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Ordered solvent DOD
by YoungJin 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Hi, When you add waters by ordered solvent option, is it possible putting DOD for neutron data? I added normal waters and changed them to DOD by using ReadySet. But wondering if I want to go further refinement with ordered_solvent on, how can I keep adding DOD rather than HOH. Otherwise, do I have to change again by using REadySet? I also tried to change resid name as DOD but didn't help me. Best, Young-Jin

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R/Rfree can not be reproduced
by 周文昌 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Dear all, I had a weird case in which I can not reproduce the R/Rfree value for the same refinement. "same" means I run my refinement first and then I rerun with "phenix.refine *.eff --overwrite". The R/Rfree values for the two cases are different (0.2942/0.3190 vs 0.2942/0.3085). Should not they be the same always? the command I used: 1st. phenix.refine new-unique.mtz model.pdb xray_data.high_resolution=2.7 fix_rotamers=true strategy=individual_adp+individual_sites+tls ../tls_group_selections.params wxc_scale=0.05 refinement.input.xray_data.labels=FP,SIGFP --overwrite 2nd phenix.refine model_refine_001.eff --overwrite thanks, Wenchang

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Re: [phenixbb] SA omit map
by Huang, Raven H 02 Jun '12

02 Jun '12

Hi all, Was the issue of SA omit map debated last July (involving Tiaard Pining, Pavel, and Folmer) resolved in the newer version of Phenix? Specifically, We'd like to generate the same map for a ligand. It is not for the refinement, but for publication (a reviewer asked us to cover the ligand with the map in a figure). Previously, I used cns to do that (sa_omit_map.inp). But we refined our current structures solely in Phenix. If there is a choice, I'd rather not to move everything to cns and set it up just for the sake of generating a omit map. Thanks, Raven ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Raven H. Huang, Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Center for Biophysics & Computational Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 411 Roger Adams Lab., 600 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-3967; Fax: 217-244-5858

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partial partial occupancy
by Terry Lang 02 Jun '12

02 Jun '12

Hey Everyone, I have partially occupied ligand that I am trying model. The problem is that the ligand is in at least two conformations PLUS there is a side chain that occludes binding part of the time. In other words, I'm aiming for something like: Residue Conf A occ = 60%, Residue Conf B occ = 40%, Ligand Conf A 30%, Ligand Conf B 10%. Phenix is happy having a single conformation below 100% occupancy but seems to force the total sum of multiple occupancy residues to be 100%. Is there a way to turn that off for the ligand? Thanks Terry -- Paula Therese Lang Postdoctoral Scholar Alber Lab UC Berkeley/QB3

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Occupancy refinement
by Jerome Nwachukwu 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Hi: I have a 2.2Å structure containing a ligand in at least 2 alternate conformations. When the structure is refined via XYZ refinement + occupancy using phenix.refine, both ligand conformers are kicked out of the electron density. Is there a way to prevent this? Thank you, -Jerome Sent from my iPhone

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TLS makes my r-factors shoot through the roof
by Morten Groftehauge 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hi Phenixbb, 3.2A data, 110 Wilson B, I41, twinned. Imperfect inverted repeat dsDNA with 4 protein monomers, NCS not used in refinement. If I don't include TLS I get a nice stable R-factor while RMS goes down. If I include TLS (whether as one group per chain or as chosen by Phenix) this happens: [image: Inline images 1] Density disappears around some of the DNA bases as an obvious difference. If I run Refmac with TLS it just never finishes. While I could just refine without TLS this does make me worried that there is something wrong with my model or my data (besides being terrible). Cheers, Morten -- Morten K Grøftehauge, PhD Pohl Group Durham University

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Wilson B and REMARK 3
by Michael Thompson 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hello Everyone, I have a question regarding the Wilson B information reported in REMARK 3 of a pdb file. I am preparing a pdb file for deposition, and I am wondering which is the most appropriate value to report as the Wilson B in REMARK 3? My inclination is to report the Wilson B for the full dataset calculated by XSCALE. This value differs slightly from the Wilson B value calculated by phenix.refine and printed to the refinement log file (XSCALE=27.6 vs. phenix.refine=19.8). I assume this difference is due to phenix.refine using a low-resolution cutoff of ~20A. My concern stems from the fact that REMARK 3 "presents information on refinement program(s) used and the related statistics," so I'm not sure if it's best to include the Wilson B calculated by the refinement software, or the Wilson B for the whole data set. Thanks, Mike -- Michael C. Thompson Graduate Student Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Division Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles miket(a)chem.ucla.edu

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Phenix crashes during refinement of a large structure
by Gino Cingolani 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi all, PHENIX keeps crashing while refining a large structure (>18,000 residues/asym unit). Can anybody make sense of the following error message (see below)? Thanks so much, Gino ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ File "/usr/local/phenix-1.7.3-928/cctbx_project/mmtbx/model_statistics.py", line 112, in __init__ self.clashscore_obj.analyze_clashes(hierarchy = pdb_hierarchy) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.7.3-928/cctbx_project/mmtbx/validation/clashscore.py", line 176, in analyze_clashes stdin_lines=tmp_r.as_pdb_string()) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.7.3-928/cctbx_project/libtbx/easy_run.py", line 147, in __init__ close_fds=not subprocess.mswindows) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.7.3-928/cctbx_project/libtbx/subprocess_with_fixes.py", line 598, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.7.3-928/cctbx_project/libtbx/subprocess_with_fixes.py", line 1015, in _execute_child self.pid = os.fork() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ****************************************************************************** Gino Cingolani, Ph.D. Associate Professor Thomas Jefferson University Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 233 South 10th Street - Room 826 Philadelphia PA 19107 Office (215) 503 4573 Lab (215) 503 4595 Fax (215) 923 2117 E-mail: gino.cingolani(a)jefferson.edu Website: http://www.cingolanilab.org ****************************************************************************** "Nati non foste per viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza" ("You were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge") Dante, The Divine Comedy (Inferno, XXVI, vv. 119-120)

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iterative-build omitmap
by ARJUN＠pitt.edu 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi I am trying to calculate iterative-build omitmap. Initially program run all 126 omit region and created map coeffs file in corresponding TEMPO subdirectory and unable to create final combined map and this reduce program is running three days without creating the final map. I am trying to run combine_map script separately with all omit region coeffs file and I got the following error: >combine_map overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_126 combining map from binary file overall_best_denmod_map_coeffs.mtz_OMIT_REGION_126 >omit Full cross-validation will be done Setting n_small_cycle to 3 All done with inputs Building protein Setting up for building protein Standard fill-in residues: ALA A GLY G Standard main-chain atoms: N CA C O CB All main-chain atoms: N CA C O Max dist between adjacent N atoms: 6.000000 List of all residues: GLY ALA SER VAL ILE LEU MET CYS PHE TYR LYS ARG TRP HIS GLU ASP GLN ASN PRO THR List of 1-letter code of residues: GASVILMCFYKRWHEDQNPT List of number of atoms in side-chains: 0 1 2 3 4 4 4 2 7 8 5 7 10 6 5 4 5 4 3 3 checking license file.. solve2.access The date today is 17-may-12. Your license is good until 15-dec-96. >>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:Cannot open file (Error) raised in ccp4_file_open2 <<<<<< >>>>>> CCP4 library signal mtz:Cannot open file (Error) raised in MtzGet <<<<<< Error: failed to open file for read! Sorry, unable to open mtz file: exptl_fobs_phases_freeR_flags.mtz Sorry, unable to open mtz file resolve malloc count: 0 resolve exit_info: How to overcome this error problem Thank you P.Arjunan

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New UPDATE-- Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning?
by Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] 17 May '12

