Re: [ccp4bb] refinement of 0.73A data in shelxl

2020-02-06 Thread Phil Jeffrey
this is suitable for a solvent molecule disordered on a special position of higher symmetry than the molecule can take". I use PART 1/PART 2/PART 0 all the time in "small molecule world" but I've used PART -1 precisely once. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 2/6/20 4:15 PM

Re: [ccp4bb] number of frames to get a full dataset?

2020-06-30 Thread Phil Jeffrey
gt to resume his quest for overextended naming rationales, of which ValLigURL is a personal 'favo[u]rite'. But I'm just old-fashioned.) Ironically, Phil Jeffrey Princeton [* I too have collected 540 degrees in P1 to solve a SAD structure, just because I could, hence "

Re: [ccp4bb] Model refinement problems when upgrading Phenix

2020-07-21 Thread Phil Jeffrey
me issues in phenix.refine are: real space refine subprocess sometimes "unrefines" my structure (try turning it off); there appears to be enough of a difference between first and subsequent passes of the weight estimation that the weight-refinement scheme gets thrown off. Phil Jeff

[ccp4bb] Finding partial occupancy monomer by MR ?

2020-12-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
s beyond just lowering the expected % homology. Or if anyone has had success with other programs. This is perhaps a rare edge case but I naively expected Phaser to work. In the end I used the weak SeMet sites to locate the monomer and the occupancy appears to be around 0.32 in refinemen

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding partial occupancy monomer by MR ?

2020-12-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
he advice of Dale, I would play around with the % homology to find the value which works best. My 2 cents, Herman -Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: CCP4 bulletin board Im Auftrag von Phil Jeffrey Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2020 14:49 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [ccp4bb] Finding par

Re: [ccp4bb] Apparent twinning in P 1 21 1

2011-09-29 Thread Phil Jeffrey
n fraction approaches 0.5. The latter difference can easily be less than sigma(I), and so the signal/noise of your data plummets. Better to use REFMAC and phenix.refine's abilities to compensate for the twin fraction directly in refinement and leave your data as it is. Phil Jeffrey Princet

Re: [ccp4bb] should the final model be refined against full datset

2011-10-14 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ing much changes. That would need to be quantified in some way(s). Phil Jeffrey Princeton [* Your R-free is also initially model-biased in cases where the data are significant non-isomorphous or you're using two different xtal forms, to varying extents] I still don't understand how

Re: [ccp4bb] Merging data collected at two different wavelength

2012-01-18 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ake it a SAD dataset. ALL datasets contain some anomalous/dispersive signals, most of the time way down in the noise. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 1/18/12 12:48 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote: Using the terms 'MAD' and 'SAD' have always been confusing to me when considering more

Re: [ccp4bb] Using intrinsically bound Zn atoms for phasing

2012-03-06 Thread Phil Jeffrey
own fluorescence scan. The advantage of structural metals is full occupancy and relatively lower B-factor. That map was actually pretty good, and since it came out of MLPHARE I don't doubt modern programs like SHARP could make it quite a lot better. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 3/6/12 3:

Re: [ccp4bb] mtz2cif capable of handling map coefficients

2012-04-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
e new map coefficients - so I don't see the benefit of Fc. The map coefficients, on the other hand, are a checkpoint of the maps being looked at by the author at the time of deposition and don't require programs beyond a typical visualization program (i.e. Coot) to view. Phil Jeffrey Pr

Re: [ccp4bb] indexing(?) question in P21

2012-04-19 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Wolfram, Did you solve these structures independently by molecular replacement ? It sounds like your two solutions might be related by alternative origins (0,1/2 along a,c). If you translate the second example along the a axis by -a/2 does it refine with similar R-factors ? Phil Jeffrey

Re: [ccp4bb] P21221 to P21212 conversion

2012-05-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ion data from Scalepack differs depending on what space group you tell it, since systematic absences along h00, 0k0 and 00l in P2x2x2x are not written out. The number of reflections affected is quite small, of course. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 5/7/12 4:48 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: Is it true th

[ccp4bb] Faculty Position, Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Faculty Position Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University The Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. We are seeking an outstanding investigator in the area of biochemistry a

Re: [ccp4bb] finding from HKL Scalepack

2010-11-01 Thread Phil Jeffrey
s, so it's impossible to tell which statistic they are reporting. The editorial/proof-reading staff at journals aren't catching this ambiguity. I personally report but wrote my own program to do it from the .sca files. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] Looking for the following values...

