Re: [COOT] how to set the refinement map

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Emsley
Seth Harris wrote: Actually I do have a map button. Hmm... I see. But I'd rather write something in a script somewhere once than click the button and confirm the click EVERY time I start the program! OK, I'm not understanding you then. If you start from fresh and you read in more than

Re: [COOT] beta testers for 0.6.2

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Emsley
Ed Pozharski wrote: 1. This does not include autobuilder bugs, right? sigh yes, I do mean autobuilder bugs too - as long as it's not about SuSe. 2. What is the bug reporting procedure - just email the list? Yes - or me, or coot-dev at ysbl dot york dot ac dot uk if you wish.

Re: [COOT] Using RSR for ethylene glycol and building a oxidized cysteine

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Emsley
Craig Smith wrote: Hey gang, Hey indeed. Buenos días, in fact. I have an ethylene glycol that I trying to build into my structure. I used File - Get monomer and entered EDO and deleted the hydrogens. I can move EDO into density using rotate/translate zone but I'm having problems

Re: [COOT] latest coot on rhel 5 32-bit

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Emsley
Andreas Förster wrote: Hey cooters, I'm trying to replace my current coot (centos4 binary, version 0.6, revision 2540 with guile 1.8.7 and python 3.6.0 embedded) with a more recent binary. The OS is RHEL 5.2 to 5.4, 32-bit. I download version 0.6.2, revision 2939, python, unpack but can't

Re: [COOT] problem reading bond mmCIFLoop and bonds/angles not drawn

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Emsley
Christian Benda wrote: Hi, we have a recurring problem with our coot installations (coot version 0.6.1rev 2740 on Mac OS X 10.6.3). For some users when they start coot, they get a list of error messages in the terminal (see below) and structures are displayed without most of the bonds drawn

Re: [COOT] Unmodeled blobs behaviour

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Emsley
Jan Dohnalek wrote: I have noticed that Coot puts me in irrelevant places when I use the Unmodeled blobs validation. It does its job but then the list of blobs sends me to perfectly interpreted places and I cannot see any uninterpreted blobs... I don't know why this should be, I have not

Re: [COOT] What kind of maps produced in coot when refmac is run?

2010-04-10 Thread Paul Emsley
Francis E Reyes wrote: What kind of maps are produced in coot when refmac is run from within it? Sigma-weighted 2fo-fc's ? SigmaA, yes, Standard refmac maps: 2mFo-DFc, mFo-DFc.

Re: [COOT] command line and customized options (bug/feature?)

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Emsley
Ed Pozharski wrote: It appears that when loading model/map from command line (via --pdb and --auto options) coot ignores the parameters defined in $HOME/.coot . Mine has the (set-map-sampling-rate 2.5) setting for smoother maps, but when I use the command line to load pdb/mtz files, the maps

Re: [COOT] rotate/translate button

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Emsley
Jan Abendroth wrote: since a few versions, the linux distribution of coot seems to have lost the handy rotate/translate button in the toolbar on the right side of the main window. It is not an option under preferences either. However, it is still around in the osx version from Bill. Are there

Re: [COOT] Coot balking at SHELX refined anisotropy

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Emsley
SIPPEL,KATHERINE H wrote: Hi all, I am running Coot 0.6.2-pre-1(revision 2816). The OS is Open Suse 11.1. Every time I try to open a SHELX refined pdb file with ANISOU cards I get this error ERROR 14 READ: Unmatch in different records for the same atom Then it lists the line number of the

Re: [COOT] Coot balking at SHELX refined anisotropy

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Emsley
SIPPEL,KATHERINE H wrote: Thanks for all of the replies. It turns out with the updated COOT that ANISOU cards require an element type (column 77-78). For the record, it is not fundamentally the update of Coot that has changed things, it's that recent versions of Coot use recent versions of

Re: [COOT] add terminal residue residue type

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Dirk, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: another point for your wish-list: when I add a terminal residue, an alanine is added that I have to mutate into the proper amino acid type in a second step. I would find it very useful, if a popup-window would ask me, which amino acid type I want to add. This

Re: [COOT] pointer distances, recording water

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Emsley
Maia Cherney wrote: Hi Paul, the format of the file got screwed. I am resending the file in the attachment. I would like to repeat the description of the problem. There is a difference in recording of water molecules in coot and in phenix. The example is given in the attached pdb file.