17 May '12

Dear All, Kay helped me reprocess the data set with XDS, the program pick up I422 as space group. It turned out that when I originally used XDS, I used spindle axis -1, 0, 0 for the APS ID22 detector, it should be 1, 0, 0. The output from XDS: SUBSET OF INTENSITY DATA WITH SIGNAL/NOISE >= -3.0 AS FUNCTION OF RESOLUTION RESOLUTION NUMBER OF REFLECTIONS COMPLETENESS R-FACTOR R-FACTOR COMPARED I/SIGMA R-meas CC(1/2) Anomal SigAno Nano LIMIT OBSERVED UNIQUE POSSIBLE OF DATA observed expected Corr 8.87 4414 841 858 98.0% 2.7% 3.2% 4402 45.77 3.0% 99.9* -18 0.664 577 6.33 7883 1374 1385 99.2% 3.7% 3.9% 7872 35.76 4.1% 99.9* -17 0.687 1108 5.18 10205 1724 1734 99.4% 5.1% 4.9% 10195 29.38 5.6% 99.8* -15 0.748 1468 4.49 12194 2042 2055 99.4% 5.0% 4.7% 12185 30.77 5.4% 99.8* -20 0.727 1764 4.02 13830 2284 2297 99.4% 6.2% 5.9% 13822 24.55 6.7% 99.8* -15 0.736 2019 3.67 15377 2501 2530 98.9% 9.4% 9.3% 15368 16.77 10.3% 99.6* -12 0.752 2245 3.40 16709 2702 2724 99.2% 14.3% 14.5% 16700 11.31 15.6% 99.2* -5 0.761 2430 3.18 18091 2904 2934 99.0% 23.3% 24.6% 18084 7.14 25.4% 98.4* -3 0.726 2635 3.00 18105 2972 3107 95.7% 37.3% 40.4% 18071 4.42 40.7% 96.4* -6 0.665 2624 total 116808 19344 19624 98.6% 8.2% 8.4% 116699 18.79 9.0% 99.8* -10 0.724 16870 Attached please also find the xtriage log for data processed with XDS. Final model with I422 data set at 3 A resolution looked fine to me, r-free went down from ~0.32 to 0.298, the map even let me correctly fitted one place that supposed to have a Cis-Pro. The final numbers for the model is: r_work = 0.2611 r_free = 0.2983 bonds = 0.002 angles = 0.568 Thank you all for all the help! Regards, Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH Building 40, Room 4609B 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 594-8710 (Tel) (301) 793-0794 (Cell) (301) 480-2658 (Fax) ****************************************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ****************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Pavel Afonine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:07 PM To: phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org Subject: Re: [phenixbb] UPDATE-- Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning? Hi, >> 1. Is it really twinned since including twin-law in refinment gave much >> better numbers? R-factors may not be directly comparable: G.Murshudov, Appl. Comput. Math., V.10, N.2, 2011, pp.250-261. The strategy is: - check to see if Xtriage tells it's twinned (based on reflection statistics, not just predicted twin laws based on geometry); - use phenix.model_vs_data to see if it's worth using it. Pavel _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb

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annealing omit map
by r n 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi all I have omitted some region manually from the pdb and did annealing - cartesian using phenix.refinment, the resulting map has density (1.2 sigma) in 2fofc and also seen 2.8 sigma negative density on the omitted region? any suggestions? Rab

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Re: [phenixbb] mr.rosetta gui
by Terwilliger, Thomas C 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi Alex, OK, the problem should be fixed in tomorrow's build. Thank you for pointing it out! Let us know if that does not do it! All the best, Tom T ________________________________ From: Terwilliger, Thomas C Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:45 AM To: PHENIX user mailing list Cc: Terwilliger, Thomas C Subject: RE: [phenixbb] mr.rosetta gui Hi Alex, Yes, I can duplicate this...I'm checking on what is happening now. All the best, Tom T ________________________________ From: phenixbb-bounces(a)phenix-online.org [phenixbb-bounces(a)phenix-online.org] on behalf of Alexander Batyuk [batyuk(a)bioc.uzh.ch] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:54 AM To: PHENIX user mailing list Subject: [phenixbb] mr.rosetta gui Dear developers, While trying to run mr.rosetta from the GUI, I've encountered an error (see screenshot). I have un-checked the box Include solvation energy. The file rosetta_weights.wts has been created in WORK_1, fa_sol=0.0. Inspection of mr_rosetta_params.eff in GROUP_OF_PLACE_MODEL_1 revealed include_solvation_energy = False, followed by weights_file = "/Users/abatyuk/Desktop/o1map/MR_ROSETTA_74/WORK_1/rosetta_weights.wts", but it seems that the GUI wants either or. Is that the expected behavior? I'm running 1.8-1056, Rosetta 3.4 on OS X 10.6.8 Best wishes, Alex

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Re: [phenixbb] mr.rosetta gui
by Terwilliger, Thomas C 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi Alex, Yes, I can duplicate this...I'm checking on what is happening now. All the best, Tom T Dear developers, While trying to run mr.rosetta from the GUI, I've encountered an error (see screenshot). I have un-checked the box Include solvation energy. The file rosetta_weights.wts has been created in WORK_1, fa_sol=0.0. Inspection of mr_rosetta_params.eff in GROUP_OF_PLACE_MODEL_1 revealed include_solvation_energy = False, followed by weights_file = "/Users/abatyuk/Desktop/o1map/MR_ROSETTA_74/WORK_1/rosetta_weights.wts", but it seems that the GUI wants either or. Is that the expected behavior? I'm running 1.8-1056, Rosetta 3.4 on OS X 10.6.8 Best wishes, Alex -- Alex Batyuk The Plueckthun Lab www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun<http://www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun>

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mr.rosetta gui
by Alexander Batyuk 16 May '12

16 May '12

Dear developers, While trying to run mr.rosetta from the GUI, I've encountered an error (see screenshot). I have un-checked the box Include solvation energy. The file rosetta_weights.wts has been created in WORK_1, fa_sol=0.0. Inspection of mr_rosetta_params.eff in GROUP_OF_PLACE_MODEL_1 revealed include_solvation_energy = False, followed by weights_file = "/Users/abatyuk/Desktop/o1map/MR_ROSETTA_74/WORK_1/rosetta_weights.wts", but it seems that the GUI wants either or. Is that the expected behavior? I'm running 1.8-1056, Rosetta 3.4 on OS X 10.6.8 Best wishes, Alex -- Alex Batyuk The Plueckthun Lab www.bioc.uzh.ch/plueckthun

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Occupancy issue
by Simon Kolstoe 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hi phenixbb, I'm wanting to refine the occupancy for just a few Cadmium atoms in a structure but not refine any other occupancies. I've used the following command however the occupancies haven't refined: phenix.refine refinement_006.def occupancies.individual="chain X and element CD2" and the cadmiums are in the pdb file as: ATOM 8740 CD+2 CD2 X 1 -81.043 91.612 65.218 1.00 11.63 X CD2+ ATOM 8741 CD+2 CD2 X 2 -78.111 92.072 62.948 1.00 11.15 X CD2+ ATOM 8742 CD+2 CD2 X 3 -85.283 28.170 80.931 1.00 12.01 X CD2+ Thanks, Simon

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Refinement error with Se labeled DNA cif seting
by Lauren 15 May '12

15 May '12

Dear all, I have a protein complex with 10mer DNA with one adenine labeled with Se-CH3 at C2'. I gave the se labeled pdb structure to the Elbow or ReadySet, the program gave me the cif as shown below. When I tried to refine the structure, phenix.refine ends with a Error message: Chain: "A" Number of atoms: 23 Number of conformers: 1 Conformer: "" Number of residues, atoms: 1, 23 Unexpected atoms: {'AMS,OP1': 1, 'AMS,OP2': 1} Classifications: {'DNA': 1} Unresolved non-hydrogen bonds: 2 Unresolved non-hydrogen angles: 3 Unresolved non-hydrogen chiralities: 1 Number of atoms with unknown nonbonded energy type symbols: 2 "HETATM 2 OP1 AMS A 1 .*.A O " "HETATM 3 OP2 AMS A 1 .*.A O " Any advice on how to modified the cif or pdb files? Thanks so much in advance. CIF files: AMS P P P . 10.3639 38.8090 53.6083 AMS OP1 O OH1 . 9.8621 39.4308 52.7650 AMS OP2 O O . 9.6270 38.9790 55.3430 AMS O5' O O2 . 11.5188 37.6926 53.7178 AMS C5' C CH2 . 12.2621 37.6244 54.8065 AMS C4' C CR15 . 13.5128 36.9044 54.7141 AMS O4' O O . 14.2653 37.1385 55.8584 AMS C3' C CR15 . 13.2442 35.4155 54.6698 AMS O3' O OH1 . 14.1003 34.8289 53.7923 AMS C2' C CR15 . 13.5010 34.9324 55.9516 AMS SE2' SE SE . 11.8697 34.2402 56.7089 AMS C1' C CR15 . 13.9654 36.1199 56.7679 AMS CA' C CH3 . 11.5566 32.3937 56.0481 AMS N9 N NR5 . 15.1526 35.8937 57.6065 AMS C8 C CR15 . 16.4077 35.6661 57.1789 AMS N7 N N . 17.1943 35.5119 58.2703 AMS C5 C CR56 . 16.4320 35.6429 59.3887 AMS C4 C CR56 . 15.1196 35.8884 58.9705 AMS N1 N N . 15.6651 35.7647 61.7193 AMS C2 C CR16 . 14.4119 35.9994 61.2874 AMS N3 N N . 14.1134 36.0657 59.9478 AMS C6 C CR6 . 16.7122 35.5796 60.8007 AMS N6 N NH2 . 18.1110 35.3174 61.2840 # loop_ _chem_comp_bond.comp_id _chem_comp_bond.atom_id_1 _chem_comp_bond.atom_id_2 _chem_comp_bond.type _chem_comp_bond.value_dist _chem_comp_bond.value_dist_esd AMS P OP1 single 1.162 0.02 AMS P OP2 double 1.892 0.02 AMS P O5' single 1.610 0.02 AMS O5' C5' single 1.320 0.02 AMS C5' C4' single 1.446 0.02 AMS C4' O4' single 1.389 0.02 AMS C4' C3' single 1.514 0.02 AMS O4' C1' single 1.398 0.02 AMS C3' O3' single 1.359 0.02 AMS C3' C2' single 1.394 0.02 AMS C2' SE2' single 1.927 0.02 AMS C2' C1' single 1.514 0.02 AMS SE2' CA' single 1.986 0.02 AMS C1' N9 single 1.471 0.02 AMS N9 C8 aromatic 1.345 0.02 AMS N9 C4 aromatic 1.364 0.02 AMS C8 N7 aromatic 1.354 0.02 AMS N7 C5 aromatic 1.360 0.02 AMS C5 C4 aromatic 1.399 0.02 AMS C5 C6 aromatic 1.441 0.02 AMS C4 N3 aromatic 1.414 0.02 AMS N1 C2 aromatic 1.346 0.02 AMS N1 C6 aromatic 1.405 0.02 AMS C2 N3 aromatic 1.374 0.02 AMS C6 N6 single 1.503 0.02 Best Regards Lauren

