Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Certainly to a mathematician by training P1 is ludicrous - any sensible being wold set up an 3-D axial system with all axes of equal length and all angles 90 degrees - I can still remember my disbelief at indexing any lattice in any other way - E On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 19:18, James Holton wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread James Holton
It took me a long time to realize that the rhombohedral system is actually a form of centering.  Just like C, F, and I, the R lattice type has extra translation-related points.  What is unique about rhombohedral lattices is that there are two different kinds of "extra" centers.  In C, all you h

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Ian Tickle
The original reference for the H cell is the very first edition of Int. Tab.: Hermann, C. (1935). Internationale Tabellen zur Bestimmung von Kristallstrukturen. Berlin: Gebrueder Borntraeger. Cheers -- Ian On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 17:34, Eleanor Dodson < 176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Well - yes . I am a true devotee of doctored cells to match something already in existence in a higher symmetry which has become approximate in some new manifestation! But I hadnt realised there were official versions of doctoring.. Eleanor On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 16:29, Jeremy Karl Cockcroft wrot

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Ian Tickle
The important take-home message in this excellent article is surely the conclusion: "The significant amount of programming effort and user frustration caused by the H3 and H32 space-group symbols is a good example of how time can be lost by not adopting long-established standards. This is not mea

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread LMB
When I was writing Pointless I had to do all sorts of kludgy things to cope with the different “conventions” used by ccp4, clipper and cctbx libraries, scalepack etc. The PDB should have stuck to established conventions to avoid confusion. And lots of people for some reason seem not to like sp

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Eleanor H3 #143 is (and always has been) a triply-primitive cell setting of P3. http://img.chem.ucl.ac.uk/sgp/large/143bz1.htm Cheers -- Ian On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 14:42, Eleanor Dodson < 176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > But surely P3 symmetry ' cell ( a,a,c 90 90 1

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
But surely P3 symmetry ' cell ( a,a,c 90 90 120) with origin shifts (⅓,⅔,0), +(⅔,⅓,0) can just be indexed as P3 with cell (a/sqrt(3), a/sqrt(3), c, 90 90 120) ?? Eleanor On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 14:32, Nicholas Keep wrote: > I have an answer from Jeremy Cockcroft the author of the 'Birkbeck' > Tab

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Gildea, Richard (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
There is a useful article in Computational Crystallography Newsletter 2011, 2, 12-14 that gives some background into the issues surrounding the H3 and H32 symbols: "Fuzzy space group symbols: H3 and H32 http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2011_01.pdf Cheers, Richard Dr Richard Gilde

[ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Nicholas Keep
I have an answer from Jeremy Cockcroft the author of the 'Birkbeck' Tables. Actually Jeremy has been at UCL for a decade or so and they are hosted from their Nick In answer to the question regarding the use of R and H for trigonal space groups, the letters refer to two distinct types of latti

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2020-07-22 Thread Harma Brondijk
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Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread George Sheldrick
This is precisely why SHELX always used the coordinates of the general position (LATT+SYMM) to define the space group rather than a name or number. George On 22/07/20 14:15, Ian Tickle wrote: Hi David The problem is that the PDB incorrectly used the H lattice symbol (without consulting any

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi David The problem is that the PDB incorrectly used the H lattice symbol (without consulting any crystallographers AFAIK) for the hexagonal R-centred cell when it had already been in use for many years for the triply-primitive setting of P3, so now we have this confusion between MX & XRD/powder

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
This does seem confusing! Maybe the International tables have changed, but in my copy spacegroup 143 is labelled P3 Spacegroup 146 is equivalent to P3 with translations 1/3,2/3.2/3 and 2/3,1/3,1/3 is called rhombehedral This can be indexed with. "a=b=c in the rhombehedral setting" and labelled R

[ccp4bb] Question about P3, H3 and R3 space groups

2020-07-22 Thread David Vizarraga Revuelto
Dear all, Let me ask a question about the P3,H3, R3 space group annotations. I had the idea that H3 was the recommended annotation for the hexagonal representation of R3 (space group number 146). However, in the Birbeck space groups web page (attached) H3 is associated with the space group number

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child process exited abnormally"

2020-07-22 Thread Gildea, Richard (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
Dear Adewumi Adeyeye, Please could you let me know (off list) the full xia2 command you were trying to run, and I can see if I can reproduce the issue. Cheers, Richard Dr Richard Gildea Data Analysis Scientist Tel: +441235 77 8078 Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Inno

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child process exited abnormally"

2020-07-22 Thread David Waterman
Dear Adewumi Adeyeye, The ccp4i interface to xia2 is no longer supported and I suspect it might be completely broken. You should be able to process your data using the ccp4i2 interface though. Best wishes -- David On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 10:32, Adewumi Adeyeye < 42fef00af26b-dmarc-requ...@ji

[ccp4bb] CCP4I TERMINATION STATUS 0 "child process exited abnormally"

2020-07-22 Thread Adewumi Adeyeye
Dear all, I need assistance with solving my protein structure. I have attempted (using remote access) to integrate my diffraction images (.h5 format) using xia2 but I keep getting the following error message: The program run with command: xia2 /dls/i04/data/2020/ has failed with error

Re: [ccp4bb] request for basic crystallography online classes

2020-07-22 Thread venkata narayana Are
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