[ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread James Naismith
Thanks for this other suggestions similar (see below.) My problem is not the distances per se, these restrain fine to 2.3A I am relatively low resolution and my problem is with just distance restraints I move to a square planar arrangement. I suspect this is a feature of the geometry

Re: [ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear James, I am not sure I fully picture what your coordination looks like, but my guess is that if you include distance restraints between the S-atoms you can distinguish between a tetrahedral geometry and a square pyramid. You could use external

[ccp4bb] pseudotranslation issues

2013-06-07 Thread Fulvio Saccoccia
Dear ccp4bb users, I have a data set collected at 2.2A resolution that I can integrate in P4. Aimless, Phaser and Xtriage recognized a pseudotranslation (34.6% of origin peak) at fractional coordinates 0.500 0.500 0.479 (ORTH 46.7 46.7 37.4). However labelit.index run with

[ccp4bb] BSR-2013: Abstract submission deadline is extended until 20th June!

2013-06-07 Thread margret
* 11th International Conference: Biology and Synchrotron Radiation (BSR), 8-11 September 2013, EMBL Hamburg, Germany * The abstract submission deadline for BSR-2013 is *extended* until *Thursday 20th June*, 2013! Biologists, physicists, chemists, from students to principal investigators,

Re: [ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread James Naismith
Andrew Leslie made a similar suggestion for using CB to S distances. Both make me unhappy for the reason that there is not a clear chemical basis to them (Tim's has more a chemical basis) and how would I choose the distance. (I can measure it from a known structure) I have previously

Re: [ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim, the chemical basis would be that the Zn connects to all four S atoms, and if they are indistinguishable, all Zn-S distances should be alike. But the S-atoms are not bonded to each other, hence they want to have as much distance from each

[ccp4bb] Mosquito Crystal for low volume protein crystallisation

2013-06-07 Thread Leo Hesse
Dear CCP4BB users, I've recently joined TTP Labtech with the responsibility of all mosquito related sales into the United Kingdom and Europe. I'm keen to find out how many mosquito users we have in this forum and what applications you're currently using the instrument for. The non-mosquito

Re: [ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread Roger Rowlett
Well, when I solved a structure for a protein-rhenium adduct I had to manually code a restraint file for the rhenium tricarbonyl fragment, which is octahedral overall (with proteins ligands and waters), and had several different types of bond distances for the various ligands. I started with

Re: [ccp4bb] Td ions in refmac

2013-06-07 Thread Santarsiero, Bernard D.
Is there a reason why you must use restraints with metal coordination? The main reasons that you use restraints in protein refinement is to reduce the number of free variables in the refinement, and because the resolution isn't sufficient to resolve two atoms separated by the typical

[ccp4bb] Beamline scientist position at SLS

2013-06-07 Thread Meitian Wang
Please find the link to the advertised BLS position http://www.psi.ch/pa/offenestellen/0601-1. Beamline Scientist Protein Crystallography Beamlines at SLS Your tasks As a beamline scientist you will join a team effort to operate, maintain and develop protein crystallography beamlines at the

Re: [ccp4bb] Extracting .pdb info with python

2013-06-07 Thread Pete Meyer
Nat, I agree that deep understanding of column-formatted text isn't really necessary (there's not much internal complexity there). I was attempting to point out that the general rule of not re-inventing the wheel doesn't always apply. Even when we're addressing biological questions, if

Re: [ccp4bb] Extracting .pdb info with python

2013-06-07 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Pete, it's surely beneficial and good to know how software works especially if it's part of your research, I entirely agree. Though, on the other hand, I don't feel too bad about not knowing the CS behind the implementation of MS Word when I use it for my documents editing. I guess it depends

[ccp4bb] Postdoc Position - Berkeley

2013-06-07 Thread Paul Adams
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher Job ID: 76029 Division: Physical Biosciences (Joint BioEnergy Institute) Date Opened: 6/5/2013 Summary: A postdoctoral position is available at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville to work on proteins involved in plant cell wall