February 2009 - phenixbb - phenix-online.org

phenix.refine GUI freezes when using Coot or Pymol
by Derek Logan 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi, I've been using the phenix.refine GUI for a few days now and find it a very valuable addition. However I notice that when I choose to display the results of refinement in Pymol or Coot, it freezes the GUI until I exit the chosen graphics program. Is this a bug or a feature? If nothing else, it makes it hard to analyse the MolProbity results in Coot. I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.6. Thanks Derek __________________________________________________________________ Derek Logan tel: +46 46 222 1443 Associate Professor fax: +46 46 222 4692 Molecular Biophysics mob: +46 76 8585 707 Centre for Molecular Protein Science Lund University, Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden

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Re: [phenixbb] individual plus group adp's
by Pavel Afonine 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi Emmanuel, why don't you just do combined TLS + individual ADP refinement, which is the best option in most of cases? Anyway, here is the answer to your question. If you are running phenix.refine from the command line, the following command phenix.refine model.pdb data.hkl params.txt where the file "params.txt" contains these lines refinement.refine { strategy = *individual_sites rigid_body *individual_adp *group_adp tls \ *occupancies group_anomalous adp { individual { isotropic = chain A or chain B } group_adp_refinement_mode = one_adp_group_per_residue \ two_adp_groups_per_residue *group_selection group = chain C } } will refine: - individual coordinates for all atoms; - individual isotropic B-factors for all atoms in chain A and B; - group B-factor for chain C (one B-factors per whole chain C); - occupancies for all atoms in alternative conformations (if any present in your structure). Also should be able to do this using phenix.refine GUI. Please let me know if you have any questions! Pavel. On 2/17/2009 7:47 AM, Manolis Saridakis wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > I have a question that I guess has a simple answer which however I haven't been able to > find in the manual. I am using phenix.refine version 1.4. > > My model has 3 chains + solvent and I would like to refine individual adp's for > everything except one of the chains, for which I would like to keep a group adp > refinement option. > > My attempts have failed so far: depending on what exactly I do (which I guess there is > no point detailing here), I am either refining my other chains as groups too (i.e. the > same number is added to all adp's of the chain) or nothing stays grouped. However, in > the manual it does say if I am not mistaken that one can do what I want (but there is > no example of that situation). > > Many thanks for your help! > > Best wishes, > > Emmanuel Saridakis > >

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LINK records, sugars, and a question in two parts
by Engin Ozkan 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi everyone, I was wondering if phenix.refine does or does not write out LINK records in the output pdb. Also, are carbohydrate groups written out as ATOM or HETATMs? The reason I am asking is that I was trying to use a sugar group geometry/naming validation tool called pdbcare (at glycosciences.de), and the program is failing to read out the sugar groups from the pdb. One reason I can see is that the sugars are written out with ATOM cards, while the program possibly expects HETATM, and the other is that this program might be looking for LINK cards (These pdb files were written put by phenix 1.3rc6, so maybe if I rerefined them with 1.4.3, I might get a different result). By the way, I can get these files to be read properly by pdb2linucs at the same webpage (after telling it to use both ATOM and HETATM, and telling it to calculate linkages itself). If there is anyone out there who has used the pdbcare successfully on phenix.refine pdb files, please let me know. It would also be great to add carbohydrate validation tools to the army of great modules in phenix (such as phenix.xtriage and phenix.ramalyze). Engin

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phenix.automr ensemble/component question
by Scott Classen 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi Phenixers, I'm a bit confused about the proper syntax for my phenix.automr job. This is probably a simple concept, but I'm running on 3 hours of sleep as my kid was up all night, and my synapses aren't working so good. I expect 2 copies of my protein per AU My protein is composed of two domains I have a single PDB search model for each domain is either of these commands correct? phenix.automr data=mydata.sca \ ensemble_1.coords=domain1.pdb \ ensemble_1.identity=95 \ ensemble_1.copies_to_find=2 \ component_1.mass=40579 \ component_1.component_copies=2 \ ensemble_2.coords=domain2.pdb \ ensemble_2.identity=95 \ ensemble_2.copies_to_find=2 \ component_2.mass=13410 \ component_2.component_copies=2 or phenix.automr data=mydata.sca \ ensemble_1.coords=domain1.pdb \ ensemble_1.identity=95 \ ensemble_1.copies_to_find=1 \ component_1.mass=40579 \ component_1.component_copies=2 \ ensemble_2.coords=domain2.pdb \ ensemble_2.identity=95 \ ensemble_2.copies_to_find=1 \ component_2.mass=13410 \ component_2.component_copies=2 essentially I'm not really using an ensemble of search models, I only have a single PDB for each domain. So should ensemble_1.copies_to_find and ensemble_2.copies_to_find be set to 1 or 2? Thanks, Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scott Classen, Ph.D. SIBYLS Beamline 12.3.1 http://bl1231.als.lbl.gov Advanced Light Source Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Rd MS6R2100 Berkeley, CA 94720 C) 510.206.4418 O) 510.495.2697 Beamline) 510.495.2134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Error
by Knapp, Mark 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

This occurs when running phenix.refine_gui with twin mode turned on. A Python error was detected. This is almost certainly a bug; please send an email containing this message to phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org so we can fix it. Thanks! TypeError : float argument required, not NoneType Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/protos/package/strucbio/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Refine.py", line 269, in OnUpdate self.notebook.run_tab.OnStatsUpdate(event) File "/protos/package/strucbio/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/RefineNotebook.py", line 277, in OnStatsUpdate self.xyzerr_val.SetLabel("%.2f" % f_info.ml_coordinate_error) TypeError: float argument required, not NoneType Mark Knapp Structural Chemistry NIBR 4560 Horton Street M/S 4.4 Emeryville, CA 94608 510-923-6926

