problem indeed is sending different wavelengths as one file...in our case there is only one crystal, one wavelength, i.e. one loop, while I clearly submitted all three wavelengths. Quoting Miller, Mitchell D.: We (JCSG) too have been depositing multiple data sets

[ccp4bb] MAMCM reminder

2012-04-27 Thread David R. Cooper
The 42nd Mid-Atlantic Macromolecular Crystallography meeting will be held at the University of Virginia from May 31 – June 2, 2012. There are several reasons why you should make your plans now! Most of the blocks of hotel rooms will be released to the public and conference rates will expire

Re: [ccp4bb] water picking

2012-04-27 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear , according to my 'man watpeak' and 'man peakmax' in ccp4-6.2.993 there is no restrictionof these programs to Patterson peaks (which would anyhow require a total rewrite, considering that peakmax acts on maps rather than Pattersion maps).

Re: [ccp4bb] Anisotropic diffraction

2012-04-27 Thread chen c
Birtley and Curry used a novel optimization method, in their paper Crystallization of foot-and-mouth disease virus 3C protease: surface mutagenesis and a novel crystal-optimization strategy, which might be inspiring for you. 在 2012年4月28日 上午3:21,David Schuller dj...@cornell.edu 写道: Anisotropic