[ccp4bb] A crystallographer on Mars

2013-05-06 Thread Ethan Merritt
The _New Yorker_ frequently publishes decently written articles on a huge variety of topics. Occasionally they come out with one about science, sometimes with a focus on a public policy issue, sometimes a biographical piece about a mainstream or not-so-mainstream scientist, sometimes a serialized

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] reference for true multiplicity?

2013-05-14 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 01:58:06 pm Colin Nave wrote: The use of the term redundancy (real or otherwise!) in crystallography is potentially misleading as the normal usages means superfluous/ surplus to requirements. That may be true in the UK, but on this side of the pond redundancy

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, May 31, 2013 01:34:51 pm Phoebe A. Rice wrote: I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved telling me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed). Is there a handy by-atom

Re: [ccp4bb] anomalous scattering server down?

2013-06-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Saturday, 01 June 2013, Edward A. Berry wrote: Is Ethan Merritt's anomalous scattering page at: http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/ down or moved, or the firewall I'm behind is blocking it? The UW, in its infinite wisdom, scheduled a power outage today so that they could replace the

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: NMR and crystallography

2013-06-09 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 09 June 2013, Theresa Hsu wrote: Dear all A question for the cross-trained members of this forum - for small sized proteins, is NMR better than crystallography in terms of data collection (having crystals in the first place) and data processing? How about membrane proteins? A

Re: [ccp4bb] Definition of diffractometer

2013-06-19 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:11:01 am Edward A. Berry wrote: Somewhere I got the idea that a diffractometer is an instrument that measures one reflection at a time. Is that the case, and if so what is the term for instruments like rotation camera, weisenberg, area detector? (What is an

[ccp4bb] How to disable auto-renaming of files in ccp4i refmac menu?

2013-07-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
I dearly love ccp4i, but there is one aspect of the interface that drives me to distraction. When I type (or paste) an input file name (let's say input.mtz) into the refmac menu, ccp4i changes various output file names automatically according to some scheme that doesn't at all match my work flow.

Re: [ccp4bb] post to ccp4bb

2013-07-22 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, 22 July 2013, Katherine Donovan wrote: Hi All, I have a data set that was collected to about 2.2A, which I have processed in either P21 (to 2.4 A) or C2221 (2.25A). So I'm confused. You may not know what the spacegroup is, but you are processing the same spots either way. Why

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 04:00:16 pm Ed Pozharski wrote: On 08/07/2013 05:54 PM, Nat Echols wrote: Personally, if I need to change a chain ID, I can use Coot or pdbset or many other tools. Writing code for this should only be necessary if you're processing large numbers of models,

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 04:54:39 pm Jeffrey, Philip D. wrote: Nat Echols wrote: Personally, if I need to change a chain ID, I can use Coot or pdbset or many other tools. Writing code for this should only be necessary if you're processing large numbers of models, or have a

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS refinement and ANISOU records

2013-08-08 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, August 08, 2013 11:39:22 am Omid Haji-Ghassemi wrote: Dear all, I was about to deposit a few structures to the pdb when I noticed the mean B-factors were larger than one might expect. All the structures were refined using TLS refinement. During refinement in Refmac the

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS refinement and ANISOU records

2013-08-08 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, August 08, 2013 01:51:34 pm Omid Haji-Ghassemi wrote: Dear Robbie, Marcus and Reginald, Thanks again for your replies, I truly appreciate the help. The B-factors was set to 20 when performing TLS refinement so I don't think that is the problem. I also tried Marcus's

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-22 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, August 22, 2013 02:19:11 pm Edward A. Berry wrote: One thing I find confusing is the different ways in which d is used. In deriving Braggs law, d is often presented as a unit cell dimension, and n accounts for the higher order miller planes within the cell. It's already been

Re: [ccp4bb] High Rwork/Rfree vs. Resolution

2014-02-23 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 23 February 2014 09:16:41 PM Andreas Förster wrote: On 22/02/2014 10:15, Mark van Raaij wrote: But I would really want to make a general comment - not ALL structures can be better than the average! Except structures from the Lake Wobegon Center for Structural Biology, of

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] CCP4-6.4.0 source code building failed in Mac OS X 10.8.5

2014-03-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, 04 March 2014 01:33:58 PM wu donghui wrote: Dear Tim, Here I attached the config.log file for your help. I have tried to use either gcc-4.2.1 (Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1), or

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallographic confusion

2014-04-19 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Saturday, 19 April 2014 02:52:38 PM Zbyszek Otwinowski wrote: Why not improve effective resolution to include consideration of solvent content? Due to constant packing density of proteins, it would become a synonim (by appropriate transformation) to number of observations per modelled atom.

