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Error running refine_gui
by Miles Pufall 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Hi Guys - I was running the phenix_gui ad had just started a refinement run with tls, adp, occupancy, individual sites, simulated annealing, update waters and add hydrogen when the run stop and this error popped up: RuntimeError : mean_weighted() argument is an empty array Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Refine.py", line 259, in OnExcept raise event.data RuntimeError: mean_weighted() argument is an empty array CHeers - M Miles Pufall Postdoctoral Scholar Yamamoto Lab UC San Francisco Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Mail Stop 2280 600 16th Street, Genentech Hall S-574 San Francisco, California 94158-2517 (415)476-4480

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Postdoc Crystallographer Position - Berkeley
by Paul Adams 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher Job ID: 22539 Division: Physical Biosciences Date Opened: 1/5/2009 Summary: A postdoctoral position is immediately available to study structure and function of macromolecular complexes and enzymes using X-ray crystallographic methods. This position is joint between the Center for Protein Folding Machinery (www.proteinfoldingcenter.org) and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (www.jbei.org). Robotic hardware for performing crystallization trials and imaging results are available. Crystals will be characterized and data collected using the beamline resources of the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology at the Advanced Light Source. The biological systems to be studied are: - Type-II chaperonins responsible for the refolding of unfolded proteins in archeal and mammalian cells. - Glycosyl transferases responsible for the synthesis of hemicellulose in plants. - Novel glycosyl hydrolases that are able to breakdown cellulosic material for biofuels production. Duties: Using robotic hardware to perform screens for crystallization conditions. Optimization of crystallization conditions. Biophysical characterization of protein samples using standard techniques, such as dynamic light scattering. Characterization of crystals using the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology beamlines at the Advanced Light Source. Collection and analysis of diffraction data, model building and structure refinement. Extensive email and verbal interaction with other researchers. Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent in a scientific discipline, preferably structural biology, biology, or chemistry. Demonstrated experience of scientific research using crystallographic methods. Experience with crystallization methods. Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment are critical. Ability to communicate with a broad range of researchers. Note that this is a one-year appointment with renewal based on performance and continued funding. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a world leader in science and engineering research, with 11 Nobel Prize recipients over the past 75 years, and 59 present members of the National Academy of Sciences. LBNL conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines and hosts four national user facilities. AA/EEO employer committed to the development of a safe and diverse workforce. Learn more at http://www.lbl.gov. To apply visit http://cjo.lbl.gov/ and search for the job number 22539 or visit: http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=22539&p=1 -- Paul Adams Deputy Division Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute Head, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology Building 64, Room 248 Tel: 1-510-486-4225, Fax: 1-510-486-5909 http://cci.lbl.gov/paul Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 64R0121 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Administrator: Kristine Sawyer [ KKSawyer(a)lbl.gov ][ 1-510-486-4151 ] --

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phenix v1.4-3 and NX
by Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Hi, After upgrading our workstations to phenix v1.4-3, the user started having problems connecting to the machines through nxclient. The login ended up with a black screen on the client and absolutely no error messages on neither client nor server. The problem seemed to come from setting up the global environment for phenix (phenix_env.sh). I narrowed the problematic statement down to this: /if [ "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" ]; then exit 1 fi/ Although "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "intel-linux-2.6-x86_64" when logged in, somehow the "nx user" gets "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" when it logs in, through it's authorization key, to establish the users session. To make a already to long story short. The problem can be fixed by commenting out the problematic statement above. And one question to the developers: Could this be avoided in the future? Perhaps give a warning instead off exiting completly! Sincerely Jesper -- Jesper L. Karlsen Scientific Computing Centre for Structural Biology Department of Molecular Biology University of Aarhus Gustav Wieds Vej 10C 8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 5268 E-mail: jelka(a)bioxray.au.dk

