Re: [ccp4bb] A photograph of the Arndt-Wonacott rotation camera?

2013-10-30 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Is the prototype shown Figure 1 from U. W. Arndt, J. N. Champness, R. P. Phizackerley and A. J. Wonacott A single-crystal oscillation camera for large unit cells J. Appl. Cryst. (1973). 6, 457-463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889873009210

Re: [ccp4bb] Comparison of Water Positions across PDBs

2013-10-29 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Elise, Not exactly what you are asking for, but lsqman will compare waters between structures with a cut-off. (However, it will not renumber the waters as you wanted) http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/lsqman_man.html#S71 If you want to look at waters related by NCS in a single PDB file with

Re: [ccp4bb] What kind of reflection data to deposit to PDB

2013-09-17 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Martyn, I too was puzzled by the statement that unmerged data cannot be handled properly as part of a PDB deposition. We have deposited the unmerged original index intensities for the refinement wavelength (and for additional wavelengths used for phasing in the case of MAD) since 2005.

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Ronnie, I have not tried it, but a quick google search for protein ribbon 3d printer turns up the following in the results list-- http://ironchefsynbio.wordpress.com/tag/3d-printer/ http://www.lib.ua.edu/sites/default/files/rodgers/Rodgers%203D%20Printing%20Molecular%20X-ray%20Data_V1.pdf

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning problem

2013-06-20 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
, Mitchell D. [mailto:mmil...@slac.stanford.edu] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2013 16:18 An: Schreuder, Herman RD/DE Betreff: RE: Twinning problem Hi Herman, Have you considered the possibility of your crystals being tetartohedral twinned. That is more than one of the twin laws may apply to your

Re: [ccp4bb] HETATM automated chain assignment

2013-02-15 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Have a look at sortwater. http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/sortwater.html If you want to use it for non-water ions in addition to waters, you would need to run it a second time for each of the atom types using the water keyword to define the residue type and atom name. Also, it won't work for

Re: [ccp4bb] engh huber

2013-01-14 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Ed, Chapter 18.3 of international tables vol F includes values designated EH99 which are from a more recent CSD release than the original 1991 Engh Huber paper. R. A. Engh and R. Huber. Structure quality and target parameters. International Tables for Crystallography (2012). Vol. F, ch.

Re: [ccp4bb] refining against weak data and Table I stats

2012-12-07 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I too like the idea of reporting the table 1 stats vs resolution rather than just the overall values and highest resolution shell. I also wanted to point out an earlier thread from April about the limitations of the PDB's defining the resolution as being that of the highest resolution

Re: [ccp4bb] Convention on residue numbering of fusion proteins?

2012-10-23 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
The PDB requires that a single poly peptide have single chain id. See page 5 of the wwPDB annotation / processing procedures guide http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/wwPDB-A-2012May30.pdf One thing you could do would be to number the second domain starting a 1170 which would sort-of preserve

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] resolution on PDB web page

2012-04-25 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I too believe that the value is set from the high resolution limit form data collection or refinement. All three numbers (high resolution limit in remark 2, remark 3 and Remark 200) are supposed to be consistent and are defined as the highest resolution reflection used.

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2cif capable of handling map coefficients

2012-04-05 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I have not tried it, but the latest version of the rcsb program sf-convert is supposed to support it (see version 1.2 released March 23) http://sw-tools.pdb.org/apps/SF-CONVERT/index.html http://sw-tools.pdb.org/apps/SF-CONVERT/doc/V1-2-00/documentation.html (Version 1.2 is not yet available as

Re: [ccp4bb] how can merge two PDB

2011-10-19 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Afshan, in Coot select calculate -- other modeling tools -- find ligands In 0.6.2, there is a message that ligands are limited to 400 atoms or less. Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Afshan Begum Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS and ANISOU/RESIDUAL B-FACTORS - doubt

2011-08-03 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Catarina , For your final refmac refinement job, you need to include the keyword TLSO ADDU to have the TLS contribution added to the residual B-factors. This keyword can also be set from the recent version of the ccp4i GUI by checking the checkbox for Add TLS contribution to XYZOUT in the TLS

