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Phasing@Home event
by Claudia Millán Nebot 05 Jun '20

05 Jun '20

Dear PhenixBb community, We are glad to announce the first Phasing@Home event, an online meeting devoted to presenting XDS, ARCIMBOLDO, Phaser and SHELX software and their use in challenging phasing cases. Confirmed speakers and members of the teams: Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC): Isabel Usón, Claudia Millán, Ana Medina, Iracema Caballero, Elisabet Jimenez, Albert Castellví, Giovanna Petrillo, Josep Triviño Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR): Randy Read, Airlie McCoy, Rob Oeffner, Kaushik Hatti, Massimo Sammito, Tristan Croll University of Konstanz: Kay Diederichs University of Goettingen: George Sheldrick Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP): Rafael Borges The full schedule can be found under: http://chango.ibmb.csic.es/phasingathome The meeting will hosted via Zoom and is free of charge but you will need to pre-register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/phasinghome-tickets-107673520398 The event will be held online on the 13th and 14th of July. Talks will be short and focused on covering the advanced usage of the software, so participants are expected to be familiar with the basics already or to browse some basic material provided by us in advance. Interaction among speakers and participants will be through a Discord (https://discord.com/) server. Please note that this event is limited to 25 external participants and provided they meet the requirements of presenting some challenging dataset, the acceptance upon registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. With best wishes, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claudia Millán (cmncri(a)ibmb.csic.es) Crystallographic Methods Group http://chango.ibmb.csic.es Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain LinkedIn: es.linkedin.com/in/claudiamillan/ <http://es.linkedin.com/pub/claudia-mill%C3%A1n/60/a76/821/> ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Millan?ev=hdr_xprf Twitter: https://twitter.com/cheshireminima and Massimo Sammito

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Amber module in phenix on Ubuntu 18.04
by Guenter Fritz 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

Dear all, dear Nigel, I cannot get the Amber and AFITT menu bars in the phenix.refine GUI on a Ubuntu (Xubuntu 18.04) box. I set Preferences "Enable alpha-test programs and features" (works on my Mac 10.14.6 and SciLinux6 box ). Moreover, on the Xubuntu machine: when I start the phenix.refine GUI (phenix version 1.18.2-3874) I see the following error message in the terminal running phenix: //$ phenix// /Could not import the compiled Python-sander interface. Make sure you have the Python development libraries installed and that you have sourced amber.sh or amber.csh / //------------------------// python 3.7 is installed and python development tools :/ / /------------------------ / /$ python -V // //Python 3.7.6 / /$ sudo apt list -a python3.7-dev // //Listing... Done // //python3.7-dev/bionic-updates,now 3.7.5-2~18.04 amd64 [installed] // //python3.7-dev/bionic-security 3.7.3-2~18.04.1 amd64 // //python3.7-dev/bionic 3.7.0~b3-1 amd64 / /------------------------/ Any idea what is going wrong? Thanks a lot and best regards, Guenter

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Post-doctoral position in Neutron/X-ray crystallography at the Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble, FR)
by Nicolas Coquelle 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Dear all, The Large Scale Structure group of the Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble, FR), in collaboration with the group of Elspeth Garman (Oxford, UK) has an open position for a post-doctoral fellow in neutron/X-ray crystallography to study radiation-damage. Please see the description below and contact me (coquelleni(a)ill.fr <mailto:[email protected]>) for further information. Best regards, Nicolas Coquelle.

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Imposing bond restraints across the asymmetric unit
by Brandon J Anson 27 May '20

27 May '20

Hello, I have an unusual problem in which my enzyme (a dimer) is covalently bound to its own C-terminus and so is daisy-chained across the crystal lattice. In the past, I have encountered and fixed this problem by extracting the covalent part of the molecule and re-phasing using that as the molecular replacement model. In this case, I am not able to due so. When I input the restraints, it either crashes refine or attempts to impose them on the corresponding residues within the ASU (understandable) but they are quite distal and this leads to "interesting" refinement results. Is there a good way of making phenix.refine do what I want? Or perhaps a workaround that I haven't considered yet? Best Regards, Brandon

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Refinement problem in phenix
by Muhammad Bashir Khan 23 May '20

23 May '20

Hi there; I find some unknown density in my map, where I put SO4 and in some UNX. I merged and save all in one PDB. I run ReadySet to make cif. file, but refinement still not working. Can anybody explain what else I should provide? Thanks in advance Bashir -- ------------------------------------------------------ Muhammad Bashir Khan, Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Biochemistry Medical Science Bldg. Lab 3-27 University of Alberta Edmonton AB, T6G 2H7 Phone: 780-492-4577- e-mail: mbk(a)ualberta.ca <cbrooks1(a)ualberta.ca>

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symmetry conflicts
by Daniel Larsson 22 May '20

22 May '20

I want to report an annoying bug in version 1.18.2-3874. My real_space_refine job ended with an error at the validation step saying Crystal symmetry mismatch between different files. This was when refining a PDB structure (first processed using ready_set) in a cryo-EM map. The “Ignore symmetry conflicts” checkbox was checked. The expected output files were generated, but no validation report was generated. Regards, Daniel När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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byron bender
by Taufiq El-Mokdad 22 May '20

