Re: [ccp4bb] sfall bug?

2015-07-07 Thread Jens Kaiser
that to something smaller. I seem to remember SFALL stores a flag to recall which residue contributed to which density and there could be a limit on its size. Will test when I get near a working system Eleanor On 6 July 2015 at 22:53, Jens Kaiser kai...@caltech.edu wrote: All

[ccp4bb] sfall bug?

2015-07-06 Thread Jens Kaiser
All, We seem to have stumbled upon a problem in sfall. The two attached pdb files are nearly identical, except the coordinates and b-factors for the two atoms are swapped. When calculating Fs with sfall, we get drastically different mtz files. Upon calculating the corresponding Fcalc maps, it

Re: [ccp4bb] PAD images

2015-04-27 Thread Jens Kaiser
SSRL Bluice opens the image in adxv upon double click in the diffraction window. HTH, Jens On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 16:57 -0700, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) wrote: Thanks - particularly great if we had these images/option available to look at in real time during data collection, w/o

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange Ancient Diffraction Pattern...

2015-04-01 Thread Jens Kaiser
Gloria, I think this one might be modulated, you can clearly distinguish Bragg and satellite reflections. -j. On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 07:06 -0500, Gloria Borgstahl wrote: Ah Ha! drum roll A quasicrystal ! On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Julia Griese gri...@dbb.su.se wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] active 3D monitors: successor of Asus VG278HR?

2015-01-08 Thread Jens Kaiser
In addition to what others have -- correctly -- stated I want to add one more thing: Yes, you are right, if you do not get your hands on a monitor with built-in emitter, you'll need ad least a K4000 and in many cases the VESA din bracket (~$50). You do not have to buy the expensive ($800+) 3D

Re: [ccp4bb] map manipulation questions

2014-05-19 Thread Jens Kaiser
I found the most versatile program to manipulate maps is MAIN (http://www-bmb.ijs.si). You can copy and move maps from any cell to any other cell and get immediate visual feedback to see if things went the way you expected it. Cheers, Jens On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 17:25 -0400, Niu Tou wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Confusion about space group nomenclature

2014-05-02 Thread Jens Kaiser
Bernhard et al, @ Jens: I think the precise and correct term applicable to the 65 should be pro-chiral spacegroups. They are not chiral by themselves, but addition of something /allows/ for the creation of a chiral object (i.e. the crystal). For a moment I though we have it…. but

Re: [ccp4bb] Confusion about space group nomenclature

2014-04-29 Thread Jens Kaiser
Dear Bernhard (and others), I was looking for catchy combinations of chiral or enantio and Latin or Greek words for support or allow -- until I realized there is already a name for this very concept, used widely in chemistry: I think the precise and correct term applicable to the 65 should be

Re: [ccp4bb] Confusion about space group nomenclature

2014-04-29 Thread Jens Kaiser
actually, I'll have to amend that: Dear Bernhard (and others), I was looking for catchy combinations of chiral or enantio and Latin or Greek words for support or allow -- until I realized there is already a name for this very concept, used widely in chemistry: I think the precise and

Re: [ccp4bb] small molecule crystallography

2014-03-24 Thread Jens Kaiser
Andreas, What is your setup? We have a Cu Anode with an R-Axis IV, and just due to the geometry, the maximum resolution we can collect is around 1.4A. That won't do for small molecules. I think if your resolution is worse than something like 0.85A alarm bells start going off. If you can

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

2014-02-21 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hi Chris, I personally would go with your thick dataset. 90% completeness is not stellar, but in my opinion not detrimental, either. I had one project that persistently yielded crystals that diffracted to rather high resolution (2.3), but in one direction no lunes were discernible and -

[ccp4bb] XDS vs SADABS absorption correction factors

2014-02-20 Thread Jens Kaiser
All, Sorry, this is a little bit off topic. I could not find a thorough definition of the Correction Factors for absorption correction in XDS nor of the Transmittance factors in SADABS. We collected small molecule samples on a synchrotron beamline, processed the data with XDS and the user

Re: [ccp4bb] Symmetry problem

2014-02-19 Thread Jens Kaiser
Monika, There are several possible causes for the problem you are encountering, but your description is a little too vague to discern them. Scenario 1) You ran phaser with the option all possible spacegroups, for several different components of your crystal, setup individually, and the runs do