Re: [ccp4bb] Hosed-Up X-Ray Structures: A Big Problem

2014-06-13 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, 13 June 2014 10:12:50 AM Tim Gruene wrote: Hi Ethan, Maybe I miss something, but whenever an error in one of the cif-files has been reported, be it directly to Garib, or publicly on the ccp4bb, Garib (I assume) fixed very quickly - I don't quite understand why we need a new term

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2cif capable of handling map coefficients

2012-04-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, April 05, 2012 08:25:05 am Francis E Reyes wrote: It seems that deposition of map coefficients is a good idea. Does someone have an mtz2cif that can handle this? Maybe I missed something. What is accomplished by depositing map coefficients that isn't done better by depositing Fo

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2cif capable of handling map coefficients

2012-04-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
but no map coefficients. It is true that usually you want to have a value for the FOM or other weight avalailable also. cheers, Ethan Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 4/5/12 12:00 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: On Thursday, April 05, 2012 08:25:05 am Francis E Reyes wrote: It seems

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2cif capable of handling map coefficients

2012-04-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:48:16 am Oliver Smart wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Ethan Merritt wrote: On Thursday, April 05, 2012 09:30:25 am Phil Jeffrey wrote: Fc doesn't contain the weighting scheme used in the creation of the map coefficients, so Fc would require some sort of program

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

2012-04-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 09:40:01 am James Holton wrote: If you want to make a big splash, then don't complain about being asked to leap from a great height. This gets my vote as the best science-related quote of the year. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure

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] P21221 to P21212 conversion

2012-05-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, May 07, 2012 01:09:25 pm Shya Biswas wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows how to convert the P21221 to P21212 spacegroup in HKL2000. I scaled the data set in P21212 in HKL 2000 but I got a correct MR solution in P21221 spacegroup. Shya: Scaling is done in a point group,

Re: [ccp4bb] P21221 to P21212 conversion

2012-05-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
PM, Ethan Merritt merr...@u.washington.eduwrote: On Monday, May 07, 2012 01:09:25 pm Shya Biswas wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows how to convert the P21221 to P21212 spacegroup in HKL2000. I scaled the data set in P21212 in HKL 2000 but I got a correct MR solution

Re: [ccp4bb] P21221 to P21212 conversion

2012-05-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, May 07, 2012 02:00:43 pm Phil Jeffrey wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Ethan Merritt Scaling is done in a point group, not a space group. My quibble with this statement is that the output reflection data from Scalepack differs depending on what space group you tell

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H

2012-05-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Saturday, 12 May 2012, Yuri Pompeu wrote: If you used riding hydrogens throughout refinement and arrived at a final model that you believe best describes your x-ray data to a certain level of accuracy (Rvalues, geometry, map CC, etc...) would you not be invalidating the whole refinement

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Death of Rmerge

2012-05-31 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 02:21:45 pm Dale Tronrud wrote: The resolution limit of the data set has been such an important indicator of the quality of the resulting model (rightly or wrongly) that it often is included in the title of the paper itself. Despite the fact that we now want to

Re: [ccp4bb] Fun Question - Is multiple isomorphous replacement an obsolete technique?

2012-06-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, 05 June 2012, Stefan Gajewski wrote: Hey! I was just wondering, do you know of any recent (~10y) publication that presented a structure solution solely based on MIR? Without the use of any anomalous signal of some sort? A text search for MIR returns 1377 PDB structures overall.

Re: [ccp4bb] lithium incorporation in refmac

2012-06-08 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, June 08, 2012 11:35:25 am Faisal Tarique wrote: Dear all i have downloaded lithium coordinates for the density i guess is for lithium but i think while refinement in refmac is not taking lithium into the consideration. If you see density, it might not be lithium :-) i want to

Re: [ccp4bb] how to interpret DALI search results

2012-06-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 02:29:13 pm Jerry McCully wrote: Dear ALL; After we solved our structure by anomalous scattering, we did a DALI search. Here are the results but it is not easy to draw meaningful conclusions whether our structure represents a novel fold or is homologous

Re: [ccp4bb] do you think it is interesting?