2011-01-13 Thread Phil Jeffrey
olicy about handling reflections with |F|=0. The loss of reflections would manifest in a difference between the completeness in data collection and the completeness in refinement. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] image file extensions

2011-02-09 Thread Phil Jeffrey
find . -name '*.osc' -or -name '*.img' -type f -size +3000 -print -exec bzip2 '{}' \; is a personal favorite, along those lines, with ample opportunities for customization. (If the above command line wraps, it's all supposed to be on one line) Phil J

Re: [ccp4bb] Let's talk pseudotranslational symmetry (or maybe it's bad data).

2011-02-09 Thread Phil Jeffrey
n one case that ritually defeats me with quite strong pseudo-centering, this seems to be true for heavy atom searches also. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 2/9/11 5:08 PM, Jon Schuermann wrote: I would NOT use Phaser for MR with PTS present. It doesn't handle it correctly yet, since the likeliho

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position at Princeton University

2011-03-29 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Postdoctoral position at Princeton University A position is available in the laboratory of Prof. Fred Hughson to apply biochemical and structural approaches to the study of bacterial cell-cell communication, also known as quorum sensing. We are especially interested in the receptors bacteria u

Re: [ccp4bb] Is there any ccp4 tool which can add a new reflection point (hkl) to the existing mtz file?

2011-04-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
The CCP4 program UNIQUE does this. http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/unique.html "UNIQUE creates a unique list of reflections for a given unit cell with a given symmetry up to a specified high resolution limit. The output file can be used to complete a dataset (i.e. to give an MTZ file with all allow

Re: [ccp4bb] problem in calculation of elbow angle.

2010-01-13 Thread Phil Jeffrey
from the dot product of the direction cosines of VL:VH and CL:CH1. Phil Jeffrey Princeton tarique khan wrote: Dear all, I am trying to calculate elbow angle of my fab structure using a online software developed by Robyn L. Stanfield /et. al/. but it is giving a solution with the following

[ccp4bb] Question: Refmac5 stats reported in pdb REMARK 3

2010-05-19 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ac5 5.4.0077 (I'm apparently a Luddite) Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] Deposition of riding H: R-factor is overrated

2010-09-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
t. However this thread appears to have reached the point where not much new ground is being broken. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] Lousy diffraction at home but fantastic at the synchrotron?

2010-09-28 Thread Phil Jeffrey
. Alternatively: everyone tries harder before synchrotron trips Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 9/28/10 1:27 PM, Francis E Reyes wrote: Hi all I'm interested in the scenario where crystals were screened at home and gave lousy (say < 8-10A) but when illuminated with synchrotron radiat

Re: ccp4bb on new site

2007-01-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
not let you change the Reply-To feature. Phil Jeffrey Kjeldgaard Morten wrote: Unfortunately, It appears that JISCMAIL is using the outdated LISTSERV software to run it's mailing lists, so there is not much hope of getting such things as the [ccp4bb] subject tag and "reply to sender

Re: [ccp4bb] Data collection of SAD (MAD) data of Copper-containing protein

2007-03-16 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Angstrom data, then this may well give you enough information to proceed with at least some laborious form of molecular replacement (and/or averaging with the MAD/SAD map). Phil Jeffrey Princeton, NJ Yi Xue wrote: Dear all: We already got nice crystals of a drug-protein complex, however, MR

Re: [ccp4bb] Stop Refmac from refining B factors?