Re: [ccp4bb] small crystals

2013-12-09 Thread Jens Kaiser
Careina, If your target is interesting enough, try to reproduce the small crystals in batch and apply for FELS time. Small crystals are actually an advantage there. Cheers, Jens On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 21:41 -0800, Careina Edgooms wrote: Hi all Any advice on how to get bigger crystals

[ccp4bb] scala discrepancy between versions

2013-12-09 Thread Jens Kaiser
Dear developers, We have been doing the local scaling with scala of multiple wavelengths for some time. We scaled one dataset collected remotely from the absorption edge, and input this to scala as a reference as one batch without any problems. With the latest release of CCP4, though, we get the

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] uncertainites associated with intensities from twinned crystals; Sorry for HTML.

2013-11-07 Thread Jens Kaiser
and it is possible to recover the true intensities of a unique lattice from the stronger diffracting one (see for example Jenni Ban, 2009, Acta D65, 101-111). Hence, the quadratic formula (reported fomr Jens Kaiser) can be applied; 2) for TLS (merohedral twinning - perfectly overlapping

Re: [ccp4bb] R: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] uncertainites associated with intensities from twinned crystals; Sorry for HTML.

2013-11-06 Thread Jens Kaiser
Fulvio, Tim, error propagation is correct, but wrongly applied in Tim's example. s_f= \sqrt{ \left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial {x} }\right)^2 s_x^2 + \left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial {y} }\right)^2 s_y^2 + \left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial {z} }\right)^2 s_z^2 + ...} (see

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] uncertainites associated with intensities from twinned crystals; Sorry for HTML.

2013-11-06 Thread Jens Kaiser
this assumption stand true for Intensities in twinning? I am no expert, but I would think not. Tassos On 7 Nov 2013, at 7:53, Jens Kaiser wrote: Fulvio, Tim, error propagation is correct, but wrongly applied in Tim's example. s_f= \sqrt{ \left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial {x

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Jens Kaiser
Phoebe, I'm red green blind myself, and it is not as straight forward as it sounds. The problem is that we see red and green despite lacking one of the color receptors (I actually prepared a figure using red and green once and got a referee comment that red/green blind people would have

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

2013-02-11 Thread Jens Kaiser
Ethan, The last time I attempted similar things, I had to run rotaprep to convince scala of using most things that did not come directly out of mosflm, but that was before the pointless days. As the reflections are already scaled in P1, I would consider it safe to rely on the Pointless Rmerge

Re: [ccp4bb] Perfluoropolyether as cryoprotectant for membrane proteins ?

2012-12-03 Thread Jens Kaiser
Ulrike, I usually suggest it as the second try (the first try is mother liquor alone), as it does not involve mixing any new buffer concoctions. I do not have hard data, but I'd estimate it worked in about 50% of cases; it seemed not to matter if you try it on a soluble or membrane protein

Re: [ccp4bb] One little clash

2012-07-12 Thread Jens Kaiser
Christine, As interesting as the di-Tyrosine idea is, from the picture you provided, it looks more like the two tyrosines share a C=C bond. Given your slightly elevated R-factors and the high symmetry space group, I would thoroughly check for even the slightest sign of twinning. I once had

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Jens Kaiser
It might be a portal issue. But the pdb staff is very helpful in getting this deposited. We deposited data of I think 4 crystals and 3 wavelengths with different phase sets in 2008. (The data was anisotropic, 3.5/4.2 A resolution, model building was not straight forward, so we wanted to preserve

Re: [ccp4bb] Disorder or poor phases?

