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a question related to Phenix and Coot
by Dialing Pretty 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Dear All, When I use WinCoot 0.8.1 to open a PDB file got by Phenix.refine, it comes, Fix Nomenclature Errors. Correct them? Asp [spec: 1 "A" 128 ""]PHE[spec: 1 "A" 134""]PHE [spec: 1 "A" 371""] But when I check the 3 residues, I cannot find any error. Will you let me know the issue? Dialing

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A question related to Phaser-MR (simple interface)
by Dialing Pretty 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Dear All, When I run Phaser-MR, I met a fatal error "The composition you have entered has a protein/nucleic acidcontent of 132.513%, which is impossible. DECREASE your composition". Can you remind me in which black I fill the composition? And how to decrease it? Dialing

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advice on 'Fit rotatable H or D' refinement stage in phenix.refine
by Anna Makal 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi, I would like to ask for advice concerning 'Fit rotatable H or D' refinement stage in phenix.refine. I am attempting to run unconstrained refinement on a certain high-resolution protein dataset: just XYZ and ADPs refinement for every single atom in the structure, with hydrogen atoms treated with individual approach. It turns out that when I set more then 3 macrocycles, the 'Fit rotatable H or D' refinement stage is activated in every macrocycle prior to 'XYZ individual' refinement stage. I am using version 1.9, release 1692 for windows. When I last worked with PHENIX, it was distribution 1342, and I am positive I have not come across such refinement stage. It seems that TARDY is involved at that stage. As I specifically do not want to introduce any kind of torsion angle dynamics in my current refinement, I would like to ask, what command/option shall I use to deactivate this stage of H-atom fitting in my refinement? With regards, Anna Makal

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Coot failed to launch in Phenix after CCP4 update
by Shun Liu 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Dear all, After I updated ccp4 to a new version (ccp4-6.5), I found that coot failed to launch in phenix. /Applications/PHENIX-1.9-1692/Contents/phenix-1.9-1692/build/mac-intel-osx-x86_64/../../phenix/phenix/command_line/start_coot.sh: line 37: /Applications/ccp4-6.4.0/coot.app/Contents/MacOS/coot: No such file or directory Apparently it requires ccp4-6.4.0, which has been deleted. I tried to modify find_coot_command.py in phenix, but it didn’t work. Can anybody give me some suggestions so that I can figure this problem out? Thanks! Best, Shun

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Coot launch failure
by Shun Liu 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Dear all, After I updated ccp4 to a new version (6.5), I found that coot failed to launch in phenix. Can anybody give me some suggestions to figure this problem out? Thanks! Best, Shun

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a question related to Phaser-MR
by Wind Sui 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Dear All, In the Phenix Phaser-MR (simple interface, will you please tell me what should I input for the "sequence identities"? I am looking forward to getting your reply. Wind

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FEM maps
by Colin Levy 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Dear All, when using FEM maps I notice that some solvent structure has clean (ish) 2Fo-Fc but not FEM density. Is this indicative of the water without FEM density being simply noise or is it more complicated than that? Many thanks, Colin Manchester Protein Structure Facility Dr. Colin W. Levy MIB G034 Tel. 0161 275 5090 Mob.07786 197 554 c.levy(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>

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phenix.refine reference?
by Ulrich Baumann 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Dear colleagues, a very happy New Year 2015 to all of you! Is there a specific reference for phenix.refine, please? Or is it ok if we cite Adams et al., Acta Cryst D66, 213-221 (2010) or the 2011 paper on Phenix? What about Xtriage? Thanks you very much for your kind help! Best wishes, Ulrich

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a command on Phenix refine
by Wind Sui 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Dear All, I use the graphic phenix.refine to do a refinement, and Phenix informed me I need to have a command "refinement.pdb_interpretation.clash_guard.nonbonded_distance_threshold=None". Will you please tell me by graphic phenic.refine, how can I input this command? Wind

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a question related to phenix.refine
by Wind Sui 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Dear All, After I finished a refinement by Phenix.refine and I closed the Phenix software, is any method I can get the exact phenix.refine window as the moment the Phenix.refine just finished the refinement? I mean by all the documents saved automatically by the Phenix.refine after it finished a refinement, how can I get the Phenix refine window once more, for the check of Log output, Run status, Results, MolProbity, Real-space correlation, Atomic properties, and sequence check? Wind

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Fw: Reading a shelx file
by Rex Palmer 25 Dec '14

25 Dec '14

Can I read a Shelx file with Phenix and output the new pdb in Phenix format? Rex Palmer http://www.bbk.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/emeritus-staff http://rexpalmer2010.homestead.com

