November 2017 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

labels turned white
by Oleksiy Kovtun 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Dear community, I encountered a problem with 2D labels turning white disregards what colour presets I give. The script reads title presets from a file (2dlabel path) and then display the title with these commnads: 2dlabels change * bgColor 1,1,1,0.75; 2dlabels change title visibility show The 'title' label should appear as opaque black font as defined in the label file: Label title (x,y): (0.18,0.5) text: u'Title' shown: False font size(s): 40 font style(s): bold font typeface(s): sans serif color(s): (0, 0, 0, 1) But it appears in white. Bizarrely all other presets in the label file translate into the title appearance as they should except for the colour. I run Chimera 1.11.12 (build 41280) on Unix. Script and label file are attached. Thank you. Oleksiy Dr Oleksiy Kovtun Research Fellow Briggs group MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge CB2 0QH UK Tel: + 44 1223 267551 Email: okovtun(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

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All PDB ca atom pairwise distance
by Kyle Morris 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Dear chimera dev and users, Is there a way to calculate (using the GUI, commands or using a python script) the pairwise distances for every single c-alpha atom in a set of loaded PDB coordinates and spit this out to a file for further analysis? There are 142,800 atoms in the current loaded assembly. Thanks! Kyle

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rmsd graph
by SEFA ÇELİK 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Dear Dr. I am using Chimera software(windows platform). I tried to get rmsd graph. And I got the result. But, graph's x-axis "*frame*" and y-axis "*rmsd*" value. I want the x axis to be the "*time*". Briefly, I want to see how the value of rmsd changes with time. Can you help with this? Could you explain in detail? Best regard Dr. Sefa Celik

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error during MPEGM enconding
by Edoardo D'Imprima 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Dear Chimera team, I ma trying to record a simple movie using the following command #!/bin/csh -f # # windowsize 900 1094 movie record supersample 4 volume #0 style solid; wait volume #0 planes z,0,0; wait volume #0 planes z,0,115; wait movie stop ###bitrate 5000 movie encode output my_movie.mp4 quality highest framerate 25 mformat mp4 however I keep on getting this error message: /Applications/Chimera/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg -r 25.0 -i /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm -vf crop=floor(in_w/2)*2:floor(in_h/2)*2:0:0 -y -f mp4 -pix_fmt yuv420p -qscale 1 /Users/user/Desktop/folder/my_movie.mp4 An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details. Error during MPEG encoding: ----------------------------- Exit value: 1 Error message: libavutil 52. 48.100 / 52. 48.100 libavcodec 55. 39.100 / 55. 39.100 libavformat 55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104 libavdevice 55. 5.100 / 55. 5.100 libavfilter 3. 90.100 / 3. 90.100 libswscale 2. 5.101 / 2. 5.101 libswresample 0. 17.104 / 0. 17.104 libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100 [image2 @ 0x7fac00802000] Could find no file with path '/var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm' and index in the range 0-4 /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm: No such file or directory Could you please let me know what am I doing wrong? I tried both on my laptop (MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with OS version 10.11.6 (15G1004)) and our linux terminals (Linux sbterm 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 GNU/Linux) It happens on both Chimera 1.12 and Chimera 1.11 Many thanks in advance, Edoardo --------------------------------------------------- Edoardo D'Imprima PhD Student Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Structural Biology Department Max-von-Laue Straße 3 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel: +49 (0) 69 6303 3015

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ChimeraX x Chimera feature comparison?
by Gustavo Seabra 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi guys, I wonder if there is a ChimeraX x Chimera feature comparison anywhere. I’m aware of the “ChimeraX Advantages” page (http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/advantages.html) However, I’m actually looking for a comparison that can tell what features are currently on Chimera that are *not* in ChimeraX, to consider if there is any reason to keep both in the computer. Thanks, -- Gustavo Seabra Adjunct Professor Federal University in Pernambuco Recife - PE - Brazil +55-81-2126-7450 x5023 (goo.gl/ktsXSc)

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problem with showing broken peptide after residues with alternative conformation
by Wangshu Jiang 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Dear Chimera Support, I am using Chimera to performing structural analysis for a manuscript. I have been struggling to show the protein structure with PDB entry 3LR2, the peptide bond between residue with alternative conformations and the next residue was shown broken, both in backbone and in ribbon presentation. I am not sure what went wrong here, I compared the PDB text file to other PDB entries with alternative conformations and I did not find obvious differences. It would be nice to show all the rotamers in the PDB instead of manually deleting by coot just from ‘eyeballing'. Could you please help me to solve this issue? Any suggestion is deeply appreciated! I attached an image illustrating the problem I described. I hope to hear from you soon! Best Regards, Wangshu Jiang PhD student Dept Cell and Molecular Biology BMC Box 596 Husargatan 3 751 24 Uppsala Sweden [cid:0D42E809-5937-4AC1-83FB-07A00C355333] Wangshu Jiang PhD student Dept Cell and Molecular Biology BMC Box 596 Husargatan 3 751 24 Uppsala Sweden

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