[COOT] simplify CA-Mainchain selection [was Re: a request]

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Eleanor, Eleanor Dodson wrote: When converting from CA to Main chain it would be wonderful to just have to select a CHAIN - not click on the first and last residues.. In that I cant think of any time when you would want to only convert a limited span of residues.. On reflection, I

Re: [COOT] error saving coordinates in Shelx format

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Emsley
Alice Dawson wrote: I'm running Coot 0.6.1 on a Mac (running 10.5.8), installed via Fink. I'm running some Shelx refinements. When I try to save the coordinates (as a .ins, from a .res that I read in) I get this error (first-coords-imol) (first-unsaved-coords-imol) INFO:: Setting

Re: [COOT] hydrogens hanging after removal of alternate conformation

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Emsley
Garib Murshudov wrote: Just for info: There is new version of the dictionary that is compliant with pdb v3. It works with new version of refmac and should work with phenix also. It seemed to work with coot also.

Re: [COOT] ncs ghost control

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Eleanor Dodson wrote: This seems to be lost ?? /y/programs/xtal/coot/coot-Linux-i386-fedora-10-gtk2-python/share/coot/python reads pdb and says: ... INFO:: NCS chain comparison 306/307 INFO:: NCS chain comparison 304/307 INFO:: NCS chain comparison 306/307 INFO:: NCS chain comparison

Re: [COOT] chain coloring

2010-02-16 Thread Paul Emsley
Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote: Hi Paul, hi all, besides for the principal task of building molecules, I like using coot for studying structures. I would however be very happy to give a given chain a determined color, rather than having colors attributed by the program. Well, you (only)

Re: [COOT] anomalous difference map

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Emsley
Kay Diederichs wrote: I was under the expression that coot automatically calculates an anom diff map when the DANO label is used. Depends what you mean by automatic, but I would say not. Open MTZ, use the Expert button, that will enable anomalous labels (as I suspect that you know).

Re: [COOT] anomalous difference map

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Emsley
subh wrote: Hi, I am trying to open my phased mtz file in coot to see the anomalous difference map.But it does not open when I choose Open mtz, .cif etc. While I can open the map by choosing auto open .MTZ it doesnot give me the choice to select the maps that I want to see. I knew that if I

Re: [COOT] DNA structure refining problem

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Emsley
Norman Zhu wrote: This email is a continuation of an inquiry I post last week. The problem I had and still is i can't use the real space refine zone and regularization zone functions on a DNA structure. Whenever i ask the computer to fit the bases into the electron density it would

Re: [COOT] problem with refining DNA

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 4 févr. 2010 à 04:37, Norman Zhu a écrit : hello there I am in the process of refining a protein structure complexed to DNA promoter site. I ran into difficulty as i try to move a few bases into patch of electron density that is obviously meant for

Re: [COOT] Transforming maps

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Emsley
Marko Hyvonen wrote: (transform-map-using-lsq-matrix 1 A 1 200 0 A 1 200 2 (molecule-centre 1) 10) All seems to go fine, except that the map matches correctly only part of the transformed molecule, and it looks like when the map is extended by symmetry, things fail Yes, the

Re: [COOT] key binding to delete waters

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Emsley
david lawson (JIC) wrote: Dear All, I would like to set up a key binding to delete the water molecule I’m centred on, but I can’t get the guile syntax right. Can anybody help? A good question for bioklatch, http://www.bioklatch.com/ IMHO. I'll answer it there too, if someone asks

Re: [COOT] coot 0.6.1 and libldap-2.2.so.7 at Fedora10

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Emsley
Hi Martin, Martin Moche wrote: Dear Coot Users, I am trying to run, coot-0.6.1-binary-Linux-i386-fedora-4-gtk2, at my Fedora10 Linux machine... Eeek - Stop right there! The correct solution is to use the Fedora 10 binary. ... which seems not to to be in place yet... OK, it is now,

Re: [COOT] Macros in COOT--use VB to write python code

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Emsley
Goodness, sounds like fun. Coot does have an alignmutate function of course, but you don't get to fiddle with the sequence alignment - Coot uses its own alignment [1]. My understanding is that should be fine for ~70% sequence identity or better. My feeling though is that it is not widely

Re: [COOT] americanisms in 0.6.1....