2007-04-18 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Individual B's can also be restrained by non-crystallographic symmetry and as far as I can tell grouped B's are not. I think one has to explore all possibilities rather than take one fixed approach to working at modest resolutions, and the optimal solution is likely to be different fo

Re: [ccp4bb] twwining operator

2007-05-21 Thread Phil Jeffrey
l for tests other than twinning), both of which list the twin operators that they try. Phil Jeffrey Princeton, NJ siva charan wrote: hello I have a data set to 2.4 A, which has space group of *P21 *. From the cumulative intensity distribution graph, indicates that data is twinned . To

Re: [ccp4bb] B-factor & Space gr questions!

2007-06-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Wouldn't the desirability of this depend on the extent to which the molecule has moved between the high-resolution and low-resolution datasets ? I would have thought that there was an effective information transfer between R-work and R-free once the rigid body movements became too large, which

Re: [ccp4bb] Missing scatter deffinition in CNS

2007-07-13 Thread Phil Jeffrey
k fix is to make your own copy of scatter.lib and edit the files that reference it to pick up the local copy. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Jian Wu wrote: Dear all, I am refining a structure in which there is an fluorine atom in the inhibtor. When I go on the energy minimization in CNS, an unusua

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
the CCP4 talk with all these numbers in it, but I regret it's sitting on my iBook at home as of writing. Phil Jeffrey Dean Madden wrote: It is true that multicopy refinement was essential for the suppression of Rwork. However, the whole point of the Rfree is that it is supposed to be i

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
h the inappropriate use of multi-copy refinement at low resolution. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Dean Madden wrote: Hi Dirk, I disagree with your final sentence. Even if you don't apply NCS restraints/constraints during refinement, there is a serious risk of NCS "contaminating" your Rfree. C

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
t at anything less than quite high resolution - I'm thinking in particular of a comment in Chen & Chapman (2001) Biophys J vol. 8, 1466-1472. So I see no reason to suggest NCS is having a particularly extreme, perhaps unprecedented, effect. Phil Jeffrey (still working on converting Micro$loth Powerpoint to html)

Re: [ccp4bb] CNS 1.2.2 binary running out of memory

2008-04-30 Thread Phil Jeffrey
imited datasizeunlimited stacksize 65536 kbytes coredumpsize0 kbytes memoryuse unlimited descriptors 256 memorylockedunlimited maxproc 100 Hope this helps, Phil Jeffrey Princeton hari jayaram wrote: Hi Since I am not on the cnsbb yet I am posting this here. I

Re: [ccp4bb] Finding NCS operator from one heavy atom site? (long)

2008-05-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
timately it worked rather well. Others might have more elegant ideas. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Partha Chakrabarti wrote: Hi, Apologies for a non CCP4 question in strict sense. I am trying to work out the NCS operators for a three wavelength Se-MAD data which has only one site. The map is hardly inte

[ccp4bb] Bug/feature in Phaser 2.1.1 over solution scoring/culling (long)

2008-06-24 Thread Phil Jeffrey
This is on OSX "Tiger" 10.4.11 on a G5 machine. Phaser 2.1.1, CCP4 6.0.2 Is anyone else seeing the following ? In a feature that seems new-ish in Phaser, intermediate solutions get culled after translation function and before packing tests: (begin snippet) Purge solutions according to highest

Re: [ccp4bb] interface

2008-08-08 Thread Phil Jeffrey
37,451.8 Chain AC 35,576.6 Difference 1,875.2 Difference/2 937.6 For buried S.A. I agree with Steve Darnell's definition. However PISA appears to be reporting half that value, or what it calls "interface area".