22 May '20

Hi all, I am a student from Halle in Germany. I really want to try out doing a wire model for proteins with the Byron Bending machine, yet I couldn’t find out where to get one and the Charles Supper Company discontinued selling these devices. I was recommended asking here for help. Is there anybody still having one of these devices in their labs or having one starting to rust in a box in the attic? I would be really statisfied trying out making some wire protein models with it. If someone would be willing to give such a machine and I would of course pay the shipping costs I would be happy to hear about. I would also be grateful if someone could give me a tip where I could still ask? Thanks.. All the best Taufiq

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Alternative conformation on special position occupancy wrong
by Kaiser, Jens T. 20 May '20

20 May '20

Hi, We have a case of a cofactor with 222 symmetry in two states on a special position ( 2-fold). When modelling one state, Phenix correctly restrains the occupancy to 0.5. When putting state 2 in alternative conformation group B, the occupancy of altconf A and B is restrained to 1.0, instead of 0.5; it seems like it does not recognize that the alternative conformations are on a special position. Cheers, Jens Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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Phenix version 1.18 released
by Paul Adams 20 May '20

20 May '20

The Phenix developers are pleased to announce that version 1.18 of Phenix is now available (build 1.18.2-3874). Binary installers for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows platforms, and the source installer, are available at the download site: http://phenix-online.org/download/ Please note that this recent publication should now be used to cite the use of Phenix: Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix. Liebschner D, Afonine PV, Baker ML, Bunkóczi G, Chen VB, Croll TI, Hintze B, Hung LW, Jain S, McCoy AJ, Moriarty NW, Oeffner RD, Poon BK, Prisant MG, Read RJ, Richardson JS, Richardson DC, Sammito MD, Sobolev OV, Stockwell DH, Terwilliger TC, Urzhumtsev AG, Videau LL, Williams CJ, Adams PD: Acta Cryst. (2019). D75, 861-877. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798319011471 Highlights for the 1.18.2 version of Phenix: 1.18.2 Changes - Fix weighting for iron sulfur clusters 1.18.1 Changes - General bug fixes 1.18 Changes - Amber - Automatic creation of Amber files in phenix.refine GUI - Added AmberPrep GUI - Restraints - Engh & Huber restraints (2001) for cis-peptides now implemented - Restraints added for FeS - Metal coordination library is default to Zn+2 and FeS clusters - Rama-Z: New global Ramachandran score for identifying protein structures with unlikely stereochemistry in CLI (phenix.rama_z, mmtbx.rama_z) and GUI (validation reports). - Density modification for cryo-EM - Includes model-based density modification with automatic model generation - Optimized defaults and additional documentation - Real-space refinement - Hydrogen atoms no longer included in map target function, which improves fit. - Add NQH flip option (enabled by default) - Other - New tool for ordered solvent picking in cryo-EM maps (phenix.douse) - New map and model superposition tool (phenix.match_maps) - New FindProgram to find any Phenix program with a text search - Project details now has a button for opening the README file for tutorials For a full list of changes see: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/CHANGES Please note that this new publication should be used to cite the use of Phenix: Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix. Liebschner D, Afonine PV, Baker ML, Bunkóczi G, Chen VB, Croll TI, Hintze B, Hung LW, Jain S, McCoy AJ, Moriarty NW, Oeffner RD, Poon BK, Prisant MG, Read RJ, Richardson JS, Richardson DC, Sammito MD, Sobolev OV, Stockwell DH, Terwilliger TC, Urzhumtsev AG, Videau LL, Williams CJ, Adams PD: Acta Cryst. (2019). D75, 861-877. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798319011471 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. -- Paul Adams Division Director, Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging, LBL (http://biosciences.lbl.gov/divisions/mbib) Principal Investigator, Computational Crystallography Initiative, LBL (http://cci.lbl.gov) Vice President for Technology, the Joint BioEnergy Institute (http://www.jbei.org) Principal Investigator, ALS-ENABLE, Advanced Light Source (http://als-enable.lbl.gov) Division Deputy for Biosciences, Advanced Light Source (https://als.lbl.gov) Laboratory Research Manager, ENIGMA Science Focus Area (http://enigma.lbl.gov) Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley (http://bioeng.berkeley.edu) Adjunct Professor, Comparative Biochemistry, U.C. Berkeley (http://compbiochem.berkeley.edu) Building 33, Room 250 Building 978, Room 4126 Building 977, Room 180C Tel: 1-510-486-4225 http://cci.lbl.gov/paul Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road BLDG 33R0345 Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Executive Assistant: Ashley Dawn [ ashleydawn(a)lbl.gov ][ 1-510-486-5455 ] --

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Generating a polder map using coordinates
by Petr Kolenko 20 May '20

20 May '20

Dear colleagues, Is there a way to calculate the polder map in a selected box using coordinates instead of atom selection as shown in the "Generating a polder map with the compute_box option" website? Best regards, Petr

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