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Emsley
Kevin Cowtan wrote: Ezra Peisach wrote: I move that the names in the scheme scripts be changed to the american names and that a new script British.scm be put in place. Well, that's just crazy talk. The scripting interface should clearly use the established language of science, which

[COOT] Release 0.6.1

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Emsley
We are pleased to announce the release of Coot-0.6.1 Source code: http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/source/releases/coot-0.6.1.tar.gz Binaries http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/binaries/releases/ (the building on additional platforms is underway): Paul -- Release 0.6.1 o

Re: [COOT] Autosave

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Emsley
Victor Alves wrote: About Auto-save. I tried it, after modifying the PDB model I was working on, but apparently this didn't save those changes to my current opened PDB file. It just writes a coot.state.scm file. Am I right? Well, I can't say that you're wrong, but for me, modified

Re: [COOT] Macros in COOT

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Andrew, Having worked with O for many years I am only now getting serious with COOT. There are a couple of things that I would like to do that don't seem to be available (as far as I can tell), but which may well be possible using Macros. Unfortunately a quick

Re: [COOT] Nucleic acids residue names

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Emsley
Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Dear all, Is there a way to ask Coot to write pdb coordinate files with nucleic acid residue names in 'standard' PDB format? That is: DA, DC, DG, DT, A, C, G, T... No. It's on the list. I will use the PDB-approved nomenclature. Sorry, this may have been

Re: [COOT] Coot 'Feature' Request

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Antony Oliver wrote: I'm using Coot on OS X - so I don't know whether this is a 'feature' of this version (fink built) - but the dialog boxes, particularly the save dialog, always appear behind the main window. It is possible to change this behaviour, so that it appears in front? Apple

Re: [COOT] COOT for MAC OSX, baton

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Emsley
Lei Jin wrote: I have two questions here: 1. Where is the COOT for MAC OSX? I just could not find it, although I could find COOT for Windows and Linux at http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/binaries/releases/ See the FAQ:

Re: [COOT] coot question

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Emsley
Katarina M wrote: Hi all, I am running coot version 0.6 pre on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Everything was working fine upon installation for couple of months and all of the sudden after trying to real space refine a residue funny looking dots would appear around it (as is shown in the attached

Re: [COOT] How to mask a map considering the symmetric operations?

2009-12-18 Thread Paul Emsley
Or to put it slightly differently: the masking of symmetry-related density works (only) when the cell and symmetry of the map is the same as the cell and symmetry of the atoms for the mask. Paul. Bernhard Lohkamp wrote: Hi, you dont say how you obtained you map. Usually in Coot, thanks to

Re: [COOT] deleting atoms from alternate conformations

2009-12-18 Thread Paul Emsley
wtempel wrote: Hi all, judging from what I see being used by my colleagues, COOT is well on its way to world domination. Like Linux (haha). Anyway, suppose I have split a residue, say lysyl, to model alternate conformations of its side chain. Suppose further that I would like to remove

Re: [COOT] Dock sequence

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Emsley
Phil Evans wrote: How does the Extensions-Dock sequence command work? I've got a polyAla model, so I open the dialog, import a sequence file, click the Sequence closest fragment or Sequence all fragments! Then I get in the terminal window something like Sequence: ??QKDIGVKPEFSFN??

