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Phenix Dock & Rebuild Python Error
by Nicholas Clark 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hi all, I'm trying to run Phenix Dock & Rebuild on a Mac (Venture 13.6.7) but I keep getting a NameError in Python that "DESKTOP_TYPE" is not defined. Does anyone have a quick way to fix this? Can I edit the code directly in that line to explicitly state that I'm on a mac or is this a variable that should be set directly in the base Python installation? Below is the entirety of the error message: NameError : global name 'DESKTOP_TYPE' is not defined Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Runtime.py", line 224, in OnComplete self.handle_complete_event(event) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Templates.py", line 491, in handle_complete_event self.add_result_panel(result) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Templates.py", line 512, in add_result_panel params=self.params) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Templates.py", line 980, in __init__ JobOutputPanel.__init__(self, parent) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Windows.py", line 551, in __init__ WidgetArea.__init__(self, parent) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Windows.py", line 512, in __init__ self.DisplayWidgets() File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Programs/DockAndRebuild.py", line 112, in DisplayWidgets if (DESKTOP_TYPE in ['mac', 'kde', 'gnome']): NameError: global name 'DESKTOP_TYPE' is not defined Thanks! Best regards, Nick Clark

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sub-unitary occupancy group restraints sum
by Kreitler, Dale 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi, For refining an x-ray structure which has a ligand bound with multiple poses modeled as alternate confirmations, is there a way in phenix refine to maintain that the occupancy of each conformation is equal while allowing the sum total occupancy to vary (rather than equal 1)? I realize the [0,1] min/max occupancy values are adjustable parameters -- my interpretation of the docs is that this is not possible, but I thought it'd be worth asking. An example might be a ligand bound with partial occupancy near a rotational symmetry axis. Thank you, Dale ============================= Dale Kreitler AMX Beamline Scientist National Synchrotron Light Source II Building 745, Rm. 5L143 Upton, NY 11973 631-344-7318

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CBMS Structural Biology Workbench - May 27 through 30, 2025 - registration deadline April 15
by Stojanoff, Vivian 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, The CBMS Structural Biology Workbench will take place May 27 through 30, 2025. The first two days, May 27 and 28, are dedicated to MX and the following days May 29 and 30 to Solution Scattering and X-ray Footprintig. This is an IN-PERSON workshop. DEADLINE to REGISTER APRIL 15 https://www.bnl.gov/cbmsworkbench/ PROGRAM Macromolecular Crystallography May 27 - MX data collection on participants samples and pre-analysis May 28 - Phenix workshop "The Phenix workshop will focus on crystallographic refinement using phenix.refine. The first lecture will introduce major features and best practices of reciprocal space refinement, followed by a basic tutorial demonstrating how to run phenix.refine with default options. The second lecture will cover strategies for low-resolution refinement, including the use of secondary structure restraints and reference models. Participants who so desire will have the opportunity to work on their own data with Phenix developers available to answer questions—on phenix.refine or any other Phenix tools in the afternoon. Solution Scattering - SAXS & Xray Footprinting - XFP May 29 - Introduction to SAXS & LIX; Data collection on participants samples May 30 morning - SAXS data analysis software May 30 afternoon - Introduction to XFP and hands-on tutorial Questions can be directed to Vivian Stojanoff (stojanof(a)bnl.gov). ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?…>