2012-06-18 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, June 18, 2012 02:06:46 pm Alexander Scouras wrote: I'm further racking my brain to figure out a biological implication of this behaviour, I thought something like plaque formation but I can't find support in literature. There are a variety of domain swapped crystal

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-15 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 15 July 2012, Dale Tronrud wrote: There are good reasons for maintaining order in this human-induced numbering scheme. A common operation is to superimpose two molecules and calculate the rmsd of the positional differences. This calculation is not useful when the Val CG1 and

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: ADP is non-positive

2012-07-24 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, 24 July 2012, wtempel wrote: CCP4ers, a log file from Refmac_5.7.0027 presents me with this line: fromLog Problem with the ADP of the atom N A 3 ADP is non-positive -1.7740907E+35 /fromLog I did not explicitely refine ADPs or TLS. Should I modify my model

Re: [ccp4bb] How to identify unknow heavy atom??

2012-07-24 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:22:18 am Nat Echols wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Haytham Wahba haytham_wa...@yahoo.com wrote: 1- if i have anomalous peak of unknown heavy atom, How can i identify this heavy atom in general. (different methods) 2- in my case, i see anomalous

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: ADP is non-positive

2012-07-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
-numbered residue in its chain. B-factors of N, CA of residue 4 are 38, 33A**2, respectively. Could refmac just be taking exception to the missing N atom? -- Forwarded message -- From: Ethan Merritt merr...@u.washington.edu Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM Subject: Re

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Best Scripting Language

2012-09-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 07:32:54 am Jacob Keller wrote: Dear List, since this probably comes up a lot in manipulation of pdb/reflection files and so on, I was curious what people thought would be the best language for the following: I have some huge (100s MB) tables of tab-delimited

Re: [ccp4bb] Aimless and Pointless

2012-09-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday, 12 September 2012, Cosmo Z Buffalo wrote: Hi all, I am currently trying to perform a quickscale in iMosflm 7.0.9 after I integrate in an R 32 space group. Unfortunately, both Pointless and Aimless are both giving me a best solution space group of P 43 3 2. After analyzing

Re: [ccp4bb] B-iso vs. B-aniso

2012-09-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, September 17, 2012 11:31:53 am Yuri Pompeu wrote: Dear community, The protein model I am refining has 400 amino acids (3320 atoms). Some real quick calculations tell me that to properly refine it anisotropically, I would need 119,520 observations. Given my unit-cell dimension

Re: [ccp4bb] anisotropic refinement

2012-10-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:50:37 am Rex Palmer wrote: Dear CCP4'ers With the occurrence of more and more high resolution protein structures does anyone know at present how many such structures have been successfully refined anisotropicall?� When we tried to categorize refinement

Re: [ccp4bb] PNAS on fraud

2012-10-18 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:52:48 am DUMAS Philippe (UDS) wrote: Le Jeudi 18 Octobre 2012 19:16 CEST, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) hofkristall...@gmail.com a écrit: I had a look to this PNAS paper by Fang et al. I am a bit surprised by their interpretation of their Fig. 3:

Re: [ccp4bb] PNAS on fraud

2012-10-19 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:12:44 am Colin Nave wrote: This is worth looking at as well. Suggests most papers should be retracted! http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 A paper claiming that all papers are false, by someone named Ioannidis? I wonder if

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 01:44:43 pm Adrian Goldman wrote: The coordination is indicative but not conclusive but, as I responded to the original poster, I think the best approach is to use anomalous scattering. You can measure just below and above the Ca edge, Actually, you can't.

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Ethan Merritt
is at 1.196Å and the Zn edge is at 1.284Å, both edges are nicely in range for data collection and they are close enough together that little or no beamline readjustment is needed when jumping from one to the other. Ethan Prof John R Helliwell DSc On 31 Oct 2012, at 04:53, Ethan Merritt

Re: [ccp4bb] side chain density

2012-11-09 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, 09 November 2012, Faisal Tarique wrote: Dear all i have solved a structure ( at 2A resolution) whose Rwork and Rfree is 22 and 25 respectively..the Ramachandran plot shows 90% of the residues in the most favorable region and with 6 residues in generously allowed and no residues

