Re: [ccp4bb] ShelXL and Coot

2012-05-05 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear Badsha, Is it possible to share the pdb such as by linking to it using dropbox, google docs, etc..? It's hard to trouble shoot the issue without seeing the file. Thanks, Sean P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] TCEP resistant disulfide

2012-05-30 Thread Sean Seaver
but can be reduced with TCEP? This could be due to the effective pH of TCEP HCl (~1.5-8.5) being wider than DTT ~7. Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] mosaicity and SAD

2012-08-30 Thread Sean Seaver
Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: a Python online course and others

2012-10-20 Thread Sean Seaver
I'd also recommend: Learn Python The Hard Way By Zed A. Shaw http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ Online Python Tutor http://pythontutor.com/ Take Care, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] What to put on Custom Declaration for shipped samples?

2012-11-06 Thread Sean Seaver
regulated. Regards, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-DNA crystallisation

2013-01-18 Thread Sean Seaver
that helps in getting you started, take care! Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] attachments

2010-07-02 Thread Sean Seaver
How about having people just link to uploaded photos on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) or similar free service? If you upload the photos and select 'all images' a link is produced that can be easily shared (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4755503052_bc6835dcdc.jpg). CCP4 doesn't have

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with getting protein-inhibitor complex structure

2010-08-28 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear all, We are working on protein-inhibitor complex crystal structures, although we did get nice crystals and soaked them with inhibitor for several days, all structures we obtained were empty!!There are nothing at the active site. For several crystals. their color turned very clearly

Re: [ccp4bb] List of commonly used cryoprotectants and buffer molecules

2010-09-09 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear All, I am trying to find out which molecules are frequently used by X-ray crystallographers serving as cryoprotectants or as buffer molecules. The idea behind this is to sort native ligands from molecules that appeared in the electron density just because they were used in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Heavy atom salt at low pH

2010-11-17 Thread Sean Seaver
You may want to try the Heavy-atom Database System http://hatodas.harima.riken.go.jp/ Version 2 (http://hatodas.harima.riken.go.jp/hatodas_v2/query/queryheavy.jsp) allows for pH as a search option. http://hatodas.harima.riken.go.jp/hatodas_v2/query/queryheavy.jsp Hope that helps, Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement problem

2011-01-08 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear D.L., I suspect the issue is in determining the correct space group. Sharing the Rmerge and current space group would be useful. Take Care, Sean http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Saxs reviews or books

2011-01-10 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Rojan, This paper may be more on the intermediate level, but is certainly worth a read. Koch MH, Vachette P, Svergun DI. Q Rev Biophys. Small-angle scattering: a view on the properties, structures and structural changes of biological macromolecules in solution. 2003 May; 36(2): 147-227.

Re: [ccp4bb] sodium vs water near methionine sulfur

2011-01-24 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Chandan, The closest sodium-sulfur interaction that I know of within a protein is in entry 2BDG, Na (Atom 402, Chain A) to a CYS with a distance of 3.3 Angstroms. A couple of examples exist of sodium-sulfur interactions that involve coenzyme A (1FY7 and 1MJ9). I hope that helps. Take

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic: Discovery Studio software

2011-02-19 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Padmaja, -Will it work on a Mac OS? No -Is there another program (free or cheaper) that will do everything DS does? Currently, there is a free version that you can use of DS. http://accelrys.com/products/discovery-studio/visualization-download.php Hopefully that will give you a feeling if

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 for iphones

2011-02-25 Thread Sean Seaver
I've been curious if there has been discussion about moving data processing and refinement to a software as a service (SaaS) deployment. If programs were web accessible then it may save researchers time and trouble (maintaining and installing software). In turn, one could then process data

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about movie making

2011-03-07 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear Mark, I put together a post about creating a movie using PyMOL, eMovie (free) and Adobe ImageReady CS2 to generate a Quicktime movie. http://www.p212121.com/2009/03/24/easily-make-movie-pymol/ I hope that helps. Take Care, Sean P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] MS sequencing of Fab

2011-05-23 Thread Sean Seaver
do not diffract to sufficiently high resolution so as to allow us to read off the sequence from the map). Since we have access to a lot of pure protein, I wonder if some clever mass spec jock would be able to assemble enough overlapping sequenced fragments so as to give complete coverage of

Re: [ccp4bb] non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-16 Thread Sean Seaver
Better yet, RbBr? and pH MES, MOPS, and HEPES with RbOH? I haven't checked the price. Including shipping in the US RbBr: 50 g 99% pure is ~$150. RbOH: 25g 99+% pure in 50 % water runs about ~$120. It would be interesting to see how the substitution would influence the crystallization or

Re: [ccp4bb] Fab:antigen complex crystallization!!!

