Re: [ccp4bb] why not read mmcif cell if rpesent?

2013-05-16 Thread A Leslie
, but the GUI does not populate the corresponding fields. Normally I thought an orange highlighted field is a mandatory field that needs some data… Windows ccp4 6.3.0-020 updated Best, BR From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of A Leslie Sent: Thursday, May 16

Re: [ccp4bb] why not read mmcif cell if rpesent?

2013-05-16 Thread A Leslie
Hi Bernhard, When I have used the "convert" program via ccp4i, the cell and symmetry have indeed been read from the mmcif file and written to the MTZ file. Andrew On 16 May 2013, at 13:50, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear Developers, I wonder if there is any particular reason why, if present

Re: [ccp4bb] vitrification vs freezing

2012-11-15 Thread A Leslie
Dear Sebastiano, This is not entirely straight-forward. The Oxford English dictionary gives the first definition of "freeze" relevant to this discussion as: "Of (a body of) water: be converted into or become covered with ice through loss of heat" This is cer

Re: [ccp4bb] Indexing with XDS

2012-10-09 Thread A Leslie
Dear Theresa In response to your first question, one way to do this is to look closely at the image (eg changing the contrast level) with the predicted pattern superimposed after indexing, or alternatively just integrate the image and look at the reported mean I/sigmaI as a function of re

Re: [ccp4bb] imosflm background definition

2012-09-17 Thread A Leslie
Hi Andreas, The simple answer to this is that you do NOT attempt to redefine the background. Providing the additional spots shown in your image belong to the same lattice, mosflm will automatically exclude pixels from adjacent spots when doing the background plane fi

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and dectris pilatus

2012-09-17 Thread A Leslie
Dear Bhupesh, The first thing is to check that you are using the latest version of mosflm (7.0.9, 14th May 2012). If you are using this version, then please send me more details of the problem and ideally some images. Best wishes, Andrew On 17 Sep 2012, at 09:

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and Pointless

2012-09-13 Thread A Leslie
It is possible to force Pointless to select a particular solution, using the "Find or match Laue group" option in CCP4i. The default option here is "Determine Laue group" but if you select the "Choose a previous solution" checkbox you can specify the solution you want Pointless to select,

Re: [ccp4bb] how to ignore spot overlap in imosflm?

2012-05-14 Thread A Leslie
Dear Xinghua, Other have already commented on the fact that if the spots are overlapping, even if you adjust some parameters to be able to integrate the data and get a reasonably complete data set, the resulting intensities will have some systematic errors that may ca

[ccp4bb] Problem with indexing in the latest iMosflm release

2012-04-30 Thread A Leslie
There is a significant problem that affects the autoindexing in the latest release of iMosflm (Version 1.0.6, March 2012). The indexing solutions themselves are not affected, but the suggested solution (highlighted in blue) will, in some cases, be a solution with a higher symmetry than th

Re: [ccp4bb] scala and postref

2012-02-22 Thread A Leslie
Hi Vijay, The obvious person to answer this is Phil Evans, but he is in New Zealand at the moment and may well not be reading Emails, so you might need to wait until he is back in the UK (1-2 weeks). I know that he felt the POSTREF option was not an important one to maintain,

Re: [ccp4bb] choice of wavelength

2012-02-16 Thread A Leslie
On 15 Feb 2012, at 23:55, Bart Hazes wrote: Diffracted intensity goes up by the cube of the wavelength, but so does absorption and I don't know exactly about radiation damage. One interesting point is that on image plate and CCD detectors the signal is also proportional to photon energy, s

Re: [ccp4bb] convert .osc file to .img

2011-06-02 Thread A Leslie
Dear Madhu, While I cannot be certain without knowing what detector was used to collect your diffraction image, ".osc" is the usual suffix for Rigaku detectors and these will normally be read automatically by mosflm (just use the "image" keyword with Mosflm, or use

