Re: [ccp4bb] Na vs K

2022-09-08 Thread Scott Pegan
Mitch, For discernment of Sodium versus Potassium, you could also look at the bonding distances and coordination of the metal present. Ran into this problem back in the day. Check out Figure 6 C,D in the following pub: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bi060653d Scott -- Scott Pegan

[ccp4bb] When does increased computer power come with diminishing returns for CCP4; Apple Silicon

2022-03-10 Thread Scott Pegan
overkill. Scott -- Scott Pegan Professor Division of Biomedical Sciences School of Medicine University of California Riverside 205 SOM Research Building 900 University Avenue Riverside, CA 92521-0001 (951) 827 7907 sco...@medsch.ucr.edu<mailto:sco...@medsch.ucr.

[ccp4bb] Looking or Coot 0.9 or newer for OSX

2021-10-06 Thread Scott Pegan
Been looking for Coot 0.9 or better package install files for OSX, anyone know where to look? I seem to only find 0.8 or less through the web. Scott -- Scott Pegan Professor Division of Biomedical Sciences School of Medicine University of California Riverside 205 SOM Research Building 900

[ccp4bb] Structural Biology - Infectious Disease Postdoc opening at University of California Riverside's School of Medicine

2021-08-13 Thread Scott Pegan
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[ccp4bb] Any advice on specs for a new Mac Laptop to run CCP4 and other Xtal Software?

2020-06-08 Thread Scott Pegan
Finally looking to replace my 2014 Mac Pro lap (duo core; 16 gb RAM. I would welcome any input or being put in the direction of some related to the following: 13" versus 16" I know the 16" has a better and standalone GPU. Is there anyone using a 13" that finds that it works well? If so, what

[ccp4bb] University of Georgia post-doctoral fellowship in structural biology with an emphasis on experience with NMR and X-ray crystallography techniques

2015-03-06 Thread Scott Pegan
Seeking Post-Doctoral candidates for my rapidly expanding laboratory located in the University of Georgia's Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedical Sciences. In this recently available positions, the individual will assist in my ongoing NIH funded infectious disease related projects that involve

[ccp4bb] New Structural Biology/Drug Discovery Postdoctoral Position at the University of Georgia

2015-01-06 Thread Scott Pegan
Seeking Post-Doctoral candidates for a position in my laboratory located in the University of Georgia's Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedical Sciences. In this newly added position, the individual will assist in my ongoing USDA funded infectious disease related projects that involve the use of

Re: [ccp4bb] Guard columns from FPLC

2014-09-16 Thread Scott Pegan
Anita, From your description, you most likely are looking for a prefilter6000. http://www.gelifesciences.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productById/en/GELifeSciences/18458201 Scott Scott D. Pegan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences College of Pharmacy University

[ccp4bb] off topic: Crystallization robots

2014-07-08 Thread Scott Pegan
In the process of acquiring a crystallography robot for the laboratory. I have narrowed along capability and budgetary constraints to either an Formulatrix NT8, or a Art Robbins Gryphon. I know the Art Robbins instrument characteristics pretty well, does anyone have any experience/advice on the

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position available at the University of Georgia

2014-05-08 Thread Scott Pegan
Seeking Post-Doctoral candidates for a position in my laboratory located in the University of Georgia's Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedical Sciences. This individual will assist in my ongoing NIH funded infectious disease related projects that involve the use of structural biology

[ccp4bb] Structural Biology/Drug Discovery Post Doctoral Position Available at the University of Georgia's College of Pharmacy

2014-02-27 Thread Scott Pegan
Dear CCP4 Bulletin Board Members, I am looking for Post-Doctoral candidates for a position in my laboratory located in the University of Georgia's Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedical Sciences. This position will assist in my ongoing NIH funded infectious disease related projects that

Re: [ccp4bb] delete subject

2013-03-28 Thread Scott Pegan
Hey everyone, Both Mark and Fred make some good points. I totally agree with Nat (beat me to the send button). Although in an ideal world with all the advancements in crowd sourcing and electronic media, one might think that posting data on a bulletin board might be considered marking one's

[ccp4bb] Off Topic: Maltose Binding Protein Purification

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Pegan
CCP4, I will be doing some MBP fusion purification in the near future and I was wondering if anyone knew what the most cost effective MBP trapping resin to use. So, far I have seen the following two products, are there any others I should consider? GE* Healthcare MBPTrap HP ColumnsNew England

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC)

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Pegan
Dear Jose, Last year we acquired a TA instruments nanoITC after evaluating it and a Microcal model. For the price, the TA instrument was a considerable steal, was ~$50,000 cheaper the the Microcal Model. We didn't see or have since seen any issues with quality of the instrument. Software

[ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-11 Thread Scott Pegan
Hey all, Does anyone know of a good article that deals with differentiating between a lithium ion and sodium ion for density in a X-ray structures? Scott -- Scott D. Pegan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemistry Biochemistry University of Denver Office: 303 871 2533 Fax: 303 871 2254

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Kendrew Model

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Pegan
Yeah, maybe if he got down to 1.0 Angstrom he could get it in the front door. Scott On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu wrote: Maybe you could refine it using our new-fangled methods to improve the model? (Couldn't resist such irony!) Jacob On Tue,

Re: [ccp4bb] Nanodrop versus Nanophotomter Pearl versus good old Bradford.