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Announcement: Membrane Protein Structures 2015 Meeting (MPS 2015)
by Nagarajan Venugopalan 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Posted on behalf of the organizing committee: Registration is now open for Membrane Protein Structures 2015 Meeting (MPS 2015) Location: Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA Dates: April 10 - 12, 2015 Accompanying workshops: Membrane Protein Technologies Location: Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA Date: April 9, 2015 Meeting WEBsite: http://aps.anl.gov/mps2015. _Important dates_: _Registration deadline_: February 15, 2015 (https://www.regonline.com/mps2015) _Accommodation deadline_: March 10, 2015 (http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Communications/User_News/2014/MPS_hotel_info.p…) Thanks Naga -- ************************************************************************ Nagarajan Venugopalan, Ph.D. GM/CA@APS, Sector 23, X-ray Science Division Bldg 436, D005 Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S Cass Ave, Argonne IL 60439 Tel: 630-252-0669 Fax: 630-252-0667 email: vnagas(a)anl.gov ************************************************************************

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29th European Crystallographic Meeting
by Igor Sabljić 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Dear Phenixbb users, I am delighted to tell you the registration for the 29th European Crystallographic Meeting is open. Just to remind you ECM29 (August 23-28, 2015) is taking place in beautiful city of Rovinj in Croatia. You can find more information on our web site, and please visit, like and share our Facebook page! I hope I will see you all there! Web: http://ecm29.ecanews.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/29thEuropeanCrystallographicMeeting?ref=hl Sincerely, Igor [1] IGOR SABLJIĆ _Social networks editor_ Ruđer Bošković Institute Division of Physical Chemistry Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA http://ecm29.ecanews.org [1] Facebook [2] home [3] Links: ------ [1] http://ecm29.ecanews.org [2] http://www.facebook.com/29thEuropeanCrystallographicMeeting [3] http://www.irb.hr/eng/Research/Divisions-and-Centers/Division-of-Physical-C…

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Phenix Rosetta install
by Felipe Trajtenberg 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Dear all, I am trying to build the hybrid installation between Rosetta and Phenix using the rosetta.build_phenix_interface command Phenix version: phenix-1.9-1692 Rosetta version: rosetta_2014.35.57232 I have no problem in compiling rosetta alone but when I try to build the hybrid system I get the following error: False scons: Reading SConscript files ... Running versioning script ... Done. (0.0 seconds) Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] ImportError: No module named site CalledProcessError: Command '['./update_options.sh']' returned non-zero exit status 1: File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/SConstruct", line 172: main() File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/SConstruct", line 163: SConscript("SConscript", "build") File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/external/scons-local/scons-local-2.0.1/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 614: return method(*args, **kw) File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/external/scons-local/scons-local-2.0.1/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 551: return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw) File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/external/scons-local/scons-local-2.0.1/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 260: exec _file_ in call_stack[-1].globals File "/home/Xtal/Rosetta_phenix/rosetta_2014.35.57232_bundle/main/source/SConscript", line 28: subprocess.check_call(["./update_options.sh"]) File "/home/Xtal/Phenix/phenix-1.9-1692/build/intel-linux-2.6-x86_64/base/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 540: raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) thanks in advance Felipe

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Cross-validation when test set is miniscule
by Derek Logan 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hi everyone, Right now we have one of those very difficult Rfree situations where it's impossible to generate a single meaningful Rfree set. Since we're in a bit of a hurry with this structure it would be good if someone could point me in the right direction. We have crystals with 1542 non-H atoms in the asymmetric unit that diffract to only 3.6 Å in P65, which gives us a whopping 2300 reflections in total. 5% of this is only about 100 reflections. Luckily the protein is only a single point mutation of a wild type that has been solved to much better resolution, so we know what it should look like and I simply want to investigate the effect of different levels of conservatism in the refinement, e.g. NCS in xyz and B, group B-factors, reference model, Ramachandran restraints etc. However since the quality criterion for this is Rfree I'm not able to do this. I believe the correct approach is k-fold statistical cross-validation, but can someone remind me of the correct way to do this? I've done a bit of Googling without finding anything very helpful. Thanks Derek ________________________________________________________________________ Derek Logan tel: +46 46 222 1443 Associate Professor mob: +46 76 8585 707 Dept. of Biochemistry and Structural Biology www.cmps.lu.se<http://www.cmps.lu.se> Centre for Molecular Protein Science www.maxlab.lu.se/crystal Lund University, Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden www.saromics.com