Re: [COOT] Release 0.6

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Emsley
Victor Alves wrote: The thing is I can't find neither a stable 0.6 binary for ubuntu (32 bits) with python AND gtk2, Not all the target platforms built 0.6 correctly. We are investigating. I think that the Ubuntu 32-bits build is a virtual machine in York. It's a bit non-trivial to

Re: [COOT] hydrogen restraints

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Emsley
Sara Zueger wrote: Hi everybody, Hi Sara, as I did not find a final solution to the hydrogen restraints problem (flying or exploding during real space refinement) in any of the mailing lists, I wanted to pick this topic up again. If one adds hydrogens by phenix.ready_set or reduce the

Re: [COOT] Proxy server setting

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Emsley
Arnaud Basle wrote: Is it possible to tell coot to use a proxy server? No. Well, yes, strictly, but it won't listen. Ask again in a few days though. Paul.

Re: [COOT] Mask the map

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Emsley
pebbleped...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I have a question about how does coot mask the electron density map. I have a ccp4 electron density map file with parameters like this: Parameters as read from the map file Origin .. -167 -36 -35 Extent

Re: [COOT] Release 0.6

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Emsley
Maia Cherney wrote: I suggested some time ago to include Go to atom button in the bar beside Display manager, as this is one of the most used buttons. Paul liked the idea, but I don't see it in the new release. For the record, I should reply to this. I did consider this option. I

[COOT] Coot 0.6, new paper

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear All, Our new paper has been accepted and is now in press. Please (if you want to cite coot) update your citation. About - About - References I think that this is particularly important for users of WinCoot and Coot on Mac OS X, because the paper includes Bernhard Lohkamp and Bill

Re: [COOT] karmic

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Ed Pozharski wrote: In Ubuntu 9.10, coot appears to be fully compatible with compiz when running on Intel graphics card. So there is no need to disable the visual effects anymore. Hoorah! So will we get to see a youtube video of coot running an all molecule script (say), each face of

[COOT] Release 0.6

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Emsley
We are please to announce the release of coot-0.6 Source here: http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/source/releases/coot-0.6.tar.gz Binaries from here: http://www.biop.ox.ac.uk/coot/software/binaries/releases/ Paul. -- Release 0.6 o FEATURE: User-defined clicks [Joel Bard].

Re: [COOT] How to make a map file readable

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Emsley
pebbleped...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I am trying to find out if coot can export a map file that in text format. I have created a difference map from two cns maps and want to export it also in cns format (can be read in text eidtor). But till now, I can only save it in xx.map format that in

Re: [COOT] Electron density map for ligand

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Emsley
pebbleped...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I want to know possible method to get electron density map for ligand only. The material are 2mFo-DFc map downloaded from EDS server and also coordinates from PDB. The electron density map contains protein, water and ligand. I want to build a electron

Re: [COOT] ramachandran fit error

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Emsley
Andreas Förster wrote: I have a structure with three chains in the asymmetric unit. When I select Refine/Improve Ramachandran Plot from Extensions/All Molecule, coot does its thing until it reaches the end of the second chain, then stops with the errors pasted below. ... Any ideas why

Re: [COOT] Non-standard residue

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Emsley
S. Shunmugasundararaj wrote: Is it possible to mutate a residue to a non-standard residue in coot? Yes. Section 5.6.13 of the Coot User Manual. You could have found it by searching for mutating to a non-standard residue Extensions - Modelling - Replace Residue... Paul.

Re: [COOT] keyboard shortcut for Rotate/Translate Zone

2009-11-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Ben Eisenbraun wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:56:55PM +, Judit Debreczeni wrote: 2009/11/13 Ben Eisenbraun b...@crystal.harvard.edu: I'm trying to add a keyboard shortcut for Rotate/Translate Zone. Try this: (add-key-binding Rotate-Translate Zone r (lambda ()

Re: [COOT] How to turn off display of negative contour level?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Ian Tickle wrote: is there an easy way to turn off the display of the negative contour level for a difference map after it has been read in? I found a function 'set_map_is_difference_map()' to effectively turn on the negative level, but I couldn't see one to turn it off, maybe something

