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Calculating Bijvoet difference Fourier map
by John Rose 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, I am some what new to PHENIX and using the Mac GUI. I want to compute a Bijvoet difference Fourier map. Any help would be appreciated. John Rose

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autobuild omit map as Fo-Fc
by Ursula Schulze-Gahmen 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

I calculated an omit-map for my model using the following command inpt: phenix.autobuild data=HKL2000+R.mtz model=ptefb_A4_refine_43.pdb omit_region_specification=omit_around_pdb omit_box_pdb_list=G_chain.pdb composite_omit_type=refine_omit maps_only=true I would like to display a 2Fo-Fc and Fo-Fc map but I cannot find the overall_best_refine_map_coeffs.mtz output file that should have these coefficients according to the manual. I only see the overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz file. Can somebody tell how to best get to an omit Fo-Fc or 2Fo-Fc map? Thanks Ursula -- Ursula Schulze-Gahmen, Ph.D. Assistant Researcher UC Berkeley, QB3 356 Stanley Hall #3220 Berkeley, CA 94720-3220

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bins in phenix.refine
by Jianghai Zhu 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi, A colleague asked me a question if phenix.refine can use user-input resolution bins for R and Rfree calculation. I am not sure if such parameters exist. -- Jianghai

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where is the fo-fc omit map?
by Yu, Hongjun 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

hello, It is so good that phenix can caculate sa-omit map so easily. But I am new to this. When I finish caculating, I can only get acess to 2fo-fc map whe I use coot to open the file: resolve_composite_map.mtz . How can I open the fo-fc omit map? I notice this from phenix.autobuild manual page "Note 1: be sure to use the weights in both resolve_composite_map.mtz and omit_region.mtz". I don't understand this because the omit_regin.mtz seem to be the omit box I specify. Is this correlated with my problem? Any advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance! Sincerely, Hongjun

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phenix.get_cc_mtz_pdb but allow for atom selections.
by Francis E Reyes 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

It'd be wonderful to pass in an atom selection (say backbone, or ligand or what have you) into phenix.get_cc_mtz_pdb . Is this functionality available in some other phenix util? Thanks! F --------------------------------------------- Francis E. Reyes M.Sc. 215 UCB University of Colorado at Boulder

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Batch conversion
by Theresa H 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi all How can I use ADXV to batch conversion of diffraction image to tiff format? Would like to put about 20 of them in Powerpoint slides. Thank you. Theresa

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fwd: Reminder: CCP4 summer school at APS, in USA
by Nathaniel Echols 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

FYI, Paul Adams and Tom Terwilliger will both be presenting at this workshop. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sanishvili, Ruslan" <rsanishvili(a)anl.gov> To: "'phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org'" <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org> Cc: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:22:53 -0600 Subject: Reminder: CCP4 summer school at APS, in USA Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline for applications for the 5th annual CCP4 Summer School “From data collection to structure refinement and beyond” is April 17, 2012. The school will take place from June 19 through June 26, 2012 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) near Chicago. There is no registration fee for the school. The students will be responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses. These and other details (The program, the list of speakers, the application process, accommodations, site access, contacts etc) can be found at the workshop website at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2012/index.php The school will include data collection, processing, structure solution, model building, refinement, validation, automation of many steps etc. Participants are encouraged to bring their own crystals, raw data or processed data for hands-on problem solving under the guidance of software developers and other experts. Garib, Ronan and Nukri Ruslan Sanishvili (Nukri), Ph.D. GM/CA-CAT Biosciences Division, ANL 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 Tel: (630)252-0665 Fax: (630)252-0667 rsanishvili(a)anl.gov ________________________________ From: Sanishvili, Ruslan Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:39 AM To: 'phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org' Subject: Annual CCP4 summer school in USA, at APS, June 19-26 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the fifth annual CCP4 summer school at Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). All details can be found at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2012/ Title: "CCP4 school: From data collection to structure refinement and beyond" Dates: June 19 to 26. Site: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (Near Chicago), USA The school content: Data collection workshop the first two days: beamline training and data collection on GM/CA-CAT beamlines 23ID-B and 23ID-D. For data collection, only the participants' crystals will be used. Software workshop: The rest of the time after data collection will feature many modern crystallographic software packages taught by authors and other experts. It will be organized in three Sections – lectures, tutorials and hands-on trouble-shooting. There will be model data sets available for tutorials but data, provided by participants, will have higher priority for the hands-on sessions. Applicants: Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists at the assistant professor level are encouraged to apply. Only 20 applicants will be selected for participation. Participants of the workshop are strongly encouraged to bring their own problem data sets or crystals so the problems can be addressed during data collection workshop and/or hands-on sessions. Application: Application deadline is April 17. The application form, the program, contact info and other details can be found at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2012/ Fees: There is no fee for the workshop. The students will be responsible for their transportation and lodging. The workshop organizers will arrange economical lodging at the Argonne Guest House. The workshop will also cover the expenses for all meals and refreshments. Garib, Ronan and Nukri Ruslan Sanishvili (Nukri), Ph.D. GM/CA-CAT Biosciences Division, ANL 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 Tel: (630)252-0665 Fax: (630)252-0667 rsanishvili(a)anl.gov

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xtriage output
by wtempel 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hello, this question is about the summary of xtriage output. I submitted merged scalepack intensity in space group P3. From scaling, the apparent point group is P622. H-tests for all three applicable twin laws indicate twin ratios around 45%. Does this merely indicate underestimated symmetry? STDOUT ends with this nugget: <stdout> The results of the L-test indicate that the intensity statistics Show more centric character than is expected for acentric data. </stdout> My questions: 1. What if anything should I infer about twinning from this last sentence? 2. What other data defects could this sentence indicate? Many thanks, Wolfram Tempel

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DEN refinement under phenix
by Melania Strycharska 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi All, I was wondering whether anybody has successfully run the DEN refinement under phenix yet. I am having some problems with my scripts stalling without any error messages. What sort of reference models do people use? The following issues I am not quite clear on: - if I don't have a reference model should I call on my current pdb where the script calls for a reference model? - is it ok to use a single domain as a reference model or is it not enough to get the whole protein refined? - is it possible to use more than one reference model; in a case where I had structures of each domain solved separately? - can a reference model be a different protein or does it have to have the same sequence? Thanks a lot!

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Rfree refuse to come down
by #HEW KAI LI KELLY# 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

HI, I have a few questions about a dataset that I am working on currently. So I ran Xtraige and it tells me that other than pseudoNCS, there is no other problems like twinning etc. And then I used autoMR and Phaser from Phenix to run molecular replacement with a the structure of the same protein (but that is with DNA bound). The TFZ is more than 9 after from both the runs. Autobuild managed to build the 4 molecules in my ASU (Rfactor/Rfree = 28/32 for a resolution of 2.4A). But because there are some clashes and outliers in the Ramachandran Plot etc, I started to manually refine them in coot. In addition, there is a loop that is unable to fit into the density, so I chopped about 10 residues off each molecule in the ASU. However, as I started to refine the model from AutoBuild, my Rfree begins to climb. So currently, I am at Rfactor/Rfree=27/36. I don't know if there is anything wrong with I had done. So many thanks in advance for your advices on this!! Warmest Regards, Kelly Hew Nanyang Technogical University School of Biological Sciences Division of Structural Biology & Biochemistry Address : #07-01, IMCB, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673 Telephone (O): +65 65869673 Telephone (HP): +65 98713553

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