August 2015 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Constrainted fitting
by Christoph Wigge 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Dear all, I would like to fit two protein monomers that form a dimer into an em density map. I know from previous mutagenesis studies that the binding takes place with two tryptophan residues and the counterpart binding pocket. How can I set this interaction as fixed so that chimera fits the rest of the molecule according to the density map without continuously changing this part of the essential protein protein interaction? I would like to fit that interaction manually and then exclude it from the automatic procedure. Thank you very much in advance. Bests Christoph Wigge

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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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Inter-molecular H-bonds between water molecules not displayed in per-frame script
by George Green 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Hi, I'm trying to get a per-frame script going which shows the inter-molecular H-bonds within a protein binding site. It is working in that all H-bonds show apart from water-water h-bonds. Is there any fix for this at all? My code is below: Water molecules are residues :159-162 I would be very grateful for any assistance. :) sg ################################################ #################### # per-frame H-bond repr bs :158 color hot pink :158 color byhet :158 # disp :60,37,85,112,109,35,158,84,60,40,38,114,69,90,58,61-68,56,21,45,52,101,15,92,40,105,116,24,42,54,40,24,10,97,120,159,160,161,162 disp :WAT # select :1-162; hbonds intramodel true intermodel true line 5 color gold ; ~select select :90 ################################################

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chimera visualization
by Valerio Chiarini 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Dear Elaine, I would like to produce images from chimera showing an NMR bundle structure (backbone only) with stick-represented residues each one belonging to different single structures. I know it´s possible to do it with pymol but unfortunately the structures superimposition is not as good as in chimera. Would it be possible? Thank you in advance, Valerio

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Hydrogen bonding calculation issues with PDB2PQR/AMBER/CHIMERA
by Fenton Heirtzler 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hello- I’m trying to use CHIMERA to model the hexameric hydrogen bonding of isophthalic acid. I’m just an organic chemist, not a computational chemist. The PDB2PQR subroutine is returning the reply “Error encountered: No heavy atoms found!”. Here is sequentially what I have done: 1. A pdb file of isophthalic acid hexamer was imported. 2. The covalent bond lengths and angles were set to realistic ones. 3. The names of the concerned atoms were defined in the Build Structure/Modify Structure/Change Modified Residue’s name box, as described in the User Guide (i.e., Cac, O2, O3 and H) 4. The default limits of 3.4 Å and 30° were used 5. The AMBER force field was chosen. Thanks very much Fenton (PS – I’m a private person, not associated with either academia nor industry) -- Dr. Fenton Heirtzler Phone: +1-301-312-5145 On LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fentonhorgchem/> Skype: fentonheirtzler Supporter of the International Day of Climate Action <http://www.350.org/> *********

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Query related to chimera
by Akhilesh Verma 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Dear Manager, Is it possible to do Protein protein docking using chimera program? Your response will be highly appreciated. Thanking you. -- Sincerely yours, *Akalesh Kumar Verma* *Morehouse School of Medicine* *Microbiology, Biochemistry & Immunology* Atlanta, Georgia, USA Pin / Zip: 30329 *Mobile: +1 (678) 497-6404* *http://www.msm.edu/ <http://www.msm.edu/>* _______________________ ______________ *Personal Disclaimer:--* *Any information contained in this e-mail and/or any attachments is confidential and only intended for reception and use by the specified person. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the email to the sender and delete it afterwards. In this case any copying, forwarding, printing, disclosure and use are strictly prohibited.* *_________________* *__________*

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How can I can calculate or know Gibbs free energy from UCSF Chimera
by Awah.Chidiebere.U＠mh-hannover.de 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Dear Colleagues, Thanks for developing such wonderful tools as Chimera for molecular dynamics analysis of structure. Please I have two questions: 1. Is it possible to calculate Gibbs free energy from complexes on UCSF Chimera, for examples when complexes are solvated? 2. On building structures , is it possible to simulate how a given complex could bind DNA oligos , for example when one makes changes in single nucleotides and ask a given DNA binding TF structure to bind it on Chimera? I would look forward to your response to these questions. I would also be very happy if I could speak by phone with the administrators. Thanks. Best wishes, Chidiebere U Awah MD Msc PhD student , Molecular Medicine Hannover Medical School , Germany.

