Re: [ccp4bb] rescuing crashing-out protein eluted from Nickel column

2008-02-15 Thread José Trincão
Hi Jacob, try adding a bit of edta (1mM) to remove any Ni that might come off the column. You could also add some DTT or bME to keep cysteines reduced (careful, add only after the edta!). In my experience the gradient did not work very weel because the protein with have a lot of impurities.

Re: [ccp4bb] Create a dual boot windows-linux machine

2009-01-19 Thread José Trincão
Dear Xie, you should seriously consider what Johan Turkenburg suggested: create a 20~30Gb ext3 patition that you mount as / and the rest of the disk as ext3 mounted as /home. That way, if you have to reinstall linux, all your files will be safe. You would end up with the following

[ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread José Trincão
why I should not just merge all these together and feed them to scala in order to increase multiplicity? Am I missing something? Thanks for any comments! Jose José Trincão, PhD CQFB@FCT-UNL 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal It's very hard to make predictions... especially about the future

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data to increase multiplicity

2011-01-28 Thread José Trincão
and multiplicity. Now, is there any reason why I should not just merge all these together and feed them to scala in order to increase multiplicity? Am I missing something? Thanks for any comments! Jose José Trincão, PhD CQFB@FCT-UNL 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal It's very hard

[ccp4bb] XSCALE vs scala

2011-03-04 Thread José Trincão
instead of scaling and converting with XSCALE and XDSCONV? Thanks! Jose José Trincão, PhD CQFB@FCT-UNL 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal It's very hard to make predictions... especially about the future - Niels Bohr

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] XSCALE vs scala

2011-03-04 Thread José Trincão
Begin forwarded message: From: Graeme Winter graeme.win...@googlemail.com Date: March 4, 2011 4/3/11 - 4:51 To: José Trincão trin...@dq.fct.unl.pt Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] XSCALE vs scala Hi Jose, if you are following the usual XDS procedure, the data will have already been scaled by the XDS

[ccp4bb] Trouble with P1 data

2010-03-03 Thread José Trincão
better crystals, is there anything we could try to improve our data, lower our Rfree? Thanks! Jose Trincao José Trincão, PhD c...@fct-unl 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal It's very hard to make predictions... especially about the future - Niels Bohr