October 2017 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Coloring higher ordered structures
by Frances Shepherd 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Hello, I’m working with a rotavirus capsid structure and I’d like to highlight individual residues on it if possible. I’m using PDB #3IYU which I split into individual chains, and used the multiscale model function to create the capsid structure. I’m able to color different surfaces, but it applies the color to each spot where the chain is on the entire capsid, rather than just one subunit. I’d like to recreate the kind of figure from a paper by Zeller et al (2012), attached below. Additionally, is it possible to color individual residues on a capsid structure? Thanks in advance! -Frances Shepherd

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POV Ray export
by Greg Williams 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

I have done an Export Scene command to generate a POV Ray file for external rendering (Chimera 1.11.2 and Mac OS 10.12.6) using the default Chimera settings. If I open the file in POV Ray 3.70, the Render command gives the following error message: Possible Parse Error: Cannot find file 'transforms.inc', even after trying to append file type extension. "/Users/Greg/Dropbox/POV Ray/POV Prac 2.pov" line 7 Parse Error: Cannot open include file transforms.inc. Any suggestions for fixing the file? Thanks, Greg Williams

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Wall eye stereo has no depth in orthographic projection
by Boris Steipe 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Hello - When viewing a molecule in wall-eye stereo and orthographic projection, the scene is "flat", i.e. the L and R images are identical. Perspective projection works as expected. Is there a workaround? Chimera 1.12 (41617) Mac OS X 10.11.16, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Thanks! Boris

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2d projection of 3d model
by D.A. Semchonok 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Dear colleagues, I would like to make 2d projection of my 3d model and save it as an image. How can I do that? Thank you! Sincerely, Dmitry

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Need help performing a high throughput screen using Chimera
by NOOR GREWAL 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Hello, I am an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. I want to use UCSF Chimera as a part of my research project. How can I run multiple (~20,000 ligands) ligand-docking experiments in parallel using Chimera? I have a Mac OSX Sierra and I am trying to use the command line/terminal for this. I am unable to find documentation and tutorials that can help me. I am very new to this. Could you please guide me on how to best navigate this process? Thanks. Best, Noor

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MD Trajectory Error
by Bryan Dunyak 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

I'm trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation in Chimera 1.12rc on a small molecule. On the first run, it worked perfectly. On subsequent runs, when it begins the MD simulation it errors with the following message in the reply log: "The existing trajectory output files are not compatible with the current molecular system, and therefore cannot be appended to with additional MD steps. You need to either remove/rename the existing files, or specify different file names for output." I've tried to find the trajectory output files in /tmp, I've tried reinstalling Chimera, I've looked in other directories without any luck. What should I be doing at this step? Where can I find these files? Thanks! Bryan

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Genetare animation from several .cube files
by Henrique C. S. Junior 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear list, I'm getting results from an RT-TDDFT calculation that generates several (> 450) .cube files and I'd like to know if we have a nice way to generate an animation. I know that Chimera can generate beautiful images, but can I load each .cube as a frame and animate the result? Thank you so much for any help -- *Henrique C. S. Junior* Industrial Chemist - UFRRJ M. Sc. Inorganic Chemistry - UFRRJ Data Processing Center - PMP Visite o Mundo Químico <http://mundoquimico.com.br>

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Fwd: Re: Chimera Users
by Greg Couch 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Forgot to cc the list. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera Users Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:44:53 +0000 From: gregc(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To: Abhiram Chintangal <achintangal(a)berkeley.edu> AFAIK, Chimera works well with the current NVIDIA drivers. However, it often doesn't work remotely unless you have the same driver on both systems. Is that your use case? Please send me the output of the glxinfo command. glxinfo is in the gxl-utils package. With that information, I might be able to tell what's going on. -- Greg October 11, 2017 3:27 PM, "Abhiram Chintangal" <achintangal(a)berkeley.edu <mailto:%22Abhiram%20Chintangal%22%20%3Cachintangal@berkeley.edu%3E>> wrote: Hello, I am trying to run Chimera on Linux system and I keep running into OpenGL errors after launching it. Here is what I see on my end: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 722 Current serial number in output stream: 723 The system where I am trying to run this has a nivdia 750ti and is running Centos7. I have installed nvidia-drivers using binaries downloaded from nvidia.com <http://nvidia.com> Looking forward to his response, Thanks! -- Abhiram Chintangal QB3 Nogales Lab Bioinformatics Specialist @ Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California Berkeley 708D Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

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Chimera Users
by Abhiram Chintangal 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hello, I am trying to run Chimera on Linux system and I keep running into OpenGL errors after launching it. Here is what I see on my end: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 722 Current serial number in output stream: 723 The system where I am trying to run this has a nivdia 750ti and is running Centos7. I have installed nvidia-drivers using binaries downloaded from nvidia.com Looking forward to his response, Thanks! -- Abhiram Chintangal QB3 Nogales Lab Bioinformatics Specialist @ Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California Berkeley 708D Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

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Automate Segmetation
by Soumya Govinda Remesh 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hello Chimera Developers, There is this repeated procedure that I have to do to get a Segmented map from my soft x-ray tomography maps. Here is what I want do: 1. open *mrc put the map to Level 0.011 2. *vop gaussian #0 sd 0.005* put Gaussian to 0.011 3. Go to: Tools --> Volume Data --> Segment Map Segment the gaussian map Smoothing step: 1 Step size: 500 voxels Keep only regions at lease: 100 voxels Save segments as an .mrc file Go to: File (Segment Map) --> Save all regions to .mrc Set Segment map to 0.011 4. Type: *vop subtract #3 #0* #3 Corresponds with ID# of the segmented .mrc file #0 Corresponds with ID# of the original file 5. *sop split #0 * #0 Corresponds with ID# of the original file - Splits surface into disconnected parts The steps in *bold *are in command line. Is there anyway to have everything in a script format? Setting the levels, opening segmentation and setting values to specific Voxel values every time is quite time consuming. I would appreciate your help. Thanks Best, Soumya Govinda Remesh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow at Advanced Light Source SIBYLS group: http://sibyls.als.lbl.gov/ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road MS 6R2100 Berkeley, CA 94720 (phone) 510-495-8179 (cell) 804-402-8730 sgremesh(a)lbl.gov

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Chimera-users October 2017