Re: new verisons of O

From: lovell (simon.lovell@duke.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 06:32:17 CDT


>Alwyn,
>
>I don't know if I should ask these from you directly, I guess some of
>the below are of general interest so I will do this through O-info:
>
>1) Are there any plans on updating O for high resolution refinement i.o.
>display hydrogens (maybe someone out there has an adequate all.dat
>including shelxl definition of hyrdrogens. If so, please share) and
>anisotropic B-factors?


Yep, myself and Mike Word made a full set of these. They are available 
from our ftp site at 

ftp://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/UNIXprograms/probeScripts/OwithHydrogens.ta
r

This package was put together as part of an effort to interface some of 
our software with O, which requires hydrogens.  In the end we went with a 
method that adds the hydrogens on-the-fly, so it contains some extra 
scripts you may not want, but they're flagged as obsolete in the README.

Things you should know about:

There were a couple of bugs that we could never track down. Particularly 
to do with the refi commands not finding the backbone NH.  My best guess 
is that this is our fault rather than O's, but we tried pretty hard to 
fix it.  If anyone finds (or even better fixes) the problem, please let 
me know.

The rotamer file included is our new rotamer file (publication in press), 
not the standard O one.

It assumes PDB standard atom names.  These are NOT the same as the atom 
names used by XPLOR, although the tar file includes a script that 
converts them.  PDB standard atom names have four characters, which are 
handled well internally in O, but one character gets lots when  you write 
out the file, so you won't be able to read them straight back into most 
programs. Our program REDUCE can be used to add hydrogens with standard 
names, and it can be found at: 
http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/website/programs.htm#REDUCE.  If my 
understanding is right, SHELX allows you call your atoms whatever you 
like. There are enough files (six or so, I think) that making them with 
different names is a real nuisance, so I'm not volunteering.



If someone would like to tell me how to contribute these files to the 
standard O repository, I'd be happy to do it.

Gratuitous advertisement: also on our web site is our non-hydrogenated 
(oxidised?) rotamer library, and the probe package which allows you to 
analyse van der Waals overlaps and display them in O, allowing you to 
quickly find and correct errors as you rebuild. Feel free to poke around 
starting at http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu.

Regards,


Stan




Simon Lovell, Biochem Dept, Duke University Tel (919) 684-2217



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