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Re: phenixbb Digest, Vol 232, Issue 13 (out of office)
by Elisabeth Laurent 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Thank you for your e-mail. I am out of office until April 23rd, 2025. I will respond to your e-mail as soon as possible upon my return. For urgent matters please contact: bmca(a)boku.ac.at Thank you for your understanding. With kind regards, Elisabeth Laurent >>> <phenixbb-request(a)phenix-online.org> 13.4.25 20:51 >>> Send phenixbb mailing list submissions to phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to phenixbb-request(a)phenix-online.org You can reach the person managing the list at phenixbb-owner(a)phenix-online.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of phenixbb digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Question about geometry outliers in RealSpaceRefine (Pavel Afonine) 2. Re: DEN restraints and ECHT disorder models (Tom Burnley - STFC UKRI) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:47:11 -0700 From: Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> Subject: [phenixbb] Re: Question about geometry outliers in RealSpaceRefine To: Kevin M Jude <kjude(a)stanford.edu>, "phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org" <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org> Message-ID: <7968370b-7470-4fe4-aaf1-052661202ef9(a)lbl.gov> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------YozFq5Oyt0xmhpmEfOqMdIo0" Hi Kevin, could you please send me the file (off list)? Thanks! Pavel On 4/11/25 09:34, Kevin M Jude wrote: > > After a recent RealSpaceRefine run, the Geometry Restraints tab in the > gui reports that I have two bond angle outliers > 4 sigma, but only > lists one of them: > > D 180 MET N, D 180 MET CA, D 180 MET CB 114.170 109.342 4.2 > > So I check the logfile for the job and see: > > Bond angle restraints: 12582 > > Sorted by residual: > > angle pdb=" N MET D 180 " > > pdb=" CA MET D 180 " > > pdb=" CB MET D 180 " > > ideal model delta sigma weight residual > > 114.17 109.34 4.83 1.14e+00 7.69e-01 1.79e+01 > > angle pdb=" CA LEU B 79 " > > pdb=" CB LEU B 79 " > > pdb=" CG LEU B 79 " > > ideal model delta sigma weight residual > > 116.30 127.81 -11.51 3.50e+00 8.16e-02 1.08e+01 > > angle pdb=" C ASP B 333 " > > pdb=" N SER B 334 " > > pdb=" CA SER B 334 " > > ideal model delta sigma weight residual > > 122.74 127.19 -4.45 1.44e+00 4.82e-01 9.54e+00 > > angle pdb=" C GLN D 167 " > > pdb=" N ARG D 168 " > > pdb=" CA ARG D 168 " > > ideal model delta sigma weight residual > > 121.48 126.80 -5.32 2.04e+00 2.40e-01 6.80e+00 > > angle pdb=" C ASP B 163 " > > pdb=" N THR B 164 " > > pdb=" CA THR B 164 " > > ideal model delta sigma weight residual > > 123.47 127.30 -3.83 1.53e+00 4.27e-01 6.27e+00 > > ValidationCryoEM returns identical results except the gui says only > one > 4-sigma outlier (at //D/Met180/). PDB Validation reports only > the outlier at //B/Leu79/, which does have the largest sigma in the > above log. > > My questions are: > > 1. Why does the gui report two 4-sigma outliers but only show one? > 2. Why do the sigmas in the log file not correspond to the sigmas in > the gui? > > Best wishes > > Kevin > > -- > > Kevin Jude, PhD > > Structural Biology Research Specialist, Garcia Lab > > Howard Hughes Medical Institute > > Stanford University School of Medicine > > Beckman B177, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford CA 94305 > > > _______________________________________________ > phenixbb mailing list --phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org > To unsubscribe send an email tophenixbb-leave(a)phenix-online.org > Unsubscribe: phenixbb-leave@%(host_name)s

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Differential density peaks and hydrophobic residues
by Lucas Souza 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

Hi everyone, I am refining a ~3A structure using phenix 1.21.2-5419. I am at the final stages of the refinement but I am seeing some positive density on some hydrophobic residues (mainly Ile and Leu) together with a negative density around those residues (image attached). At first, I guessed that might be related to solvent mask, so I turned on optimize_mask. That did not solve the issue, although slightly decreased R values. Diffraction data was processed with autoproc+staraniso and does not seem to be twinned (normal intensity stats + map deteriorates if twinning refinement is applied). Does anyone have a guess about that? Best, Lucas -- Lucas Souza dos Santos Laboratório de Biologia Estrutural Aplicada (LBEA) Departamento de Microbiologia Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas II - USP Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP CEP 05508-000

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CBMS Structural Biology Workbench - May 27 through 30, 2025 - registration deadline approaching
by Stojanoff, Vivian 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, The CBMS Structural Biology Workbench will take place May 27 through 30, 2025. The first two days, May 27 and 28, are dedicated to MX and the following days May 29 and 30 to Solution Scattering and X-ray Footprintig. This is an IN-PERSON workshop. DEADLINE to REGISTER APRIL 15 https://www.bnl.gov/cbmsworkbench/ PROGRAM Macromolecular Crystallography May 27 - MX data collection on participants samples and pre-analysis May 28 - Phenix workshop "The Phenix workshop will focus on crystallographic refinement using phenix.refine. The first lecture will introduce major features and best practices of reciprocal space refinement, followed by a basic tutorial demonstrating how to run phenix.refine with default options. The second lecture will cover strategies for low-resolution refinement, including the use of secondary structure restraints and reference models. Participants who so desire will have the opportunity to work on their own data with Phenix developers available to answer questions—on phenix.refine or any other Phenix tools in the afternoon. Solution Scattering - SAXS & Xray Footprinting - XFP May 29 - Introduction to SAXS & LIX; Data collection on participants samples May 30 morning - SAXS data analysis software May 30 afternoon - Introduction to XFP and hands-on tutorial Questions can be directed to Vivian Stojanoff (stojanof(a)bnl.gov).