Re: [ccp4bb] vitrification vs freezing

2012-11-15 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 09:13:58 am you wrote: Hi folks, I have recently received a comment on a paper, in which referee #1 (excellent referee, btw!) commented like this: crystals were vitrified rather than frozen. These were crystals grew in ca. 2.5 M sodium malonate, directly

Re: [ccp4bb] vitrification vs freezing

2012-11-15 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:14:54 am Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: Hi Sebastiano, Elspeth Garman howls bloody murder everytime someone says they froze their crystals. I think her issue is with the description of the process of successfully flashcooling crystals in the presence of

Re: [ccp4bb] About NCS and inhibitors

2013-01-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday, January 07, 2013 12:10:17 pm Edward A. Berry wrote: The idea is (whether it's valid or not) to apply the information from both sites simultaneously. If the density is pretty ambiguous and one side tends to drift off into an alternate conformation and the other drifts off into

Re: [ccp4bb] CASP ROLL needs your structures!

2013-01-19 Thread Ethan Merritt
, ..., Eric J. Snijder - J. Virology 2011 Structure and genetic analysis of the arterivirus nonstructural protein 7α Ethan Merritt The lack of such targets makes it problematic to reliably quantify the state of the art in the area of protein

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factors

2013-01-24 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 03:52:12 pm Urmi Dhagat wrote: Hi all, I have been refining twinned data (at 3.1 A resolution) using refmac. My R and Rfree values are 19.6 and 26.2 respectively with NCS restraints and isotropic B-factor refinement.. I am not sure weather it is a good idea

[ccp4bb] Which program sequence to use in transforming from P1 to orthorhombic?

2013-02-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
Hi all, I've downloaded a structure factor file from the PDB that presents itself as being triclinic. It contains F, sig(F), and Rfree only. The P1-ness of this structure is dubious, however. Pointless is 99.6% sure it's orthorhombic and puts out an mtz file in P212121 containing I

Re: [ccp4bb] Which program sequence to use in transforming from P1 to orthorhombic?

2013-02-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 13:56 -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote: Hi all, I've downloaded a structure factor file from the PDB that presents itself as being triclinic. It contains F, sig(F), and Rfree only. The P1-ness of this structure is dubious, however. Pointless is 99.6% sure it's

Re: [ccp4bb] Which program sequence to use in transforming from P1 to orthorhombic?

2013-02-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
Maybe use old truncate with the notruncate option Phil Sent from my iPad On 12 Feb 2013, at 18:48, Ethan Merritt merr...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:39:57 am Phil wrote: Scale constant in Aimless or Scala should do it. I should probably make

Re: [ccp4bb] first use of synchrotron radiation in PX

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Saturday, 16 March 2013, James Holton wrote: The first report of shooting a protein crystal at a synchrotron (I think) was in 1976: http://www.pnas.org/content/73/1/128.full.pdf that was rubredoxin The first PDB file that contains a SYNCHROTRON=Y entry is 1tld (trypsin), which was

Re: [ccp4bb] Query regarding the use of anisotropic temperature factor and ideal rmsAngle and rmsBond length values

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 17 March 2013, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Sonali, regarding isotropic vs anisotropic parameterization of your individual ADPs: apart from common sense and theoretical considerations, this is also in great part software dependent. I can't speak for other programs, but for

Re: [ccp4bb] Query regarding the use of anisotropic temperature factor and ideal rmsAngle and rmsBond length values

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Sunday, 17 March 2013, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Ethan, I would place the expected resolution break-even point at more like 1.2 - 1.3 A. But that's only an expectation, not a rule to rely on. You should justify anisotropic refinement of a structure on the basis of its own particular

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 Update victim of own success

2013-04-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:22:59 am Antony Oliver wrote: Eugene - that's great. I too run a small suite of Macs (12) and was trying to find a practical way of updating all those machines remotely. The command line version of CCP4um will be very useful. Another option for a set of

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 Update victim of own success

2013-04-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday, April 11, 2013 01:53:16 pm David Schuller wrote: On 04/11/13 13:36, Ethan Merritt wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:22:59 am Antony Oliver wrote: Eugene - that's great. I too run a small suite of Macs (12) and was trying to find a practical way of updating all those