Re: [COOT] Disulfides across a crystallographic symmetry

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Emsley
Mark Nance wrote: Hi Cooters, I have a pair of disulfide bonds which link two monomers in separate asymmetric units. There is a single monomer in the asymmetric unit, and two monomers come together to form disulfides between Cys 26-Cys45, and Cys45-Cys26. For the record, you can't refine

Re: [COOT] Debian AMD64 Coot

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Emsley
Bryan Krantz wrote: Does anyone know of the proper patches to apply to the ia386-libs to allow Coot to run properly on Debian Lenny AMD64? It appears that the 32bit libraries under ia386 have serious flaws and issues. I would advise that you build 64 bit binaries yourself. I develop Coot on

Re: [COOT] coot on 10.6 crashes with refinement

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Emsley
Meghan Miller wrote: Hi, I recently updated my iMac to 10.6. After updating the OS I installed fink, which I used to install and compile coot (version 0.6 pre). However, when I try to do any refinements (i.e. rotamers, mutate and align, etc.) the screen closes and I get the error message

Re: [COOT] (transparent) sphere

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Emsley
Bernhard Lohkamp wrote: You currently cannot create a sphere as such (certainly not transparent). But you there is some workarounds: 1.) create a generic object and add a dot (although the dot will be a square esp when larger) along these lines (well, a sphere of dots):

Re: [COOT] secondary structure view

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Emsley
Paul Emsley wrote: Eleanor Dodson wrote: The manual suggests the sequence view will be coloured according to secondary structure, but that doesnt seem to be true for me Thank you - if it is easy to fix, I'll do it shortly. If not, I'll schedule it for 0.6.1. It *was* easy. Rev 2339

Re: [COOT] call for beta testers [was Re: buggy coot 0.6-pre-1 r2264 on OS X 10.4.11]

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Emsley
Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Dear Paul and Bill, rev 2310 from fink works properly now on mac (intel) os 10.5.8 Thank you a lot for solving this problem so quickly (and heroically)! Some issues, then. When launching coot I get this error: INFO:: loading preferences file

[COOT] call for beta testers [was Re: buggy coot 0.6-pre-1 r2264 on OS X 10.4.11]

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Emsley
On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Benda, Christian wrote: Dear Bill, Thanks for your quick reply! I installed the new revision but it doesn't seem to make a difference (to my problems). I guess you're right and it's because I am still running 10.4 - think it's time to upgrade to 10.6, finally!

Re: [COOT] buggy coot 0.6-pre-1 r2264 on OS X 10.4.11

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Emsley
Engin Ozkan wrote: Hi everybody, Using the revision 2283 on 10.5, I am seeing this whenever I am closing the application: /sw/bin/coot: line 5: 19785 Segmentation fault /sw/bin/coot-real $@ Yep, coot shuts down with a segmentation fault. I haven't tested most functionality and it

Re: [COOT] ccp4mg

2009-09-07 Thread Paul Emsley
Wu, Zhongren wrote: I am using ccp4mg to get nice graphics for presentations. I have no problems to get movie.gif files for structure rotations. However, when use animation, I ran into a lot problems. I followed the instructions closely and get morph files (pdb format) from the yale.edu

Re: [COOT] Guile library dependencies in Coot

2009-08-16 Thread Paul Emsley
Teemu Ikonen wrote: Hi, I recently compiled Coot-svn (manually) in Ubuntu and was somewhat annoyed by all the Guile library dependencies which are not available as distribution packages. [snip] Teemu and I corresponded off-list. I will try to move Coot toward using less unconventional

[COOT] Old Coot - an apology

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear all, The time is almost upon us for the Old Coot timer to go off in the 0.5 series. When we released 0.5 in Sept last year, I thought that 11 months would be comfortably enough to get 0.6 out. But alas no, there is no new version available. I did consider making a fake 0.5.3, and

Re: [COOT] click on residue get geometry analysis?

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Emsley
Francis E Reyes wrote: Is there a shortcut for this? No. I'm looking for something similar to the analysis you obtain after a real space refine. There is no pre-refinement analysis (i.e. validation). It would be a nice thing. It is on the list (with 3D markup). Paul.

