February 2020 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Mx 230 gpu, chimera and chimerax
by Yehuda Halfon 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi all, A friend of mine in my lab wants to buy a new laptop with mx230. Will it work fine with chimera and chimerax? The cpu is i5-10210u and 8 GB of ram. Thanks a lot, Yehuda Halfon PS I know this isn't the chimerax mailing list but I hope to get a double answer in one mail

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BLAST Database error
by Ebrahim Barzegari 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

I'm doing Blast protein for a single sequence. After selecting the database (pdb) and setting other params, I receive this error in Reply log: BLAST Database error: Error: Not a valid version 4 database. How can I sort out it? Thanks for help

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SplitCommand python
by Healey, Joseph 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Hi Chimera Team, I’m trying to reduce some overheads in one of my scripts part of which is coming from my use of `runCommand`. At the moment, I’m only using it for `split`, but I’d like to first test whether a model is already split to avoid unnecessary invocation. I’m aware the python equivalent of the command is buried inside chimera.SplitMolecule and the command split_command, however it doesn’t seem to be importable, as when I try: >>> from chimera import SplitMolecule Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#25>", line 2, in <module> ImportError: cannot import name SplitMolecule I’m getting the above ImportError. I can import other members of the chimera class (e.g. chimera.openModels or chimera.Molecule and chimera itself without issue). I’ve seen in the source code that SplitMolecule gets imported elsewhere, and it has the __init__ file, so I assume I’m just doing something stupid with paths or similar. That said, SplitMolecule is clearly within the main chimera modules directory, so I would have expected it to only be one ‘layer’ below `chimera` itself. Can you elighten me? I’m currently on chimera production version 1.14 (build 42094) 2019-11-13 06:05:13 UTC if that helps. If you could point me in the right direction to understand how the code will check for multiple chains and decide to split by chain, that would also be a massive help. Many thanks, Joe Dr. Joseph Healey Ph.D. M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons) MRSB Research Fellow Warwick Medical School University of Warwick Coventry CV47AL Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620 | Twitter: @JRJHealey<https://twitter.com/JRJHealey> | Website<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey> Email: J.Healey.1(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:J.Healey.1@warwick.ac.uk> | ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9569-6738

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missing color option in model panel
by abhisek Mondal 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Hi, Newest version of chimera does not have the color option in the model panel. Is this a bug of some sort? Please see the attached image. Regards Abhisek -- *Abhisek Mondal, Ph.D.* *Cardiovascular Research InstituteUniversity of California San Francisco555 Mission Bay Blvd. South. Rm 482Dan Minor's LabSan Francisco, CA 94158USPS address:UCSFAbhisek Mondal, Ph.D.Cardiovascular Research Institute, Box 3122555 Mission Bay Blvd., Floor 4San Francisco, CA 94143*

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Default storage folder, ChimeraX
by Martín González Buitrón 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Dears all, Hope you are well. I have started to use ChimeraX in Ubuntu and I realised that one folder was created with my fetches and other things (i.e. ~/Download/ChimeraX/). How can I change this to other of my own preference? All the best, Martín

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Coloring N-terminal and C-terminal
by Tom Goddard 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

You can rainbow color proteins from N (blue) to C (red) terminus to see where the ends are using menu Tools / Depiction / Rainbow, or the command rainbow. Tom > On Feb 14, 2020, at 1:32 AM, Nail Besli wrote: > > how can I detect the N-terminal or C-teminal after docking of two proteins in Chimera > Thanks >

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Map is not visible in COOT
by Dmitry Semchonok 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, I have cryo-em map saved in chimera. But when we want to open it in with COOT the map is not visible. Could you please give me any suggestions? Thank you Sincerely, Dmitry

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changing density map from surface to mesh view
by Anindito Sen 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Dear All, While making a movie, what will be the command to change view of the density map from surface to mesh. Regards Anindito Sen. Ph.D Microscopy and Imaging Center Texas A&M University 301 Old Main Dr College Station, TX 77843-2257 Office: ILSB Room 1133 Tel. 979-458-9881 fax: 979-847-8933 http://microscopy.tamu.edu

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problem saving images
by Rapson, Trevor (A&F, Black Mountain) 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Dear Chimera team, I have recently come across a problem saving images in Chimera where it saves the image but it opens as a completely black image (and very small file size). I've tried changing a few different settings and that doesn't help. The error also seems to be there with when I save a video. Your help is much appreciated. Regards, Trevor Dr Trevor Rapson Research Scientist Agriculture and Food CSIRO Phone: +61 2 6246 4104 Trevor.Rapson(a)csiro.au<mailto:Trevor.Rapson@csiro.au>| www.csiro.au<http://www.csiro.au/> Address: P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, Australia PLEASE NOTE The information contained in this email may be confidential or privileged. Any unauthorised use or disclosure is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please delete it immediately and notify the sender by return email. Thank you. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO does not represent, warrant and/or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained or that the communication is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Docking
by Greta Hodo 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Hi, I have a problem with the result of autodock Vina. When I load a molecule in “mol2” format and I use AutoDock Vina for docking, the docked molecule is altered. How can be possible? How can I solve my problem? I attach the photo of the real molecule [cid:C2748141-718F-40C4-8964-A212C52FDB1A] And this I how the molecule changes after the docking [cid:C1EDE285-2873-437D-A034-5BB2D031BD67] The 5-term ring becomes aromatic, while it should have only a double bond. ( this happens both if I save autodock vina result in “mol2” format and “pdb” format Hope you can help me!

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Chimera-users February 2020