April 2013 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

volume planes tool
by Jeff Triffo 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

hi folks, anyone know if the volume plane tool will support arbitrary orientation of the plane any time soon? -Jeff

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Re: [Chimera-users] Display a spider volume data in a specific orientation
by Elaine Meng 08 May '14

08 May '14

Hi Zongli, This is not my area of expertise (our expert is currently out of town) -- at first I thought you could use "Transform Molecule Coordinates" (under Tools... Movement), but now I see that it works only on atomic structures rather than maps: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/transform/transfor… > It only works on molecular structures because it actually changes the atomic coordinates, without changing the model transformation. I've figured out one workaround, but it is both crazy and slightly tedious: (1) open your map (say as model 0). (2) open any atomic-resolution structure, it doesn't matter what, and open it twice -- now you have three models. Don't move them separately from the map (yet). Let's say the atomic structures are models 1 and 2. (3) use "Transform Molecule Coordinates" with desired Euler angles and shift on one copy of the atomic structure (say model 1). (4) use the match command to superimpose the other copy of the atomic structure on the one that was transformed: match #2 #1 (the command can use the whole models since they should have exactly the same atoms) (5) use the matrixcopy command to apply the transformation matrix of the second copy of the atomic structure to the map: matrixcopy 2 0 You might think "why do I need two copies of the atomic structure? can't I just transform one copy and then use matrixcopy?" ... in fact that's what I tried first, but after it didn't work, I realized it was because the Transform tool works by changing the coordinate values and not the stored matrix of the model. It is necessary to match the second copy to generate a corresponding matrix, and then matrixcopy can be used. I'm CC-ing the chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu list in case other Chimera users have suggestions. Our expert Tom G should be back next week and he might also have ideas. In general, it's better to send Chimera questions to that mailing list instead of just me, because I could be away from work or (like now) lacking a good answer! I hope this helps, 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 Apr 7, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Li, Zongli wrote: > Hi Elaine, > I have a spider volume data (or mrc density map) from which I got a > serious 2D projections. I have the Euler angles for each projection. > Is there a way in Chimera that I can use those Euler angles to > display the 3D spider volume data (or mrc density map) in a specific > orientation that corresponding to that 2D projection? > Thank you very much in advance. > Best, > Zongli > > **************************************** > Zongli Li, Ph.D. > > Howard Hughes Medical Institute > Department of Cell Biology > Harvard Medical School > C Building, Room 420B > 240 Longwood Avenue > Boston, MA 02115 > > Tel: 617-432-4095 (Office) > 617-432-4708 (EM Suite) > 617-432-4091 (Computer room) > Fax: 617-432-1144 > Email: zongli_li(a)hms.harvard.edu > *************************************** >

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font size in pull-down menus
by Boaz Shaanan 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi, Is there a way to change the font size of the pull-down menus? For some reason on the Windows (XP) v.1.5.1 they seem smaller to me. Nothing in terms of graphics (or my eyesight) has changed since I upgraded to 1.5.1 recently. Thanks, Boaz Thanks, Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel Phone: 972-8-647-2220 ; Fax: 646-1710 Skype: boaz.shaanan‎

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Chimera shutsdown when opening sideview
by vamsee 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi Elaine, I have recently moved to Linuxmint 14 from Windows 7. I can open virus capsids very easily (much more easier than in Windows 7, which is pretty sweet). But, every time I try to open the Side View option from the menu, Chimera shuts down. I have tried version 1.7 and 1.8rc. Both exhibit the same behavior. The interesting thing is, I can open all the other tabs (Effects, Lighting etc.) on that window from the menu. But when I click on Side View, Chimera crashes immediately with no bug report (Its almost like the process never existed). So, I tried starting chimera from the command line with the Side View option enabled (sudo chimera --start "Side View"). That started the Side View window and that stayed even after I opened my models. I then closed the Side View and re-opened it from the menu bar this time in the same chimera session. That worked again. So, I am kind of at a loss though I seem to have a work around for now. I have used the same features on Windows 7 (I still do using a virtual machine inside Linux) and they work fine. Any reason why this would happen? My computer specifications Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz × 8 Memory : 8Gb Onboard Video : Intel® Sandybridge Mobile OS : LinuxMint 14 Thank you Vamsee

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morph conformation
by Moumita Dutta 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hello chimera-users, I'm trying to use the option morph conformations from the command line and cannot specify more than one molecule with the command morph start. How to use the morph start command for more than two molecules ? Thanks for any help. Moumita

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morph map and movie recording
by Moumita Dutta 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hello, I am trying to morph more than two maps at a time so I am using vop morph instead of Morph map. I am following the mini-video animation example script of vop morph using the recommended chimera 1.7 version 2013. The script actually recorded the movie but in the movie threshold changed from what I set and it turned some maps to x 90 degree not all and it is not showing the morph animation only the superimposed maps. Another problem is though I remove the dust after loading the maps but it came back in the morph and in the movie as well. How can I fix the problems and generate the movie ? Moumita