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing suggestion

2011-05-17 Thread A Leslie
For some reason it would appear that the message below was not distributed to ccp4bb when I sent it this morning, JISCMail recommended that I resend the message, apologies if some have already received it. Andrew Dear Munan, First of all, you want to consider if th

Re: [ccp4bb] (i)mosflm indexing / cell refinement

2011-03-18 Thread A Leslie
Dear Bryan, As Mark van Raaij pointed out you have complete flexibility in specifying the images to be used in autoindexing or in cell refinement. However, the default behaviour is to use the first image and a second image that is as close as possible to 90 degrees away f

Re: [ccp4bb] Generating a PDB file for a known ligand

2011-03-15 Thread A Leslie
. I don't understand why these differ (unless Phil change the ADN.cif entry here for some reason). I think we need a comment for the library people ! Cheers Andrew On 15 Mar 2011, at 14:23, Ian Clifton wrote: On 15/03/11 12:57, A Leslie wrote: … I then try using LIBCHECK standalo

[ccp4bb] Generating a PDB file for a known ligand

2011-03-15 Thread A Leslie
Dear All, I simply want to create a PDB file for adenosine from the existing monomer library entry ADN.cif. Normally I do this using COOT (get monomer) but when I try this I get the following error: : _lib_update 12/05/10 : -- : ERROR: number of monomers

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm gain

2011-03-07 Thread A Leslie
I have to say that I don't fully agree with James' recommendation to adjust the GAIN in MOSFLM until the calculated SDFAC parameter in SCALA is 1.0. (Background information, the sigmas from Mosflm sd(I) are corrected in SCALA according to sd(I) corrected = SdFac * sqrt{sd(I)**2 + SdB

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm gain

2011-03-04 Thread A Leslie
Dear All, spotted a mistake in my response, please see the correction below (in bold): There are a host of caveats in this procedure. For example, if the images contains significant diffuse scatter around the Bragg spots, the BGRATIO may be above 1.0 ... this is probably the commonest e

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm gain

2011-03-04 Thread A Leslie
Dear Bryan, The quick answer is no. As David Waterman mentioned, it has a default value for the gain for each type of detector that it can deal with. A more detailed answer. An incorrect value for the gain can be indicated by values of the BGRATIO which differ signific

[ccp4bb] X-ray facility Scientist at MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK

2011-02-18 Thread A Leslie
X-Ray Facility Scientist MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge £26,022 – £31,758 We wish to recruit an Investigator Scientist to join the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology X-ray facility in Cambridge, UK. You will provide support for a range of projects involving X-ray crystallogr

Re: [ccp4bb] inverse beam integration/scaling protocol

2011-02-02 Thread A Leslie
Dear Francis, The quick answer is no. My initial advice would be to process the data in the usual way, but treating the images starting at "phistart" as one "run" and the images starting at "phistart+180" as a different run. This makes a number of assumption howeve

Re: [ccp4bb] Error in ipmosflm

2010-11-16 Thread A Leslie
Dear Fulvio, Mosflm attempts to read the phi start and end angles from the image header, but on some synchrotron beamlines this information is not written correctly to the header, which would explain the error message. Alternatively, if you have really collected a "st

Re: [ccp4bb] How do I set up a Refmac5 dictionary to constrain octahedrally coordinated Ca++

2010-09-10 Thread A Leslie
Hi Pietro, There are monomer library entries for Ca in various states of coordination by water, entries, OC1, OC2,OC3 etc but unfortunately these are incomplete (no distances or angles with sd's), at least in our CCP4 installation. The entry for octahedral MG-O6, file MO6, is complete so

Re: [ccp4bb] non-symmetric tetramer ?

2010-07-29 Thread A Leslie
Hi Fred, If your tetramer show negative cooperativity between the 4 sites for ligand binding, then it is possible to get a tetramer with (say) only one subunit occupied by ligand, which can introduce considerable asymmetry if ligand binding gives rise to a hinge type closure of

Re: [ccp4bb] How to orient molecules in pymol according to the crystal orientation during data collection?