Re: [COOT] Zalman Coot

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Emsley
Coot will only work with Zalman with revision 2134+ Paul. William Scott wrote: I should add that I can only confirm that it works post revision 2134 The latest in fink is 2172. I'll make a new intel stand-alone if that helps. On Aug 5, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Jürgen Bosch wrote: My coot is

Re: [COOT] can't edit DNA chi angles

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Scott Classen wrote: Hello, I'm using coot 0.6-pre release 2172 via fink after selecting a DNA base to edit and selecting the chi angle that I would like to move I get the following errors when I drag the mouse: Urgh. Me too. Sorry about that (wretched chi-angle code). I suspect 0.5.2

Re: [COOT] Coot with stereo LCD on OS X

2009-07-29 Thread Paul Emsley
William G. Scott wrote: The latest PyMOL and Coot both work great in stereo. I would go so far as to say these look as good as they did on my ca. $12K (1999 dollars) SGI R1s with Sony trinatron monitors [...] Wow. That's pretty good. You encourage me to fix the naive stereo rotation.

Re: [COOT] Probe pointer distances using scheme?

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Emsley
Stephen Graham wrote: Hi all, I'd like to add a key binding to toggle the 'Pointer distances' on or off. I have found the scheme command (set-show-pointer-distances istate) which I can use to turn them on/off, but I couldn't find an equivalent (show-pointer-distances) function to get the

Re: [COOT] Syntax of mutate_by_overlap.

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Emsley
Ian Tickle wrote: All - can anyone help me with the syntax of the 'mutate_by_overlap' scripting command. I need to mutate a CYS to a chemically-modified entity that I've called CYD. I made a Refmac dictionary entry for this which I read in it's accepted. I'm using WinCoot so I understand

Re: [COOT] Stop real space refine tools with a keystroke?

2009-07-22 Thread Paul Emsley
Francis E Reyes wrote: Is there anyway to do this? Sometimes (err I mean a lot of times) I'm building into a low res map, trying to real space refine or regularize several residues in a stretch and Coot gets stuck (still iterating but not moving the atoms on screen anymore). Can I press escape

Re: [COOT] Loading monomers (Bug!!)

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Emsley
Frank von Delft wrote: Hi, maybe it's fixed in pre-release, but in our version of coot (v0.5.2): When you load a monomer (e.g. NAP), and coot finds that monomer-NAP.pdb already exists in the working directory, it will simply load that file, rather than generating a new one. This is a

Re: [COOT] nightly pre-release binaries, summary page

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Emsley
Kay Diederichs wrote: Paul Emsley schrieb: As a work-around you can still get your binaries here: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/software/binaries/nightlies/pre-release/ If this is the work-around, then which is the real one? Seeing as you ask, the new real one is/will be here

Re: [COOT] Visualising Probe Dots

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Emsley
Alex Theodossis wrote: Is it possible to change the dot density of the Probe output, when running it through Coot? You mean (i) the dot size? No - not yet. (ii) the dots density? Yes, you can fiddle with arguments to *probe-command* in the probe function in

Re: [COOT] sequence view problem

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Emsley
I saw this myself this morning on my Mac. I don't know what the problem is but I think I can reproduce it. I'll follow this up. Paul. Kay Diederichs wrote: Hi Bernhard, when I do that, the contents of the hollow area of the window changes (but the sequence is still not visible). The

Re: [COOT] sequence view problem

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Emsley
Kay Diederichs wrote: when I do that, the contents of the hollow area of the window changes (but the sequence is still not visible). The changed contents appears to belong to other windows that I sweep across. Thanks, it was a canvas geometry problem when there was only one chain (not

[COOT] nightly pre-release binaries, summary page

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Emsley
Our nightly builds summary page and web server is in a state of disrepair. As a work-around you can still get your binaries here: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/software/binaries/nightlies/pre-release/ Paul.