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refinement of peptide with non-standard aminocids
by Vitali Stanevich 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hi, I am trying to refine protein structure with MCLR ligand - this is cyclic hepta-peptide which has some non-standard amino acids. Sequence is DAL-LEU-ACB-ARG-1ZN-FGA-DAM. It's exactly the same compound as chain G at 3dw8 PDB entry. I could successfully import amino acids in coot through "get monomer" option, renumber and combine in one chain. Problem is that whenever I use phenix.refine it returns all residues nonbonded. Corresponding carboxyl and amino groups are in close proximity to make a bond. I tried to write LINKR record in .pdb - with no success: ... LINKR 1ZN G 5 FGA G 6 trans LINKR FGA G 6 DAM G 7 trans ... Is there a way to create peptide bonds in this inhibitor chain? I'm using phenix Version: 1.7.3. Thanks in advance, Vitali

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discrepancy in MolProbity statistics
by Michael Thompson 15 May '12

15 May '12

Hello All, I recently ran into a discrepancy between the MolProbity statistics reported by phenix.refine and the MolProbity statistics reported by the actual MolProbity webserver. I was hoping someone could comment on this and let me know if this is a warning sign that something is amiss. The structure (resolution=2.0A) seems to be correct and well refined, based on R-factors (0.1591/0.1774) and geometry reports from the various validation tools. Remark 3, which was written out to the pdb file by phenix.refine, contains the following: REMARK 3 MOLPROBITY STATISTICS. REMARK 3 ALL-ATOM CLASHSCORE : 4.14 REMARK 3 RAMACHANDRAN PLOT: REMARK 3 OUTLIERS : 0.00 % REMARK 3 ALLOWED : 2.32 % REMARK 3 FAVORED : 97.68 % REMARK 3 ROTAMER OUTLIERS : 1.83 % REMARK 3 CBETA DEVIATIONS : 0 Remark 40, which was created by and downloaded from the MolProbity web server, contains slightly different statistics: REMARK 40 MOLPROBITY OUTPUT SCORES: REMARK 40 ALL-ATOM CLASHSCORE : 0.83 REMARK 40 BAD ROTAMERS : 1.6% 8/510 (TARGET 0-1%) REMARK 40 RAMACHANDRAN OUTLIERS : 0.0% 0/657 (TARGET 0.2%) REMARK 40 RAMACHANDRAN FAVORED : 97.7% 642/657 (TARGET 98.0%) I am mainly concerned about the values of the ALL-ATOM CLASHSCORE, as they are significantly different according to the two calculations. Thanks in advance for any information/answers! Mike -- Michael C. Thompson Graduate Student Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Division Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles miket(a)chem.ucla.edu

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phenix.model
by r n 14 May '12

14 May '12

Hi I did get different values in phenix.model_vs_data, after the refinement gave me R and Rfree as 24 and 29% and phenix.model_vs_data gave me R_compute and Rfree-compute as 22 and 26%. Thought that both R-compute and refinement values should be more or less same? any suggestions R

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CASP 10: Call for targets to assess the state of the art in protein structure modeling
by Torsten Schwede 11 May '12

11 May '12

*CASP 10: Call for targets to assess the state of the art in protein structure modeling* As many of you know, CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure prediction) has been assessing the state of the art in modeling protein structure from sequence since 1994, running a community experiment once every two years. In these experiments, information on soon to be solved structures is collected from the experimental community, and the sequence data are passed to the structure modeling community so that blind predictions of structure and can collected and assessed (1). Over that period CASP has seen enormous progress in the quality of modeled structures (2), but many problems remain. CASP is only possible because of the generous participation of the experimental community in providing the modeling targets (3). We recently appealed for your help in providing novel fold and membrane protein targets for the ongoing CASP ROLL process. That is very successful, with 57 prediction teams participating and 26 targets already released, thanks to all of you who have contributed. The prediction season for the next full biannual experiment, CASP 10, begins May 1, and so we are now asking for your help again, this time in reaching our goal of releasing at least varied 100 targets in a the three-month period. We need all sorts of targets, spanning the categories below: 1. (More than ever) novel folds and membrane protein targets -- even with the extended collection season provided by CASP ROLL, there will be still a shortage. There are some interesting methods developments for ab initio modeling, and it is important to be able to decisively evaluate their effectiveness. 2. A diversity of comparative modeling targets. Cases where the there is fairly high sequence identity (30-50%) between the target structure and an available template are valuable for testing the degree to which model accuracy can approach that of experiment, particularly in functionally critical regions. Cases with lower sequence identity to template, right down to undetectable, are valuable for testing the ability of the methods to detect remote homologs, to overcome challenging alignment difficulties, to make use of multiple templates, and to build regions of the structure not obviously available from a template. 3. Targets containing significant amounts of disordered structure, so as to test the ability of methods to identify these regions. Disorder identified by absence of density in crystallography is current the main source and very useful, but its important to have cases where the nature of the disorder has been established by other means, such as NMR. 4. Some targets will also be used to test methods of structure refinement. In these cases, the best model received for a target will be released to the refinement community, who will subsequently submit new models. This too is an area where there have been some exciting developments in the last year, so we are hoping for significant progress. Refinement targets are selected based on the nature of the errors in the initial models. Because of the extended process, these targets need to be available for longer before release of the experimental structure. For those of you who have not provided targets to CASP before, the procedure is simple. There are three ways to submit targets: (1) Go the target submission web page and fill in the easy form; (2) When you submit your co-ordinates to the PDB, tick the 'CASP HOLD' box, automatically setting up a target entry; (3) Send an email the prediction center with details. If you have queries, there is a very experienced prediction center staff to deal with them. The key thing is timing: We need a window of at least four weeks between receiving information about a target and the release of your experimental structure. A longer window -- up to eight weeks - is often useful, for example so that a target can be used to test refinement methods, but is not essential (note that using the PDB target submission route automatically selects eight weeks). We don't need your experimental structure in advance of its release by the PDB, provided that will happen by the end of August. Please consult the target submission page for more details: http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp10/targets_submission.cgi There are already over 200 prediction teams signed for CASP 10, and so any targets provided will receive plenty of attention. If you have a suitable target now, we are ready to receive it. If new targets come up before July 17, we would also love to have them. (After July 17, we will continue with CASP ROLL for novel folds and membrane proteins). So please get in touch whenever a suitable opportunity arises, and help improve modeling methods. Thanks, CASP organizing committee John Moult, IBBR, University of Maryland, USA Krzysztof Fidelis, University of California, Davis, USA Andriy Kryshtafovych, University of California, Davis, USA Torsten Schwede, SIB & Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland Anna Tramontano, University of Rome, Italy Get in touch: casp(a)predictioncenter.org More information: http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp10/index.cgi CASP Roll targets so far: http://www.predictioncenter.org/casprol/targetlist.cgi Submit a target: http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp10/targets_submission.cgi 1. Critical assessment of methods of protein structure prediction (CASP)--round IX. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21997831> Moult J, Fidelis K, Kryshtafovych A, Tramontano A. Proteins. 2011;79 Suppl 10:1-5. doi: 10.1002/prot.23200. Epub 2011 Oct 14. 2. CASP9 results compared to those of previous CASP experiments. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21997643> Kryshtafovych A, Fidelis K, Moult J. Proteins. 2011;79 Suppl 10:196-207. doi: 10.1002/prot.23182. Epub 2011 Oct 14 3.Target highlights in CASP9: Experimental target structures for the critical assessment of techniques for protein structure prediction. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22020785> Kryshtafovych A et al. Proteins 2011;79 Suppl 10:6-20. doi: 10.1002/prot.23196. Epub 2011 Oct 21.

