May 2020 - Chimera-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Clear Reply Log
by Colin K Deniston 13 May '20

13 May '20

Hello, I am running a script through chimera which is looping jobs and is attempting to pull info from the reply log after each run. I need some way to clear the reply log between iterations so it doesn't pull info from a previous run. Is there any command to do this? I've tried replyobj.clearReplyStack() but it seems to be causing strange errors. Thanks. Colin Deniston UCSD Graduate Student Chemistry and Biochemistry Department

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HELP
by 501244924 12 May '20

12 May '20

I have some problems with chimera. I would like to ask you.When I open a gro file with chimera, it always shows that it is being opened, but it just won't open.Then, after I opened the PDB file, want to use the Find Clashes/Contacts function, click to Designate button but no response, asked a lot of the others didn't get a reply.This makes me very distressed. I am looking forward to your answer to my question. Thank you!My system is WIN7.

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Re: [Chimera-users] measure rotation
by Tom Goddard 12 May '20

12 May '20

If you provide a Chimera session in a bug report it is pretty trivial for me to see what the problem is since I can look at the exact positioning matrices. Otherwise there is not enough information to help you. Tom > On May 12, 2020, at 9:41 AM, Jesse M. Hansen <jhansen6(a)uw.edu> wrote: > > hi, > > I have usually opened the PDB then "combine #1" to duplicate the PDB, then move it and fit into the map. > > I just tried your suggestion of oepning the PDB twice and moving the second copy into the adjacent position. It gives the same result. > > I've attached a screenshot this time. On the top is my current attempt with a new map and model, and on the bottom is one of my previous maps and models which failed miserably. > > I've considered the the protomers are not perfectly aligned in the helical axis, giving a super helical twist. I have seen this in the past where I end up with a slightly off-center axis, but still pretty close to the center. However in this case I used "measure distance" from several parts of the two protomers and I see they are indeed parallel and perfectly along the axis. Yet still the "measure rotation" axis is way outside the helix (bottom of attached image). > > Baffling. Is there any other suggestion for how I might measure rotation? > > thanks! > > Jesse > From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 3:46 PM > To: Jesse M. Hansen <jhansen6(a)uw.edu> > Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu>; Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] measure rotation > > Hi Jesse, > > It sounds like you are using "measure rotation" correctly. The only way for us to figure out your case would be for you to send us a session file. Use Chimera Help / Report a Bug... and attach a session file that has your two subunits where "measure rotation" gives a completely unreasonable result. My guess would be that "measure rotation" is working, and I am suspicious that "clone the subunit" is giving you a second subunit with a different coordinate system. You might explain how you "clone the subunit" -- is it just opening a second copy of a PDB? > > Tom > > > >> On May 11, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Jesse M. Hansen <jhansen6(a)uw.edu <mailto:jhansen6@uw.edu>> wrote: >> >> hi Elaine >> >> thanks for your response. >> >> Yes I think I am using the command correctly. Sometimes it works but other times it doesn't, so there is clearly something I am missing. It seems arbitrary why it works sometimes and not others, and then why the axis seems to be positioned near my protein or other times about 50 protein lengths away. It's baffling. >> >> But yes my protein is helical, so imagine you have actin. I load the map and the model for 1 subunit. I then clone the subunit and fit it into the adjacent position then ask what the rotation is between those two models. As I said it sometimes works, but not always. Just wondering what it is I could be doing wrong. I alway position the model in the center of the box, I try loading model or map first to see if results vary. Nothing seems to help. Why does the axis appear way off to the side in some cases? >> >> thanks again >> >> From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>> >> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 2:23 PM >> To: Jesse M. Hansen <jhansen6(a)uw.edu <mailto:jhansen6@uw.edu>> >> Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>> >> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] measure rotation >> >> Hi Jesse, >> I'm not sure, but it *might* be a misunderstanding of what this command does. >> >> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#rotation <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#rotation>> >> >> This command does not evaluate how to best fit or match the two models. It reports the current rotation and translation between the coordinate systems of the two models, which would be zero unless one model was moved relative to the other, either manually or with some other tool or command such as Fit in Map, match, or matchmaker. (Moving everything collectively, such as rotating or zooming to get a better view, does not change the positions of models relative to each other.) >> >> Centering just moves the view and doesn't change the coordinates of the structure. >> >> Imagine you have two copies of the protein, one before fitting and one after fitting. Is the rotation between the two really around an axis that falls inside the protein? >> >> I may have misapprehended the situation, but this command is commonly misunderstood. >> Elaine >> ----- >> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. >> UCSF Chimera(X) team >> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry >> University of California, San Francisco >> >> >> >> >> > On May 8, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Jesse M. Hansen <jhansen6(a)uw.edu <mailto:jhansen6@uw.edu>> wrote: >> > >> > hi >> > >> > I repeatedly have this issue and no idea how to fix it. I send the same files to colleague and they cannot reproduce it. We cannot figure out whether it's some minor detail I am doing, or it's my version of chimera. >> > >> > When I try "measure rotation #1 #2" the axis ends up either pretty off center or WAY far away (like 20 protein widths away). >> > >> > have tried: >> > • centering volume and resaving, fitting models into map and resaving. Opening and all looks correct. >> > • tried opening pdb first then maps, or maps first then pdb. Both seem to give different results but neither are precisely down the actual axis of my helical protein despite having centered it. >> > • adding "coordinateSystem #" to the command has no effect. The axis that appears is now as long as my box, but it's still not centered >> > >> > thanks >> > Jesse >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> >> > Manage subscription: https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users <https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> >> Manage subscription: https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users <https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users> > <rotation.png>

