November 2013 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

chimera multiple sequence alignment
by Covell, David (NIH/NCI) [E] 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Dear Chimera Help, I have used NCBI's COBALT to align the active site residues for the ~400 kinases in the 'kinome tree'. This fasta alignment can be exported and read into chimera. Once loaded, tools > sequence > multialign/viewer > info > percent identity gives me the % identity for a pair of sequences. Since I have ~400 sequences, I would like to know whether the upper-triangular matrix of percent identities can be done automatically. If so, can a weight matrix for scoring (BLOSUM62) be used? Thanks in advance for your help. David Covell, Ph.D.

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Issues with characters on command line (OS X 10.9)
by Andreas Göransson 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hi everybody! I am experiencing a strange issue with the command line. I have OS X 10.9 and Chimera 1.8.1. I can't type tilde sign (~) in the command line - nothing comes up. Other Alt-combinations to produce special characters as @ works fine. Have any of you the same problem / any suggestions for solution? Thanks, Andreas

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Using runCommand outputs
by a.pushpanath＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hello all, I am getting confused by the runCommand() functionality when I am trying to run scripts. When I run my python script through IDLE(From Tools-General), the ouput of runcommand commands like rmsd etc are given the IDLE. I want to store the output from runcommand into a variable dynamically. I dont want to save from the ReplyLog (by running program without IDLE) or output to file, is there something in python itself that I am not understanding and hence, not using, or is it not possible to store the output of runcommand into a variable/list etc, as it is possible for the midas.rmsd function for example. I only ask because I prefer to use the command line functionality over the midas command. If it is only possible with the direct midas, how do I find out the equivalent command of the runcommand for the midas python formatting? Thank you Sorry if my question is a bit confusing! Ahir ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Mapping Change in Surface Exposed Residues on Model
by Joshua Carter 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hello, My name is Josh Carter and I am an undergraduate at MSU working on some modeling. I am working in particular on a ribo-nucleo-protein complex that undergoes a conformational change upon target binding. I am trying to find a good way to map the change in surface exposed residues after this conformational change occurs. I have a morph model of the two states and was just wondering if there was a way to map using chimera which models are surface exposed or not? Thanks, Josh

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Re: [Chimera-users] set attribute coil/helix/sheet in chimera
by Tom Goddard 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

There is no isCoil attribute. If a residue is not helix and not sheet then it is coil. So to set residues 106-121 to coil use setattr r isHelix 0 :106-121 setattr r isSheet 0 :106-121 Tom On Nov 11, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Puey Ounjai wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I am wondering if there is any way to set attribute to coil for particular residue just for rendition? > I tried command "setattr" it works perfectly for helices and sheet but I dont know if option isCoil do exist > > Thanks, > Puey

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suggestion: stereo3D
by Dougherty, Matthew T 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi, I would recommend an option to lock the focal plane to the min clipping plane. having that track will make first pass stereography easier to create the stereo3D parallax budget. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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Automatic mutations
by James Starlight 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear Chimera users! I'm looking for the possible python script which using the Chimera's source would introduce selected mutations in the defined PDB file and produce PDB output containing such protein with the selected substitution residues. It would be also good if rotamers for mutation residues would be backbone dependent or taken from the existing rotamer libraries (although its not essence because I can run minimization on the mutants) Previously I've done such tasks with selectivity mutations via Chimera-GUI rotamer plugin but now I'd like to obtain big series of the mutant of studied protein for further examinations of such mutants by means of molecular dynamics simulation. Could someone provide me with such script if it could not be very complicated to make it? Thanks for help, James

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Re: [Chimera-users] Problems with binding site representation
by Elaine Meng 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi Vigneshwari, The CASTp approach is great in that it automatically figures out for you where the pocket boundaries are (where the pocket ends and the outside begins), and provides volume and other measurements. CASTp works with apo structures as well as liganded. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/castp.html> <http://sts-fw.bioengr.uic.edu/castp/calculation.php> Another tool that can be used with Chimera is the Voss Volume Voxelator (3V) web server, which will create "density"-type maps of the pockets and tunnels in a structure. In Chimera, you can open the resulting map, adjust the isosurface level as desired in Volume Viewer, then measure the volume enclosed in the isosurface with the "Measure and Color Blobs" tool (in menu under Tools… Volume Data). <http://3vee.molmovdb.org/> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/fram…> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/pickblobs/pickblo…> These do not display different inside and outside colors, but they use other ways to locate the pocket boundaries. The complicated procedure in Chimera to generate the pockets with different inside and outside coloring is because we currently don't have 2-sided coloring on a single surface. The map from 3V could be shown with two different isosurfaces slightly offset from each other in two differen colors, but I don't know how useful that would be. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/fram…> You may need to use a different program if none of the above suffice. Best, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:14 PM, vigneshwari subramanian <vignesh.bioinfo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Elaine, > Thanks for your email. > > Our aim is to show the differences in the volume of binding cavities when an agonist and antagonist binds. We also want to show the ligand free state of the cavity. The reason for having 2 different colors is to clearly see if the volume marks the inner or outer surface of the cavity. > > Since this doesn't work very well, I thought I could solvate the cavity and display that surface. I am not sure if there better ways to represent the volumes of binding cavities. > > regards, > vigneshwari >

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Re: [Chimera-users] Problems with binding site representation
by Elaine Meng 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi Vigneshwari, You can see the manual page by using command "help measure" or you can see it on our website here: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#contact…> Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Nov 9, 2013, at 3:31 AM, vigneshwari subramanian wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > Thank you so much for your timely help. I could actually make the same figure. I need to do the same for our dataset. > > It would be really helpful if you can tell me what each of these parameters mean. I think you gave an overview. But I would like to know what each of these mean. > > 3 slab -.1,0 > > measure contactArea #0.2 #0.1 3 slab -.1,0 color tan > measure contactArea #0.2 #0.1 2.99 slab -.11,-.01 color cornflowerblue > > I checked the manual. But I couldn't find any information about measure contactArea. > > I am there in the chimera list. > > regards, > vigneshwari

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Change line width of stick representation?
by Amy Davenport Migliori 09 Nov '13

09 Nov '13

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the line width of stick representations? Either that or add the ability to have depth in wire representations (i.e. shading, etc)? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Amy Migliori, UCSD

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