2011-07-27 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear Ivan, If you take a look at the MPCD ( http://www.cinam.univ-mrs.fr/mpcd/ ) and search for Fab it brings up 172 crystallization conditions. The names should help you narrow down, which conditions are of a complex. Hopefully, you can use those conditions to help you decide, which

Re: [ccp4bb] Sodium ion vs. Water

2011-08-02 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Christina, The WASP server seems to working at this location (about half way down the page): http://www.jcsg.org/prod/scripts/validation/sv2.cgi I hope that helps. Take Care, Sean P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Sodium ion vs. Water

2011-08-02 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Jacob, Darn that site doesn't seem to be working. I generated the files ion files and thought it was good to go, but didn't view the outputs. Apologies, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac OSX 10.7 Lion

2011-09-11 Thread Sean Seaver
screen real estate. Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Neutron data collection

2011-09-21 Thread Sean Seaver
nitrogen. I hope that helps. Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] odd arginines

2011-11-17 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Jacob, A couple of years ago, I put together a list of papers that touch on radiation damage: http://www.p212121.com/2009/11/17/ultimate-list-on-cryocrystallography-radiation-damage/ To answer your question more directly - see pg. 40 of the following paper:

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: ELNs

2012-01-16 Thread Sean Seaver
consider using google sites ( https://sites.google.com/ ) to roll your own solution. I hope that helps. Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystal

2012-02-05 Thread Sean Seaver
blends. DMSO: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/publications/bi035849h.pdf Sodium malonate: http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2003/12/00/fw5004/fw5004.pdf Take Care, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase

2012-03-12 Thread Sean Seaver
, Sean Seaver P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] images

2009-06-05 Thread Sean Seaver
questions or comments you may have. I will follow up with results in about a month. http://www.p212121.com/2009/06/04/do-we-need-an-x-ray-diffraction-image-data-bank/ Thanks. Sean Seaver

Re: [ccp4bb] Distinguishing between P6(5)22 and P6(1)22

2009-09-09 Thread Sean Seaver
I say deposit it both ways, someone needs to start keeping those computational chemists on their toes.

Re: [ccp4bb] r-factor does not reduce

2009-09-10 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello Sylvia, Two issues I would consider: 1) recheck the space group 2) make sure that I had selected a good model for my MR search All the Best, Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] [off-topic] new initiative for science TV

2009-10-10 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello Fred, Thanks for bring this to attention and am sure that it will receive support from those on the CCP4bb. I am huge a fan and supporter of science! I also feel that virtually any effort to spread the word about science and research should be taken. However, I am confident that the best

Re: [ccp4bb] leonard TVþ

2009-10-10 Thread Sean Seaver
I like any attempt to set up a proper science channel, but I don't think it will solve the problem of too few people choosing to do science. Neither will any Internet thing. The internet or tv will not solve the problem entirely, but I can say for certain that not every scientist is going

Re: [ccp4bb] Moving copies to be close to one unit cell.

2009-10-21 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello FX, As already mentioned there a number of programs that can perform this task. If you end up deciding to go with Coot, I put together a play by play that should help. http://bit.ly/oHqDW Hope that helps. Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] another network

2009-10-21 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello Fred, Thanks for sharing! I have also been looking for ways to keep up on literature. This weekend, I combined 17 structural journals into a single RSS feed using yahoo pipes. I did a short post about it here: http://tinyurl.com/yhp2xlm I would be curious if others have any tips or

Re: [ccp4bb] Help me!!

2009-10-22 Thread Sean Seaver
Hello Raju, Welcome to crystallography! I don't have much information about predicting structures, but have put together a list of resources about protein crystallization: http://tinyurl.com/ygmbpa3 Happy reading :) Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] Methylation of macromolecular complexes

2009-11-24 Thread Sean Seaver
I have a small complex, one component is 13 kDa with structure available and the other is 7 kDa, which could not be able to grew crystals after lots of efforts. It grew crystals after methylation and diffracted to 2.3 A, however, I could not be able to solve the structure using the structure of

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-10 Thread Sean Seaver
Thanks for bringing this article to our attention. I went ahead and created a table of the PDBs in question including links to the structures, journals and citations. My hope is that it will save others time trying to track down this information. http://bit.ly/5KqaRF Hope it helps. Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures....

