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error in making links
by Phoebe Rice 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi BB, I wanted to run phenix on a structure from the database with covalent serine-DNA links, 1zr4. The "ready-set" feature to prepare restraints from the pdb link records sounded lovely, but fails with the message "Error interpreting command line argument parament definition: "1ZR4.link.edits" RuntimeError: Unexpected end of input" This happens with either version 1.6.4-486 or a nightly build installed a few weeks ago (phenix 551; installed on 10/7/2010.) Am I asking to much to get nice Ser-DNA links without sweating blood to read the fine print? thanks, Phoebe ===================================== Phoebe A. Rice Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology The University of Chicago phone 773 834 1723 http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alph… http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp

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refine : "merged" in .def
by Bryan Lepore 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

[ dev-564 on GNU/Linux ] why does phenix - apparently - keep putting the label "merged" in output .def's, when neither the input .def or .mtz has this label - and what generally is the significance? the .mtz has separate Bijvoets, and I's. e.g: input .def: (concise) labels = "I(+),SIGI(+),I(-),SIGI(-)" label = "R-free-flags" output .def: labels = "I(+),SIGI(+),I(-),SIGI(-),merged" label = "R-free-flags" i re-checked the .mtz lacks "merged" (not shown). -bryan

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Autobuild error - bash/dash/sh
by Stephen Graham 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi there, Apologies if this has been reported before, but the autobuild job I tried to run last night failed after a short while... The job was started from the command line using: phenix.autobuild data=../mydata_free.mtz seq_file=../protein.fasta map_file=../ccp4i/protein_phaser.1_parrot2.mtz input_map_labels='parrot.F_phi.F parrot.F_phi.phi None' And it got to the point where it was trying to submit the three jobs before it died as follows: Splitting work into 3 jobs and running with 1 processors using sh background=False in /home/stepheng/Projects/my_protein/autobuild/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0 Starting job 1...Log will be: /home/stepheng/Projects/my_protein/autobuild/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_1.log *************ERROR ENDING ******************* ******************************************************************************** Failed to carry out AutoBuild_build_cycle: child process stderr output: command: 'sh /home/stepheng/Projects/my_protein/autobuild/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_1' /home/stepheng/Projects/my_protein/autobuild/AutoBuild_run_3_/TEMP0/RUN_FILE_1.sh: 5: Syntax error: Bad fd number ******************************************************************************** *************ERROR ENDING ******************* I think the problem might be that the RUN_FILE_1.sh script seems to use a bash command/redirection that is not implemented in plain old 'sh' spec, and thus not supported by dash (the lean version of sh that ships with ubuntu)? If I change the #! line of RUN_FILE_1.sh to call /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh the script seems to run to completion... Is there any easy way to change the script template to use /bin/bash or remove the offending command? I'm running phenix dev-550 on an x86 ubuntu 10.10 machine. Thanks, Stephen P.S. The reason I'm trying to run autobuild from the command line rather from the GUI is that the GUI seems to crash every time I give autobuild a sequence file in either the FASTA or PIR format. Is there another format I should be using? -- Dr Stephen Graham 1851 Research Fellow Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road Cambridge, CB2 0XY, UK Phone: +44 1223 762 638

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Twin Law question
by Young-Jin Cho 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Dear Phenix users, Thanks in advance to answer my question. As my recent data did not give me perfect statistics, I was wondering what the problem was (one of things is ice ring though). When I ran Xtriage with my struggling current data set and looked like I got twinned data. I reran PHASER as was suggested and confirmed that current space group is right. My question is now how I can handle this problem. First, as was recommended I input twin_law, however not all the cases (I have a couple of data sets) were working. One favorite(!) error message was as following: "Map type 'Fc' not supported for twinned structures. Allowed types: Fo-Fc, Fobs-Fobs-Fmodel, 2mFo-DFc, 2mFobs-DFmodel, mFo-DFc, mFobs-DFmodel, gradient, m_gradient." I got this from both GUI and shell environment. . 1. Now from now on, whenever I want to phenix.refine, should I include twin_law command such as 'twin_law=-h,l,k'? 2. In this case, what do I expect to see such as lowering Rfree or else? If it doesn't help lowering Rfree, what to do next? 3. Do I have to report I did with twinlaw option in case of preparing a paper or presentation? I mean I also heard that if one got twinned data, they re-collected data. How much can I convince my refinement is OK with twined data? Additionally, I checked other data, and applied twin_law but the result R/Rfree were exactly same as the one I refined without twin_law option, it this normal case? With many thanks in advance, Young-Jin Cho