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Fwd: Re: anisotropic induced noise amplification
by Pavel Afonine 11 May '12

11 May '12

Hi, I realized Randy's reply did not go to the mailing list, so I'm forwarding it now. Pavel -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [phenixbb] anisotropic induced noise amplification Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 09:49:57 +0100 From: Randy Read <rjr27(a)cam.ac.uk> To: Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> CC: developers(a)phenix-online.org <developers(a)phenix-online.org>, Peter Zwart <PHZwart(a)lbl.gov> In the absence of an answer from Peter (who implemented this and therefore ought to know best), I'm pretty sure that the idea is to measure how much difference there is in the amount of signal in the data that have received the biggest anisotropy corrections, compared to the ones that have received the smallest anisotropy corrections. If there's very little signal in the data that have been scaled up the most, then the noise is being amplified (nearly-random amplitudes have gone from being relatively small to the same size on average as the well-measured amplitudes). But what the Z-scores mean is not at all clear from that output, and I'm not aware that Peter has written anything describing this. This amplified noise is what I suspect is creating problems in phenix.refine refinement with highly anisotropic data, because if the experimental sigmas are ignored then the program doesn't know (after anisotropic scaling) which amplitudes of a comparable size contain signal and which are essentially noise. Anisotropic truncation gets rid of it, which would explain why refinement works better with anisotropically-truncated data. Randy On 6 May 2012, at 20:21, Pavel Afonine wrote: > Hi, > > did anyone address this post? I'm interested to know the answer > myself: I have absolutely no idea what is this. > > Pavel > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [phenixbb] anisotropic induced noise amplification > Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 16:06:55 -0500 > From: James Thompson <Thompson.James(a)mayo.edu> > Reply-To: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org> > To: phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org > > > > Anyone willing to summarize Xtriage's algorithm that determines > whether "/anisotropic induced noise amplification/" is present in > diffraction data? What is this noise amplification? Is it > anisotropic correction factors that over-fit the data thereby inducing > noise? > > Many thanks, > Jim T > > ---------------- Anisotropy analyses ---------------- > > Anisotropy ( [MaxAnisoB-MinAnisoB]/[MaxAnisoB] ) : 3.596e-01 > Anisotropic ratio p-value : 0.000e+00 > > The p-value is a measure of the severity of anisotropy as > observed in the PDB. > The p-value of 0.000e+00 indicates that roughly 100.0 % of > datasets available in the PDB have > an anisotropy equal to or worse than this dataset. > > > For the resolution shell spanning between 2.36 - 2.20 Angstrom, > the mean I/sigI is equal to 3.37. 42.2 % of these intensities have > an I/sigI > 3. When sorting these intensities by their anisotropic > correction factor and analysing the I/sigI behavior for this ordered > list, we can gauge the presence of 'anisotropy induced noise > amplification' > in reciprocal space. > > The quarter of Intensities *least* affected by the anisotropy > correction show > <I/sigI> : 3.82e+00 > Fraction of I/sigI > 3 : 5.01e-01 ( Z = 3.59 ) > > The quarter of Intensities *most* affected by the anisotropy > correction show > <I/sigI> : 2.02e+00 > Fraction of I/sigI > 3 : 1.84e-01 ( Z = 10.78 ) > > *The combined Z-score of 11.36 indicates that there probably is > significant* > *systematic noise amplification that could possibly lead to artefacts > in the* > *maps or difficulties in refinement* > > <Attached Message Part.txt> ------ Randy J. Read Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Tel: + 44 1223 336500 Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Fax: + 44 1223 336827 Hills Road E-mail: rjr27(a)cam.ac.uk <mailto:[email protected]> Cambridge CB2 0XY, U.K. www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk

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lastest phenix.refine reproducible problem
by 周文昌 09 May '12

09 May '12

Dear all, I've been learning phenix refinement on a MAD dataset which is already deposited in PDB. There are something I can not get through. Basically I had two steps refinement: 1->phenix.refine data.mtz model.pdb xray_data.high_resolution=3 fix_rotamers=true strategy=individual+adp+individual_sites+tls 2->phenix.refine data.mtz model-refined.pdb xray_data.high_resolution=3 fix_rotamers=false strategy=none main.number_of_macro_cycles=1 model-refined.pdb is actually from the 1st step, so in principle the R/R-free values should be the same for 1 and 2. However in my case, I had 0.2506/0.2996 for the 1st step but 0.2503/0.2998 for the second. I compared the resulting pdb and mtz files from the two steps. PDB model were exactly the same but there were little difference in the mtz file. Why there is difference in mtz file and would it be the reason for the difference of R factors? I use the latest version of phenix, phenix-dev-1009. thanks, Wenchang

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Installation on a POWER 7 system
by Rajagopalan, Senapathy 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if its possible to install PHENIX on a POWER 7 system. The cluster for which we have access runs on a power 7 system and at least my initial try to install the FC3 version failed. 'uname –rm' gives me '2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.ppc64 ppc64'. If only re-compilation is required, I would appreciate if you can point me in the right direction. Thanks Sena Methodist. Leading Medicine. Recognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of America's "Best Hospitals" in 13 specialties. Named to FORTUNE® Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For®" list seven years in a row. Designated as a Magnet hospital for excellence in nursing. Visit us at methodisthealth.com. Follow us at twitter.com/MethodistHosp and www.facebook.com/MethodistHospital. ***CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE*** This e-mail is the property of The Methodist Hospital and/or its relevant affiliates and may contain restricted and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender and delete all copies of the message. Thank you.

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NCS, TLS and anisotropic b-factors
by Morten Groftehauge 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi Phenixbb, Just one more stupid question: On the phenix website it says under *current limitations of phenix.refine*"Atoms with anisotropic ADP in NCS groups". I take this to mean that phenix.refine doesn't handle the combination of TLS and NCS well, is this correct? So what is the correct way of handling TLS and NCS? Do one run where individual, isotropic ADP+xyz and NCS are refined and then another where individual, isotropic ADP+xyz and TLS are refined? Or one run where individual, isotropic ADP+xyz and NCS are refined and then another where individual, isotropic ADP and TLS are refined? Or does the issues go away if you only use torsional NCS? Or adjusting the B-factor weight of NCS selections? Should B-factor weight then be set up or down? Okay, that was more than one question but at least they're all on the same topic. Cheers, Morten -- Morten K Grøftehauge, PhD Pohl Group Durham University

