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3rd CCP4/BGU Workshop on Data Collection and Structure Determination
by Anat Shahar 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Dear all, We are very pleased to announce the 3rd CCP4/BGU Workshop on Data Collection and Structure Determination, which will take place at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel, between 26th February to 1st March, 2023. The workshop is limited to 25 participants, and everybody who is interested is welcome to apply. The workshop program will be suitable for last-year PhD students, as well as postdoctoral researchers and young scientists in their first years of research. The workshop will concentrate on practical aspects of data collection, structure solution, model building, refinement and validation. Modern methods, benefiting from structure prediction with AlphaFold-2, as well as more traditional approaches to Molecular Replacement and Experimental Phasing will be considered in detail. In addition, all participants will have an opportunity to carry out remote data collection at Diamond Light Source on their own samples. A team of leading structural biology software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials and will also be available to help participants with their own projects, such as processing own data and solving structures during hands-on sessions of the workshop. More information, including “how to apply”, registration form and tentative program, can be found at: https://lifeserv.bgu.ac.il/wp/ccp4workshop/ The closing date for application is 20.12.2023. Best wishes, Anat Shahar & Eugene Krissinel

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X-ray crystallography software developer position at Astex
by Gabor Bunkoczi 09 Oct '22

09 Oct '22

Dear All, We have an opening for a skilled software developer with crystallographic computing background at our Cambridge (UK) site. For more information about the position, please see the full advert: https://www.cloudonlinerecruitment.co.uk/Astex/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSear… To apply, please follow the link in the advert. For informal enquiries, please feel free to contact me. Best wishes, Gabor Bunkoczi Astex Therapeutics Ltd 436 Cambridge Science Park Cambridge CB4 0QA, UK This email and any attachments thereto may contain private, confidential, and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying or distribution of this email (or any attachments thereto) by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto and notify the sender immediately.

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2022 MicroED Workshop
by Brent Nannenga 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the 7th MicroED workshop to be held the evening of December 11th to the 14th, 2022, and will be open to both academia and industry. This workshop will be held at the MicroED Imaging Center at UCLA and will contain both lectures and hands on demonstrations and training. For more information, tentative schedule, and to apply please see the following website: https://cryoem.ucla.edu/course-2022 Space is limited and historically, the workshop is typically oversubscribed, therefore we encourage applications to be sent in early. Topics covered will include all aspects of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) of diverse samples such as soluble proteins, membrane proteins, small molecules, natural products, and other materials. We will cover * Sample preparation methodologies for proteins and small molecules * MicroED data collection * Camera performance * Cryo-FIB-milling procedures for MicroED * Data analysis software, structure solution, and refinement The schedule is available on the registration page. // Sincerely; on behalf of the organizing committee (Tamir Gonen, Brent Nannenga)

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Postdoctoral position in drug discovery
by Harp, Joel M 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Postdoctoral position in drug discovery An opening is available in the drug discovery laboratory of Dr. Stephen Fesik for a post-doc in the field of protein x-ray crystallography. Responsibilities will include protein production, fragment screening by NMR, and all aspects of x-ray crystallography including preparation of protein-ligand complexes, crystallization, home/synchrotron data collection, and structure determination. Additional experience in molecular biology including construct design, cloning, site-directed mutagenesis and modeling is a plus. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and be able to communicate efficiently in a highly collaborative environment. Please send cv to jason.phan(a)Vanderbilt.Edu<mailto:[email protected]> The Vanderbilt campus is located in Nashville Tennessee. Also known as Music City, Nashville is a fast growing and dynamic environment with plenty of cultural attractions and opportunities for outdoor recreation.

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Drug Discovery Scientist opening Vanderbilt University
by Harp, Joel M 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Drug Discovery Scientist Position An opening is available in the drug discovery laboratory of Dr. Stephen Fesik for a candidate with experience in the field of protein x-ray crystallography or NMR. Responsibilities will include protein production, fragment screening by NMR, and all aspects of x-ray crystallography including preparation of protein-ligand complexes, crystallization, home/synchrotron data collection, and structure determination. Additional experience in molecular biology including construct design, cloning, site-directed mutagenesis and modeling is a plus but not required. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and be able to communicate efficiently in a highly collaborative environment. Please send cv to jason.phan(a)Vanderbilt.Edu<mailto:[email protected]> The Vanderbilt campus is located in Nashville Tennessee. Also known as Music City, Nashville is a fast growing and dynamic environment with plenty of cultural attractions and opportunities for outdoor recreation.