Re: [COOT] current Spacenavigator support

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Emsley
Murray, Michael (NIH/NIEHS) [F] wrote: Hello all, I am thinking about purchasing a Spacenavigator from 3Dconnexion. I vaguely remember Paul mentioning something about the device in a recent talk but I can't quite remember the context. I was wondering if it was compatible and/or useful with

Re: [COOT] font issue specific to ppc

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Emsley
William Scott wrote: Hi Paul: On ppc but not intel, I get this for some of the window displays (eg density fit analysis): Yes, we (in Oxford) have seen this before on ppc too. We didn't resolve it. I was thinking that it was somehow picking up the wrong fixed font. I tried adding a

Re: [COOT] Mac version of coot

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Emsley
William Scott wrote: I guess I'd better brew something newer up... All the 0.6 are pre-releases ... Yes, indeed (I finger fumbled and posted before I added the sentence to that effect). Paul.

Re: [COOT] Novel maps...

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Emsley
Maia Cherney wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to change residue or atom occupancies in coot? Maia Yes. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/coot/doc/chapters/user-manual_5.html#SEC147

Re: [COOT] to separate levels of positive and negative density

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Emsley
Maia Cherney wrote: If I use a *map_coeffs.mtz file from the phenix.refine, how can I turn off the negative density? ??? Confusing question. By unclicking the is difference map? button (you can't do this in auto-read mode, of course). Paul.

Re: [COOT] Novel maps...

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Emsley
Simon Kolstoe wrote: Dear cootbb, When building into density I use a map generated from the FWT amplitudes column and PHWT phases columns which I think is my 2Fo-Fc, and a second map generated from DELFWT and PHDELWT which I think is my Fo-Fc. Me too (more or less). This keeps me happy

Re: [COOT] crash upon sequence display

2009-06-16 Thread Paul Emsley
Valerie Biou wrote: I run Coot version 0.6-pre-1 on a Macbook Pro. I used the fink installation. It crashes when I ask it to display a sequence ** (coot-real:764): WARNING **: Widget not found: sequence_view_dialog /sw/bin/coot: line 5: 764 Bus error /sw/bin/coot-real $@ I

[COOT] Friday afternoon distraction...

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Emsley
http://thedailywtf.com/ 2009-06-11 (I never get to see that dialog, of course :) (Somehow they've got the mac version of this - apparently they don't fink update-all often enough...) Paul.

Re: [COOT] Coot fails to read numeric chain IDs

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Emsley
Kevin Cowtan wrote: Coot reads files with duplicate atom numbers just fine (at least 0.6pre-latest does). However Coot will ignore any lines beginning ATOM 1? ATOM 2? etc because those are not valid atom records. So that is the reason these are being ignored. Yes, we should say

[COOT] Coot with phenix.refine and buster output

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Bleeding-edge binary [1] Coot users, I would appreciate feedback on the representation of LINKs using the output of Buster and Phenix.refine. (The last time I saw this in action (I don't have such files myself) (and prior to the most recent fixes) it crashed.) Thanks, Paul. [1] rev

Re: [COOT] Coot fails to read numeric chain IDs

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Emsley
Edward Miller wrote: Hey Folks, I'm working on refining a full capsid containing 60 chains. Using the chain ID column, I've numbered my chains A-Z, a-z, and 0-7. I was successfully able to refine my capsid in refmac using this chain ID naming scheme. However, coot fails to read in any of

Re: [COOT] Problem with coot

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Emsley
Oliv Eidam wrote: Hi, I have the same problem like Robert. And although I updated to coot-0.6-pre-1-1941-intel-10.4-10.5.tgz like Bill suggested, the problem (displaying no or wrong bonds) persists. Has this problem been resolved by now? I am using OSX 10.4.11. And source /sw/bin/init.sh

Re: [COOT] symmetry operator generation on COOT

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Emsley
For the record/archive I'd like to conclude this thread. It recognizes the spacegroup as P 1 21/c 1. Is seems that Coot indeed does display symmetry correctly for this spacegroup, but not in the way that other programs (e.g. Mercury or Swiss PDB Viewer) do. coot (show-spacegroup 0) P