Re: [ccp4bb] TLS and ANISOU/RESIDUAL B-FACTORS - doubt

2011-08-03 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
of the effect of TLSD waters exclude vs TLSD waters add on determining whether or not tlsanal would be able to properly convert the file. Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: Boaz Shaanan [mailto:bshaa...@exchange.bgu.ac.il] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:40 PM To: Miller, Mitchell D

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Another option is to use the recursive feature of chmod to change the permissions on the files. E.g. chmod -R a+rX . which will recursively add read for all users to files (and directories) and will also add execute if the file is a directory or if it already has at least one execute bit

Re: [ccp4bb] methods to capture proteins from cell culture medium

2011-04-13 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Bei, For the extracellular protein I worked on in graduate school, I typically purified it from 4 L preps in LB media. The standard protocol was to do a crude low cut with ammonium sulfate cut followed by precipitation of the protein with a high cut. The pellet was then resuspended,

Re: [ccp4bb] .pir file

2011-02-17 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Careina, There are several places on the web that describe the PIR format (also called NBRF) E.g. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/help/formats.html#pir http://www.bioinformatics.nl/tools/crab_pir.html etc. The program readseq -- either via command line or webserver -- e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] reindexing

2011-02-11 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I find the phenix.explore_metric_symmetry utility to be useful for cases like this. phenix.explore_metric_symmetry --unit_cell=50.48 74.14 149.51 90. 94.16 90. --space_group=p2 \ --other_unit_cell=96.792 74.052 154.271 90. 90.060 90. --other_space_group=p2 It shows that the volume ratio

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 SW Web Broadcast

2011-01-06 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I had good audio for the Buster talk. However, early during Jeff Headd's talk, the audio level dropped to a level that with maximum amplification could still not really be understood- sort of like the wrong microphone was turned on. Later near the end of the talk and during the question/answer

Re: [ccp4bb] How to add methyl group on the NZ atom of lysine

2010-11-04 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Peter, If the lysine is dimethylated, the monomer code needed is MLY. By mass spec we found most sites to be dimethylated. However, looking at the structures we found a few sites to be protected from methylation. These had clear density for the NZ atom, no density for methyl groups and a

Re: [ccp4bb] Sftools and Phaser compatibility issues - continued

2010-09-02 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
FYI -- The :h suffix for R3 is described in the IUCr symmetry cif (intl tables vol G chapter 4.7) under _space_group.reference_setting where it states For the space groups where more than one setting is given in International Tables, the following choices have been made. For monoclinic space

Re: [ccp4bb] TLSANL total B factor question

2010-05-21 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Shiva, Not directly related to the problem you reported, but I wanted to warn you that in refmac 5.5.0072 the default is for the keyword TLSD WATERS ADD to be applied. This keyword tells refmac to assign all of your water molecules to existing TLS groups. (It does this quietly without any

Re: [ccp4bb] updated mtz file or original one in refmac5

2010-05-18 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
The decrease in missing reflections are due to the fact that the output file does not include the missing reflections that are lower resolution than the lowest resolution observed reflection. Thus, this file is no longer uniqueified and then refmac reports a higher completeness since it no

Re: [ccp4bb] Unusually low B factors after refinement

2010-05-07 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Kyle, Are you refining with TLS? If so, then the default output will be the residual B-factors. To get the full B-factors you need to add the TLS component to the residual B's. This can be done by re-running your refmac job with the keyword TLSO ADDU Note that this version of refmac will

Re: [ccp4bb] I/sigma continued

2009-03-30 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
If you want even more confusion on the labeling -- take a look at the PDB to mmCIF correspondence mappings for conversion between PDB and mmCIF format. In the PDB file format under REMARK 200 http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format32/remarks1.html#REMARK%20200 there is a line written as

Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-11 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Bernie, We had a case recently which was a dimer in the crystal (with 2 Ca binding sites in the symmetric dimer interface) but anSEC gave monomer under standard conditions ( 20mM Tris, 200mM NaCl, 0.5mM TCEP at pH7.5, Temperature at 8C ). The crystals had 0.2 M Ca Acetate. We had a

Re: [ccp4bb] Foam Dewars Part II

2008-10-09 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Alun, The material we use is cross linked polyethylene/EVA foam. We use the 4 PCF (pounds per cubic foot) variety it has tradenames of youngboard, artilon and epilon. (see http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/facilities/hardware/cassette_kit/dewar_schematics.pdf and