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Mac backwards compatability
by Katherine Sippel 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hi all, I was trying to be a good child and update to the latest nightly build, but I noticed that the Mac options for dev-1893 and -1894 are all listed as OS X 10.9 rather than OS X 10.6.7+. I attempted to use the OS X 10.9 installer just to see if it would work (it does not). Is phenix no longer supporting older Mac OSs? I know you have more than enough OSs to keep track of, so there is no judgement in that statement. I am just trying to figure out if I am going to have to cave and begrudgingly update my OS. Thanks, Katherine -- "Nil illegitimo carborundum"* - *Didactylos

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secondary restraint refinement
by CPMAS Chen 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Dear Phenix Users, How do I force some residues in a non-helix conformation? I have a 3A data, and have the protein model refined. But in some region, 3~4 residues are in the helix conformation, and the density fit is good. Anyway, let me say this, I want to force these residues in a non-helix conformation. I tweaked the model a little bit and load them in VMD, and make sure they are not helix anymore. I turn on secondary-structure-restraint in phenix, take out the helix remarks for these residues in the def file. but once the refinement is done, they are still in a helix region (phenix automatically secondary structure analysis, or viewed in VMD). Is there a feasible way to keep them away from helix conformation? Thanks! Charles -- *************************************************** Charles Chen Research Associate University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology ******************************************************

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number of alternate conformations allowed
by Scott Horowitz 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

Hi all, Does anyone happen to know the upper limit on the number of alternate conformations that phenix.refine can handle at once for a residue? From playing around with it, it seems that phenix.refine recognizes both letters and numbers in that position, but not a pound sign, so that would suggest it could at least handle 36, so long as I don't crash my computer trying that many. Is this correct, from anyone's experience/knowledge? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Horowitz, Ph.D. Research Associate Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Michigan Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Bardwell lab 830 N. University Ave, Room 4007 Ann Arbor, MI 48109 phone: 734-647-6683 fax: 734-615-4226

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how to use phenix.angle command?
by 李翔 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Hi, I am trying to measure the angle between two DNA duplex domains. I used phenix.angle command for calculation. However, I get a wrong answer. Can anyone talk a little bit more details on this command please? I used a single strand DNA from each duplex to calculate the angle which I thought it might be working since it is calculating the axis. Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Xiang -- Li Xiang Department of chemistry, Purdue University Email：lixiang1642(a)gmail.com

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Reliable twinning fraction estimation
by Xiao Lei 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Dear All, I have a x-ray dataset of a protein-DNA complex to 2.8 A resolution with space group P312 checked by phenix xtriage for twinning. The estimated twin fraction from the output of xtriage is: 0.115 (Britton analysis); 0.119 (H test) and 0.022 (maximum likelihood method). However, the L-test graph in xtriage shows my observed data almost perfectly overlay with theoretical perfect twin data. In addition, when I tried to use phenix to do refinement with twin law -h,-k,l, the log file shows my twin fraction estimation is 0.49, which is very high and much bigger than Britton analysis and H test estimation. As far as my understanding is that if a twin fraction is lower than 15%, I still have hope to solve the structure (molecular replacement in this case) with reasonable R value, but if the twin fraction is 0.49, which is almost a perfect twin, which makes detwin impossible and refinement will stall at high R values (in my case, R free start: 0.4199; R work start: 0.4121; and R free final: 0.4038 and R work final: 0.3640 after running phenix refinement with twin law -h, -k, l). My question: which twin fraction estimation is more reliable? is my data almost perfectly twined? I attached the graphs of L test, Britton analysis and twin estimation from phenix xtriage and part of log file from phenix refine here. Many thanks in advance. Xiao