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Re: [phenixbb] phenix v1.4-3 and NX
by Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Hi Paul, > what happens if you change the statement to say: > > exit 0 > > instead of exit 1? No did not help, still get black screen on the nxclient. Only out-commenting/deleting helps. Cheers, Jesper > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Jesper Lykkegaard Karlsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> After upgrading our workstations to phenix v1.4-3, the user started >> having problems connecting to the machines through nxclient. The >> login ended up with a black screen on the client and absolutely no >> error messages on neither client nor server. >> >> The problem seemed to come from setting up the global environment for >> phenix (phenix_env.sh). I narrowed the problematic statement down to >> this: >> >> if [ "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" ]; then >> exit 1 >> fi >> >> Although "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "intel-linux-2.6-x86_64" when logged in, >> somehow the "nx user" gets "$PHENIX_MTYPE" = "unknown-unknown" when >> it logs in, through it's authorization key, to establish the users >> session. >> >> To make a already to long story short. The problem can be fixed by >> commenting out the problematic statement above. >> >> And one question to the developers: >> >> Could this be avoided in the future? >> Perhaps give a warning instead off exiting completly! >> >> Sincerely >> Jesper >> >> -- Jesper L. Karlsen Scientific Computing Centre for Structural >> Biology Department of Molecular Biology University of Aarhus Gustav >> Wieds Vej 10C 8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 5268 E-mail: >> jelka(a)bioxray.au.dk_______________________________________________ >> phenixbb mailing list >> phenixbb(a)phenix-online.org >> http://www.phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb >

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fixing a partial solution of mol. rep.
by chern 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

I am doing a molecular replacement. There are two types of protein molecules in the crystal. One type is forming a hexameric core; there are 6 molecules of the second type that I need to locate. I found a solution for the hexameric core, but the other 6 molecules are difficult to find. 1. Can I fix the solution for the core, so that I don't have to find it every time. The other inconvenience with that is that the origine is different for every new run. If I fix the hexamer, then I fix the origine. It's important to me to compare different runs of MR. 2. Some of the six other molecules that MR finds are not the closest to the core. How can I request to output the closest molecules? Maia

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TRIED resolve ...NEED A BIGGER VERSION... message
by Ben Eisenbraun 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Howdy Phenixians, One of my users is running phenix.autobuild, and while it seems to run okay, the output contains this warning: TRIED resolve ...NEED A BIGGER VERSION... Looking through phenix/phenix/autosol/run_resolve.py, it seems like this is an informational message, but I'm not sure, so I figured I'd ask. Is this actually an error? This is phenix-1.3-final on OS X 10.5. Thanks. -ben -- Ben Eisenbraun Structural Biology Grid Harvard Medical School http://sbgrid.org http://hms.harvard.edu

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question about xn joint refinement
by crystallogrphy 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Deall all: I have a question about xray and neutron joint refinement. When I start phenix joint refinement like this, phenix gave the wrong message: phenix.refine dhfr-mtx-rt-xray.hkl neutron_data.file_name=newdhfr_un_change.hkl xn_easy_080326a.pdb input.xray_data.labels=FOBSx input.neutron_data.labels=FOBSn xray_data.r_free_flags.generate=True neutron_data.r_free_flags.generate=True refine_default.params ===================== joint neutron/xray refinement start ===================== Traceback (most recent call last): call_back_after_monitor_collect=call_back_after_monitor_collect) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3-rc4/phenix/phenix/refinement/driver.py", line 1031, in run call_back_after_monitor_collect = call_back_after_monitor_collect) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3-rc4/phenix/phenix/refinement/strategies.py", line 184, in refinement_machine * assert not neutron_refinement AssertionError* I guess in my default parameters, something is wrong, particularly the bold word I highlighted. But I do not know how to fix. Does any one have a clue?\ Thanks and Happy New Year! main { bulk_solvent_and_scale = True simulated_annealing = False ordered_solvent = False ncs = False ias = False number_of_macro_cycles = 3 max_number_of_iterations = 25 use_form_factor_weights = False tan_u_iso = False use_convergence_test = False target = *ml mlhl ml_sad ls min_number_of_test_set_reflections_for_max_likelihood_target = 50 max_number_of_resolution_bins = 30 reference_xray_structure = None use_experimental_phases = None compute_optimal_errors = False random_seed = 2679941 *scattering_table = wk1995 it1992 *n_gaussian neutron* use_normalized_geometry_target = True target_weights_only = False use_f_model_scaled = False max_d_min = 0.25 fake_f_obs = False -- Qun Wan Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 email: qunwan1(a)gmail.com lab phone: 216-368-3337