2009-12-11 Thread Sean Seaver
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:30:53 -0500, Ibrahim Moustafa i.moust...@psu.edu wrote: You are absolutely right, more information describing to what extents these structures were falsified will be valuable to the community. Actually, it will be more useful if the investigators can publish their report as

Re: [ccp4bb] Retraction of 12 Structures

2009-12-14 Thread Sean Seaver
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:06:36 -0600, Tanner, John J. tanne...@missouri.edu wrote: Some of you might be curious about the Ajees et al debacle that Jacob mentioned in his message. Here are two links: Nature Brief Communication that questioned the validity of one of Murthy's structures:

Re: [ccp4bb] [off topic] another network

2010-01-17 Thread Sean Seaver
I wanted to follow up on this 'older' thread and let people know that I have updated the RSS feed to now include 26 resources. The feed now generates about 1500 articles that are continuously updated, which is a bit much to read. Therefore, over the next day or so I'm going to offer to create a

Re: [ccp4bb] question on the effect of a fire alarm on crystallization

2010-01-22 Thread Sean Seaver
We are going to be a pretty unpopular bunch if this thread concludes that we need to set off fire alarms in order to nucleate our crystals. :) Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] Alternatives to ChemDraw 3D

2010-02-09 Thread Sean Seaver
You can build any 3D molecule easily in Discovery Studio Visualizer - It is free but not for Mac OS I have been pretty impressed with Discovery Studio Visualizer and feel that it can serve as a nice compliment to Pymol. I wrote up a brief overview and comparison between the two programs

Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotection for fragile crystals

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Seaver
I believe this is the article that you are looking for: http://www.xtals.org/crystal_cryo.pdf Cheers, Sean

Re: [ccp4bb] homology modelling using sequence alignment

2010-03-03 Thread Sean Seaver
I am trying to create a homology model of a coiled-coil for use in molecular replacement. I have a template poly-ala coiled coil that I like to use, so that is fine. I want to thread my sequence onto the helix and am trying to find a server/easy program that will do this. As a starting point I

Re: [ccp4bb] program to display space group symmetry in three dimensions

2010-03-16 Thread Sean Seaver
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:11:29 -0400, Karthik S biokart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was looking around for programs that display space group symmetry information and could not find any but perhaps i am lost for valuable or relevant keywords. I found two references TABLES and CRYST, but are there

Re: [ccp4bb] Why Do Phases Dominate?

2010-03-18 Thread Sean Seaver
I found the paper An Excel Spreadsheet for a One-Dimensional Fourier Map in X-Ray Crystallography by William Clegg quite helpful. The paper includes a supplemental spreadsheet in which you can adjust various contributions of phase and amplitude. I wrote an outline of the first part of the paper

Re: [ccp4bb] 2,3-butanediol

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear all, I would like to know which is the more suitable method of using 2,3-Butanediol as cryoprotectant? Addition in to reservoir buffer or crystal soaking or both can be tried? Cheers Gauri -- I am sure both could be tried, but have found quite few papers mentioning brief soaking with

Re: [ccp4bb] Mysterious Crystals?

2010-04-19 Thread Sean Seaver
Perhaps this is a case of a 'phantom crystal' that was discussed on the CCP4bb awhile back: http://bit.ly/b6Rgw7 All the Best, Sean

[ccp4bb] Part-time Work for Graduate Students

2014-07-22 Thread Sean Seaver
to supp...@p21221.com . Take Care, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

[ccp4bb] Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing

2014-10-06 Thread Sean Seaver
Care, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] Monodihydrosterculin

2014-11-25 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Pius, I just checked Monodihydrosterculin against our database of more than 1 million antibodies and we aren't seeing anyone that normally offers this product for sale. Take Care, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/

Re: [ccp4bb] capillary counterdiffusion agarose plug

2015-01-05 Thread Sean Seaver
Hi Georg, I haven't used the agarose method, but have sealed many capillaries using bees wax without an issue. Simply heat the wax until it melts, dip the capillary (rotate if it has a larger diameter) then let cool. I hope that helps, cheers! Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121

Re: [ccp4bb] on space group

2015-05-12 Thread Sean Seaver
Take Care, Sean Seaver, PhD P212121 http://store.p212121.com/ -- Dear All, Alhough there are on-line explainations on the space group, I found it was difficult to fully understand. Here we take P 1 21 1 as an exmaple, will you please explain to me with easy language what each number