Re: [ccp4bb] to extract protein sequence from a rebuilt pdb file

2008-10-01 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Jane, Qingping Xu wrote a python script that will extract the sequence from the PDB file and align it with a fasta file. The script depends on biopython and clustalw. Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miller, Mitchell

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac out-put file header information

2008-08-08 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Yusuf, You need to run the uniqueify script to expand the input file to include all possible reflections (observed and missing from your data set). I have not run xdsconv with the GENERATE_FRACTION_OF_TEST_REFLECTIONS=0.05 However, generally after running xdsconv without that command, it is

Re: [ccp4bb] quote source

2008-07-24 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Bernhard, Google books is your friend... It returns 2 hits for Although the hydrogen bond is not strong it has great significance in determining the properties of substances. Because of its small bond energy Both are essays / chapters by Max Perutz I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier:

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Another new school cloning reference: Klock, H.E., Koesema, E.J., Knuth, M.W. Lesley, S.A. Combining the polymerase incomplete primer extension method for cloning and mutagenesis with microscreening to accelerate structural genomics efforts. Proteins (2008) 71, 982-994. published online 14

Re: [ccp4bb] Parameter MAXSAVE exceeded

2008-07-03 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
You could also try cns2mtz? http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/cns2mtz/cns2mtz.html Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ezra Peisach Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:28 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]

Re: [ccp4bb] JCSG dataset archive

2008-06-12 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I would like to also add that depending on what you want to use the test data for, you may find that the data JCSG has deposited with the PDB is sufficient. The JCSG crystal structures include the following data sections in the structure factor file deposited with the PDB (since spring 2004).

Re: [ccp4bb] phases origin shift

2008-06-06 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
There is a resolve script that will allow you to shift the origin of phases to match another set --- http://solve.lanl.gov/Resolve/html_resolve_manual/resolve_sample_scripts.htm#offset_phases Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

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

2008-03-18 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Martyn, When the rcsb processes files, that line is stripped form the PDB file. We have taken an effort in the last few years to copy it into the REMARK 3 OTHER REFINEMENT REMARKS: field so that it is retained in the PDB file. Sometimes you can find out if that line was in the original

Re: [ccp4bb] Webcast of the CCP4 study weekend ?

2008-01-04 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Juergen, I found that if I follow the link for the Jan 4 talks on the http://extrplay.dl.ac.uk/ http://extrplay.dl.ac.uk/CCP4/20080104-1/ It appears that they did not update the link page and are using the same URL for the streaming today that they used yesterday Regards, Mitch P.S. I

Re: [ccp4bb] Webcast of the CCP4 study weekend ?

2008-01-04 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
I was using real player v 8 with Ie v 6 and I also tried it with IE 6 and real player v 10.5 on another system and it worked. Currently the site gives me the error file not found for rtsp://extrplay.dl.ac.uk/broadcast/CCP4.rm but this is only since the live streaming session ended. I did not

Re: [ccp4bb] FreeR flag value swap

2007-09-27 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Petra, You can use sftools, to set the FreeR_flag column to be the old ((FreeR_flag - 1)*-1 ) e.g. sftoos eof read myfile.mtz calc col FreeR_flag = col FreeR_flag 1 - -1 * write free-R-swap-1-0.mtz quit eof Regards, Mitch -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule refinement GUI for Mac

2007-08-31 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
What about Ton Spek's Platon / System-S package? http://www.cryst.chem.uu.nl/platon/pl00.html It does not have precompiled mac OSX binaries (only linux and windows), but it does have source code and instructions for compiling under unix and states that it will compile without changes under

Re: [ccp4bb] SAD: Refine against anomalous data

2007-08-11 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Ethan, I have been wanting a way to instruct refmac to accept a user-defined f' term since about forever. According to Garib's latest release notes, a command was added to refmac 5.3.0015 and later to allow f' to be specified. I have not tried it myself yet.. see

Re: [ccp4bb] Double conformations of cysteine !

2007-07-06 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
The SSBOND record does not allow the specification of an alternate location indicator. The PDB practice is to list the SSBOND record if any confirmation is in an SS-bond. I think that refmac has problems with this since it will try to apply the SSBOND patch to both confirmations. The