Re: [COOT] coot does not read sg info in cns files

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Emsley
Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote: Hi Paul, hi all. I have noticed that coot can't deal with spacegroup information of cns files. I have to substitute this: CRYST1 87.188 49.276 132.627 90.00 108.88 90.00 P 21 with this: CRYST1 87.188 49.276 132.627 90.00 108.88 90.00 P 1 21 1 to have

Re: [COOT] symmetry operator generation on COOT

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Emsley
Hi Jennifer, Doebbler wrote: I am running Coot 0.5.2 on an intel Mac 10.5.6. I am trying to visualize the symmetry related molecules for a small inorganic molecule in spacegroup P 21/C. If I load the file into swiss PDB viewer or Mercury, the symmetry operators show that I have 4

Re: [COOT] Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) subversion build works great now

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Emsley
hari jayaram wrote: Hello Paul and everyone, Since I had complained about difficulties in building coot from subersion on Ubuntu Jaunty , I thought I should write in to say that I tried building the subversion revision 2021 on ubuntu 9.04 from scratch and it builds just fine and everything

[COOT] mouse buttons and arrow keys [was Re: problems of version 0.6]

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Maia, Maia Cherney wrote: I would like to use only one-button keys, so that I could use only one hand when fitting. Why!? Because the other one is needed to prop up your head, maybe? :-) http://linuxoutlaws.com/files/dan-jaunty-party-thumb.jpg I find using my left hand for

Re: [COOT] Scheme on WinCoot (Win XP)

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Alex Luso wrote: Hi Bernhard, Thanks for the clarification. commenting on this. Maybe there should be some low level implementation without the use of fancy (scheme) widgets, so that at least scripts can be run.. (on my - long - list now). Ok, I think that would be a good idea. Given

Re: [COOT] Zinc-density

2009-05-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Moritz Metlitzky wrote: Hi everybody, i just installed coot and played around a bit with my structure and the Fit Protein command. Now to my question, i have a zinc atom in my structure coordinated by 3 cysteines. it refines pretty well, but when i do Fit Protein Coot always links the 3 cys

Re: [COOT] ELFCLASS64

2009-05-11 Thread Paul Emsley
Ed Pozharski wrote: After recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04, coot binaries that worked fine before started reporting the ELFCLASS64 error when loading a particular library, namely /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3.so.3. I understand that the real root of this problem is my bizarre obsession with

Re: [COOT] subversion build on ubuntu 9.04 fails : [: =: unary operator expected error

2009-05-08 Thread Paul Emsley
hari jayaram wrote: Hi ..I tried a coot subversion (revision 1994) built-it-simple python on the newest ubuntu 9.04 The build crashes just after it builds guile and ( 16-coot.txt in the build directory ) reads : checking for Clipper... yes Congratulations, you are using Guile checking for

Re: [COOT] more suggestions - sorry

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Emsley
Dear Eleanor, Eleanor Dodson wrote: 1) The check on GLN and ASN and HIS? for likely hydrogen bonding is very useful. Do you think it would be worth extending this to THR? HIS is not part of the ASN/GLN check. And indeed the ASN/GLN check works by B-factor analysis, not hydrogen bonding.

Re: [COOT] merge water chains

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Emsley
From: Christian Roth christian.r...@bbz.uni-leipzig.de Hi all, I am not sure but If I remember correctly Bernhard mentioned on the last CCP4 study weekend in Nottingham that Coot is able to merge the different water chains, generated through repeated refinement runs, in one. If this

Re: [COOT] problems of version 0.6

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Emsley
Maia Cherney wrote: The general torsion function is not as good as the torsion in old X-fit. Are you or have you ever been a member of the von Delft Pressure Group? In x-fit you click on two atoms of a single bond and you can rotate the rest of the molecule around that bond. This bond can

Re: [COOT] RSR exploding RNA

2009-05-06 Thread Paul Emsley
CK wrote: I think perhaps I should clarify what I've been doing. I've been refining my structure using phenix.refine and had reached a fairly satisfactory point with suitably low R-factors (21/25) and very reasonable RMSDs for bonds and angles. At this point I ran my structure through the

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