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maximum allowable B-factor value
by Christian Roth 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Dear all, I did a refinement run with a built in ligand. Within the ligand the B-factor jumps between two connected atoms from 60 up ~110, which is i think a bit too much. Is there a way to restrain the B-factors that they could not jump so much. I would accept negative difference density for the atom. Maybe the ligand is a bit degraded. Best regards Christian @Pavel Tanks for your suggestions with occupancy refinement and B-factors. -- Christian Roth Institut für Bioanalytische Chemie Biotechnologisch-Biomedizinisches Zentrum Fakultät für Chemie und Mineralogie Universität Leipzig Deutscher Platz 5 04103 Leipzig Telefon: +49 (0)341 97 31316 Fax: +49 (0)341 97 31319

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Re: [phenixbb] Sigma-A vs Resolution plot
by Bryan Lepore 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> wrote: > the plot "Sigma-A vs Resolution" will be available in the next PHENIX > nightly build: Looks nice - I greatly appreciate this - thanks Pavel, Nat, anyone else I forgot. -Bryan

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nightly builds
by Bryan Lepore 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

is it me, or was there just a dev-562? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHENIX: Python-based Hierarchical ENvironment for Integrated Xtallography Version: dev Release tag: 562 Platform: intel-linux-2.6 linux User: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but latest is : dev-555 2010-10-10 successful cctbx, cci_apps, phaser, phenix, misc docs; changelog

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R-free problem with phenix.refine
by Vinson LIANG 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Dear all, Recently I deposited a structure to PDB. However, I was told >> The R value of SF check are different from your reported value. >> >> R work in SF check = 0.2859 >> your reported R work = 0.1474 >> Also there are no R free flags in your sending files, but you reported R >> free value in your all deposition. So, I rerun my deposited file with phenix.refine, and it gave a R-work=0.1475, R-free=0.1742. However, when I tried to run the same file with refmac5, error came with "Free R label has not been set". I guess phenix.refine gives Rree-R label that other program could not recognize. Could anyone please help me to solve this problem? Thank you very much in advance. I don't know why structure refined with phenix.refine has such problem. I wish this problem will disappear in the future, since I so like phenix.refine. Best, Vinson,Liang

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refine : peculiar TLS tensors
by Bryan Lepore 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

[ phenix 1.6.4-486 ] [ ALSO : tlsanl, refmac, etc. from ccp4 6.1.3 ] [ molscript/povscript ] the one-liner : i have some TLS tensors that sometimes do not compare at all well with refmac/anisoanl tensors. sometimes, the principal axes of a TLS tensor refines *very* far away from the center of mass(=center of reaction), or the axes from tlsanl are exceptionally small as if not scaled properly. the eigenvalues are really small too. see [*] for troubleshooting and strategy used. i suspect i am missing something. i also understand this might not be a phenix question. -bryan [*] i compared another .def that gave sensible TLS results with a different dataset/model, and my {} are all good AFAIK. anisoanl/refmac/parvati results are reasonable. the phenix refinement appears well behaved. these are all using tlsextract to get the eigenvalues/origins, and molscript to check the axes/centers of mass. input B factors are Beq unless i made an error. the tls group selections can vary - however, simple groups also can give these results. in general, using strategy (excerpt) : refine { strategy = *individual_sites individual_sites_real_space rigid_body \ *individual_adp group_adp *tls *occupancies *group_anomalous sites { individual = None torsion_angles = None rigid_body = None } adp { individual { isotropic = None anisotropic = None } group_adp_refinement_mode = *one_adp_group_per_residue \ two_adp_groups_per_residue group_selection group = None tls = "chain A and (resid 1:41 or resid 42:159 or resid 195:237 or resid 263:420)" tls = "chain A and resid 160:194" tls = "chain A and resid 245:252" } [...cut off ... ] example output of an ill-behaved S tensor from tlsanl : SCREW ROTATION AXIS ABSOLUTE POSITION (A) PITCH (A) X Y Z 1 70.667 154.197 308.627 -144.435 2 977.334 819.588******** 6222.947 3 640.7191431.084 471.341 269.382

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maps : sigma-a
by Lepore, Bryan 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

how might one start to go about getting phenix to automatically write out the value of sigma_A vs. resolution? e.g. when making maps, to get that nice table in Randy Read's SIGMAA program output of ln(sigma_A) vs. resolution. -bryan

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