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problems with animation recording
by Alice Pawlowski 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello, I want to produce a little animation of my structure model in mp4 format. I followed the instrcution in the you tube movie ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ephu9EpgRQg ) part 1 and part 2 that were very well explained. I recorded my animation but no movie was created. There is only an empty screen when playing the mp4 file. Right after recording a windows opens with a command line instead of the produced movie as it should happen according to the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgbDXbEBvw) I am just a user without any experience in programming. I would appreciate any good advice how to solve the problem. It would be great to have an animation for powerpoint presentations etc Looking forward to hearing from you Kind regards Alice ----------------------- Alice Pawlowski Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Institut für Synthetische Mikrobiologie Gebäude 22.07, Postbox 005 Raum 00.063 Universitätsstr. 1 40225 Düsseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 81-10362 alice.pawlowski(a)hhu.de

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How to save a dragged pdb
by 李雄俊 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello: I  dragged a partial thread pdb to dock a volume map with UCSF-Chemira, but when I saved the pdb, and open the new pdb and the mrc file, they are still uncouple. Please point out the mistakes in my method, thank you very much. fig 1. Yellow chain is the partial thread pdb, pink one is native pdb, grey one is the volume data. fig 2. After dragging, docked pdb and volume data   Fig 3. options of 'save pdb' After these actions, pdb and mrc are still uncouple when I reopen them in another Chemira.   

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Regarding saving a file
by Yash Bahl 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hi, I did a docking experiment from autodock and downloaded the file in chimerax format, when I open it works great and I select the model with highest delta G and visaulise it, but when I save the model as PDB, and open it in pymol only ligand is visible when I open the protein file in the same, although the ligand sits perfectly. I am not able to get a PDB file of the docked structure for ligplot analysis. Any help would be appreciated. Take care Sincerely, Yash Bahl

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Question about minimizing molecule with non-standard amino acids
by Sheng Zhang 12 May '20

12 May '20

Dear UCSF Chimera team, Good morning! I am Sheng Zhang, a graduate student from UC Irvine. First I would like to thank you for developing this useful tool, UCSF Chimera. I have a question regarding minimizing molecule with non-standard amino acids. I modified a linear peptide ligand so it's now a ring containing non-standard amino acids. When I was trying to minimize the ligand while fixing its protein partner, I kept getting error messages like "failure running ANTECHAMBER for residue UNK+THR". The unknown and threonine residues happen to be the residues that I built and modified. Now they are no longer standard/intact amino acid residues and I guess that is why Chimera doesn't like them when trying to minimize the structure. I wonder is there a way to minimize ligand with non-standard amino acid groups? Thank you so much for your time and help! Best wishes, Sheng

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measure rotation
by Jesse M. Hansen 11 May '20

11 May '20

hi I repeatedly have this issue and no idea how to fix it. I send the same files to colleague and they cannot reproduce it. We cannot figure out whether it's some minor detail I am doing, or it's my version of chimera. When I try "measure rotation #1 #2" the axis ends up either pretty off center or WAY far away (like 20 protein widths away). have tried: * centering volume and resaving, fitting models into map and resaving. Opening and all looks correct. * tried opening pdb first then maps, or maps first then pdb. Both seem to give different results but neither are precisely down the actual axis of my helical protein despite having centered it. * adding "coordinateSystem #" to the command has no effect. The axis that appears is now as long as my box, but it's still not centered thanks Jesse

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Re: [Chimera-users] How to save a pdb which moved by mouse
by Elaine Meng 11 May '20

11 May '20

On May 11, 2020, at 8:55 AM, 李雄俊 <lixiongjun(a)mail.sysu.edu.cn> wrote: > > Hello Dr Meng: > > I tried to dock a partial thread pdb file to a mrc file with UCSF-Chimera,as the tutorial recommanded，I clicked "Favorites ——> Model Panel",and inactivated mrc, and then dragged the pdb to dock the volume data. But I found that I cannot save this moved pdb, I mean, even though I save the pdb in a new file, when I open this file in Chemira, it shows that the pdb still be the original position, didn't move anywhere. If I want to change it's position, I need use "Tools/Movement/Transform Coodinates" to get a really moved pdb, but I cannot get precise displacement parameters, Could you please help me to solve this problem: How to save a dragged pdb's coordinates? Thank you very much. Hello, You can of course save a dragged PDB in its new location. Just make sure that when you save it, you save it "relative to" the map model. There is a choice for that in the File... Save PDB dialog. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/savemodel.html#pdb> The chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu address (CC'd here) is recommended for asking questions, to ensure you get an answer. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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problems opening multiple pdb files
by Domenico Raimondo 09 May '20

09 May '20

Hi, I am using chimera on a Mac (10.15.4 verison). My problem is that every time I open a pdb file with a double click it opens it in a new window of chiemera. In this way I cannot have multiple pdb structures in a single chimera window using the double click method to open the files. Thanks. Domenico Raimondo. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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