Re: [ccp4bb] B in B-factor

2007-01-24 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:12, Daniel Anderson wrote: An IUCr nomenclature committee once recommended eradication of the B-factor. Trueblood, et al. Acta Cryst (1996) A52, 770-781. Whether or not the factor of 8 pi squared can be eradicated, the publication is worth reading because it

Re: [ccp4bb] Real Space Correlation coefficients

2007-02-20 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:04, Charles W. Carter Jr. wrote: Is there a CCP4 program that will calculate residue-by-residue correlation coefficients for a molecular replacement solution and an experimentally phased map? Coot has a validation tool that produces a residue-by-residue

Re: [ccp4bb] R-free error in highest resolution bin

2007-02-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:08, John Bruning wrote: When using Refmac how does one find/calculate R-free error in the highest resolution bin? R and Rfree by shell are in the data-harvesting output file What is R-free error? -- Ethan A MerrittCourier Deliveries: 1959 NE

Re: [ccp4bb] luzzati numbers in ccp4/refmac

2007-03-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:32, John Bruning wrote: Where can I generate the following numbers in CCP4 coming with pdb and mtz from Refmac? Luzzati SigmaA (obs) Luzzati ESD (R-free set) Luzzati SigmaA (R-free set). The answer is that you should not be using Luzatti plots to estimate

Re: [ccp4bb] MTZ to Shel-X?

2007-03-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:17, Ian Tickle wrote: All, I thought this would be a simple task, but for the life of me I can't see how to do it! All I want to do is convert an MTZ file to Shel-X format for refinement. I thought it would take me 2 secs, but it's taken me at least 5 attempts,

Re: [ccp4bb] phasing power ofatoms

2007-03-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 08:18, Jim Pflugrath wrote: Ethan, very nice web page. I like the discussion of required signal with respect to one's diffraction experiment and counting statistics in the results page. I will use this in my lecture tomorrow on SAD/MAD phasing. Do you mind

Re: [ccp4bb] Stop Refmac from refining B factors?

2007-04-18 Thread Ethan Merritt
-group pure TLS model can give better R values than individual isotropic B refinement, while ensuring that the distribution of B's adheres to a physically plausible model. Ethan Merritt , because the latter are not geometrically restrained and show a lot of physically unreasonable

Re: [ccp4bb] remediated pdb and coordinate formates ...

2007-05-04 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday 04 May 2007 11:02, Chris Putnam wrote: Yes it would. With this in mind, I'd like to donate the mmCIF parsing code that I had written to integrate mmCIF parsing into XtalView into the general community. The code is written in C and can be downloaded at:

Re: [ccp4bb] xsect.dat=cossec.lib?

2007-05-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:57, Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear Coders, Do I see this correctly that crossec.lib is the XSECT.DAT file from Don Cromer's FPRIME program? If so, has there ever been an update? I do not know the history of crossec.lib, but the X-ray scattering server

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:19, Edward A Berry wrote: You have a good point there and I would be interested in hearing some other opinions, so I take the liberty of reposting- My instinctive preference is that each structure should be supported solely by the data that is deposited with it -

Re: [ccp4bb] anisotropic atoms, refmac, ccp4, coot the pdb

2007-06-26 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:43, Sue Roberts wrote: Hello Everyone This isn't really a question, just a warning to check your anisotropic temperature factors both after refinement and after deposition at the pdb. I encourage everyone who is refining, depositing, or inspecting structures

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:44, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: Ethan Merrit wrote: This sounds strange to me. The question is usually raised in the other direction - whether GPL libraries can be used by a non-GPL program [*]. Here you are saying that a GPL program cannot use non-GPL libraries.

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 11:50, Tim Fenn wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:55:22 +0100 Kevin Cowtan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The approach adopted by Coot, which is GPL'd, is to use the CCP4 5.0.2 libraries, which are LGPL, along with some patches currently maintained by Ralph

Re: [ccp4bb] The CCP4 license is ambiguous

2007-07-03 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:09, Michel Fodje wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:54 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: They do have the same rights. They can use it, modify it, and redistribute it. They may or may not be permitted to distribute 3rd party libraries with it, but that was true

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 14:10, Joe Krahn wrote: In addition to questions about the PDB standard, it is probably important to consider mmCIF. One thing I don't like about it is that columns can be randomized (i.e. X, Y, and Z can be in any column), but the mmCIF standards people have no