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Error
by Miles Pufall 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Hi - It appears there was a problem with the NCS flag being on, and when I took it off I received this error. Let me know if you'd like data to recreate this. Cheers - Miles RuntimeError : OpenGL: invalid operation Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Refine.py", line 188, in run self.check_params_and_run() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Refine.py", line 229, in check_params_and_run self.model.add_hydrogens() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Model.py", line 369, in add_hydrogens self.update_from_interface() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Model.py", line 181, in update_from_interface self.update_viewer() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/Model.py", line 317, in update_viewer self .viewer_frame.glview.update_structure_from_files(self.get_all_files()) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/GLViewer.py", line 166, in update_structure_from_files self.update_structure(pdb_hierarchy, atomic_bonds, redraw=True) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/GLViewer.py", line 180, in update_structure self.OnUpdate(recenter=True) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/GLViewer.py", line 208, in OnUpdate self.update_view(True, True) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/GLViewer.py", line 566, in update_view self.OnRedraw() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/gltbx/wx_viewer.py", line 473, in OnRedraw self.OnRedrawGL(event) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/phenix/wxGUI2/GLViewer.py", line 118, in OnRedrawGL wx_viewer.wxGLWindow.OnRedrawGL(self, event) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.4-3/gltbx/wx_viewer.py", line 476, in OnRedrawGL gltbx.util.handle_error() RuntimeError: OpenGL: invalid operation Miles Pufall Postdoctoral Scholar Yamamoto Lab UC San Francisco Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Mail Stop 2280 600 16th Street, Genentech Hall S-574 San Francisco, California 94158-2517 (415)476-4480

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PHENIX 1.4-3 Available
by Paul Adams 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

= = = = = ======================================================================== PHENIX 1.4-3 Development Release = = = = = ======================================================================== The PHENIX developers are pleased to announce that the 1.4-3 development version of PHENIX is now available. Binary installers for Linux, and Mac OSX platforms are available at the download site: http://phenix-online.org/download/ This version of PHENIX includes the following new features: - A new GUI for phenix.xtriage: - To start the GUI version type phenix.xtriage_gui - A new GUI for phenix.refine: - To start the GUI version type phenix.refine_gui - Incorporates a subset of Molprobity validation tools - Documentation for the new GUIs: - See the help menu or button after starting the GUI - Structure refinement (phenix.refine) - Default is to fill missing reflections in map calculations with DFc - Default is to write phase combined maps if experimental phases are used in refinement - Improved capabilities for selection of atoms for occupancy refinement - Xplor maps no longer written by default - Numerous minor bug fixes - Multi-crystal averaging (phenix.multi_crystal_average) - Fast secondary structure building (phenix.find_helices_strands) - Find all ligands in a map (phenix.find_all_ligands) - Minor bug fixes in phenix.elbow and phenix.reel Full documentation is available here: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/ There is a PHENIX bulletin board: http://www.phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb/ Please consult the installer README file or online documentation for installation instructions. Direct questions and problem reports to the bulletin board or: help(a)phenix-online.org and bugs(a)phenix-online.org Commercial users interested in obtaining access to PHENIX should visit the PHENIX website for information about the PHENIX Industrial Consortium. The development of PHENIX is principally funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) under grant P01-GM063210. We also acknowledge the generous support of the members of the PHENIX Industrial Consortium. = = = = = ======================================================================== PHENIX 1.4-3 Development Release = = = = = ======================================================================== -- Paul Adams Deputy Division Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute Head, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology Building 64, Room 248 Tel: 510-486-4225, Fax: 510-486-5909 http://cci.lbl.gov/paul Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 64R0121 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. --

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Selection of structure factors for DM
by Graeme Winter 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi Folks, If I am using phenix.autosol for my phasing and dm, is there a way I can specify the "native" FP to use for phase extension? What I would like to be able to do is use a named wavelength for this rather than a synthetic data set composed from all input data... I used to do this with resolve by cadding in the chosen columns (F, SIGF) after solve and then telling resolve what columns to use. Would be cute to be able to not do this! Am running from the command line interface. Thanks, Graeme

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