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Re: [Chimera-users] a question relate to Chimera
by Elaine Meng 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

On Aug 26, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Smith Liu <smith_liu123(a)163.com> wrote: > Dear Elaine, > Thanks for the reply. > > Here let us consider the first question on "a particle has a diameter of 100 pixels ", which I think may be done by Chimera with your help. From http://www.imagescience.de/fsc/index.htm, we can download a software which can be used to calculate the resolution of the map by FSC. When we use that software for calculation, we need to input "Filling degree" D/L, where the value of object size D in voxels, and the L, the linear ssize of the 3D volume (x, y,z). A typical value of "Filling degree" D/L would be 0.66, indicating that 2/3 of the linear width of the 3D volume is filled by the object. > > Thus will you please show me by Chimera how can we know "the value of object size D in voxels"? > > I am looking forward to getting your reply. > > Best regards. > Smith Dear Smith, Please send Chimera questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu (instead of to me directly). Others may be able to answer your questions better than I can, for example in this case where I don’t know the answer. For linear size of the whole volume (the map), we already discussed that you can see the number of grid units (voxels) in X,Y,Z to the right of the dataset name in the Volume Viewer dialog, and see angstroms per grid unit in the Features: Coordinates section of Volume Viewer. You could multiply the values to get the size of the map in angstroms. <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2015-August/011437.html> <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2015-August/011433.html> However, I don’t know how you could measure the voxel size of the object in Chimera. As far as I know you could only estimate it by eye, or by measuring angstrom dimensions, converting to grid units, and then multiplying them to roughly estimate the area of the object in voxels. It would only be an estimate, assuming your object is not a perfect circle or square. See previous posts on measuring angstrom dimensions in a map: <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2015-January/010609.html> <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2014-January/009503.html> My guess is that people would normally get this information from the software used in the original data collection, not by doing measurements in Chimera. 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

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Re: [Chimera-users] Icosahedral net from PDB
by Tom Goddard 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hi James, There are a few Chimera commands that let you show a icosahedral cage around a virus PDB model. Basically you use the sym command to make the virus capsid from the PDB asymmetric unit, then use the shape command to make the cage, then optionally use the meshmol command to show the cage with cylinders instead of lines. For example, open 2bbv sym #0 surf true shape icos radius 200 lattice 1,1 meshmol #2 3 color gold #3 There’s also a video showing how to make the cage for an electron microscopy map http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/cage/index.html <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/cage/index.html> Here is the command documentation for more info about sym, shape, meshmol commands: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/framecommand.html <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/framecommand.html> Tom > On Aug 27, 2015, at 5:11 AM, Geraets, James A > Hi Tom, > > A colleague of mine has told me that you have previously made available a script for displaying icosahedrally-symmetric pdb files on an icosahedron net. Would you happen to still have it? I can’t find any sign of it online… > > Cheers (and thanks for your continued work on Chimera) > > James > > ---------- > > James Geraets > EU Marie Curie Actions Fellow > AIROPico Project > > Institute of Biotechnology > PL 56 > FI-00014 University of Helsinki > Finland

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addgrp command
by UCSF-xiaobowan 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Hi all, I am Xiaobo Wan, a postdoc at UCSF. I would like to learn how to add chemical groups (such as methyl) or change chemical atoms (Fluorine to Nitrogen) using the command in Chimera because I have thousands of compounds to do the same modification. I know the Build Structure in the Graphic interface can do this. I am not sure whether the addgrp command was supported by chimera now. Best, Xiaobo

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Chimera-users August 2015