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Ethan Merritt
Behalf Of Santarsiero, Bernard D. Can I ask a dumb question? Just curious... Why are we now limited to 80 columns? In the old days, that was a limit with Fortran and punched cards. Can a record (whatever it's called now) be as long as we wish? Instead of compressing a lot on a

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions about diffraction

2007-08-24 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday 24 August 2007 12:22, Michel Fodje wrote: 1. In every description of Braggs' law I've seen, the in-coming waves have to be in phase. Why is that? Given that the sources used for diffraction studies are mostly non-coherent. Think of Bragg's Law as explaining what happens to a single

Re: [ccp4bb] Alignment question

2007-09-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 14:22, Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote: I'm looking for a webserver that can take the alignment and produce a nice figure with the alignment annotated with sec. structure on top, I use TeXShade http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texshade.html

Re: [ccp4bb] R-sleep

2007-10-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 01 October 2007 08:49, Peter Adrian Meyer wrote: This raises a slightly tangential question though - how do we know how what obs/param ratio is good enough? My understanding was that obs/param of 1 was sufficient for linear systems This is wrong, unless by sufficient you only mean

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factors, H/D exchange and protein flexibility

2007-11-13 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 06:41, Brad Bennett wrote: I would be interested then to know how the community feels about the correlation of B-factors to protein flexibility. It is generally accepted that these are linked but are there any new papers that address this? This is the basis of

[ccp4bb] Crystallographically perplexing article in Feb 2008 AMS Notices

2008-01-07 Thread Ethan Merritt
The Feb issue of AMS Notices (American Mathematical Society) contains an article of possible interest to crystallographers. http://www.ams.org/notices/200802/ Crystals That Nature Might Miss Creating - Toshikazu Sunada I confess myself perplexed as to what is actually being described in

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 13:27, Jacob Keller wrote: Hello all, It might just take you a few minutes to tell me how to do this: I have a set of data in three columns xyz (resid1, resid2, value), which I would like to plot as a heat or color map on the 2d rectangle formed by the

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 for bioinformatics?

2008-01-21 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 21 January 2008 15:33, Jacob Keller wrote: Dear Crystallographers, Does anyone know of a bioinformatics counterpart of ccp4? It seems like there should really be such an entity, so that folks would not have to write scripts, reinventing the wheel all of the time. I am trying

Re: [ccp4bb] xtalview and mifit

2008-02-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:51, John Badger wrote: One suggestion on the XtalView/xfit problem is that it might be a result of trying to run on a 64-bit computer. No, that's not it. XtalView/Xfit runs just fine on 64-bit. The problem is that both Fedora and Suse 10.3 currently ship with

Re: [ccp4bb] multiple sequence alignment from multiple pairwise structural alignments

2008-03-04 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 11:13, Stephen Graham wrote: Hi all, I would like to generate a structure-based multiple sequence alignment using 4 structures. I have already generated pairwise alignments for each 'pair' of structures (6 alignments in all). Is there a program out there that can

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-13 Thread Ethan Merritt
of a refinement that has simply gone bad. I'm not saying the model should be accepted without further inspection! Ethan Merritt [*] American readers: s/wooden/aluminum/ British readers:s/baseball/cricket/ Yes, I understand that what's in the end important for the actual

Re: [ccp4bb] intersection curve of cone with cylinder

2008-03-20 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 20 March 2008 06:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In topology, long time ago, I was taught that these are indeed 'intersection curves of surfaces of the second order'. Emphasis on surface being second order, not the curve. This was in Russian, which means that the English terms may be

Re: [ccp4bb] Rant: B vs TLS, anisou, and PDB headers

2008-03-31 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 31 March 2008 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the end, we're solving all these structures because we believe (or at least hope) that they'll be useful for understanding biology. That means that biologists should be able to understand what we deposit. Agreed, but... When

[ccp4bb] TLS analysis of sugars [ was Re: [ccp4bb] cryo-cooling]

2008-06-10 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 07:15, Oganesyan, Vaheh wrote: I apologize for using BB to address a person (Ethan Merritt, U. of Washington). His e-mail address mentioned on TLSMD page is not operational. I'm here, at the same Email address as always. Good morning Ethan, Few months ago I

Re: [ccp4bb] birefringent spacegroups

2008-06-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 12 June 2008 11:19, Philippe DUMAS wrote: Hello, A short comment of historical interest: the first theory about double refraction in crystals (with explicit calculation of the index ellipsoid) goes back to 3 memoirs by A. Fresnel in 1821 and 1822. So, we are even in older

