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model symmetrisation
by Dmitry A. Semchonok 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

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2023 Cold Spring Harbor Macromolecular Crystallography Course
by Paul Adams 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Dear Colleagues, The July 15th deadline for applications to the CSHL Macromolecular Crystallography Course to be held later this year, October 15th through October 31st 2023, is rapidly approaching. This is a unique opportunity to become expert in the use of crystallography to solve challenging macromolecular structures. The official course announcement can be found here: https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-CRYS&year=23 please pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested and would benefit, especially students and postdocs. This comprehensive course is an outstanding place to learn both the theoretical and practical aspects of macromolecular crystallography, and consists of extensive lectures and practical sessions from experts in the field. The instructor team is: Janet Newman, Tom Peat, Jim Pflugrath, Dorothee Liebschner, and myself. We are assisted by world recognized experts in crystallization, data collection, data processing, structure solution, refinement, and validation (see the course link above for more details). The goal of the course is for researchers who have had some exposure to structural biology to become experts in crystallography. This is an experience in macromolecular crystallography learning that cannot be found anywhere else, and the student/teacher ratio is often 1:1. We expect participants to crystallize one or more proteins and determine their structures in a two week period. Students may also work on their own projects, but not exclusively. They will become very well-versed in the theory of diffraction and crystal structure determination, while also having lots of fun. Both synchrotron data collection and in-house diffraction data collection will be used to solve structures. The course will also include the use of computationally predicted structures to aid in solving the crystallographic phase problem. The course is limited to 16 participants due to the very hands-on nature of the experiments and the intimate seminar and laboratory settings. Please check the above web link for more details. In particular, please note the information about the various fellowships, scholarships, and stipends that are available. The course is supported with funds provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, for which we are extremely grateful. Also there are stipends available from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to help offset the cost of tuition. Scholarship support is also provided by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. If anyone has any questions, please send me an e-mail, we will be happy to answer all queries. -- Paul Adams (he/him/his) Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences, LBL (https://biosciences.lbl.gov/leadership/) Principal Investigator, Computational Crystallography Initiative, LBL (https://cci.lbl.gov) Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (http://www.jbei.org) Principal Investigator, ALS-ENABLE, Advanced Light Source (https://als-enable.lbl.gov) Laboratory Research Manager, ENIGMA Science Focus Area (http://enigma.lbl.gov) Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley (http://bioeng.berkeley.edu) Member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Biochemistry, UC Berkeley (http://compbiochem.berkeley.edu) Building 33, Room 250 Building 978, Room 4126 Building 977, Room 268 Tel: 1-510-486-4225 http://cci.lbl.gov/paul ORCID: 0000-0001-9333-8219 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 33R0345 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Executive Assistant: Michael Espinosa [ MEEspinosa(a)lbl.gov ] [ 1-510-333-6788 ] Phenix Consortium: Ashley Dawn [ AshleyDawn(a)lbl.gov ][ 1-510-486-5455 ] --

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AlphaFold button
by James Holton 30 May '23

30 May '23

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I was trying to show a class last week how to use the AlphaFold features of phenix, only to find that the Colab seems to no longer exist? I know the dedicated server is up now, but the current stable release does not have that feature in the GUI. Will a new stable release be released soon? Just asking, -James

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NCS operators
by Dmitry A. Semchonok 23 May '23

23 May '23

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real space R value calculation
by heinea＠mailer.uni-marburg.de 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear mailing list, how can I calculate real space R-values fur individual residues or regions in a protein using Phenix? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance, Andreas

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NCS operators
by Dmitry A. Semchonok 19 May '23

19 May '23

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generating half maps for combined map using phenix.combine_focused_maps
by Manoj saxena 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hi all, I have a question for generating half half maps for the combined map in Phenix, I am combining 6 regions of a complex (using local refined maps) and supplying the reference map and a reference model for the complex. Additionally, I am supplying the 2 half maps for the whole complex as input fines. I was wondering if I need to supply 2 half maps for each of the local refined regions as input files in addition to the half maps for the reference map. Thank you regards Manoj

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Pb executing phenix.model_idealization
by CUNIASSE Philippe 15 May '23