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Phenix secondary structure restraints bug
by Edwin Pozharski 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

When using phenix.secondary_structure_restraints (from command line, not sure if it's different in GUI) ss_by_chain flag is ignored when using default method (ksdssp, even if explicitly selected). Works fine when mmtbx_dssp is used though. Details: > phenix.secondary_structure_restraints model.pdb format=pdb ss_by_chain=False only produces intrachain beta sheets. > phenix.secondary_structure_restraints model.pdb format=pdb ss_by_chain=False search_method=mmtbx_dssp produces both intrachain and interchain beta-sheets. I am fairly certain this is not KSDSSP bug per se, since output of $PHENIX/build/ksdssp/exe/ksdssp model.pdb contains interchain beta-sheets. This is with 1.20.1-4487.

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SSRL/LCLS User Meeting Registration is Open
by Mooers, Blaine H.M. (HSC) 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Dear phenixbb: The SSRL/LCLS User's Meeting will be September 26-30, 2022. It will be virtual again due to COVID, but the of the sessions will be recorded live. Registration<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://events.bizzabo.com/SLAC-UsersMeeting-20…> is free and open to all. We had about 1600 registrants last year. We will have 27 workshops, 3 poster sessions, and 3 plenary sessions. Distinguished plenary speakers include Drs. John Helliwell and Linda Young. Although the registered attendees will be able to view the videos at a later time, please do attend during the live sessions to participate in the question and answer periods. There will be several poster prizes. The BioXFEL prizes are not limited to work done at LCLS. The deadline<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://events.bizzabo.com/SLAC-UsersMeeting-20…> for the submission of poster abstracts is September 9th. Best regards, Blaine Mooers on behalf of the SSRL/LCLS User's Meeting Organizing Committee and the SSRL User Executive Committee<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/content/abou…> and the LCLS User Executive Committee<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/lcls-users-organ…>

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Alternative to AlphaFold2?
by Chip Lesburg 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hi PHENIX users, At this past summer's Diffraction Methods GRC meeting<https://www.grc.org/diffraction-methods-in-structural-biology-conference/20…>, Tom Terwilliger presented the utility of incorporating AlphaFold2 predictions during structure fitting and rebuilding. I wonder if anyone has experience using that or an alternative such as OmegaFold<https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.500999v1> or OpenFold<https://github.com/aqlaboratory/openfold>? Are any of these easier or harder to get set up? Chip [cid:153156_edd5022b-de61-48a6-bf68-1a41de35ba89.png] Charles Lesburg Vice President, Structural Biology M 908-265-2064 301 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 odysseytx.com 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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Question about occupancy and 2Fo-Fc and Fo-Fc maps
by Vatsal Purohit 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Hi everyone, I had 2 questions regarding occupancy and maps generated in ligand-bound regions for various ligand models potentially present in the structure: 1. I’ve been working with some 2.0 angstrom structures and trying out refinements with 2 sets of bound ligands at varying occupancies (at the same active site) to get an approximate idea of their relative populations in the structure. For one set of ligands, I observe 2Fo-Fc density in regions uniquely occupied by them even when their occupancy is zero. Could there be a reason why this is the case? 2. Additionally, I observe red Fo-Fc density in the same region when the occupancy is set to 1.0. It disappears at lower occupancies of 0.7 indicating that a lower population of this ligand is present. However, when the occupancy is very low, we don’t see an equivalent green Fo-Fc density popping up in the same region. Could there be a reason for why the red Fo-Fc density at high occupancy doesn’t translate to green Fo-Fc for the same region at low occupancy? Any information or resources that could give me more insight into this question would be really helpful! Regards, Vatsal

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General interest article
by John R Helliwell 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Dear Colleagues, I imagine you will find the article “The 4Rs and crystal structure analysis: reliability, reproducibility, replicability and reusability” of interest. The weblink is https://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/2022/05/00/dv5002/index.html The article is open access. It is a Teaching and Education article in J Appl Cryst. Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc

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