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor problem

2008-06-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 17 June 2008 09:08:24 am Sampath Natarajan wrote: Dear All, I am refining a structure with 2.5A resolution by refmac5. I could find the solution by MR using molrep. After fitting the model, I refined the structure again with 0.3 weighting term, but the output PDB file

Re: [ccp4bb] Friedel vs Bijvoet

2008-06-26 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 26 June 2008 09:36:16 am Serge Cohen wrote: Please some one tells me if I'm wrong ... but I though that indeed one is NOT supposed to measure anomalous difference from reflections h and h' if those are related by one of the symmetry operator of the point group... This statement is

Re: [ccp4bb] Friedel vs Bijvoet

2008-06-26 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 26 June 2008 11:35:31 am Bernhard Rupp wrote: Let's try this again, with definitions, and pls scream if I am wrong: a) Any reflection pair hR = h forms a symmetry related pair. ??? Maybe you meanh' = hR R is any one of G point group operators of the SG.

Re: [ccp4bb] 2D deviation plot

2008-07-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 17 July 2008 09:48:08 Shawn Leeds wrote: Dear all, I am trying to generate 2D Ca deviation plots for my superimposed molecules as needed for publication. I am wondering what is the program of choice for such a purpose? I tried Lsqkab in CCP4, but wasn't sure what's the most

Re: [ccp4bb] Rwork and Rfree in Sfcheck

2008-08-11 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 11 August 2008 16:54, Lisa Wang wrote: Hello all, I have a complex structure with resolution 2.7A The total molecular weight is 80KD, and about 10% is disordered. I refined this structure to R and Rfree 25.5% and 29.7% with CNS. I also tried refmac5, but the R and Rfree have no

Re: [ccp4bb] truncate ignorance

2008-09-08 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 08 September 2008 13:29:24 Jon Wright wrote: Borhani, David wrote: ... but I think pretty much everyone has converged on using it for the past many years. Many small molecule crystallographers seem to refine on intensity and so avoid need this procedure. I would rather say:

Re: [ccp4bb] disulfide bonds, SE sample, and Xray absorption edges

2008-09-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 25 September 2008 08:45:10 Michael Jackson wrote:   This data was collected at 0.97960 Angstroms which is close to the peak   Xray absorption edge for Se but does anyone know if a disulfide has any   absorption edge overlapping here?

Re: [ccp4bb] refmac and average B factors

2008-10-06 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Saturday 04 October 2008 18:32:00 Engin Ozkan wrote: Hi everyone, I was in the middle of creating a Table 1 for a finished structure and was puzzled by one number. It is the average B factor, especially in the case of TLS-refined structures. In this case, the average reported by

Re: [ccp4bb] Choosing TLS groups.

2008-11-12 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 02:54:54 Ian Tickle wrote: All - I was just in a discussion about TLS and one thing that came out that I hadn't been aware of is that for the Biso restraints Refmac restrains the difference between the 'residual' Bs, i.e. with the TLS contributions subtracted,

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to fill unitcell randomly

2008-12-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Monday 01 December 2008 10:28:34 Edward A. Berry wrote: Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Friday 28 November 2008, Mueller, Juergen-Joachim wrote: Dear all, does anybody know a program to fill an unit cell a,b,c randomly by an arbitrary number of spheres (atoms)? First you would need to

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to fill unitcell randomly

2008-12-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
: does he want _a random sampling from_ a uniform probability distribution throughout the lattice, or ... Ed Ethan Merritt wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 10:28:34 Edward A. Berry wrote: Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Friday 28 November 2008, Mueller, Juergen-Joachim wrote: Dear all

Re: [ccp4bb] Depositing coordinates with riding hydrogens

2008-12-17 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 15:53:42 Jonathan Winger wrote: Hi all- Just wondering what the consensus is - should a structure refined with riding hydrogens be deposited with the coordinates for the hydrogens included? One could argue that, since they were used in the refinement to

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Twinning

2009-01-06 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 08:35:19 Stephen Hare wrote: Dear All, We are currently working on a structure of apparent P21 symmetry which has been solved by molecular replacement. The data are to 2.7Å but the Rfree will not drop below 30%. The density is clear for the model we have,

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