May 2011 - phenixbb - phenix-online.org

Iterative build composite omit hanging
by José Trincão 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hello, I tried to run an iterative build composite omit for my protein - P1, 1350 residues/monomer, 4 molecules in the A.U.. After about 1.5 weeks running almost all was done except one omit region which was stuck. I had two processes running indefinitely (reduce and python) with no output. I tried to rerun that region alone but it gets stuck also with reduce producing no output. What should I do to get the complete map (I am going to merge all the other regions together, but would like to know why this particular one is problematic). 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

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isotropic
by ChenTiantian 30 May '11

30 May '11

-- Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences Address: Room 101, 646 Songtao Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 201203, P.R. China

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sigmaA-weigted 2FoFc maps by only mtz file
by zhangh1＠umbc.edu 28 May '11

28 May '11

Hi, If I only provide a mtz file with Fo, Fc and phase data, and do NOT have the pdb file, can any phenix utility calculate the sigmaA-weigted 2FoFc maps? Thanks! Hailaing

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SA omit map for ligand
by Tjaard Pijning 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi, I am trying to make an SA-omit Fo-Fc map for a sugar ligand (chain B) bound to protein (structure solved by MR), without doing any rebuilding of protein or ligand – just calculate an Fo-Fc map that I can load into PyMol. So far I used the AutoBuild – Create omit map module with these settings : - input files : model (protein+ligand+waters), data (.mtz), restraints for sugar ligand (.cif) - omit map type : simulated annealing - omit region : omit selection - omit map options : keep input waters, omit chain list : omit_chain_list chainB However, the ligand gets modified even though I use “omit_chain_list chainB”. What are the parameters to set to keep the model (protein, ligand, waters) from being rebuilt ? Furthermore, what is the procedure to load the SA Fo-Fc omit map into pymol ? Phenix version is 1.6.4-486. Thanks in advance, Tjaard Ing. Tjaard Pijning Research Assistant Protein Crystallography Group Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands (31)(0)50 363 43 85

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get_cc_mtz_pdb results
by Jerome Nwachukwu 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi: I am using get_cc_mtz_pdb to compare some structural models and found differences in overall CC around ~0.0056 and local CC around 0.0033. How much difference in local and overall CC values between two models is generally considered significant? Thank you, -Jerome Jerome C. Nwachukwu, PhD Dept. of Cancer Biology The Scripps Research Institute-Florida 130 Scripps Way, 2C1 Jupiter, FL 33458

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a new PDB clustering tool available in phenix from nightly build dev-756
by Francois Berenger 27 May '11

27 May '11

Dear Phenix users, Starting from the nightly build dev-756, a new clustering tool called DURANDAL is included in Phenix. It performs exact clustering of proteins in PDB format, fast. It is primarily aimed at people working in protein structure prediction and having to deal with a lot of protein models. The correspondence used to compute CARMSD for a pair of proteins is 1 to 1. If two proteins A and B are to be optimally superposed, both PDB files (A.pdb and B.pdb) must have the same numbers of alpha carbons. The first alpha carbon in A.pdb will be matched to the first alpha carbon in B.pdb, and so on. Clustering up to 20,000 PDB files should work on most machines. Workstations with a lot of memory will be able to cluster even more files. Examples: --------- * to perform exact clustering using a fixed cutoff value of 3.0 Angstroms: durandal.cluster_pdbs -i [file_containing_one_PDB_filename_per_line]\ -d 3.0 -o out -s -v * there is also another tool included, to compute CARMSD of many files versus a reference one (the first in the list is considered the reference): durandal.rank_pdbs [file_containing_one_PDB_filename_per_line] If you want to know more about how the software is working, you can have a look at http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/7/939 Don't hesitate to ask if you encounter any problem while using the software. Best regards, Francois Berenger.

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ADP refinement
by Christian Roth 26 May '11

26 May '11

Dear all, I am sorry for this very stupid question, but I probably overlooked the relevant text in the documentation. I requested the refinement of a heavy atom (chloride) with anisotropic ADP. In the log than isotropic refined ADP were set for 0 atoms. I guess I have to define all other chains as isotropic. Is that right. I have a lot of chains, it would be possible but a pain (more than 40 chains). Is there a something like refine anisotropic chain x and all others isotropic? Thanks and best Regards Christian

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Quick PHENIX install question
by Yuri 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hello PHENIXers, I just got a computer with Red Hat workstation 5 running 64-bit architecture. Which build should I install? Thank you -- Yuri Pompeu

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Equations of transformation
by Hena Dutta 26 May '11

26 May '11

Dear Members, Sorry, if my question is out of the field. I want to know the mathematical relations between 2 sets of co-ordinates, one before and one after the rotation. I used COOT to rotate the side chain (containing atoms N1, C2, N3, C4, C5, C6, N6, N7 and C8) of Adenine by 180 degree about the glycosidic bond (C1’-N9). How the initial co-ordinates (Xi, Yi, Zi) and final co-ordinates (Xf, Yf, Zf) are mathematically related? I shall be very grateful if someone can tell me the equations. Regards... Hena

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Refining sucrose
by Priit Eek 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hi, I couldn't find this (probably basic knowledge) in the manual or here, so... I have a problem with refining a sucrose ligand. It is not covalently bound to the protein – just electrostatic interaction. The density isn't the best, but it's still obvious it must be there. LigandFit can find the blob and fits the sucrose in there quite well, but when I run phenix.refine it distorts the geometry of the molecule and complains about it later in MolProbity - Basic Geometry validation in almost every possible way. How can I apply more stringent restraints to the ligand so its geometry wouldn't get so twisted? This might not be the most appropriate list for my second question, but the problem is the same and somebody probably knows: how to manually modify that sucrose in Coot (eg rotate only one ring or a -CH2OH group) or perform real space refinement? Right now I can only rotate/translate the whole sucrose and trying to perform a real space refinement results in an error ("Failed to match (to the dictionary) the following model atom names: SUC C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 O1 O2 O3 O4 O6. That would cause exploding atoms, so the refinement didn't start.") I haven't specified any custom cif libraries as SUC should be present in the built-in library of both Phenix and Coot. I'm using Phenix v1.7.1-743 and Coot v0.6.2-pre-1-rev3450 on OS X 10.6.7. Thank you in advance! Regards, Priit Eek

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