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Positive density at metal ions
by Jan van Agthoven 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi everyone, I work on a structure of about 3 A resolution. The structure is almost done except for 3 metal ions which remain positive in the density. The metal is clearly Mn (refinement works fine for an other very similar structure) and has been set at full occupancy. I tried to reset the B factor at lower values, which solves the problem for 2 metal ions but not the 3rd one. Is there anything else I can do? Jan

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Rwork higher than Rfree
by Smith Liu 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Dear All, Is poor resolution a factor leading to Rwork higher than Rfree? Any other factor? Best regards. Smith

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Cell dimentions
by Bradley Hintze 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Hello I have some interesting DNA structures I would like help with . The duplexes are stacked in the crystal head to head and tail to tail. This creates an interesting situation where an adenine is base pairing with itself across cell symmetry. The most likely way in which adenines base pairs with itself is if one is in the syn conformation and the other is in anti, i.e. a Hoogsteen base pair. However, that would break the symmetry as they are the same adenine and thus can't have two conformations. As such, I think it's appropriate to have two molecules, rather than one, in the asymmetric unit. I can make the new model easily enough by generating a symmetry mate and assigning different chain IDs but how do I appropriately calculate the new cell dimensions? Thanks, Bradley

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on phenix refine of the cryo-EM data
by Smith Liu 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Dear All, Phenix.real_space_refine can give nice results, but I still want to refine it by phenix refine graphical interface so that the refined PDB by Phenix.real_space_refine can have a much better resolution PDB from crystal structure as a reference PDB for further refine by phenix refine GUI, in case a fragment of the sequence may adopt a sheet structure as the reference structure, rather than a loop structure as obtained by Phenix.real_space_refine. When I use the phenix refine GUI for further refine, do I need to use electron scattering table, or I continue to use n-Gaussian scattering table? For the phenix refine GUI for this purpose, there will ne no necessity to click Optimized X-ray/sterochemistry weight and Optimize X-ray/ADP weight, as for it has no relationship with X-ray, am I right? The phenix.map_to_structure_factors converted mtz file, should correspond to the 2FoFcWT file. In the phenix GUI refine process, it will calculate the FoFcWT file. But each time I tried the refine by phenix GUI related to phenix.map_to_structure_factors converted mtz file, the signal of the FoFcWT file was almost as strong as or even much stronger than the 2FoFcWT file, which was in strong contrast with the phenix refine based on the crystal mtz file. Will you please explain why for phenix.map_to_structure_factors converted mtz file, phenix GUI can give such high signal of FoFcWT file? Best regards. Smith

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off-topic: tenure track faculty position in cryo-EM
by Markus Seeliger 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

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Re: [phenixbb] phenixbb Digest, Vol 117, Issue 9
by Cesar Santiago 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi Mark! Anybody for the 24th trip to Alba? I'll be away from the 1st - 16th of September but I can still arrange the trip before leaving. César. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Cesar Santiago, Ph. D. Dept. of Macromolecules Structure at CNB, CSIC. X-ray Crystallography Facility. Campus Universidad Autónoma. Madrid, 28049 csantiag(a)cnb.csic.es On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:42 AM, phenixbb-request(a)phenix-online.org wrote: > Send phenixbb mailing list submissions to > phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > phenixbb-request(a)phenix-online.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > phenixbb-owner(a)phenix-online.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of phenixbb digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: phenix.refine automatic linking options (Engin ?zkan) > 2. external passive 3D monitor with macbook pro or imac for coot > and pymol stereo view (Xiao Lei) > 3. Rank-scaled map (Jianghai Zhu) > 4. Re: Rank-scaled map (Pavel Afonine) > 5. Re: on the starting mtz file for phenix refine (Pavel Afonine) > 6. Ligand addition in COOT for later refinement in Phenix.refine > (Manoj saxena) > 7. Re: Ligand addition in COOT for later refinement in > Phenix.refine (Oleg Sobolev) > 8. Computational Crystallography Newsletter - Volume 6, Number 2 > (Nigel Moriarty) > 9. Starting structure as reference model - crashing in 1.10-2142 > (Tristan Croll) > 10. Re: Starting structure as reference model - crashing in > 1.10-2142 (Pavel Afonine) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:41:31 -0500 > From: Engin ?zkan <eozkan(a)uchicago.edu> > To: Billy Poon <bkpoon(a)lbl.gov> > Cc: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org> > Subject: Re: [phenixbb] phenix.refine automatic linking options > Message-ID: <55D63B7B.6000707(a)uchicago.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Dear Billy and Nigel, > > Thank you. Phenix.refine GUI in the latest nightly/release candidate no > longer has the master enable/disable button, and so the problem is resolved. > > Engin > > On 8/13/15 11:28 AM, Billy Poon wrote: >> Hi Engin, >> >> Thanks! We updated that part of the GUI so that it should be more >> intuitive. There is now a button that lets you apply automatic linking >> to all the components and a button that disables all automatic >> linking. You can, of course, still pick which components to enable by >> checking the specific boxes. >> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Engin ?zkan <eozkan(a)uchicago.edu >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear Developers, >> >> Using the latest phenix nightly, I observed something odd in the >> phenix.refine UI, and I thought I should report it. If one >> unchecks Automatic ligand linking, this seems to not override its >> options, as the instructions in the Options window suggest. >> Specifically, if "Automatic Ligand Linking" is unchecked, but the >> "Link metals" is checked within its Options window, metal link >> restraints are still created. >> >> I checked the .geo file to confirm this. >> >> Thanks, >> Engin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> phenixbb mailing list >> phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb >> Unsubscribe: phenixbb-leave(a)phenix-online.org >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> > >