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac pro

2009-01-06 Thread Phil Jeffrey
out. OSX has minor quirks, like the patch to make OSX treat e.g. the filenames MyJunkData.sca and myjunkdata.sca as the same file rather than the expected Unix behavior. But in practice I rarely find this to be an issue. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Sheemei wrote: Dear all, I am thinking of

Re: [ccp4bb] NCBHT: severe warning

2009-04-01 Thread Phil Jeffrey
, you should consider tolerating a few ill-humored replies - at least that particular responder didn't post to the entire list. Phil Jeffrey Marius Schmidt wrote: Interesting, isn't it? :-), nice person. [rest of content removed]

Re: [ccp4bb] friction or releasing pdb's

2009-04-02 Thread Phil Jeffrey
et to update the JRNL reference. I believe that the lead time is unnecessarily long. Perhaps one day might be more reasonable. Phil Jeffrey Engin Ozkan wrote: I agree that the pdb deposition process has gotten better, but I still regularly have issues with releasing of newly published struc

Re: [ccp4bb] pointless question

2009-05-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
It also has the same/analogous bug in space group P3 with Pointless v1.2.10 - I wasn't sure if I was missing something obvious and went back to using my default combination of REINDEX/SCALEIT for the tests and reindexing. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Robert Nolte wrote: An output file is cr

Re: [ccp4bb] phasing with se-met at low resolution

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ke if one is familiar) but the helices in one of the other subunits (A) were actually nicely resolved. Excitement may be warranted, even at 6 Angstrom. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] multi-domain protein with identical tertiary structure

2009-07-02 Thread Phil Jeffrey
The cadmium-utilizing marine diatom carbonic anhydrase (CA) protein has three consecutive CA domains that have very similar structures but non-identical sequences. See: Structure and metal exchange in the cadmium carbonic anhydrase of marine diatoms. Xu Y, Feng L, Jeffrey PD, Shi Y, Morel FM.

Re: [ccp4bb] heavy atom derivative choice

2009-07-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
PCMBS etc so if you were especially concerned about that, start with the latter compounds. I'd also probably try Me3Pb(OAc) as an alternative to mercurials. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] MAD wavelength

2009-07-16 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ts from the Chooch analysis of the scan from the actual crystal. Cheers (and good luck) Phil Jeffrey Princeton Jerry McCully wrote: Dear All: Next week we are going to try some seleno-Met labeled crystals. We checked the literature to try to find out the peak wavelength that has

Re: [ccp4bb] superimposing Mtz maps

2009-07-21 Thread Phil Jeffrey
You could always use a larger mask for this step and a smaller one for the MAVE/Expand step. Phil Jeffrey Princeton Rana Refaey wrote: Hi, I have two maps from two different crystals with the same space group, both show an unknown density in the same place. I wanted to superimpose the ma

Re: [ccp4bb] how to improve Rfree?

2009-10-19 Thread Phil Jeffrey
is, none of the data processing programs or suites of programs has implemented this as far as I know. A Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] High Rwork/Rfree values

2013-06-24 Thread Phil Jeffrey
solve it in P1 and find the space group "by inspection" afterwards Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 sigma cutoff

2013-07-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
e the TRUNCATE YES option in Truncate ? Does the output MTZ from Scalepack2mtz show the number of reflections you expect ? Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 7/5/13 3:24 PM, Ursula Schulze-Gahmen wrote: Sorry for the non-CCP4 question. I am confused about the sigma cutoff used by HKL2000 for scaling. I sca

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
imately whatever formats come next) Using mmCIF as an archive format makes sense, but I doubt it's going to make building structures any easier except for particularly large structures where some extended-PDB format might work just as well or better. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 8/5/13 9:5

Re: [ccp4bb] mmCIF as working format?

2013-08-08 Thread Phil Jeffrey
On 8/7/13 8:27 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: That would be a bug. But it hasn't been true for any version of coot that I have used. As you say, this is a common thing to do and I am certain I would have noticed if it didn't work. I just checked that it isn't true for 0.7.1-pre. Thanks. Turns out I

Re: [ccp4bb] A case of perfect pseudomerehedral twinning?

