December 2012 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

rotation axis display
by Hernando J Sosa 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Hi, Is there a way to display an axis line? I would like to display the rotation and translation axis as given in the reply log after a fit in map operation. Thanks Hernando

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selected molecule
by krit tantanarat 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Dear all I am using MAC and try to select the atom by using Control + left click no mouse but it did not work. How to picking atom from screen using MAC ? Thanks, Krit

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problems with mounted filesystems on MacOS
by Mario Dejung 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi everybody, I have a problem with Chimera on my Mac computer. I have a mounted filesystem on my computer, but sometimes (Wifi switched of for example), the path is no longer available and my Chimera crashes, if I try to open a file, because this mounted path is the last one Chimera is trying to open, but the path is no longer available… So Chimera is no longer responding and I have to force quit. The next problem is, when I restart Chimera, it is still trying to open something from the last path… And crashes again. The only thing that works is, I have to double click a map or a pdb or something, but then, when I try to open something with the menu, Chimera is no longer responding. Hope someone has some suggestions and can help me. Thanks in advance Mario

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Electric field lines?
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi Chimera team, Is it possible to visualize electric field lines in Chimera from, for example, an APBS run? If so, how do I do it? I've scanned through the documentation, but didn't find anything… Thanks, Darrell Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office 301-402-0095 Mobile 301-758-3559 http://bioinformatics.niaid.nih.gov (Within NIH) http://exon.niaid.nih.gov (Public) Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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mouse does not report potential values after change of surface transprency
by Boaz Shaanan 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hi, When I colour a surface according to the potential (read from a delphi or apbs map) and change the surface transparency (in order to show some residues below the surface), the mouse no longer reports the potential values as I walk over the surface. I have to re-colour the surface in order to get back this functionality but the surface is opaque now. Is that how it's supposed to be? Thanks, Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel E-mail: bshaanan(a)bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710 ________________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] on behalf of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 10:00 PM To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 116, Issue 19 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: mask command (Tom Goddard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:15:56 -0800 From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net> To: Xiangan Liu <xiangan.liu(a)gmail.com> Cc: Chimera BB <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] mask command Message-ID: <50CA6FBC.6020202(a)sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Xiangan, The mask command is working fine in my tests. It only sets the map values to zero outside the surface. The values inside the surface are identical to the original map. If that is not the case for you than use menu Help / Report a Bug... and provide the exact mask command you used and explain how you know that the new masked map values are different from the original map. This sounds like the right approach to segmenting a subunit. If instead you had a fit atomic model you could use Color Zone and the Split button on that dialog. Tom > Hi Tom, > I am trying to use your MASK command to extract some interested > volumes from a density map based on another reference density map. > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mask.html > > I followed your guide line from the link above, but the extracted > density is not the same as the original density. > Is there anything I should pay special attention? > It looks like the command was created many years ago, is it still good > for the latest chimera version? > > Do I have any other way to segment map based on a known subunit > density map, something similar to color zone? > > Thanks, > > Xiangan Liu > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users End of Chimera-users Digest, Vol 116, Issue 19 **********************************************

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Re: [Chimera-users] mask command
by Tom Goddard 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi Xiangan, The mask command is working fine in my tests. It only sets the map values to zero outside the surface. The values inside the surface are identical to the original map. If that is not the case for you than use menu Help / Report a Bug... and provide the exact mask command you used and explain how you know that the new masked map values are different from the original map. This sounds like the right approach to segmenting a subunit. If instead you had a fit atomic model you could use Color Zone and the Split button on that dialog. Tom > Hi Tom, > I am trying to use your MASK command to extract some interested > volumes from a density map based on another reference density map. > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mask.html > > I followed your guide line from the link above, but the extracted > density is not the same as the original density. > Is there anything I should pay special attention? > It looks like the command was created many years ago, is it still good > for the latest chimera version? > > Do I have any other way to segment map based on a known subunit > density map, something similar to color zone? > > Thanks, > > Xiangan Liu > >

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Mac Retina display
by Tom Goddard 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

A few weeks ago I added support in Chimera for retina displays (2880x1800 pixels) on Macbook Pro laptops. The recent Chimera builds use the full resolution and produce beautifully smooth edges and text. Older versions of Chimera will use only half the retina screen resolution 1440x900, which is comparable to non-retina displays (~120 dots per inch). The attached image compares the old (left) and new (right) graphics and text in a direct screen snapshot magnified by 2x. The improvement is in Chimera daily builds and the Chimera 1.7 release candidate. Tom

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Saving trajectories in one pdb file
by Daniel Gurnon 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi all, I'm using Chimera to prepare multi-model pdbs for use in ePMV. I've run into two issues: 1) When saving a portion of a trajectory in one pdb file, frame numbers are used as model numbers. But only 4 digits are supported. Above 9999, the model number becomes ****. Could you enable 7 digits? I'm taking frames from the end of a long trajectory. 2) I was hoping that I could retain the effect of "hold selection steady" by saving as a pdb with transformed coordinates, but this isn't the case. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks Dan -- ____________________________ Daniel Gurnon, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135 p: 765-658-6279 e: danielgurnon(a)depauw.edu

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morphing model extrapolation
by Gajewski, Stefan 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Hi! I have two .pdb files on hand. Both are in between two biologically relevant conformations. When I create a morph between them, I can see them permuting between the two crystal structures but only half way to the two relevant conformations. The morphing model should generate a trajectory between the two coordinate sets. Is it possible to let the morphing model generate more coordinate files/frames beyond the target structure? Let's say 120 frames morph A to B and compute 60-100 more frames beyond B based on the previous trajectories? Thanks, Stefan ________________________________ Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/consultationdisclaimer

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Measure symmetry helix
by Mariam Shirdel 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi! I'm trying to measure the symmetry of an EM density map to fit a pdb to it and make several copies. When I run the commands in the command line: me sym #0 min 0.89 helix 8.97,-111.86, the result I get is Symmetry EMnew.spi: Helix C5, rise 8.97, angle -111.9, center 39 39 38, n 30. The problem is that when I run sym #1 group #0 update true, I get a pentagon base which goes through the whole helix. I just want the measure symmetry to give me Helix, without the C5. What are the commands to achieve this? I tried: sym #1 group c5*h,8.97,-111.86, but it didn't work, and I don't think that's the correct way for me to do it. Does anyone know what to do? Best regards, Mariam Shirdel

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