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5th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology (ISDSB2016)
by Leighton Coates 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi All On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to announce the “5th International Symposium on Diffraction Structural Biology” (ISDSB2016). The Symposium will take place on Sunday, August 7, 2016 through Wednesday, August 10, 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. This symposium will report on the latest discoveries in structural biology using X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction, and complementary techniques such as small-angle scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and advanced computational approaches. Scientific insights at the molecular level allow structure guided drug discovery and protein engineering for improved biocatalysis. This basic research is important for supporting applications in the pharmaceutical industry and for new, sustainable, and environmentally friendly approaches to the production of chemical reagents and biofuels. Session topics include: Bioenergy Drug Design Enzyme Mechanism and Allostery Macromolecular Complexes Membranes and Membrane Proteins New Instruments and Methods Sources and Facilities A list of confirmed, invited speakers can be found on the conference web pages. The Symposium will be accompanied by two optional 1-day workshops on August 6, focused on Neutron Protein Crystallography and on Small-Angle Scattering, respectively. Please visit the conference website for further information: https://conference.sns.gov/event/2/ Thanks Leighton

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Command line version of Reflection_file _editor
by Rahel Woldeyes 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has implemented command line compatible version of phenix.reflection_file_editor . Thanks! Rahel

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Command line version of Reflection_file _editor
by Rahel Woldeyes 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has implemented command line compatible version of phenix.reflection_file_editor . Thanks!

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Simulated annealing composite omit map
by Appu kumar 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hello All, I am trying to make the simulated annealing composite omit map for a protein ligand complex at 4.37A resolution. I think, Simulated annealing is harsh and rendering the protein distorting a lot as is evident from the helix turning into the some random structure. In order to avoid this protein distortion in protein backbone, do I need to fix some weight or specific parameter or provide reference structure and put harsh weight ? Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated. Appu

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Phaser-EP log file
by Nishant Pandey 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Hi,I have a confusion regarding solving iodine SAD-data in Phaser-EP.1. GUI result shows Log-likelihood gain: 115037.70 and FOM: 0.527. But in log file SAD Refinement Table (Sorted) ----------------------------- SET SpaceGroup FOM Log-Likelihood Rfac Composition I # 1 P 21 21 2 0.53 -115038 69.4 23 Why there is negative value of Log-Likelihood in log file? Is Log-Likelihood and Log-likelihood gain is two different things?Has Phaser solved it? When I feed these results to Autobuild, the model was ~80 % complete with Rfree and Rwork of 0.3171 and 0.2754 and Model Map correlation 0.74. Model was further refined in phenix.refine upto Rfree = 0.27. 2. When I am solving same dataset with Autosol and Autobuild, the dimer orientation have changed? Is this 'normal' or one of the solution is wrong and if it then which one should choose to refine further? Thanks in advance.

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phenix.elbow with Gamess, no cif restraint file
by Dyda 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

Hi All, I'm clearly doing something wrong, but don't know what. Trying to run elbow with Gamess from the command line for "myligand" but no .cif file is produced. The input is a pdb file of the ligand, this the best I have. The command line: phenix.elbow --all-residues --do-all --gamess --basis=3D"3-21G" myligand.pdb > elbow.out & Everything seems to be OK, Gamess is found and run: > more elbow.out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ electronic Ligand Builder & Optimisation Workbench (eLBOW) 1.10.1-2155 None - Nigel W. Moriarty (NWMoriarty(a)LBL.Gov) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Random number seed: 3628800 Initial processing time : 0.01 seconds 0:00 Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing Parsing P Input format is PDB MoleculeClass : C:15 O: 6 Cr: 1 (PDB format) 22 atoms 0 bonds 0 angles 0 dihedrals 0 rings 0 chirals Predicted memory usage by semi-empirical method : 41Mb Timing estimates Python portion / ATP : 62% c++ optimisation cycle / ATP : 47% Hydrogens may be required to determine the correct bonding Residue has metal at the centre of a coordination sphere. Using input geometry to generate restraints. Hydrogens may not be added. 0:10 Hydrogenise Hydrogenise Hydrogenise Hydrogenise Hydrogenise Hydrogenise H 1:49 ReCentre molecule for optimisation ReCentre molecule for optimisation ReC Optimisation software : GAMESS Quantum method : UHF Quantum basis set : 3-21G Opt steps : 60 Opt macro steps : 3 Searching for flowchart file: flowchart.py searching: /usr/local/apps/Phenix/1.10.1-2155/phenix-1.10.1-2155/modules/elbow ****************************************************************************** filename : /usr/local/apps/Phenix/1.10.1-2155/phenix-1.10.1-2155/modules/elbow/flowchart.py FOUND ****************************************************************************** searching: /usr/local/apps/Phenix/1.10.1-2155/phenix-1.10.1-2155 searching: /home/dyda/.elbow searching: /home/dyda searching: /spin1/users/dyda/myligand Machine has 24018 Mb total memory 14687 Mb free memory Setting 1000 Mb max memory usage Searching for template run file: GAMESS.csh searching: /spin1/users/dyda/myligand ****************************************************************************** filename : /spin1/users/dyda/myligand/GAMESS.csh FOUND ****************************************************************************** Using /spin1/users/dyda/myligand/GAMESS.csh as input run file template all .inp, .dat, .gam files are produced, no errors, but no cif file. Thanks. Fred [32m******************************************************************************* Fred Dyda, Ph.D. Phone:301-402-4496 Laboratory of Molecular Biology Fax: 301-496-0201 DHHS/NIH/NIDDK e-mail:[email protected] Bldg. 5. Room 303 Bethesda, MD 20892-0560 URGENT message e-mail: 2022476710(a)mms.att.net Google maps coords: 39.000597, -77.102102 http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NIDDKLabs/IntramuralFaculty/DydaFred *******************************************************************************[m

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script to calculate phase error
by Kaushik Hatti 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hello, I understand Phase error is written out after phenix.refine. For a particular case, I need to calculate phase error during different stages of model building (before refinement). Is there a script available which could calculate phase error given a model(PDB) and structure factors (MTZ) files? Thanks, Kaushik -- Stupidity is everyone’s birthright. However, only the learned exercise it! --Kaushik (28Oct2014)

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Separate cif files for the same nucleoside analog in it's monophosphate or triphosphate form?
by Zhe Li 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hi, I’m working on several protein/ligand structures, where the ligand is a novel nucleoside analog inhibitor. In each structure the ligand is either non-covalently bound as a ligand-5’-triphosphate (TP), or covalently bound to the protein as ligand-5’-monophosphate (MP). Do I need to create different cif file for ligand-MP and ligand-TP, or phenix can recognize the phosphates and there is no need for that? Thank you.

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Multiple conformations
by Alejandro Virrueta 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

This is not exactly phenix specific, but I was wondering what are some commonly used methods to determine and validate the presence/occurrence of multiple conformations for a given amino acid? I am currently refining (for 5 cycles) a pdb with the occupancy of atoms of a specific residue set to 0, and then looking at the difference density map contoured to 3 sigma for extra density. Is this somewhat correct? What else could/should I do? Would using OMIT maps help? (What are OMIT maps, and how do I generate them?) Thanks, Alex (not a crystallographer)

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How to include restrains to DNA as A-DNA or B-DNA
by Zhe Li 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

I am refining a protein-dsDNA complex structures at 2.4-3 A. Based on the phosphate distance, I can predict if particular nucleotide is A DNA (C3’-endo) or B DNA (C2’-endo). I want to add restrain to to the specific nucleotides as A or B DNA. But secondary_structure_restraints for nucleic acid does not seem to have options for this. Any suggestions? Thanks

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