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Starting structure as reference model - crashing in 1.10-2142
by Tristan Croll 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi, When I attempt to run a refinement in Phenix 1.10-2142 using the starting structure as a reference model, it crashes with the complaint that the reference (actually, the error states NCS - despite no NCS being present or enabled. I guess internally it's using the same code?) is too dissimilar to the model, and a calculated RMSD of >90 (degrees? I'm using torsion-angle restraints in any case). The same settings work without complaint on the same structure in dev-2006. I'm running from the GUI, checking "Reference model restraints" in the main phenix.refine window, and then "use starting model as reference" under "All parameters... Reference model restraints...". Thanks, Tristan

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Computational Crystallography Newsletter - Volume 6, Number 2
by Nigel Moriarty 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

I am pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the Computational Crystallography Newsletter: http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/ A listing of the articles and short communications is given below. Please note that the newsletter accepts articles of a general nature of interest to all crystallographers. Please send any articles to me at NWMoriarty(a)lbl.gov noting that there is a Word Template on the website to streamline production. July 2015 <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf> Articles - A context-sensitive guide to RNA & DNA base-pair & base-stack geometry <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf#page=22> Short Communications - New Phaser-MR search panel in Phenix <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf#page=7> - Quantum chemical techniques for minimising ligand geometries in the active site <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf#page=10> - 13 typical occupancy refinement scenarios and available options in *phenix.refine* <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf#page=12> Fitting tips #10 – How do your base pairs touch and twist? <http://www.phenix-online.org/newsletter/CCN_2015_07.pdf#page=3> Cheers Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, 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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Ligand addition in COOT for later refinement in Phenix.refine
by Manoj saxena 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Greetings I am trying to place a ligand (CIT) in a protein model that already have some citrate ligands placed. I am doing this using Coot's option "get monomer", and after the fitting of ligand in the density I tried to refine the model using the ligand and the protein pdb as input models. Refinement did not start and I got an error message in Phenix- "Number of groups of duplicate atom labels:....." Could someone please explain how could I get past this error message and what is the correct way to add a ligand to a model that already has some of the ligands of the same type. Many thanks in advance Regards Manoj Saxena

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on the starting mtz file for phenix refine
by Smith Lee 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Dear All, In the on-line phenix document, there is, "Should I use the MTZ file output by phenix.refine as input for the next round of refinement? The only time this is necessary is when you refined against a dataset that did not include R-free flags, and let phenix.refine generate a new test set. In this case, you should use the file ending in "_data.mtz" for all future rounds of refinement. You do not need to update the input file in each round, as the actual raw data (and R-free flags) are not modified". When we have phenic adding R-free flgas in the first time we process the mtz data by phenix.refine, besides the *data.mtz, phenix also create a *.mtz. In the future phenix.refine, can I refine by always using the *.mtz created in the R-free flag adding step, rather than refine by always using the *data.mtz created in the R-free flag adding step? What is the difference between that *data.mtz and that *.mtz? And what is the side-effect if in the future steps I refine by always using the *.mtz created in the R-free flag adding step? Best regards. Smith

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