2013-10-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
correlation between the two halves of the P21 asymmetric unit if it was really P212121 and you could overlap the maps corresponding to the different monomers using those programs. Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] Problematic PDBs

2013-10-17 Thread Phil Jeffrey
m via URLs like: ftp://ftp.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/data/structures/obsolete/XML/js/1jsq.xml.gz‎ Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 10/17/13 10:26 AM, Nat Echols wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Lucas mailto:lucasbleic...@gmail.com>> wrote: I wonder if there's a list of problematic structures

Re: [ccp4bb] Weird MR result

2013-11-14 Thread Phil Jeffrey
rystal form. I hope you don't have something like that, but it's possible. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 11/14/13 5:22 PM, Niu Tou wrote: Dear All, I have a strange MR case which do not know how to interpret, I wonder if any one had similar experiences. The output model does not fit into th

Re: [ccp4bb] How can I find the other molecule in the asymmetric unit?

2013-11-21 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ve things, consider the possibility that the fourth molecule is not what you think it is, or may be statistically disordered Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 11/21/13 12:35 PM, Meisam wrote: Dear CCP4ers I have a data set that diffracts 1.96 Å. It scales in P21 Space group with 7% linear Rfactor. The

Re: [ccp4bb] Orientation of molecules

2013-11-21 Thread Phil Jeffrey
x27;m a Luddite so I use emacs and/or grep for this. Phil Jeffrey Princeton 11/21/13 1:11 PM, Appu kumar wrote: Dear All, I think i have not explained my problem precisely. This may be weird one but let me elaborate more. I have have a protein moleculeA, having N-term,

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: undefined edensity blob at glutamine sidechain

2013-12-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
o the expedient thing and drop an Au in there with e.g. 0.5 occupancy (or a range of occupancies) and see what the refinement does. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 12/10/13 7:44 AM, PriyankMaindola wrote: ​ dear members i am trying to solve this crystal structure but ​I am puzzled with an​ undefined

Re: [ccp4bb] KD of dimerization, off topic

2014-02-14 Thread Phil Jeffrey
mple chamber and about 80x the Kd in the injector. That's not exactly the same situation, but 80x vs 170x suggests the the considerations are much the same. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 2/14/14 12:52 PM, Keller, Jacob wrote: What a nice idea this ITC dilution is--a great example of

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB passes 100,000 structure milestone

2014-05-14 Thread Phil Jeffrey
d with the relevant PDB file(s). Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 5/14/14 1:37 PM, Gloria Borgstahl wrote: I vote for Z's idea On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Zachary Wood mailto:z...@bmb.uga.edu>> wrote: Hello All, Instead of placing the additional burden of policing on the good

Re: [ccp4bb] translational NCS & twinning

2019-01-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
del is in fact the only reasonable explanation of your data. But as it stands it is rather atypical and it warrants further investigation Additional evidence that your C2 cell is the only reasonable model would be identifiable electron density differences between each chain in your (presumed) multi

Re: [ccp4bb] problem with the symmetry water molecule

2019-03-11 Thread Phil Jeffrey
axis so that refinement programs will treat this as a special position water and eliminate the extra one - i.e. make it as close as possible to its symmetry mate. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 3/11/19 12:09 PM, Firdous Tarique wrote: Hello everyone I am having a difficult time fitting a water

Re: [ccp4bb] Another difficult MR case

2019-08-29 Thread Phil Jeffrey
t problems with the molecular replacement search. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 8/29/19 11:28 AM, Napoleão wrote: Deal all, Sorry for the long post. I have a data set obtained from a crystal produced after incubating a protease with a protein which is mostly composed by an antiparallel beta

Re: [ccp4bb] Proper detwinning?