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UPDATE-- Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning?
by Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi Jürgen, Kelly and Nat, I tried XDS and MosFilm, they simply cannot index the data. I reprocessed the data yesterday with HKL2000 starting from frame #30 (splitting 1-29, 30-360), I did get it indexed to I4 and refined to very nice x/y chi^2 and covering most spots, I then used the index/refinement numbers for the whole data set. it seems that other spots were from a "nicely" positioned secondary crystal which fooled the program to pick P4 space group. I scaled the data as I4 and I422 to see which one is better. The I4 data set, ~95% complete overall, 9.2% R-sym. Xtriage suggested it should have higher symmetry I422 or twin (-k, -h, -l, almost 50%). MR sent well and best SG is I4, 2 mol/ASU, r and r-free went to about 27% and 32%, but if I used the twin-law in phenix.refine and ask phenix to generate r-free-flags with twinning in mind, the numbers went to ~22% and 27%. Shell Lower Upper Average Average Norm. Linear Square limit Angstrom I error stat. Chi**2 R-fac R-fac 50.00 7.32 440.7 8.8 5.1 1.481 0.027 0.030 7.32 5.81 167.2 4.2 3.2 1.868 0.045 0.048 5.81 5.08 196.3 5.1 3.9 2.130 0.053 0.058 5.08 4.62 243.1 6.2 4.7 2.264 0.056 0.061 4.62 4.29 236.7 6.4 4.9 2.057 0.055 0.055 4.29 4.03 167.6 5.6 4.7 1.819 0.067 0.066 4.03 3.83 139.5 5.6 5.0 1.740 0.083 0.075 3.83 3.66 110.2 5.5 5.1 1.645 0.102 0.091 3.66 3.52 92.5 5.6 5.3 1.459 0.117 0.101 3.52 3.40 76.5 5.7 5.4 1.372 0.143 0.124 3.40 3.30 59.3 5.7 5.5 1.278 0.179 0.146 3.30 3.20 47.3 5.7 5.6 1.161 0.212 0.179 3.20 3.12 40.7 5.8 5.7 1.103 0.241 0.201 3.12 3.04 31.6 5.8 5.8 1.057 0.298 0.254 3.04 2.97 28.9 5.9 5.9 1.031 0.331 0.271 2.97 2.91 22.6 5.9 5.9 0.985 0.400 0.340 2.91 2.85 19.0 6.0 6.0 0.991 0.484 0.405 2.85 2.80 17.1 6.1 6.1 0.957 0.518 0.437 2.80 2.75 14.6 6.2 6.2 0.908 0.577 0.485 2.75 2.70 13.0 6.4 6.3 0.931 0.645 0.550 All reflections 112.9 5.9 5.3 1.455 0.092 0.066 The I422 data (below), 1 mol/ASU, r and r-free were about 27% and 32%. Shell Lower Upper Average Average Norm. Linear Square limit Angstrom I error stat. Chi**2 R-fac R-fac 50.00 7.32 430.0 8.4 5.0 1.344 0.025 0.028 7.32 5.81 163.4 4.0 3.0 1.489 0.040 0.042 5.81 5.08 192.4 4.8 3.6 1.694 0.046 0.052 5.08 4.62 231.6 5.6 4.3 1.790 0.049 0.053 4.62 4.29 227.8 5.8 4.5 1.534 0.045 0.043 4.29 4.03 161.3 5.0 4.2 1.401 0.055 0.052 4.03 3.83 135.3 5.0 4.4 1.367 0.066 0.059 3.83 3.66 106.2 4.9 4.4 1.302 0.082 0.071 3.66 3.52 88.1 4.8 4.5 1.253 0.097 0.082 3.52 3.40 75.0 4.9 4.6 1.193 0.113 0.096 3.40 3.30 56.7 4.8 4.6 1.121 0.144 0.115 3.30 3.20 44.8 4.8 4.7 1.061 0.172 0.141 3.20 3.12 38.0 4.8 4.7 1.011 0.203 0.166 3.12 3.04 29.1 4.7 4.7 1.029 0.253 0.209 3.04 2.97 27.7 4.8 4.8 0.985 0.261 0.209 2.97 2.91 21.4 4.9 4.8 0.917 0.320 0.266 2.91 2.85 18.3 4.9 4.8 0.949 0.380 0.316 2.85 2.80 16.1 4.9 4.9 0.955 0.431 0.358 2.80 2.75 14.2 5.0 5.0 0.940 0.483 0.399 2.75 2.70 12.6 5.2 5.2 0.886 0.536 0.462 All reflections 110.9 5.1 4.5 1.236 0.076 0.054 So my questions are: 1. Is it really twinned since including twin-law in refinment gave much better numbers? 2. When refining with twin-law, Are the maps by phenix.refine output already "corrected" mtz/map? 3. If I use xray_data.r_free_flags.generate=True, can I write the data mtz out with the generated r-free-flags so that each round of refinement uses the same CV set? Thnaks, Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH Building 40, Room 4609B 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 594-8710 (Tel) (301) 793-0794 (Cell) (301) 480-2658 (Fax) ****************************************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ****************************************************************** From: Bosch, Juergen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 1:34 PM To: PHENIX user mailing list Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning? Why don't you index over the whole dataset (XDS) ? Or at least over a couple of images (Mosflm) Jürgen On May 7, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Kelly Daughtry wrote: I agree. The fact that two "crystals forms" appear, with related unit cells: P422 data: unit_cell = 191.6999969 191.6999969 311.0539856 90 90 90 space_group = "P 4 2 2" I422 data: unit_cell = 191.783 191.783 103.775 90 90 90 space_group = "I 4 2 2" indicated to me you have mis-indexed the P422 data. It is likely I422. Kelly ******************************************************* Kelly Daughtry, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Raetz Lab Biochemistry Department Duke University Alex H. Sands, Jr. Building 303 Research Drive RM 250 Durham, NC 27710 P: 919-684-5178 ******************************************************* On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Nathaniel Echols <nechols(a)lbl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Kelly Daughtry <kddaught(a)bu.edu<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Looking at the P422 data, it look like you have pseudo translational symmetry. Did you try processing this data as I422? >From the P422_xtriage.log: The full list of Patterson peaks is: x y z height p-value(height) ( 0.500, 0.500, 0.165 ) : 78.635 (6.634e-07) ( 0.000, 0.000, 0.330 ) : 56.292 (2.795e-05) ( 0.500, 0.500, 0.497 ) : 30.920 (1.207e-03) One word of caution: an exceptionally high off-origin peak can mean that the unit cell was measured too large, and you've integrated extra reflections that are really non-existent. (I'm not sure what the threshold for this is, but 80% seems pretty large.) Splitting and various indexing artifacts can sometimes lead to this. I'd recommend running labelit.index on the images and seeing what it thinks the lattice should be. -Nat _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/

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redundancy of merged multiple datasets
by CPMAS Chen 08 May '12

08 May '12

Dear all, I have merged multiple datasets obtained from the same crystals, different spots of course, it certainly increases the signal/noise ratio and makes the resolution go higher a little bitter. But, the con is, the redundancy is increased to ~20 after I merged 6 datasets. Whereas the individual dataset has the redundancy around 3~5. Is this acceptable? Thanks! *************************************************** CPMAS Chen Research Associate University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology ******************************************************

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Re: [phenixbb] UPDATE-- Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning?
by Kay Diederichs 08 May '12

08 May '12

> On May 8, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote: > > Hi J?rgen, Kelly and Nat, > > I tried XDS and MosFilm, they simply cannot index the data. > Hi, "simply cannot index" is hard to believe. 90% of indexing failures are due to wrong header values, 9% to the spindle rotating in the "wrong" direction, and the last 1% has other causes. I have yet to see a single-crystal dataset that cannot be indexed. If you are willing to confidentially share (at least some of) your data, I could try to process them with XDS - at least you get another opionion. Easiest way: copy them into a Dropbox or Wuala folder and share that. best, Kay

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phenix.refine crashes
by Jianghai Zhu 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi, I am using phenix.refine dev-1051. When I was trying flip_peptide, it crashes with the following error messages. Validate: |--------START--------| |--------FINAL--------| residue map_cc 2mFo-DFc mFo-DFc map_cc 2mFo-DFc mFo-DFc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/build/intel-linux-2.6-x86_64/../../phenix/phenix/command_line/refine.py", line 11, in <module> command_line.run(command_name="phenix.refine", args=sys.argv[1:]) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/phenix/phenix/refinement/command_line.py", line 146, in run call_back_handler=call_back_handler) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/phenix/phenix/refinement/driver.py", line 1499, in run ncs_manager = self.ncs_manager) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/phenix/phenix/refinement/strategies.py", line 928, in refinement_machine params = params.flip_peptides) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/cctbx_project/mmtbx/refinement/flip_peptides.py", line 445, in run log=log) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/cctbx_project/mmtbx/refinement/fit_rotamers.py", line 749, in validate_changes sites_cart=sites_cart) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/cctbx_project/mmtbx/refinement/flip_peptides.py", line 152, in __call__ return (self.rama_lookup.evaluate_sites(res_type,i_seqs,sites_cart)<0.002) File "/home/jzhu/phenix/phenix-dev-1051/cctbx_project/mmtbx/rotamer/ramachandran_eval.py", line 76, in evaluate_sites "isoleucine or valine"]) AssertionError -- Jianghai

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Re: [phenixbb] phenixbb Digest, Vol 78, Issue 9
by CPMAS Chen 08 May '12

08 May '12

Thank you all. Actually, as Pavel said there is a easy way to do so, I changed the cif file of the ligand, where I had restraints on the dihedral modified. Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 13:48:06 -0700 > From: Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> > To: phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org > Subject: Re: [phenixbb] how to define a molecule in two rigid_body > Message-ID: <4FA59206.7090207(a)lbl.gov> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Charles, > > I think you are trying to achieve two goals, "keep conformation you > like" and "make sure it fits given density", while one of the two > contradicts to the other. That is either the density you are trying to > fit in your molecule or your expectations about the geometry of the > molecule (or both) are not quite right. > > I think this is how much one can tell given the information you provided. > > I don't think you need to do that sophisticated rigid-body kind of > refinement that you described in your original post. The solution must > be easier. May be if you send me the model and data and tell which part > of the model you think is in trouble then probably I could help more. > > Pavel > > On 5/5/12 10:22 AM, Nathaniel Echols wrote: > > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:39 AM, CPMAS Chen<cpmasmit(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am almost at final stage. but the refinement always shows error > density at > >> the single bond connecting the two rings. I have tried manually change > the > >> orientation of these two rings, but there are two concerns that I > thought > >> why I did not get the perfect fitting. > >> 1. I might not choose the perfect the orientation of these rings, and > these > >> give me a non-perfect fitting, and high b-factor. > >> 2. since phenix always tries to change the conformation a little bit to > fit > >> the density, so this also might cause some errors, or not the > conformation I > >> like. > >> > >> Then, my sense is that, if I can somehow define the two parts of the > >> molecule as two rigid bodies, then phenix only can has free rotation of > >> these two rings, and the fitting might come out good. > > You can define custom planarity restraints for the rings - there isn't > > good documentation for this, but here is what to do: > > > > 1. If you're using the command line, look here in the .eff file: > > > > refinement { > > geometry_restraints { > > edits { > > planarity { > > atom_selection = resseq 1001 and (name C1 or name C2 or name > > C3 or name C4 or name C5 or name C6) > > sigma = 0.1 > > } > > } > > } > > } > > > > (Other parameters omitted for clarify, of course. I'm not sure what > > an appropriate sigma would be - you'll probably have to experiment.) > > > > 2. If you're using the GUI, make sure you have the latest nightly > > build, and on the middle configuration tab, click "Custom geometry > > restraints", which will open a window that includes a tab for creating > > planarity restraints. > > > > Technically, the two planes won't actually be "rigid bodies" (i.e. > > "constrained"), but if you make the planarity restraint sufficiently > > tight there will be very little deviation from ideality. (Just don't > > make it too tight, or you'll confuse the minimizer.) > > > > -Nat > > _______________________________________________ > > phenixbb mailing list > > phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org > > http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- *************************************************** CPMAS Chen Research Associate University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology ******************************************************