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wx._core.PyDeadObjectError?
by TC Hu 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Dear all, I got the "wx._core.PyDeadObjectError" when using Phenix 1.4-3 GUI under OS X 10.5.6 for a SAD run. The program stuck at the blue window after the first step of AutoSol. Attached is the log file. Could anyone help me find out what is wrong? Thanks very much in advance! Cheers, Tiancen Hu Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica Chinese Academy of Sciences " PHENIX distribution located in /usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix Project Details Project Name: phenix2 Date Stamp : Thu Feb 12 01:08:25 2009 Machine : htcdemacbook-pro.local Directory : /Users/htc/xtal/subjects/cd147se/phenix2 PDS Server Details User : htc Machine : 192.168.1.3 Directory : /Users/htc/xtal/subjects/cd147se/phenix2 Port : 47702 PID : 4863 WIZARD: AutoSol ************************************************************ PHENIX AutoSol Thu Feb 12 01:19:23 2009 ************************************************************ PHENIX VERSION: 1.4 of 08-12-2008 PHENIX RELEASE_TAG : 3 PHENIX MTYPE : mac-intel-osx PHENIX MVERSION : osx-10.5.6 LOCAL INIT: Readdatabase: True SetUpInputs: True AutoSol Thu Feb 12 01:19:23 2009 Gathering defaults from ['AutoBuild', 'ImportRawData', 'LigandFit', 'AutoMR'] WORKDIR: /Users/htc/xtal/subjects/cd147se/phenix2 Checking for KnownWizards: ['AutoSol', 'AutoBuild', 'ImportRawData'] Running start first time through Setting default value of 2.5 for resolution Setting default value of 0.5 for solvent_fraction Setting default value of 200 for residues Guessing sequence file is cd147_21a.seq application method: AutoSol_start Getting inputs on first pass... SUMMARY Input files dataset #1 amom360_p41212_31A.sca Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 522, in OnGoButton try: self.parent.OnGo() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/Dialogs.py", line 470, in OnGo gp.RunStrategy() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/BMPTaskCanvas.py", line 1170, in RunStrategy self.RunRemotely() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/BMPTaskCanvas.py", line 1380, in RunRemotely remote = frame.RemoteHostName, File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/phenix/pds_server/StrategyUtils.py", line 124, in RunStrategy LastStrategy File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/phenix/server/PhenixClient.py", line 87, in StartProcessMaster return self._remote_call('StartProcessMaster',arg,kw) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/phenix/server/PhenixClient.py", line 466, in _remote_call raise result AssertionError: No user for ssh to machine 192.168.1.3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 892, in OnTableKillFocus self.OnTableTextEnter(event) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 861, in OnTableTextEnter (grid, cbox, ctrl, t_param, ir, ic) = self.get_event_table(event) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 1204, in get_event_table (ctrl, group_list, key_list, winszr) = self.get_ctrl_context(evtwin) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 1173, in get_ctrl_context result = self.RootWinSzr.FindInParentSizer(ctrl) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 159, in FindInParentSizer result = child.FindInParentSizer(window, child_groups, child_keys) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI/wxtask.py", line 143, in FindInParentSizer if (child.GetId() == SearchWinId): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/build/mac-intel-osx/base/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-ansi/wx/_core.py", line 14522, in __getattr__ raise PyDeadObjectError(self.attrStr % self._name) wx._core.PyDeadObjectError: The C++ part of the Panel object has been deleted, attribute access no longer allowed. "

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Constrained occ refinement -- sum not equal 1
by Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi, I am trying to sort out some issues with the constrained occupancy refinement in phenix 1.4.3. The structure I am working on is fairly high resolution ~1.4A and it looks as if a couple of the alternative conformations would benefit from occupancy refinement, no hydrogens are present yet. I defined the constrained groups like this: occupancies { individual = None remove_selection = None constrained_group { selection = chain A and resid 66 and altid A selection = chain A and resid 66 and altid B } .... I expected that the sum of occupancies would be restrained to 1, which they should according to the manual, but the refinement gives me occupancies of 0.7 for altid A and 0.34 for altid B, starting values were both 0.5. Similar discrepancies were also present in other groups, like 0.5 A, 0.37 B etc. The latter is the largest deviation from 1 I have seen in thus far. The alternate conformations were generated in coot, by splitting at the CA position. Is this a rounding error I just have to contend with or is there some other parameter I need to tweak? Cheers, Carsten

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phenix.ready_set and SS bond
by dziuba＠amu.edu.pl 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Hi, Is it possible to prevent phenix.ready_set (or actually phenix.reduce) from . adding hydrogen atoms to Cys SG atoms if they are involved in disulphide bonds? Karolina

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phenix.superpose_pdbs_1.4
by David Garboczi 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

The default unit cell and symmetry for the "fitted" model (the one that was moved) is the unit cell and symmetry of the "fixed" pdb. As I am superimposing the same model from several space groups to study the differences in packing, I need the "fitted" pdb to keep its own unit cell and symmetry. How might I do this? When is the current default of altering the unit cell and symmetry of the moving model useful? thanks, Dave --

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TLS in phenix.refine_gui
by Miles Pufall 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi Guys - Is there a way to load the TLS groups, generated so kindly by TLSMD in old phenix format, into the new gui? It would save a lot of typing. Thanks! Miles Miles Pufall Postdoctoral Scholar Yamamoto Lab UC San Francisco Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Mail Stop 2280 600 16th Street, Genentech Hall S-574 San Francisco, California 94158-2517 (415)476-4480

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