2014-07-11 Thread Phil Jeffrey
te deviations between previously identical monomers in the map and probably consider using NCS to reduce the random deviation between monomers that actually are identical by symmetry. You may have assigned the crystallographic 21 down the wrong unit cell axis in that P21 test case. Phil Je

Re: [ccp4bb] Extract Euler angles from fractional coordinate matrix

2014-09-04 Thread Phil Jeffrey
respect to fractional - for most space groups "ncode 1" is often used but for primitive monoclinic "ncode 3" is sometimes used, and I think the matrix shown in Kevin Cowtan's document above corresponds to "ncode 1". Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 9/4/14 3:55 PM, Ch

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular Replacement model preparation

2014-10-06 Thread Phil Jeffrey
find the *other* fragment in the context of that first solution. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 10/5/14 3:34 AM, Luzuokun wrote: Dear all, I’m doing molecular replacement using Phaser. My protein is predicted to have two domain with a “hinge” linking them. The model sequence identity is 0.27. But

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
the phases are pretty good. It's usually not as strong as difference density for hydrogens, before you put them in, but it's often pretty clearly visible once you have. (I use SHELXLE as an interface for small molecule refinements because of a somewhat Coot-like experience in view

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal habit/morphology and the relationship to unit cell contents

2015-06-01 Thread Phil Jeffrey
I would have thought that what the indexing routine defined as [001] vs [00-1] would be essentially random as one would obtain the equivalent indexing in 622 in both "up" and "down" alignment of the crystallographic a/b/c axes with respect to crystal morphology. Phil Jeffr

[ccp4bb] OT: mapping PDB to mmCIF data quantities

2015-07-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
CIF but I do for the reverse case). Thanks Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] OT: mapping PDB to mmCIF data quantities

2015-07-08 Thread Phil Jeffrey
d not _refine.ls_d_res_high but there are several where the resolution of refinement is apparently significantly higher than the resolution of the source data: 1AU7, 1AW7 etc. Cheers Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 7/8/15 10:04 AM, Jose Manuel Duarte wrote: This looks like the mapping you are after:

[ccp4bb] SCALA keywords for merging Scalepack (no merge original index) data ?

2012-07-03 Thread Phil Jeffrey
nd Lp-corrected so I want to avoid applying things twice. Thanks Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] value of observed criterion sigma

2012-07-31 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ked the "I/sigI" reported by Scalepack in the log file is / and not for the shell. The PDB format in REMARK 200 wants the latter. One of these days one hopes RCSB might include Rmeas in REMARK 200. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 7/31/12 8:54 AM, Faisal Tarique wrote: Dear all i have two

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining Rpim value

2012-09-04 Thread Phil Jeffrey
90.000 EOF # # scala hklin scalepack.mtz hklout scala.mtz \ scales scala.scales \ rogues scala.rogues \ normplot scala.norm \ anomplot scala.anom <Corrections, comments or outright repudiation of this script quite welcome - this was my first attempt. Phil Jeffrey Princ

Re: [ccp4bb] Compounded problems for molecular replacement

2012-10-26 Thread Phil Jeffrey
, rotation function peaks relating different domains in the same molecule should show very similar alpha, beta and differ in gamma. Good luck, Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 10/26/12 8:27 AM, Seijo, Jose A. Cuesta wrote: Hi all, I am dealing with a molecular replacement problem for a 60KDa protein

Re: [ccp4bb] vitrification vs freezing

2012-11-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Perhaps it's an artisan organic locavore fruit cake. Either way, your *crystal* is not vitrified. The solvent in your crystal might be glassy but your protein better still hold crystalline order (cf. ice) or you've wasted your time. Ergo, "cryo-cooled" is the descr

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac mini advice

2013-01-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
work. I'd echo Nat's suggestion of going 3rd party for the memory and putting in as much as you can afford. (Modern Mac Minis and even my 13" Macbook Pro outperform my older octacore tower on a per-core basis. They're quite capable machines.) Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 1/22

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement protein structure

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ure for you, starting from the molecular replacement solution (or, perhaps with it stripped to ALA). While you could use Autobuild, this is the CCP4 list and so you should use CCP4 programs. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 3/27/13 12:22 PM, Tom Van den Bergh wrote: Dear members of ccp4bb, I need so

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
guidance that RCSB gives about this field is very weak, which accounts for the variation. I'm interested in what "ab initio phasing" really means, but I've been too lazy to mine the actual entries for details. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 4/15/13 9:48 AM, Raji Edayathumang

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement hanging--what am I missing?