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Difficult dataset and refinement--P422? I422?Twinning?
by Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear All, I have collected several dataset for an antibody:antigen complex. It apparently indexed to P4 space group with large cell dimensions of 191.7000/191.7000/311.0540. When I processed as P1 and ran Pointless, it suggested P422 as space group. P4212 gives the best MR solution with 6 mol/ASU (18 chains total ). However, ridigbody and subsequent refinement with TLS could not reduce the r and r-free which stayed at ~48%. Tried to go P4, P222...(12 mol/ASU) with twinning, but the refinement failed due to insufficient computer memory (12 GB), it was also impossible to refine in P1 due to the same reason. But for some data sets, HKL2000 also gave I4 space group with c axis reduced to 1/3 of that of P4. With the I4 data (~2.7 A resolution), I422 was the best MR space group (1 mol/ASU), the refinement went down to r=29% and r-free=34%, but won't go down further. Please advise if it's possible to use the data Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH Building 40, Room 4609B 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 594-8710 (Tel) (301) 793-0794 (Cell) (301) 480-2658 (Fax) ****************************************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ******************************************************************

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how to define a molecule in two rigid_body
by CPMAS Chen 05 May '12

05 May '12

Thanks, Ralf. I am almost at final stage. but the refinement always shows error density at the single bond connecting the two rings. I have tried manually change the orientation of these two rings, but there are two concerns that I thought why I did not get the perfect fitting. 1. I might not choose the perfect the orientation of these rings, and these give me a non-perfect fitting, and high b-factor. 2. since phenix always tries to change the conformation a little bit to fit the density, so this also might cause some errors, or not the conformation I like. Then, my sense is that, if I can somehow define the two parts of the molecule as two rigid bodies, then phenix only can has free rotation of these two rings, and the fitting might come out good. Charles %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Aneshesiology %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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how to define a molecule in two rigid_body
by CPMAS Chen 05 May '12

05 May '12

Dear Colleagues, First, I would say sorry to bother your guys at Friday evening. :) I have a molecule which has two rings connected by a single bond. I would like this two rings freely rotate around the single bond, but keep each ring conformation fixed (as there are sidechains connected to each ring). Could you help me do this rigid_body definition, or suggest a better idea to do so in phenix? Regards and Thanks! Charles Chen. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Aneshesiology %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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geometry weight optimization with mlhl target
by Mooers, Blaine H.M. (HSC) 04 May '12

04 May '12

Dear Phenixbb, How does one optimize geometry when using the mlhl target in refinement with Henderson-Lattman coefficients in the input reflection file? The wxc_scale keyword is not recognized when I used the mlhl target, but it is recognized when I use the ml target by setting main.use_experimental_phases=false. Blaine Blaine Mooers Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center S.L. Young Biomedical Research Center Rm. 466 Letter address: Shipping address: P.O. Box 26901, BRC 466 975 NE 10th Street, BRC 466 Oklahoma City, OK 73190 Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5419 office: (405) 271-8300 lab: (405) 271-8313 fax: (405) 271-3910 e-mail: blaine-mooers(a)ouhsc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> webpage: http://www.oumedicine.com/department-of-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology/…

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secondary structure restraints helices/helixes proline
by Morten Groftehauge 04 May '12

04 May '12

Hi guys, How does phenix.refine handle prolines in helices? When I look in high resolution structures it seems that the carbonyl of the residue four positions before the proline (also in the helix) should be more perpendicular than parallel to the helix. This makes sense since there isn't any nitrogen for it to hydrogen bond to. But when I refine my structure it seems as if phenix.refine is trying to push the carbonyl into parallel position. Am I imagining things? It's not the best data and this is a troublesome region. Cheers, Morten -- Morten K Grøftehauge, PhD Pohl Group Durham University

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Re: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation
by Terwilliger, Thomas C 03 May '12

03 May '12

Hi Kendall, Yes, I think you could use this kind of approach to make overall decisions of any kind, including those you suggest. I would not use Rsleep for anything at all, other than calculating a final number. I would use a fixed Rfree set (which could be a subset of the total free set or the whole set) for all such decision making. If a lot of such decisions are made with Rfree...then yes it would be good to have an Rsleep to make sure that everything is ok. All the best, Tom T ________________________________ From: Kendall Nettles [knettles(a)scripps.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:05 AM To: Terwilliger, Thomas C; PHENIX user mailing list Subject: Fwd: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation Hi Tom, Do you think something like this could be used during refinement to identify the "best" resolution limits? If you have an Rsleep set would Rfree be sufficient for this? I imagine collecting data with a ring of noise and then let the optimal resolution be determined during refinement. My understanding of this is that the modern refinement algorithms can handle some noise in the reflections, but maybe this could be a way to optimize how much signal is needed to contribute in a positive fashion? Kendall

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Re: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation
by Leonid Sazanov 03 May '12

03 May '12

Hi, so will we see now the possibility to apply anisotropic resolution limits truncation in Phenix? Despite the fact that a lot of people use UCLA server, there is still no possibility to do this in any major crystallographic software, AFAIK. Phaser does the scaling, but no truncation, and noise sitting in those regions where there is no signal, is a real culprit. Large SIGFs there do not resolve the problem completely. Thanks. >>>>>> Message: 4 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:05:57 -0400 From: Mario Sanches <mariosan(a)gmail.com> To: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org> Subject: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - UPDATE .......... It turns out that the reason to my nightmares was a highly anisotropic dataset. When I tried to fix geometry related problems in coot, phenix.refine was twisting the geometry back again, probably because it was trying to fit a lot of noise due to the anisotropy. Everything was getting worst, geometry, clashscore, and Ramachandran. Pavel finally corrected it by using this server: http://services.mbi.ucla.edu/anisoscale/ ............ -- Dr. Leonid A. Sazanov Research group leader Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit Wellcome Trust / MRC Building Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY WEB: www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44-1223-252910 Fax: +44-1223-252915

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Secondary Structure Definitions
by Antony Oliver 03 May '12

03 May '12

Dear all, Is there a phenix jiffy to assign (and write!) secondary structure definitions to a pdb file? I'm currently using MacPyMOL to put together some figures, and I can see that some of the secondary structure elements in the cartoon representation aren't being drawn correctly. Being slightly old-school, I used to use DSSP and the little program dssp2pdb to extract the information and put it into the PDB header. Is there a simpler / easier way to do this? (NB: I'm aware that CCP4MG copes better with SS assignment, but I prefer to use PyMOL in this instance). With thanks, Tony. --- Dr Antony W Oliver Senior Research Fellow CR-UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group Genome Damage and Stability Centre Science Park Road University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RQ email: antony.oliver(a)sussex.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> tel (office): +44 (0)1273 678349 tel (lab): +44 (0)1273 677512

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Fwd: Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation
by Kendall Nettles 03 May '12

