March 2019 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

New script: CREATE ALL ALTERNATIVE RECEPTOR PROTONATIONS
by Thomas Evangelidis 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

New script and tutorial: CREATE ALL ALTERNATIVE RECEPTOR PROTONATION STATE COMBINATIONS. Useful for those that do MD, docking, or any other structure-based drug design method. https://github.com/tevang/tutorials/tree/master/create_alternative_protonat… <https://github.com/tevang/tutorials/tree/master/create_alternative_protonat…> -- ====================================================================== Dr Thomas Evangelidis Research Scientist IOCB - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences <https://www.uochb.cz/web/structure/31.html?lang=en> Prague, Czech Republic & CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology <https://www.ceitec.eu/> Brno, Czech Republic email: tevang3(a)gmail.com website: https://sites.google.com/site/thomasevangelidishomepage/

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electron density map superimposed on protein model
by Jenaro Soto 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hi Everyone, I am new to Chimera and am still getting to know the program. So far I have found the tutorials helpful, but they don't seem to have the answer to this very specific question. I want to know how I can overlay a protein structure and electron density map correctly. I am currently analyzing a published structure and would like to look at the the electron density map superimposed on the protein model. I was able to fetch the electron density map by using the 'open edsID:PDB_ID' command. However, it doesn't seem like my structure and the electron density are overlaid correctly. This might be because I moved the structure a lot before calling in the electron density map. How can I have the electron density map overlaid to the structure correctly (like the author intended it to be). Any tips will be appreciated. Best, Jenaro

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focus over N frames
by Elena Zehr 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hello, I wish to use "focus" command in a movie script. I focus on an atom range as following focus :4-6@CA I wish to bring the atoms in focus over N frames. How do I do this? Many thanks, Elena

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drawing stereographic projections for point groups in Chimera
by Arvind SHARMA 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hi, Is there a way to draw stereographic projections in chimera or chimeraX for the point groups? I want to draw these projections for icosahedral point groups (of T=3 virus), keeping the outer shell from chimera Multi-scale Models. Idea is to make something as in attached file. Would be great if someone has ideas how to do it or a script is available. Thanks a lot. Best, Arvind.

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Save multiscale model as PDB?
by Divjak Maja 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi Elaine, Hope you're well! I'm working with measles PDB 4uft and have managed to make a multi scale model from this in Chimera. What I would like to do is save this multiscale model as a PDB and import to Maya, however, when I do this, all I get is a single subunit and not the multiscale model. I've tried looking in the Help documentation, but can't find how to save the whole multi scale model in PDB format. Thanks so much and best wishes, Maja Dr Maja Divjak BAppSc(Hons), PhD, Grad Cert 3D Animation (AFTRS) Biomedical Animator Office of Cancer Research [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01D35ECE.31407C60] Phone +61 3 8559 5961 Email maja.divjak(a)petermac.org<mailto:maja.divjak@petermac.org> 305 Grattan Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 www.petermac.org<http://www.petermac.org/> Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments or links) may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information and is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this email (including any attachments) are not waived or lost by reason of its mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre provides no guarantee that this transmission is free of virus or that it has not been intercepted or altered and will not be liable for any delay in its receipt.

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Change map gridding for better display
by Ahmad Khalifa 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

How can I change the gridding of my cryo-EM map to make it look better? I know I can resample a map in chimera on the grid of another, but I'm not sure which absolute gridding is better to view the map and how to change the gridding without a reference.

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creating a new color palette - viridis
by Saladi, Shyam M. 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Hello -- I see that a number of color palettes were added to chimera a little more than a year ago now: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2017-September/013872.html I would like to try using viridis (https://bids.github.io/colormap/) instead of standard rainbow/spectrum for coloring a protein from its N to C termini. Would someone be able to give me direction on how to create a new a color palette to do this? The RGB values making up viridis can directly be found here: here: https://github.com/BIDS/colormap/blob/master/colormaps.py Thanks, Shyam

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Using Chimera _ Query
by Hina Khan 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Dear team, I would like to know if I can use images generated and modified using Chimera 1.13.1 in my master's thesis. I look forward to having your response. Sincerely, Hina

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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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by JOHN FLANAGAN 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Hi I was trying to use the volume eraser to remove density outside of a sphere on my em map. When I enabled keyboard shortcuts and then used the shortcut command eo what I got back was an identical copy to the original, i.e. no erasure. If I used es then everything in the circle was erased as expected. Am I missing something? CheersJohn John M. Flanagan PhD. Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Penn St. College of Medicine Milton Hershey Medical Center Hershey PA, 17033

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