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Autobuild with "build semet residues"
by Todd Jason Green 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hello all- I have been trying to use autobuild with a semet dataset. I have checked the "build semet residues" option in the autobuild gui. At some point after the composite build, the error below is generated and the final model has been stripped of all semethionines. I am using phenix version 1.8.4-1496 on a macbook. I have now downloaded the new version. But can someone expand on my problem. My input sequence and model pdb contain Methionine but I expected the rebuild process to alter them. Should I change the one letter code for semet from m to something else. -Todd . . . . Final composite model # 1 : AutoBuild_run_11_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/model.pdb_1 Final composite mtz # 1 : AutoBuild_run_11_/MULTIPLE_MODELS/resolve_composite_map.mtz_1 AutoBuild_combine_iter AutoBuild Run 11 Wed Dec 10 14:51:18 2014 AutoBuild_combine AutoBuild Run 11 Wed Dec 10 14:51:18 2014 Done with combine finished AutoBuild Run 11 Wed Dec 10 14:51:18 2014 Finishing AutoBuild Run 11 Facts written to AutoBuild_run_11_/AutoBuild_Facts.dat Warnings: Warning from subprocess run in AutoBuild_run_11_/TEMP0/AutoBuild_run_5_: NOTE: The following residues (and similar residues) from AutoBuild_run_5_/overall_ortho_best_bchain_molrep1_refmac1_semettomet_ed.pdb are not PROTEIN or do not match the sequence and will not be part of the building process : MSE B33, MSE B45, MSE B59, MSE B63, MSE B68, MSE B194, MSE B201, MSE B210, MSE B216, MSE B256, MSE B266, MSE B308, MSE A33, MSE A45, MSE A59, MSE A63, MSE A68, MSE A194, MSE A201, MSE A210, MSE A216, MSE A256, MSE A266, MSE A308, MSE C33, MSE C45, MSE C59, MSE C63, MSE C68, MSE C194, MSE C201, MSE C210, MSE C216, MSE C256, MSE C266, MSE C308, MSE D33, MSE D45, MSE D59, MSE D63, MSE D68, MSE D194, MSE D201, MSE D210, MSE D216, MSE D256, MSE D266, MSE D308, Warning from subprocess run in AutoBuild_run_11_/TEMP0/AutoBuild_run_5_: Warning: some residues not rebuilt successfully on cycle 2: Chain 'A': 32, 44, 200, 217- 221, 280- 299, 314- 323, Chain 'C': 22- 32, 39- 44, 148- 152, 163- 167, 188- 193, 211- 215, 217- 221, 334- 336, Chain 'B': 32, 44, 118- 122, 193, 227- 231, 309- 318, Chain 'D': 12- 32, 34- 44, 46- 50, 143- 147, 158- 162, 188- 193, 334- 336 Warning from subprocess run in AutoBuild_run_11_/TEMP0/AutoBuild_run_5_: Warning: some residues not rebuilt successfully on cycle 3: Chain 'A': 32, 39- 44, 193, 217- 226, 280- 294, Chain 'C': 22- 32, 34- 44, 46- 55, 153- 162, 193, 200, 211- 215, 217- 221, 242- 246, 324- 336, Chain 'B': 32, 44, 118- 122, 193, 262- 265, 319- 323, Chain 'D': 17- 32, 34- 44, 46- 50, 143- 162, 188- 193, 200, 334- 336

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Rigid body refinement at low resolution
by Jianghai Zhu 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

Hi all, I recently solved a complex structure at 8 Å. There are 3 molecules per asymmetric unit and each complex contains 8 domains. I was trying to do rigid body refinement in phenix.refine. However, all the rigid body refinement gave me worse Rfree, even at ultra-low resolution, and phenix.refine reversed the result to the original model. Anyway to make this rigid body refinement more stable? Is there a dampen factor in phenix.refine so that the program only moves a domain at a fraction of what it wants to, e.g. 1/2, 1/3… ? Thanks. Best, —Jianghai

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Not Updating Waters
by Ryan Henry Gumpper 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi all, I am having an issue during refinement when using Phenix Refine. Every time I try to "update waters" it does not place or update the waters. My structure is 2.72 A. Is the resolution not good enough for this feature? If anyone has ideas, or if I need to supply more information, I would be happy to oblige as I am fairly new to the field and still learning. Thank you in advance!

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Ramachandran maps
by PC 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi guys, Sorry for the repost in COOT/CCP4/PHENIX. It is possible on of the users in one of these communities might know the answer I was wondering if there is a small script I can use to generate the outline of the allowed regions of Ramachandran map on to which I can superimpose my coordinates phi and psi? Something like what appears in COOT->Validate->Ramachandran Plot. How does one generate such images for publications? Thank you, Patrick ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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Challenging Mol.Rep. Problem
by Mo Wong 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Hi all, I’m stuck on a rather complex molecular replacement problem. The crystals are of an antigen-Fab complex totaling ~67 kDa (waiting to confirm using PAGE gel). They diffract to ~3.5A at the synchrotron and process in C2 with dimensions 220x130x230 and beta at 103 so it looks like there are round 9to12-ish copies in the ASU. The overall Rmerge is high at ~25% with I/sig cutoff ~2 and redundancy of 5; however, at 4.5A this drops to ~15%. Furthermore, processing in P1 gives similar Rmerge values too. Self-Patterson doesn’t suggest translational symmetry, but the self-rotation function (SRF) suggests high NCS (see below/attached). I’m hoping the SRF might be helpful in trying to confirm/dismiss C2 is the likely space group, and perhaps suggest a logical assembly with the ASU (I see strong 2-fold and 3-fold NCS operators suggesting to me dimeric trimers or vice versa - however, I’ve never had to really analyze SRFs in the absence of a mol. rep. solution so my interpretation could be wrong). Anyway, any help to bringing a molecular replacement solution closer to reality would be appreciated. Thanks! [image: Inline image 1]

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