August 2011 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Morph with Chimera: how to make visible connection/interaction in Morph
by WENHE ZHONG 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Dear all, I would like to show the visible metal-residue interaction during the Morph movie. Anyone knows how to do that in Chimera? Thank you. King regards, Wenhe

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Showing more than a single centroid trace
by Francesco Pietra 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hello: I would like to show several centroid traces for model 0, 1, 2, .. Actually, it is the same model, differing, in the movies, for the protein fluctuations. What I did, was to superimpose movie for model 1 to the already done movie for model 0, hiding the protein for model 1 and choosing a different color for the centroid. Doing that, the instant position of the centroid can only be color-highlighted for model 0. I wonder whether there is a better procedure to show the various centroid traces above a single protein model. thanks francesco pietra

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XPLOR volumetric data not shown as a volume
by matthias.gutmann＠stfc.ac.uk 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Dear all, having succeeded in writing an XPLOR data file and importing it into CHIMERA, I was expecting to see a cube like volume. Instead, I'm only seeing a thin plane. Is this to be expected? The header for the XPLOR file is as below: 1 SXD2001reciprocal_space_volume 301 0 300 301 0 300 301 0 300 30.10000 30.10000 30.10000 90.00000 90.00000 90.00000 ZYX 0 0.57280 0.05125 0.25826 0.23192 0.47232 0.40565 0.28667 0.06406 0.13678 0.22750 0.22332 0.11380 -0.02432 0.32358 0.22395 0.06303 0.22736 0.27504 0.30512 0.21062 0.26810 0.15033 0.25180 0.39434 0.85280 0.25197 0.07160 0.22430 0.28253 0.11386 0.34160 0.32177 -0.03150 0.22739 0.47072 -0.00241 0.26013 0.20844 0.20823 0.30089 0.40608 0.23863 -0.13479 0.28377 0.08277 0.25996 0.23550 0.09638 How can I get the entire volume to display as a volume rather than a single plane? Is the XPLOR format not a good one to use for this purpose? Many thanks and best wishes, Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Gutmann Instrument Scientist SXD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Phone: +44 (0)1235 44 6397 ISIS Facility Fax: +44 (0)1235 44 5200 Chilton Didcot Office : R3, 1.28 Oxfordshire OX11 0QX Email: Matthias.Gutmann(a)stfc.ac.uk UNITED KINGDOM -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Unrecognized command: "minimize"
by Viachaslau Bernat 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Dear Chimera developers, I've got a problem with scripting in chimera. By analogy with your example I've written a python script for geometry optimization of small library of ligands. In GUI mode all commands run smoothly as I type them into chimera command line. Nevertheless, when I try to run a script containing the same commands I get the error `unrecognized command: "minimize"`, no matter if I run it from GUI interface menu or with --nogui parameter. Here is my testing script (test.py): import os import chimera from chimera import runCommand as rc from chimera import replyobj os.chdir("/home/viachaslau/sybyl/sublib/") fn = "lib1.mol2" rc("open " + fn) rc("miminize nsteps 70000 stepsize 0.001 interval 100 freeze none nogui true") rc("write format pdb 0 min/" + fn + ".pdb") rc("close all") rc("stop now") And here is the output from Python: ~/sublib> ~/chimera/bin/chimera --nogui test.py Executing test.py... Opening lib1.mol2... UNQ1 opened Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 677, in init chimera.openModels.open(a, prefixableType=1) File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 1541, in open models = func(filename, *args, **kw) File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 973, in _openPython loadFunc(sandboxName, fileName, f) File "test.py", line 8, in <module> rc("miminize nsteps 70000 stepsize 0.001 interval 100 freeze none nogui true") File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 2235, in runCommand makeCommand(*args, **kw) File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 78, in makeCommand 'Unrecognized command: "%s"' % cmd MidasError: Unrecognized command: "miminize" Error while processing test.py: MidasError: Unrecognized command: "miminize" File "/home/viachaslau/chimera/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 78, in makeCommand 'Unrecognized command: "%s"' % cmd See reply log for Python traceback. I run SUSE 11.3 as operating system and chimera is installed into ~/chimera/ I also tried to run commands row by row in IDLE window of chimera and found out that python suspends on runCommand("minimize ...") command -- Viachaslau Bernat, PhD-student Department Chemistry and Pharmacy Schuhstrasse 19, 91052 Erlangen -- Germany Phone: +49-9131-8522588 www.medchem.uni-erlangen.de

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delete volume densities
by Hernando J Sosa 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

A while ago I remember using a Chimera function to delete map densities that were outside a given distance from selected atoms in a structure. I can't seem to find this utility anymore. Can somebody please remind me where to find it. Is this utility still there in the new chimera versions? Thanks Hernando