2012-04-11 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hello, Kay is absolutely right. Just to make this clear: We all know that in many cases, you start out with poor phases (i.e. a weak SIR/MIR/MAD or a borderline replacement model) and your density is modest. The prudent thing to do at this stage is, to build only things you trust and have a look

Re: [ccp4bb] Collecting small-molecule diffraction on a Macromolecular xtallography beam line

2012-02-08 Thread Jens Kaiser
Giorgo, We have done that routinely for quite some time now. We had problems when using a normal CCD detector, where we had to collect two or three sweeps to avoid overloads (see below). Since we have the PILATUS this is not necessary anymore and the data behaves fine. Problems still persisting

Re: [ccp4bb] odd behaviour of reindex

2012-01-31 Thread Jens Kaiser
Ian, Ah! the old the row is the column depiction of matrices in CCP4 - ha had forgotten about that! Now at least the output makes sense and the caveat is to never use brackets. Thanks to all replies!! Jens On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:17 +, Ian Tickle wrote: On 31 January 2012 02:30, Jens

[ccp4bb] odd behaviour of reindex

2012-01-30 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hi all, we encountered an odd behaviour of REINDEX. Snip form logfile: Data line--- reindex HKL (h+l)/2, -k, (h-l)/2 Data line--- end Reflections will be reindexed, and unit cell recalculated Reindexing transformation: (h' k' l') = ( h k l ) ( 1.0 0.0 1.0 )

Re: [ccp4bb] writing scripts-off topic

2012-01-23 Thread Jens Kaiser
Yuri, I second everythig Ethan Merritt said, but would add: awk is easier and as functional as Perl for quick and dirty projects. Once you need Perl's complexity, you're probably better off moving to Python or a compiled language; Perl is powerful, but it allows you to do really dirty coding;

Re: [ccp4bb] From non-twinned to twinned?

2012-01-04 Thread Jens Kaiser
What are your cell constants and space group? It sounds to me you misindexed and then artificially twinned your structure by integrating/merging in too high of a symmetry. I've seen that happen for primitive hexagonal which was actually C-centered monoclinic. Also, in my experience this is more

Re: [ccp4bb] PHENIX vs REFMAC refinement had me fooled

2011-12-08 Thread Jens Kaiser
My money is on the the wrong test set (as Jonathan Elegheert suggested). I have seen this several times with newbies, when the test set is created by phenix. It does it the xplor-way. When it comes to the free set, refmac defaults to 0, phenix tries to be intelligent (i.e. if 1/0 it uses 1, if

Re: [ccp4bb] cryo protection

2011-10-26 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hey Len, I had this problem, too. As you know, my favorite first try is always fomblin (no need to mix anything). I had quite a bit success in stubborn cases to inject about 4uL fomblin through the tape on top of the drop and then looping crystals through the oil layer. You can wick the mother

Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous map average by NCS

2011-09-21 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hui/Phoenix, It is pretty hard to say from what you describe which method is right. The NCS maps in coot will give you a correct - but not as good of an estimate of your density - if, and only if, you have enough of a model and you have defined your NCS master and slave chains correctly. If you

Re: [ccp4bb] viewing and scoring diffraction using the PX Scanner

2011-04-19 Thread Jens Kaiser
OK, I took the challenge. I got 7 out of 10. The three I missed were 2 questions about multi-well crystals which would be better (no problem) and the capillary (no problem either, because you can mount it)... I wouldn't be that snipe and braging (pun intended) if I would not agree with

Re: [ccp4bb] linux flavors

2011-02-22 Thread Jens Kaiser
David, I'm a big fan of SuSE. the nuveau problem exists, too, but blacklisting fixed it for me. For older hardware I love ultimate linux. The way I understand Zalman stereo it works with everything, given the program you use supports it. I'm sure you are aware of the problem with nVidia

Re: [ccp4bb] Difficult to solve MR - A mysterious case

2010-06-30 Thread Jens Kaiser
Chen, First of all, it sounds funny that you can't integrate your data in C2 or P2. That should be possible if your lattice is hP. But then if your Rmrg is OK in P622, p622 is probably at least your (apparent) point group. Second, I'm usually suspicious of SG P622. I would almost bet you're

Re: [ccp4bb] pymol movies scripts

2007-09-18 Thread Jens Kaiser
I used to do that in POVray. you can use any program that writes POV output and can generate all the objects you want. I used to write each object I want to manipulate to a separate file and #declare ed it as a POVray object. Then I wrote a 'master' povray file, that #include d the aforementioned

Re: [ccp4bb] microscope

2007-06-15 Thread Jens Kaiser
I had some pretty good experience with MOTIC SMZ140/143 microscopes. compared to Leica (which are my favorites) they seem a little flimsy but image quality is good, they come with a built in video cam and grabber, they have a large table and at 1,700 bucks (with camera, 10x and 20x eyepieces and a