Subject: Re: Using Sparky with Python
From: Ras Al Jdi Mai
Date: Oct 20, 2005

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Wow! Thanks Josh! Im gonna look into the book and websites you
mentioned. Yes, Ill eventually be trying to do a backbone
assignment. Its a protein thats 135 amino acids long. I only have
the data because its messed up. Were not even the ones with the NMR
machine! I guess the real scientists (at another school) were
taking too long with the data (I assume because of all the problems)
and were told to cease and desist by their bosses. My professor has
done this kinda work before but is not particularly strong on the
programming side of things. I havent really had any formal training
on computers, but Ive got a real knack for programming languages.

I would love it if the axis labels were just a cosmetic problem, but
since the spectra we have do NOT line up, something is definately
wrong and these axes problems may be it. The matrix files are
unfortunately binary, no header or parameter file, so I cant just
patch it that way.

At first we were gonna try NMRviewJ because it does use parameter
files that can just be editted, but it doesnt have a very good
interface for viewing the third dimension like sparky does - in fact
its so bad, my teacher and I could not find a way to display it all.
Thats why we went back to sparky.

I think my teacher is hoping we can save the data and maybe get a
paper out it if we can fix the alignment problems...

Hey, any thoughts on why sparky wont open with the python on? (see
orig email)? I may have a slick fix if I could get sparky running
with the python ...

Thanks again!
-R