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movie recording
by Michał Kadlof 04 May '18

04 May '18

Hello, I would like to make a movie using Chimera. I need to interpolate between key frames. I know how to do it using Animation tool, but I would like to do it for thousands of frames and clicking it all by hand is not doable. Is there any magic command for making timeline automatic way? -- best regards, Michał Kadlof <m.kadlof(a)cent.uw.edu.pl>

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trying to use per-frame pdb 'CONECT' information in movie maker
by Black, Kersey 04 May '18

04 May '18

Hi, Just recently back to using Chimera after a long time, so a bit rusty on this. I am reading in a trajectory of a small hydrocarbon for a single pdb file, and with each fram I include the geometry and the connectivity I want with ‘CONECT’ lines. But, when I use the Movie Maker tool to read it in, it seems to using one or more frames (perhaps the last one? to detect connectivity to auto detect connectivity and then applying it to all geometries, and this is putting bonds in places where I do not want them. Does movie maker honor CONECT information for each step? Is there a way to have it do so? Or is connectivity set once for the entire trajectory? Thanks much for any help on this, Kersey

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Coloring ensemble atoms by distance from mean structure
by Tom Goddard 03 May '18

03 May '18

Hi David, I’ve attached a Python script mean_distance.py that can compute the distance of each atom in an ensemble from the mean structure. Then you can color using that distance. Here’s an example set of Chimera commands. open 1mtx show open mean_distance.py rangecolor distance_from_mean 0 blue 3 white 6 red The script uses all open molecules as the ensemble. The coloring can also be done with menu Tools / Depiction / Render by Attribute. Tom > On May 3, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Morgan, David Gene wrote: > > Tom, > > Hope you are doing well. Jim Powers and I here at IU keep thinking we need to invite you and/or the team back for another chimera workshop, but we haven't done the ground work to see how possible that would really be. But I keep hoping! > > In the meantime, I have a question about whether chimera can do something, and if not, I have a feature request... I was watching a grad student give a talk showing lots of superposed atomic structures. The structures included some molecular dynamics simulations and some crystal structures of the same protein in subtly different conformations (packing into a viral capsid, where the different subunits in the asymmetric unit have slightly different conformations). It occurred to me that _after_ showing the mess of spaghetti he had, the points he needed to make would be better served with a different visual: If he were to average the ensemble of MD atomic positions to a single chain (and color-code by the ensemble RMS difference from the average) and do the same for all his ensemble of X-ray structures, it would be much easier to talk about and show the consistencies and inconsistencies in the atomic co-ordinates from all the data. This same sort of averaging an ensemble of atomic co-ordinates is sometimes done with NMR structure ensembles (but I don't know about the color coding with the RMS). > > I have looked at lots of packages that manipulate atomic co-ordinates, but haven't found anything that seems to actually do what I want to do. For example, gromacs is supposed to do the averaging but it really wants to work with MD data and at a minimum, I'm not smart enough to make it work with a series of standard PDB files. My NMR colleague suggested molmol for the averaging, and I need to explore that more. But there doesn't seem to be a recent linux version nor does it seem to be "scriptable" (i.e., if I wanted to do this for a dozen different ensembles, I would have to painfully mouse click my way through the process). On top of all that, I ran into numerous on-line discussions about how averaging was "the wrong thing to do." All those people had valid reasons for saying so, but right now, I'm really talking about a more simple visual that conveys some of the information contained in any sort of ensemble of atomic co-ordinates. > > So my first question is: does chimera have a utility that would do this sort of thing? I looked at various commands but did not see anything that looked like it would do this. If not, can I put a feature request into the queue? > > Looking forward to hearing from you and chatting some more. > > -- > politics is more difficult than physics. > A. Einstein > > David Gene Morgan > Electron Microscopy Center > 047D Simon Hall > IU Bloomington > 812 856 1457 (office) > 812 856 3221 (3200) > http://iubemcenter.indiana.edu >

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Question regarding rotating dihedrals
by Rodrigo Galindo-Murillo 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hello! I need to do a dihedral scan around the phi/psi angles of alanine dipeptide and to create the input files to later do single point calculations I am using the cmd script: open ../scan.pdb rotation 0 @/serialNumber=7 @/serialNumber=9 rotation 0 180 write format pdb #0 test.pdb I need to use atom serial numbers since the idea is later do the scan with non-canonical peptides that will not work with the native phi/psi descriptions. The script is not modifying any angle but I can see that is generating test.pdb correctly. Could you please orient me if this is the correct set of instructions? Thank you! Rodrigo.