2010-07-07 Thread A Leslie
Dear Anja, I'm not sure why you want the orientation of the molecule in pymol, but working out the orientation of the crystal at phi=0 is straightforward in imosflm. Read the image, index it and go to Strategy". In the strategy pane it gives the angles between the a,b,c a

[ccp4bb] LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR DIFFRACTION METHODS GRC

2010-06-21 Thread A Leslie
The biannual Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology will be held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 18-23rd July. The program covers all aspects of macromolecular structure solution from crystallization to structure solution and refinement and includes sessions on

Re: [ccp4bb] Scaling question

2010-06-07 Thread A Leslie
Dear Simon, mosflm does indeed estimate the intensity of overloaded reflections, and these are rejected by default in SCALA, but you can choose to include them using the appropriate keywords (ACCEPT OVERLOADS). The number of overloads in the MTZ file, and the number a

[ccp4bb] Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods

2010-05-14 Thread A Leslie
Just a reminder that there is still time to register for the Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology, that will be held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 18-23rd July. The program (see below) covers all aspects of macromolecular crystallography, from crystalliz

Re: [ccp4bb] Entering mosflm keywords in imosflm 1.0.4

2010-04-16 Thread A Leslie
The required keystrokes are described (although somewhat hidden) under the heading "What's new in version 1.0.0" in the imosflm web page. (www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/harry/imosflm/ver104) . There are good reasons for this option not being well advertised. One is that if keywords entered in thi

[ccp4bb] Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods

2010-04-15 Thread A Leslie
The biannual Gordon Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology will be held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 18-23rd July. The program covers all aspects of macromolecular structure solution from crystallization to structure solution and refinement and includes sessio

[ccp4bb] Scientific programmer to work on iMosflm at MRC LMB, Cambridge UK

2010-02-04 Thread A Leslie
Scientific Programmer £20,074 - £27,271 per annum A two year position is available for a programmer to continue the development of iMosflm, the Graphical User Interface for the MOSFLM program package to process X-ray diffraction data from crystals of biological macromolecules. The interf

Re: [ccp4bb] setting cell/spacegroup in imosflm

2009-12-08 Thread A Leslie
Dear Clemens, Yes, this should be possible. If you click on the Cell or Spacegroup line in the "Images" pane, and then click on the current value, the field becomes editable and you can type in your new values. Best wishes, Andrew On 8 Dec 2009, at 17:41, Clemens Grimm wrote: Dear all,

[ccp4bb] X-ray facility scientist at MRC LMB Cambridge, UK

2009-11-20 Thread A Leslie
X-Ray Facility Scientist MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge £26,022 - £31,758 per annum We wish to recruit an Investigator Scientist to join the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology X-ray facility in Cambridge, UK. You will provide support for a range of projects involving X-ray

[ccp4bb] Scientific programmer position at MRC LMB Cambridge UK

2009-11-20 Thread A Leslie
Scientific Programmer MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge £20,074 – £27,271 per annum A two year position is available for a programmer to continue the development of a new Graphical User Interface for a widely used program package to process X-ray diffraction data from crystals of

[ccp4bb] NOT: Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-17 Thread A Leslie
This discussion seems to have moved a very long way from the original topic, and hence the reported "Subject", could this be continued as a new thread please ? Thanks Andrew On 17 Nov 2009, at 11:40, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Tim Gruene wrote: Yes, but models that can be validated again

[ccp4bb] Nobel prize for chemistry 2009

2009-10-07 Thread A Leslie
BB members may be interested to know that the 2009 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Venki Ramakrishnan, Tom Steitz and Ada Yonath for their structural work on the bacterial ribosome.

Re: [ccp4bb] Summary for "Anisotropic Diffraction In Refinement" question

2009-09-16 Thread A Leslie
I would like to thank Justin for his summary of this topic, which I'm sure many people found of interest, and is very much in the spirit of the bulletin board. I would just like to correct one factual error, in that it has been possible to specify anisotropic resolution limits to MOSFLM for