2013-04-26 Thread Phil Jeffrey
n Truncate or Xtriage I wouldn't suggest that. A final question is how much disordered structure is missing from your models ? Could a partly ordered but unmodeled segment be driving up R-free ? Cheers Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 4/26/13 5:38 PM, Patrick Loll wrote: Hi all, Here is a p

Re: [ccp4bb] question about CCP4 scripts

2013-05-09 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ese scripts, but that would make this post too long. If still in print I recommend the "C shell Field Guide" by Anderson and Anderson if you want to get further into Csh scripting. Python's also not a bad option. At all costs avoid Perl. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 5/8/1

Re: [ccp4bb] (scattering factors) f and f" for Sr Heavy atom

2021-01-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/AS_periodic.html http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/data/Sr.dat Would probably work for initial values. 9700 eV for that wavelength. https://people.mbi.ucla.edu/sumchan/crystallography/ang-eV_convertor.html Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 1/22/21 2:36

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-04 Thread Phil Jeffrey
olecule disorder so that comes ahead of adding hydrogens, and refining unrestrained anisoB (as is the default) for disordered atoms is asking for trouble. It's not as cookie-cutter as you represent, and I stick to all my suggestions. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 6/4/21 4:27 AM, Harry Powell

Re: [ccp4bb] what would be the best metric to asses the quality of a mtz file?

2021-10-27 Thread Phil Jeffrey
CCP4's PEAKMAX program would be quite scriptable. Phil On 10/27/21 1:58 PM, Murpholino Peligro wrote: So... how can I get a metric for noise in electron density maps? First thing that occurred to me open in coot and do validate->difference map peaks-> get number of peaks (is this scriptable?) o

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB Digest - 13 Jan 2017 to 14 Jan 2017 (#2017-15)

2017-01-19 Thread Phil Jeffrey
maps at 1.4 Å, although the bond length issue could be quite subtle. Phil Jeffrey Princeton mimicking like ATP bound state, surrounded and coordinated by two metal ions(resolution is 1.4A). There is a change in space group (from I212121 to P212121 ) and further important conformation changes are

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: how to calculate a difference map between two heterodimers in heterotetrameric protein

2017-03-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
to invert one. Unless you actually wanted Fourier coefficients it shouldn't be impossible to create a masked volume of the difference between two maps after rotating one of them. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 3/10/17 5:24 PM, Oleg Zadvornyy wrote: Dear All, We are working on a tetrameric pro

[ccp4bb] RuH3R system bits and pieces (USA)

2017-05-03 Thread Phil Jeffrey
not to the list. Thanks Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with a cell content

2017-07-11 Thread Phil Jeffrey
0Å with 75% solvent - PDB 4U6U). If you were missing half your asymmetric unit from your model, Rwork would be held up in the mid-30% range and there would be regions of relatively high difference density outside the model. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 7/11/17 12:31 PM, Koromyslova, Anna wrote:

[ccp4bb] Assistant Professor position in Cryo-Electron Microscopy/Tomography at Princeton University

2017-08-17 Thread Phil Jeffrey
embraces both excellence and diversity. See the link: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=2821 Applications must be received by October 31, 2017. Note: I'm just the messenger and not involved at all in the search process. Phil Jeffrey Macromole

[ccp4bb] Job Opening - Biophysics Facility Manager, Chemistry and Molecular Biology Depts, Princeton University

2017-09-07 Thread Phil Jeffrey
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Re: [ccp4bb] AW: Another troublesome dataset (High Rfree after MR)

2017-10-16 Thread Phil Jeffrey
t implicit. You must specify it but preferably don't report it at all, and just use it for diagnostic purposes. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 10/16/17 11:02 AM, James Holton wrote: If you suspect that weak data (such as all the spot-free hkls beyond your anisotropic resoluiton limits) ar