2011-06-16 Thread Scott Pegan
Here is also a very effective method: 1Gill, S. Hippel, P. v. Calculation of protein extinction coefficients from amino acid sequence data. Analytical Biochemistry 182, 319-326, (1989). On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Filip Van Petegem filip.vanpete...@gmail.com wrote: A convenient

[ccp4bb] Calculating Difference Maps Between an RCSB data set and an mtz (Different Ligand)

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Pegan
Trying to calculate a difference map from a dataset downloaded from the RCSB and one I have. The following applies: Object find the difference between two bound ligands of the same structure in the same space group. My following work path has been: 1) Convert mmCIF to mtz (RCSB data set) 2)

Re: [ccp4bb] composite maps

2010-08-09 Thread Scott Pegan
Rakesh, Composite maps are used in publications some times however many folks also publish the 2Fo-Fc or even better the 1Fo-Fc. These can be obtained by selecting a button in refmac to export the maps and then visualize them in pymol. Scott On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Rakesh Joshi

Re: [ccp4bb] thread protein sequence using pdb coordinates that are not avaliable on RCSB?

2010-05-12 Thread Scott Pegan
Kelly, You can do it with swiss-model, just have to use the alignment mode. I will ask for a pdb or RCSB code. Also, in the past I have found Jigsaw 3D model server to be a comparable tool. Scott On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Kelly Daughtry kddau...@bu.edu wrote: Hello all, I would

Re: [ccp4bb] freezing crystals grown in isopropanol condition

2010-04-09 Thread Scott Pegan
Nat, A few years ago I had K channel crystals that formed under similar conditions. I found that using MPD as a cryo-protectant worked best. As for the evaporation issue, I had a little extra time as I was performing the mounting in a cold room. Scott Pegan S, Arrabit C, Zhou W, Kwiatkowski W

Re: [ccp4bb] units of the B factor

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Pegan
Nice Scott On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Ed Pozharski epozh...@umaryland.eduwrote: Ian, On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:34 +, Ian Tickle wrote: Ed, For instance, if angles are measured in degrees and x1 sin x ~ pi * x / 180 sin x ~ x Your equations cannot simultaneously be

[ccp4bb] Looking for a good review of successful SBDD.

2009-10-06 Thread Scott Pegan
I am looking for a good review on SBDD that includes a few successful attempts. Anyone know one? Thanks, Scott -- Scott D. Pegan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemistry Biochemistry University of Denver

[ccp4bb] Off Topic: Stereo Microscope Recommendations

2009-09-01 Thread Scott Pegan
Starting a new lab and looking for an inexpensive stereo microscope to support my crystallography. Any thoughts or recommendations? Would like for it to have a way to take a photo of the crystals either through an eyepiece or dedicated camera port. As any new lab, a cheap option won't be bad.

[ccp4bb] Issue with installing CCP4 on OS X

2009-07-28 Thread Scott Pegan
Recently tried to install ccp4-6.1.1-i386 on a leopard 10.5.7 system Installer worked Then I corrected the ccp4.setup-sh file to reflect the location of bltwish /usr/local/X11/bin Ran ccp4i and it worked once. Every-time after that it opened and closed immediately. Using X11 2.3.3.2. Anyone

Re: [ccp4bb] tutorial / pipeline for ligand fitting, refinement?

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Pegan
Andy, We do a lot of liganding fitting with CCP4. This is the general order of steps we take (post initial solution of the protein itself): 1) Build the potential ligand in CCP4 Sketcher a) Rename all the Hydrogens to H#, CCP4 Refmac has some issues with Hydrogens marked OH1, NH1, etc. To

Re: [ccp4bb] Nvidia 3D

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Pegan
Warren, If we are buying a system from scratch, can I get the GeForce 2 card and 3D bundle and have it work for winCoot? Scott On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Warren DeLano war...@delsci.com wrote: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0901L=CCP4BBT=0F=S

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4i: P212121 to P22121 conversion

2008-11-09 Thread Scott Pegan
Jacob, You could also just use reindex app in CCP4 to change the original MTZ to a P22121 MTZ. Scott On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Kay Diederichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob, you could use, for refinement, the FP SIGFP columns from the .mtz-file that PHASER writes out, together with

Re: [ccp4bb] Putting ligand in the protein structure

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Pegan
The best why that I have put inhibitors in is by using the sketcher program in CCP4. Its a little unwieldy at first but if you get the hang of it, it provides pdb's and library files that can be directly inputed into refmac and Coot. The Coot ligand find function does a pretty good job of

Re: [ccp4bb] Progresss with Stereo 3D under Mac OS X Leopard

2008-09-17 Thread Scott Pegan
Just to put my two cents in on this as I would fall into that new generation so to speak: I started out with the SGI and linux systems with stereo, O, and dials about eight years ago. Never used the dials and rarely seen anyone else use them. Over the past few years I have transition to coot,

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot and OS X Leopard

2008-08-20 Thread Scott Pegan
I just recently purchased a Mac Pro Intel with Leopard. I was able to install, Coot and ccp4. Both were not as straight forward as I would have hoped but still possible. For Coot: Go to: http://sage.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Coot-0.5-pre-1-968_for_Intel_10.5_only Download :

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Scott Pegan
Deena, If you are going to run windows, have to use XP. I tried vista, and the software wouldn't work. Scott On Wed, February 20, 2008 2:44 pm, Paul Paukstelis wrote: Or don't buy an OS at all. There are a number of vendors out there that sell OEM notebooks without OSs. I picked up a Compal

Re: [ccp4bb] Vista

2008-02-20 Thread Scott Pegan
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Pegan Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 22:04 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Vista Deena, If you are going to run windows, have to use XP. I tried vista, and the software wouldn't work. Scott On Wed, February 20, 2008 2:44 pm

Re: [ccp4bb] how to change a membrane protein into a water soluble protein?

2007-12-04 Thread Scott Pegan
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this paper but its an exact example how to make a K channel soluble. Roosild TP, Choe S. Redesigning an integral membrane K+ channel into a soluble protein. Protein Eng Des Sel. 2005 Feb;18(2):79-84. Epub 2005 Mar 23. PMID: 15788421 [PubMed - indexed for