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Ubuntu 12.10 and Chimera update #2
by Greg Couch 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Found a better solution to Chimera's problems on Ubuntu 12.10 -- just install Ubuntu 13.04! HTH, Greg

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Re: [Chimera-users] movie recording from morph map
by Elaine Meng 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

On Apr 25, 2013, at 1:01 PM, "Moumita Dutta" <dutta(a)bio.fsu.edu> wrote: > Hi Elaine, > I am trying to morph more than two maps at a time so I am using vop morph instead of Morph map. I am following the mini-video animation example script of vop morph like below > > Record the movie > # > > movie record supersample 3 > > wait 1 > movie crossfade > vop morph #0,1 frames 200 > wait 200 > > movie encode morphmap.mp4 morphmap.webm morphmap.ogv bitrate 200. > > It starts recording the movie but it does not stop. > Best, > Moumita Hi Moumita, The first thing to check when following a tutorial or examples is your version of Chimera. The top of the mini-examples page <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/movie-howto-mar2012/movie_examples.html> says that they were made with Chimera version 1.7 from March 2012 or newer. In those versions, movie recording will automatically stop when you use "movie record." In older versions, you have to use the "movie stop" command to stop recording before you do the encoding. (I cc'd chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu -- please use that address for Chimera questions unless your data are private) I hope this helps, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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Seeking guidance on Volume-volume fitting
by ingvar 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Dear Chimera, I am seeking guidance on what would be best practice in doing volume-volume fitting, and what expectations should I have on number of trial conformations. For instance would it be beneficial to resample one of the volumes to the same grid as the other volume. What about volumes with different resolutions, do this require any special handling. In the case below it would probably be more efficient to just align the principal moments of inertia of the envelopes above the contour level and then do a search from there, though this will only work well if the volumes are very similar. In an initial study I used 3 EM volumes from EMDB, (EMD-5500, EMD-5501, and EMD-2017). They are all 30S E. coli ribosomes of similar resolution (12.9, 14.0, 13.5 Å). I thought that this would be a relatively easy starting point, with the intent to then go on to fit 30S subunit in some of the many E. coli 70S EM volumes that are available. The volumes EMD-5500 and EMD-5501 are in similar orientation, while EMD-2017 is in a completely different orientation. The grids are similar but not identical, 125^3 vs 128^3. I adjusted the contour levels from the EMDB recommended values to make the enclosed volumes more similar in size. Contour levels used: EMD-5500 -2.8 -> -2.5 EMD-5501 -2.8 EMD-2017 39 -> 32 I am using scripts like the one shown here: from chimera import runCommand as rc from chimera.tkgui import saveReplyLog rc("open data/EMD-5500.map") rc("volume #0 level -2.5 transparency 0.5") rc("open data/EMD-5501.map") rc("volume #1 level -2.8 transparency 0.5") rc("fitmap #1 #0 search 50000 metric cam envelope true inside 0.2") saveReplyLog(r'/Users/ingvar/chimera/log/fit5500_5501_loc.txt') It seems correlation about mean is the best metric for volume-volume fitting, and that it is best to only use points inside the envelope. The maps EMD-5500, and EMD-5501 have the unusual feature that the density range is shifted downwards so that the average is well below 0. I was concerned about that and moved the density range, but with the fitmap parameters above that did not seem to have any significant impact (with other sets of parameters the density range appears to be an issue). In this case, it is relatively easy to see when you have found the "good" fit, all other fits have clearly worse statistics. What I was surprised about was the number of trial conformations needed to be reasonable certain to find the "good" fit. 5500 in 5501 7 times in 5000 5501 in 5500 2 times in 5000 5500 in 2017 0 times in 5000 5500 in 2017 8 times in 50000 2017 in 5501 0 times in 5000 Many Thanks, Ingvar Lagerstedt

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morph map and molecule together
by Tom Goddard 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi Moumita, You can morph both maps and molecules at the same time. You use commands instead of the morphing dialogs in order to get them to play with perfect synchronization. The basic plan is to create the molecule morph and the map morph using the dialogs as usual. Then load a simple command script that starts both playing at the same time and records the movie. I'm sure this works in Chimera 1.7, probably in 1.6, and maybe in 1.5. Here is an example command script morphing a filament map and fit molecule http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/santa-cruz-aug2012/scripts/movie2.txt and here's the resulting movie http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/santa-cruz-aug2012/images/morph1.mp4 and here is the web page where I explain how this was done http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/santa-cruz-aug2012/animate.html This was a demonstration I gave at the Bay Area Cryo EM meeting in Santa Cruz last summer. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: morph map From: Moumita Dutta To: goddard Date: 4/23/13 10:16 PM > Hi Tom, > > I want to morph a set of density maps and the atomic models fitted > into them together and run the two movies concurrently so that I get a > movie that shows how the density and the atomic models change > together. I have been able to make the two different sets of data > morph independently, but thought it more informative if they morphed > together. > > I was wondering whether this can be done using chimera ? If so which > version supports it ? > > Thanks, > Moumita > > >

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