Re: [ccp4bb] high TFZ score but 50% of Rfree

2017-11-17 Thread Phil Jeffrey
R=50% at a resolution of 2.2 Å is a lot different to 50% at, say, 3.5 Å resolution. What happens if you refine it at 3.0 or 3.5 Å ? What's the model vs sequence % identity ? Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 11/17/17 3:23 PM, Yue Li wrote: Dear all, I have several datasets (one best resol

[ccp4bb] Refmac: removing selected ligand hydrogens after making a link

2018-03-29 Thread Phil Jeffrey
? Do I simply define a new version of the monomer (w/o errant hydrogen) and hope that it overwrites the previous definition ? I'm doing this at borderline atomic resolution. Thanks Phil Jeffrey Princeton

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-10 Thread Phil Jeffrey
e atoms are. Put your disordered Arg in with 10 alternate conformations, each with a refined relative occupancy, and then let the B-factors smear that lot out, and that's your better model. Phil Jeffrey Princeton To uns

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with crystal structure solution

2023-03-27 Thread Phil Jeffrey
will inherently allow their correct relative placement to be modeled. If you managed to get TFZ of 42 with flawed models, this should be a pretty easy thing to pull off, but if not please contact me off list. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 3/27/23 1:52 PM, Kher, Gargi M wrote: Hello, I obtained di

Re: [ccp4bb] CIF file problem

2023-04-20 Thread Phil Jeffrey
files. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 4/20/23 4:02 PM, Ning Li wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know why I got this error message: /Checking for embedded fcf data in CIF .../ /No extractable fcf data in found in CIF/ as I uploaded the CIF file to https://checkcif.iucr.org/ <https

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot select any recommended SG for the protein BsAlaDH

2023-08-02 Thread Phil Jeffrey
be able to feed it into POINTLESS and AIMLESS for scaling 4. On the model front, go find an AlphaFold model, they have worked for me multiple times in molecular replacement so far. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 8/2/23 3:00 PM, CENGIZ KAAN FERAH wrote: Hello, So I'm trying to get

Re: [ccp4bb] Fragile Crystals

2023-11-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
n't love being cross-linked, and I would call this a successful instance of a desperation maneuver. Good luck. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 11/22/23 11:44 AM, Blake, Morgan Elizabeth wrote: Hello I am a PhD student working on a crystallography project to wrap up my dissertation research. I h

Re: [ccp4bb] request for applications

2024-04-01 Thread Phil Jeffrey
:: I expect to have ~ $1e12 USD on current ledgers. Presumably via the Bankman-Fried algorithm Phil On 4/1/24 3:01 AM, James Holton wrote: Hey Everyone, It may sound like an incredibly boring thing that there has never been a formal mathematical proof that finding the prime factors of very l

Re: [ccp4bb] add ligand with AceDRG

2024-04-26 Thread Phil Jeffrey
ould fix that. Also that chem_comp.name seems to be associated with a variety of ligand IDs with different formulae and also turns up as a synonym of others. Things seem to be a little wayward in there. Phil Jeffrey Princeton On 4/26/24 10:40 AM, Diana Tomchick wrote: But I think that is a m

Re: [ccp4bb] a dinosaur asks ... PDB format query

2024-05-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
It says in aforementioned docs: "Alignment of one-letter atom name such as C starts at column 14, while two-letter atom name such as FE starts at column 13. " and no, hopefully they don't mean that, since their example shows plenty of 2-letter and 3-letter atom names starting at column 14 in t

Re: [ccp4bb] How high a B factor is too high to assume a loop is in place, in the AlphaFold era?

2024-07-30 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Laboratory, Warrington, UK (1980) Phil Jeffrey On 7/30/24 11:44 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: From this perspective, all refinable atomic model parameters can be viewed as trash bins, with the size of these bins being proportional to the amount of prior information (restraints) imposed on these