03 May '12

Hi Tom, Do you think something like this could be used during refinement to identify the "best" resolution limits? If you have an Rsleep set would Rfree be sufficient for this? I imagine collecting data with a ring of noise and then let the optimal resolution be determined during refinement. My understanding of this is that the modern refinement algorithms can handle some noise in the reflections, but maybe this could be a way to optimize how much signal is needed to contribute in a positive fashion? Kendall From: "Terwilliger, Thomas C" <terwilliger(a)lanl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: May 3, 2012 10:23:29 AM EDT To: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation Reply-To: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]>> Hi Kendall, This could work. You could define a fixed set of test reflections, and never touch these, and never include them in refinement, and always use this fixed set to calculate a free R. Then you could do whatever you want, throw away some work reflections, etc, refine, and evaluate how things are working with the fixed free R set. All the best, Tom T ________________________________________ From: phenixbb-bounces(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> [phenixbb-bounces(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Kendall Nettles [knettles(a)scripps.edu<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:05 AM To: PHENIX user mailing list Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation Hi Pavel, Could you use a similar approach to figuring out where to cut your data in general? Could you compare the effects of throwing out reflections in different bins, based on I/sigma, for example, and use this to determine what is truly noise? I might predict that as you throw out "noise" reflections you will see a larger drop in Rfree than from throwing out "signal" reflections, which should converge as you approach the "true" resolution. While we don't use I/sigma exclusively, we do to tend towards cutting most of our data sets at the same i/sigma, around 1.5. It would be great if there was a more scientific approach. Best, Kendall On May 3, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: Hi Kendall, removing same amount of data randomly gives Rwork/Rfree ~ 30/35%. Pavel On 5/3/12 4:13 AM, Kendall Nettles wrote: Hi Pavel, What happens if you throw out that many reflections that have signal? Can you take out a random set of the same size? Best, Kendall On May 3, 2012, at 2:41 AM, "Pavel Afonine"<pafonine(a)lbl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Kendall, I just did this quick test: calculated R-factors using original and anisotropy-corrected Mike Sawaya's data (*) Original: r_work : 0.3026 r_free : 0.3591 number of reflections: 26944 Truncated: r_work : 0.2640 r_free : 0.3178 number of reflections: 18176 The difference in R-factors is not too surprising given how many reflections was removed (about 33%). Pavel (*) Note, the data available in PDB is anisotropy corrected. The original data set was kindly provided to me by the author. On 5/2/12 5:25 AM, Kendall Nettles wrote: I didnt think the structure was publishable with Rfree of 33% because I was expecting the reviewers to complain. We have tested a number of data sets on the UCLA server and it usually doesn't make much difference. I wouldn't expect truncation alone to change Rfree by 5%, and it usually doesn't. The two times I have seen dramatic impacts on the maps ( and Rfree ), the highly anisotrophic sets showed strong waves of difference density as well, which was fixed by throwing out the noise. We have moved to using loose data cutoffs for most structures, but I do think anisotropic truncation can be helpful in rare cases. Kendall On May 1, 2012, at 3:07 PM, "Dale Tronrud"<det102(a)uoxray.uoregon.edu<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: While philosophically I see no difference between a spherical resolution cutoff and an elliptical one, a drop in the free R can't be the justification for the switch. A model cannot be made more "publishable" simply by discarding data. We have a whole bunch of empirical guides for judging the quality of this and that in our field. We determine the resolution limit of a data set (and imposing a "limit" is another empirical choice made) based on Rmrg, or Rmes, or Rpim getting too big or I/sigI getting too small and there is no agreement on how "too big/small" is too "too big/small". We then have other empirical guides for judging the quality of the models we produce (e.g. Rwork, Rfree, rmsds of various sorts). Most people seem to recognize that the these criteria need to be applied differently for different resolutions. A lower resolution model is allowed a higher Rfree, for example. Isn't is also true that a model refined to data with a cutoff of I/sigI of 1 would be expected to have a free R higher than a model refined to data with a cutoff of 2? Surely we cannot say that the decrease in free R that results from changing the cutoff criteria from 1 to 2 reflects an improved model. It is the same model after all. Sometimes this shifting application of empirical criteria enhances the adoption of new technology. Certainly the TLS parametrization of atomic motion has been widely accepted because it results in lower working and free Rs. I've seen it knock 3 to 5 percent off, and while that certainly means that the model fits the data better, I'm not sure that the quality of the hydrogen bond distances, van der Waals distances, or maps are any better. The latter details are what I really look for in a model. On the other hand, there has been good evidence through the years that there is useful information in the data beyond an I/sigI of 2 or an Rmeas> 100% but getting people to use this data has been a hard slog. The reason for this reluctance is that the R values of the resulting models are higher. Of course they are higher! That does not mean the models are of poorer quality, only that data with lower signal/noise has been used that was discarded in the models you used to develop your "gut feeling" for the meaning of R. When you change your criteria for selecting data you have to discard your old notions about the acceptable values of empirical quality measures. You either have to normalize your measure, as Phil Jeffrey recommends, by ensuring that you calculate your R's with the same reflections, or by making objective measures of map quality. Dale Tronrud P.S. It is entirely possible that refining a model to a very optimistic resolution cutoff and calculating the map to a lower resolution might be better than throwing out the data altogether. On 5/1/2012 10:34 AM, Kendall Nettles wrote: I have seen dramatic improvements in maps and behavior during refinement following use of the UCLA anisotropy server in two different cases. For one of them the Rfree went from 33% to 28%. I don't think it would have been publishable otherwise. Kendall On May 1, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Bryan Lepore wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Phil Evans<pre(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Are anisotropic cutoff desirable? is there a peer-reviewed publication - perhaps from Acta Crystallographica - which describes precisely why scaling or refinement programs are inadequate to ameliorate the problem of anisotropy, and argues why the method applied in Strong, et. al. 2006 satisfies this need? -Bryan _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb _______________________________________________ phenixbb mailing list phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org<mailto:[email protected]> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb

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How to include restraints when refining DNA?
by Xun Lu 03 May '12

03 May '12

Dear all, I am refining a protein-DNA complex structure at 2.9A resolution. The R/Rfree is 0.2181/0.2501, which is pretty good, but I can tell that the DNA is not well refined. Some sugar puckers are not right. The distances between some base-paired bases are kind of short (~2.5A). I've tried including a reference model for the DNA, or including a cif file, and I've also tried to turn on the secondary_structure_restraints.... nothing worked. I must have not done it in a correct way. But how to do it? And how to deal with sugar puckers? In refmac, I can set the distances between bases during the refinement, so there must be a way to do it in phenix as well? Any advice is welcome. Thanks! Xun -- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University

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anisotropic induced noise amplification
by James Thompson 02 May '12

02 May '12

Anyone willing to summarize Xtriage's algorithm that determines whether "anisotropic induced noise amplification" is present in diffraction data? What is this noise amplification? Is it anisotropic correction factors that over-fit the data thereby inducing noise? Many thanks, Jim T ---------------- Anisotropy analyses ---------------- Anisotropy ( [MaxAnisoB-MinAnisoB]/[MaxAnisoB] ) : 3.596e-01 Anisotropic ratio p-value : 0.000e+00 The p-value is a measure of the severity of anisotropy as observed in the PDB. The p-value of 0.000e+00 indicates that roughly 100.0 % of datasets available in the PDB have an anisotropy equal to or worse than this dataset. For the resolution shell spanning between 2.36 - 2.20 Angstrom, the mean I/sigI is equal to 3.37. 42.2 % of these intensities have an I/sigI > 3. When sorting these intensities by their anisotropic correction factor and analysing the I/sigI behavior for this ordered list, we can gauge the presence of 'anisotropy induced noise amplification' in reciprocal space. The quarter of Intensities *least* affected by the anisotropy correction show <I/sigI> : 3.82e+00 Fraction of I/sigI > 3 : 5.01e-01 ( Z = 3.59 ) The quarter of Intensities *most* affected by the anisotropy correction show <I/sigI> : 2.02e+00 Fraction of I/sigI > 3 : 1.84e-01 ( Z = 10.78 ) The combined Z-score of 11.36 indicates that there probably is significant systematic noise amplification that could possibly lead to artefacts in the maps or difficulties in refinement

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Re: [phenixbb] Scaling of diffraction data
by jens j birktoft 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi Everybody, Is there a protocol for re-scaling several sets of diffraction data against a common reference set, either native or based on a Fcalc set computed from a common input model. The are from a number of derivatives, are all isomorphus, and are anomalous data . We want to compare the relative peak heights in Fo-Fc and Anom. difference maps Cheers Jens +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jens J. Birktoft e-mail: birktoft @ nyu.edu <jens.knold(a)gmail.com> ; Phone: 212-749-5057 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Xtriage problem
by Abhinav Kumar 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi, When I try to do R vs R analysis for calculated data using xtriage, it has a problem accepting calc labels. source /home/sw/rhel5/x86_64/phenix/phenix-1.7.3-928/phenix_env phenix.xtriage_1.7.3-928 junk.mtz calc_labels=FC ==> Sorry: No matching array: scaling.input.xray_data.calc_labels=FC Howevere, it works fine with an earlier version: source /home/sw/rhel5/x86_64/phenix/phenix-1.6.4-486/phenix_env phenix.xtriage_1.6.4-486 junk.mtz calc_labels=FC Thanks, Abhinav JCSG@SSRL, SLAC (650) 926-2992 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: SP16569N-180314 Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:09:00 -0700 From: Miller, Mitchell D. <mmiller(a)slac.stanford.edu> To: Kumar, Abhinav <abhinavk(a)slac.stanford.edu> Hmm, it seems like it may be a bug introduced into phenix. (or else they changed they syntax and did not update the documentation) Can you report it? I get it to do the RvR analysis for calculated data if I use source /home/sw/rhel5/x86_64/phenix/phenix-1.6.4-486/phenix_env phenix.xtriage_1.6.4-486 junk.mtz calc_labels=FC but if I use source /home/sw/rhel5/x86_64/phenix/phenix-1.7.1-743/phenix_env phenix.xtriage_1.7.1-743 junk.mtz calc_labels=FC or source /home/sw/rhel5/x86_64/phenix/phenix-1.7.3-928/phenix_env phenix.xtriage_1.7.3-928 junk.mtz calc_labels=FC then I get the error Sorry: No matching array: scaling.input.xray_data.calc_labels=FC Thanks, Mitch P.S. the results I got were: R vs R statistic: R_abs_twin =<|I1-I2|>/<|I1+I2|> Lebedev, Vagin, Murshudov. Acta Cryst. (2006). D62, 83-95 R_abs_twin observed data : 0.451 R_abs_twin calculated data : 0.502 R_sq_twin =<(I1-I2)^2>/<(I1+I2)^2> R_sq_twin observed data : 0.279 R_sq_twin calculated data : 0.335 The analyses of the Patterson function reveals a significant off-origin peak that is 44.82 % of the origin peak, indicating pseudo translational symmetry. The chance of finding a peak of this or larger height by random in a structure without pseudo translational symmetry is equal to the 1.4447e-04. See the relevant section of the logfile for more details. The results of the L-test indicate that the intensity statistics behave as expected. No twinning is suspected. Even though no twinning is suspected, it might be worthwhile carrying out a refinement using a dedicated twin target anyway, as twinned structures with low twin fractions are difficult to distinguish from non-twinned structures. -----Original Message----- From: Kumar, Abhinav Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:30 PM To: Miller, Mitchell D. Subject: Re: SP16569N-180314 I am having trouble inputting Calc labels to xtriage: My mtz file has the following columns: FreeR_flag FP SIGFP FC PHIC FC_ALL PHIC_ALL FWT PHWT DELFWT PHDELWT FOM PHCOMB I tried "FC,PHIC" and "FC" for calc labels but xtriage does not like it. It writes: No matching array: scaling.input.xray_data.calc_labels=FC Possible choices: /mnt/exdsstaff/abhinavk/Refine/SP16569N-180314/RESULTS/current.mtz:FP,SIGFP /mnt/exdsstaff/abhinavk/Refine/SP16569N-180314/RESULTS/current.mtz:FOM /mnt/exdsstaff/abhinavk/Refine/SP16569N-180314/RESULTS/current.mtz:PHCOMB Thanks, Abhinav JCSG@SSRL, SLAC (650) 926-2992 On 05/01/2012 12:51 PM, Miller, Mitchell D. wrote: Also, you could try running xtriage with FC's from the untwined refinement to look at the R vs R stats for Fc vs Fobs.