15 May '23

Dear all, I tried to use the phenix.model_idealization code of phenix (in command line) following the syntax suggested inhttps://phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/model_idealization.html phenix.model_idealization xxxx.pdb But the code stops on the error : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/build/../modules/cctbx_project/mmtbx/command_line/model_idealization.py", line 1118, in <module> run(sys.argv[1:]) File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/build/../modules/cctbx_project/mmtbx/command_line/model_idealization.py", line 1106, in run mi_object.run() File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/build/../modules/cctbx_project/mmtbx/command_line/model_idealization.py", line 548, in run self._setup_model_h() File "/Applications/phenix-1.20.1-4487/build/../modules/cctbx_project/mmtbx/command_line/model_idealization.py", line 478, in _setup_model_h params_h.pdb_interpretation = self.model._pdb_interpretation_params.pdb_interpretation AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pdb_interpretation' Thanks in advance for any suggestion to solve this. Best regards. Philippe. ----------------------------------------------- Philippe Cuniasse, PhD/HDR. Institut de Biologie Integrative de la cellule. UMR 9198 CNRS-CEA-Univ Paris Sud Bat 144 CE-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France Tel: (33) 1 69 08 56 35 Fax: (33) 1 69 08 47 12 Email: philippe.cuniasse(a)cea.fr<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://biodev.cea.fr/rasmot3d/ [signature_3031510868][signature_394100311][signature_2972121752] -----------------------------------------------

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How to exclude one part of a model to be taken into account during Real_Space_refinement ?
by CUNIASSE Philippe 15 May '23

15 May '23

Dear all, I am trying to do a phenix.real_space_refine in a CryoEM map at 4.2 Å with a model obtained by MDFF (NAMD, a protein DNA complex) because the resulting structure, despite a good CC and a good molecular geometry has a poor Ramachandran Map. When doing the phenix.real_space_refine, the CC is slightly increased with respect to the starting structure, the Ramachandran is dramatically increased but some part of the model ( in the case, the first three bases pairs a DNA duplex) are strongly distorted because of a lack of density in the corresponding region of the map. For some reason, this does not append with the MDFF method. I was wondering if there is a mean, in phenix.real_space_refine, to exclude a part of the model from being fitted in the map. Indeed, the distortion I observe in the DNA duplex is likely due to the fact that the real_space_refine tries to put the atoms at the extremity of the duplex in the closest density at the price of a strong distortion of the structure. Thank in advance for your suggestions. Best regards. Philippe. ----------------------------------------------- Philippe Cuniasse, PhD/HDR. Institut de Biologie Integrative de la cellule. UMR 9198 CNRS-CEA-Univ Paris Sud Bat 144 CE-Saclay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France Tel: (33) 1 69 08 56 35 Fax: (33) 1 69 08 47 12 Email: philippe.cuniasse(a)cea.fr<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://biodev.cea.fr/rasmot3d/ [signature_3454313285][signature_3433042689][signature_3416814468] -----------------------------------------------

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phenix.combine_focused_maps
by Manoj saxena 10 May '23

10 May '23

Hi , I am trying the following command using PHENIX VERSION: 1.20.1-4487. to generate a composite map from locally refined maps (cryo-EM) of my complex. I have selected multiple regions each one correspond to one of the six locally refined maps that I wish to combine using this command. I would be grateful if you can suggest if this is the correct way to do it. In this test1.pdb contains the complete model. One of my doubts is that if instead of selection, I supply individual model files for each map region can they have multiple chain Ids. Asking because I was told that I would need to combine all chains and rename them as one chain (per map region) to have the correct weighted map. Many thanks Manoj phenix.combine_focused_maps map_file=Relion_deepEmhancer_reference_.mrc map_file=Base_map4.mrc map_file=Base_map1.mrc map_file=Base_map2.mrc map_file=Base_map3.mrc map_file=Base_map5.mrc map_file=Base_map6.mrc model_file=test1.pdb region_selection="(chain P and resid 366-401) or (chain P and resid 179-297) or \ (chain O and resid 401-555) or (chain N and resid 458-530) or (chain N and resid 311-457) or (chain R and resid 13-79) or \ (chain N and resid 726-577) or (chain N and resid 823-880) or (chain I and resid 350-409) or (chain N and resid 577-726) or (chain O and resid 667-722) or \ (chain Q and resid 264-276) or (chain N and resid 928-981) or (chain O and resid 926-971) or \ (chain O and resid 875-899) or (chain Q and resid 208-244) or (chain O and resid 717-739) or (chain N and resid 877-898) or \ (chain M and resid 7-101) or (chain L and resid 2047-2141) or (chain L and resid 1718-1746) or (chain L and resid 2001-2025) or (chain N and resid 880-900) or (chain P and resid 430-440) or (chain L and resid 1954-1965) or (chain P and resid 131-154)" composite_map_file=composite_map.mrc composite_half_map_1_file=composite_half_A_map.mrc composite_half_map_2_file=composite_half_B_map.mrc local_weighting=True rigid_body_refinement_single_unit=False nproc=8 resolution=4.0

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