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IBA2025 - May 5&6 2025 - Cambridge MA
by Chip Lesburg 30 Mar '25

30 Mar '25

The Industrial Biostructures America conference will take place on May 5 & 6, 2025 at the MassBioHub in Cambridge MA. The conference was launched in 2018 to bring the industry-based structural biology community together for two days of presentations and networking. This is a great place for industrial structural biologists, as well as those who are industry-curious. The conference will feature keynote presentations by: * Dr. Stephen K. Burley, Director RCSB Protein Data Bank and Rutgers University Professor * Dr. James Fraser, Professor and Chair Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutics Sciences at UCSF * Dr. Stephen Harrison, Professor Harvard Medical School/Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute * Dr. Mark Murcko, Founding CSO/Board Member at Dewpoint Therapeutics and Relay Therapeutics Conference information is available at https://industrialbiostructuresamerica.org along with guidelines for submitting abstracts for scientific presentations during the conference. Scientific sessions will cover the following topics: * Structural Biology of Targeted Protein Degradation: Glues, TCs & DUBs * Developing Fragments to Drugs: Challenges & Victories * Molecular Dynamics and Allostery - Bridging Experimental and Computational Drug Discovery * Membrane Protein Structure Guided Design * CryoEM Synergies with Molecular Modeling and Computational Models * Biologics (Antibody Design & ADCs) * AI/ML in Structural Biology and Drug Discovery * Hot Topics (SBDD, Kinases, RNA) The abstract deadline is April 1. Space is limited so if you're interested, please register soon. Contact us at iba(a)proteros.com<mailto:[email protected]> for information regarding Exhibitor and Sponsor opportunities [cid:logo_c70edd4a-e7f0-4d54-be6f-d03f53f0c961.png] Charles Lesburg Vice President, Structural Biology odysseytx.com<https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https:/odysseytx.com/___.YzJ1Om9keXNzZ…> This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. ODYSSEY THERAPEUTICS, INC. ("ODYSSEY THERAPEUTICS") reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. ODYSSEY THERAPEUTICS cannot be committed by this e-mail or warrant the accuracy or validity of any information presented. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender.

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can not launch phenix gui
by lzhlizehou＠outlook.com 29 Mar '25

29 Mar '25

Dears, I am using Ubuntu 24.04 and have successfully installed phenix-1.21.2-5419. However, when I attempt to launch the GUI by running the phenix command, it fails with the following error: Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 961, in _excepthook Error.show_exception_dialog(type, value, traceback) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Error.py", line 76, in show_exception_dialog if (app.bug_timer.IsRunning() is False): AttributeError: 'PhenixApp' object has no attribute 'bug_timer' Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 34, in <module> run(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 28, in run wxapp = App.PhenixApp(args) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 84, in __init__ wx.App.__init__(self, 0) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8628, in __init__ self._BootstrapApp() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8196, in _BootstrapApp return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 118, in OnInit show_splash_screen(timeout=2000) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 1015, in show_splash_screen dlg,-1,citations.format_citation(citations.citations_db.get("phenix"))) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21.2-5419/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_controls.py", line 997, in __init__ _controls_.StaticText_swiginit(self,_controls_.new_StaticText(*args, **kwargs)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128) Could you kindly advise on how to resolve this issue? I would greatly appreciate your assistance. Looking forward to your reply. Best regards Li

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Call for Abstracts - Combining experimental data with predicted models - Session at the ACA Meeting, July 18-23, 2025
by Christopher Williams 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Dear All, Rakhi Rajan and I are co-chairing the session "Combining experimental data with predicted models for structure determination" session at the 75th American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Lombard, IL (near Chicago) from July 18–23, 2025. It's a great meeting, and we encourage both general attendance and submissions for our session. We welcome abstract submissions for both talks and posters. If you're interested, please submit your abstract at https://www.acameeting2025.com/. Deadlines are fast approaching: March 31 – Deadline for oral abstracts & travel grant applications April 30 – Deadline for poster abstracts We invite contributions of novel methods and pipelines for combining prediction and experiment. We also invite stories of working with predictions and data. Have you gotten into the weeds with AlphaFold? Has structure prediction let you better design an experiment? Or has experimental data revealed an important detail missing from prediction? We want to hear about it! If you're interested in sponsoring our session, please reach out as well. -Christopher Williams ---Richardson Lab, Duke University -Rakhi Rajan ---University of Oklahoma

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phenix low resolution refinement strategies
by a131943017＠163.com 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Hi, how do I set the optimization parameters to make free R lower for 3.2Å x-ray crystallography data, or in other words, how do I go about determining whether the optimization strategy is appropriate or not? Questions from a Phenix Beginner.

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