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Re: [phenixbb] Geometry Restraints - Anisotropic truncation
by Frank von Delft 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi Pavel > we discussed this with Randy the other day.. A couple of copy-pasts from > that discussion: > > In general, given highly anisotropic data set: > > 1) maps calculated using all (unmodified) data by phenix.refine, > phenix.maps and similar tools are better than maps calculated using > anisotropy truncated data. So, yes, for the purpose of map calculation > there is no need to do anything: Phenix map calculation tools deal with > anisotropy very well. How did you define "better"? If there are a lot of reflections without signal, that makes them essentially missing, so by including them, you're effectively filling in for those reflections with only DFc. If anisotropy is very strong (i.e. many missing reflections), does that not introduce very significant model bias? The maps would look cleaner, though. (I haven't tested myself, btw; I'm genuinely wondering.) > 2) phenix.refine refinement may fail if one uses original anisotropic > data set. This is probably because the ML target does not use > experimental sigmas (and anisotropy correction by UCLA server is nothing > but Miller index dependent removing the data by sigma criterion - yeah, > that old well criticized practice of throwing away the data that you > worked hard to measure!). May be using sigmas in ML calculation could > solve the problem but that has to be proved. If there are large swathes of reciprocal space without signal - I don't see why shouldn't that be excluded? Tossing out individual reflections is of course silly, but what's wrong with trimming down the edges of the elipsoid? Cheers phx

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Inputting DNA for Phenix MR and/or Autobuild
by Charles Allerston 02 May '12

02 May '12

Dear all, I can't find much in the way of documentation for this. Can someone point me to some please? I basically want to know the correct format for entering DNA into the search for MR and inputting into Autobuild. If I have a double stranded DNA do I enter it as >DNA1 AATT:AATT >DNA1 AATT TTAA etc. ? cheers, charlie Dr. Charles Allerston Genome Integrity & Repair Structural Genomics Consortium Nuffield Department of Medicine Old Road Campus University of Oxford OX3 7DQ http://www.thesgc.org/scientists/groups/oxford/genome-integrity-and-repair

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Call for submissions to June 2012 Computational Crystallography Newsletter (CCN)
by Nigel Moriarty 01 May '12

01 May '12

Calling for articles and short communications of interest to structural biologists. The deadline for publication in the June 2012 issue is 29 May, 2012. The Computational Crystallography Newsletter (CCN) is an electronic newsletter for structural biologists, and is published online every 6 months. Feature articles, meeting announcements and reports can be submitted to me at any time for consideration. Submission of text by email or word-processing files using the CCN templates is requested. Past newsletters and the template are available at www.phenix-online.org/newsletter. Cheers Nigel -- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 64R0246B, Physical Biosciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720-8235 Phone : 510-486-5709 Email : NWMoriarty(a)LBL.gov Fax : 510-486-5909 Web : CCI.LBL.gov

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Estimation of ligand binding affinity by occupancy refinement
by Zoran Stefanic 01 May '12

01 May '12

Dear all, I have a question about sensitivity of occupancy refinement in phenix. I have a series of datasets done at our home instrument of relatively modest resolutions from 2.8 to 3 A. These are performed on crystals soaked in progressively higher ligand concentrations. We are trying to see to which of the several active sites the ligand binds first so we went from low to high ligand concentrations. We wanted to estimate the amount of ligand bound by refining the occupancies of the ligand. We expect one active site to bind more strongly than the other two active sites. This was indeed what we observed but when we refine the occupancies of the ligands in weaker binding sites starting at 0.2 occupancies they rise to 0.5-0.6 although some atoms are totally out of density and some are in. B factors are reasonable, i.e. don't go wild. My question would be: how reliable is this estimation of ligand binding by occupancy refinement? Why doesn't the occupancy of ligands stay low if afterwards the density fit of the ligand looks rather unconvincing? Thank you in advance Zoran -- Dr. Zoran Stefanic Division of Physical Chemistry Rudjer Boskovic Institute Bijenicka 54 P.O. Box 180 Zagreb Croatia Phone: 00 385 1 457 1203 Fax: 00 385 1 468 0245

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metal coordination
by Panne Daniel 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi all, I had a question concerning metal coordination (zinc in this case). I have used phenix.metal_coordination to generate geometry restraints for refinement. However phenix.refine does not write out the necessary LINK records into the PDB file. This seems to lead to problems later during validation, as the metal coordination is not properly recognized. What would be the best way to generate the LINK records in Phenix? Thanks, Daniel

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Error of Sculptor
by Zhang yu 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Dear Phenixer, When I used Sculptor to generate a new model, there is a error which I can not figure out. I input a PDB file (*.pdb) and an alignment file (*.aln). The following is the log file (contents in ######). There seems something wrong with the *.aln file. ################# Reading PDB file ---------------- File name: **/**/******/******/**.pdb Separating solvent from macromolecules... Reading alignment files ----------------------- 1. **/**/**.aln ##################### The following is the content of the alignment file: **_** MVYSYTEKKRIRKDFGKRPQVLDVPYLLSIQLDSFQKFIEQDPEGQY----GLEAAFRSV **_** ---------MEIKRFGRIREVIPLPPLTEIQVESYRRALQADVPPEKRENVGIQAAFRET * **: :*: :* * .**::*::: :: * : *::****.. What is the problem with the alignment file? Thank you in advance! Fish

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cut-out mtz edition
by Dialing Pretty 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Dear All, I just cut out a fragment of chain and the corresponding electron density from the whole molecule. Will you please give me some suggestion on how to edit the attached file so that those electron density not from the protein fragment can be erased? Or do you have other methods to produce high quality figure which just shows the fragment chain and the fragment eletron density? Cheers, Dialing

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Geometry Restraints - UPDATE
by Mario Sanches 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Last week I asked a question about geometry restraints at low resolution. I would like to thank you all that took the time to answer, specially Pavel for looking at the data. First, here is the original question: __________________________________________ I am refining a low resolution structure (2.9A) using phenix.refine. As I continue the refinement Rwork/Rfree are dropping but my geometry statistics in general are very bad. My clashscore is getting worst and the RMS(angle) is really high. I have tried to play with the "wxc_scale" parameter and also ran phenix selecting the "Optimize X-ray/ADP weight" option. All attempts end with a RMS(angle) of ~3.8 and a Clashscore of ~190. Is there a known procedure to deal with this? I feel that my geometry weighing term is too loose but I don't know exactly how to tighten it other than decreasing the wxc_scale parameter. I have gone and manually corrected bad positions before but given the low resolution nature of the structure the clashes tend to be reestablished during refinement. Thank you in advance for your help, __________________________________________ It turns out that the reason to my nightmares was a highly anisotropic dataset. When I tried to fix geometry related problems in coot, phenix.refine was twisting the geometry back again, probably because it was trying to fit a lot of noise due to the anisotropy. Everything was getting worst, geometry, clashscore, and Ramachandran. Pavel finally corrected it by using this server: http://services.mbi.ucla.edu/anisoscale/ I should have been more diligent regarding that, since I could clearly see that my data was anisotropic from the diffraction images. I just didn't know how important this parameter could be. Anyways, phenix.xtriage will tell you if your data is anisotropic. The lesson is to pay attention to it. In my case, the quality of the electron density improved considerably, the geometry improved massively (manual intervention in coot was absolutely necessary, but now it stays correct after I manually fix the problems), clashscore lowered, etc. As a side note, it worked better without hydrogens in my case than with. It is certainly a parameter to try if you are having problems. Thank you all again for the tips. Mario Sanches -- Mario Sanches Postdoctoral Researcher Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital 600 University Ave Toronto - Ontario Canada M5G 1X5 http://ca.linkedin.com/in/mariosanches

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