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Re: [Chimera-users] suggested feature/model panel
by Eric Pettersen 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote: > On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote: > > > 1) ability to create folders in the model panel so models can be > > grouped > > 2) ability to have a model in multiple folders > > 3) ability to show/hide in a folder by a a single checkbox > > 4) ability to name the folder > > These are good suggestions, and we have discussed adding some kind of > grouping mechanism in Chimera given that there are a lot of situations > where you want to treat a set of models as a single entity (e.g. > multiple structures fit into a EM map). > > I think #2 and #3 are in conflict though. Really, I don't think you > want #2 -- it's too confusing. Say a model is in two groups: you > close one group -- what happens? You hide one group -- what happens? > You deactivate one group and move the other -- what happens? Perhaps > if you elaborated on the motivation for putting a model in multiple > groups then some other alternative could be devised that provides what > you need. > > I'll open a change-request in our Trac database for "grouping > mechanism" and include the above. I don't really want to promise a > timeline, but the issue is a concern of ours. Seems like I never opened that ticket, at least I can't find it searching the database. A year later I did open a very similar ticket (#8253) which has now been implemented. So the Model Panel now supports grouping (and ungrouping) models in the current daily build, which at least minimally satisfies points 1, 3, and 4 above. The groups can be named as you wish, and changing active/shown/color/etc. for a group changes the corresponding attribute of all the models in the group. Right now if multiple models are opened from a single data source they are automatically grouped. This comes into play most often when opening NMR ensembles. If anyone has any strong opinion as to whether this is a good default behavior or not, please speak up! --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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Calculation of Hydrophobicity
by Magnus Andersson 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi, I'm a new user to Chimera and found it very useful really fast. I have a question however, is possible to make a calculation of the hydrophobicity of a surface or the electrostatic potential, not only show it visually? Best regards Magnus ------------------------------------------------------------ Magnus Andersson, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Physics Umeå University SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Phone: +46 90 786 63 36 Mobile: +46 706 460 602 Email: magnus.andersson(a)physics.umu.se<mailto:magnus.andersson@physics.umu.se> ------------------------------------------------------------

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Problem with volumetric data in XPLOR format
by matthias.gutmann＠stfc.ac.uk 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Dear all, I'm trying to write volumetric data in XPLOR format in order to import it into Chimera for displaying. The volumetric data set is a general volume data set, not necessarily an electron density map. However, it keeps on failing as Chimera keeps on thinking there are only 262 data values, whilst expecting 90601 numbers (which is the correct number). I'm trying to write the XPLOR file in the format given on the CNS web page: Format of CNS maps The grid size of the map is determined by the GRID parameter in the FFT statement. The following lines show the beginning of a typical electron density map file: 2 !NTITLE REMARKS FILENAME="" REMARKS DATE:18-Jun-98 12:24:08 created by user: 30 4 12 15 5 10 16 2 12 0.40960E+02 0.18650E+02 0.22520E+02 0.90000E+02 0.90770E+02 0.90000E+02 ZYX 0 -0.97086E+00-0.49927E+00-0.82774E+00-0.13491E+01-0.57034E+00-0.71253E-01 -0.19491E+00 0.61017E+00 0.10064E+01-0.22888E+01-0.94020E+00 0.77451E+00 0.57539E+00-0.31211E-01-0.27430E+00-0.36526E+00 0.34772E+00 0.81884E+00 -0.19954E+01-0.10117E+01 0.18038E+01 0.19008E+01 0.11886E+00-0.41646E+00 0.47560E-01 0.48855E+00 0.57606E+00-0.22320E+00-0.12787E+01 0.47590E+00 .... -9999 0.2044E-09 0.9999E+00 Is this correct or is Chimera expecting a different format? Looking forward to your replies! Many thanks and best wishes, Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Gutmann Instrument Scientist SXD Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Phone: +44 (0)1235 44 6397 ISIS Facility Fax: +44 (0)1235 44 5200 Chilton Didcot Office : R3, 1.28 Oxfordshire OX11 0QX Email: Matthias.Gutmann(a)stfc.ac.uk UNITED KINGDOM -- Scanned by iCritical.

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suggestion
by Dougherty, Matthew T 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

It would be good to have a session description window that I could type text into. The typical method is to generate a session file name that is the description, but as the complexity of a session file increases it would helpful to be able to write a couple sentences/paragraph as to the subtle differences it has over a near identical session file. It would also allow me to pass messages/instructions in the session file to other users so they can properly implement the session file on their computer (e.g., "be sure to change the directory name and update your density files", "the related command files that work with this session file are ....") Later on such information could be extracted in mass from closed session files, allowing for searches using database-like queries. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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BIOMT
by Ludovic Autin 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi there, I am wondering if its possible to access the matrices computed by the sym command and/or if its possible to save the multiscale structure as a PDB with the BIOMT fields instead of the full structure? thanks in advance Ludovic

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