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Changing depth cue to side to side from front to back
by Trevor Harris 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to change the depth cue to side to side rather than front to back. I don’t want to change the position of the molecule. Is it possible? Thanks, Trevor

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Label hydrogen bonds
by Pawan Mainkar 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

The following bug report has been submitted: Platform: windows_x86_64 Chimera Version: 1.11.2 Description Respected sir, I am a PhD student in the discipline of Biotechnology, actually sir i am working on Enzyme-inhibitor docking study and i did docking using Cluspro and then i want to check how much interaction by visualizing the inter molecular hydrogen bonds with proper labeling (like in structure hydrogen bond between D45-S89 with 2.3 Angstron) ,but sir am only able visualize only hydrogen bonds in Your software UCSF Chimera but am unable to label it with proper amino acid along with distance so i request you sir please tell me how to do that or provide me any video file regarding the same File attachment: Docking complex.docx

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Important Query
by Rida Zainab 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Respected Sir, I am a research student trying to use chimera but I am having difficulties. Whenever I give an operation or task in chimera, the replylog opens always giving error. Suppose I tried to convert PDB file to Mol2 and there was error of replylog. I tried to do docking using autodock vina and it is not happening too. I am unable to do anything. Please tell me what's wrong? Big help needed. Regards, Rida.

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Suggestion for adding a volume map to morph conformation
by Trevor Harris 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hello, I would like to use the Morph Conformation show the changes of the molecular orbitals from starting material to transition state to product. I can show the changes structurally of the atoms which is great, but this would be amazing with the molecular orbitals overlaid the structures. If this option is available to add volumes into morph conformation, then I couldn’t find it. Would it be possible to add this feature? It would be similar to IBOView. Thank you! Trevor Harris Postdoctoral Fellow UPenn Chemistry, Chenoweth Group

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Problem running Modellerfrom Chimera (versión 1.11.2(build 41380) 2016-12-05 19:45 UTC. Platform Linux64)
by Sergio Garay 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Hi all I've tried to run Modeller locally from Chimera (versión 1.11.2(build 41380) 2016-12-05 19:45 UTC. Platform Linux64. Windowing system: x11), but when it finishes, the model is not loaded inside Chimera. The log window give me the following output: *Model 0 (model1.pdb) appears to be a protein without secondary structure assignments.* *Automatically computing assignments using 'ksdssp' and parameter values:* * energy cutoff -0.5* * minimum helix length 3* * minimum strand length 3* *Use command 'help ksdssp' for more information.* *seq (len 437): added* *target (len 437): model1.pdb (#0) chain A* *seq (len 437): model1.pdb (#0) chain A* *target (len 437): added* *Target seq: added* *Template structures: * * model1.pdb (#0)* *Run locally, the Modeller binary location: /usr/bin/mod9.19* *Now, modeller is running locally...* *Wrote /tmp/tmp73g3JY/template_struc/model1.pdb_0_0.pdb* *MODELLER process output* *-----------------------* *-----------------------* *MODELLER process errors* *-----------------------* *Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>* *Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>* *Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]* *'import site' failed; use -v for traceback* The problem seems to be that Chimera can not load the models obtained . I can find the model inside the directory: /tmp/tmp73g3JY/template_struc/*model1.pdb_0_0.pdb* Thank you in advance. Sergio -- *Sergio GarayDr. en Ciencias BiológicasFacultad de Bioquimica y Cs. BiológicasUniversidad Nacional del LitoralSanta Fe - ArgentinaC.C. 242 - Ciudad Universitaria - C.P. S3000ZAAArgentinaPh. +54 (342) 4575-213Fax. +54 (342) 4575-221 *

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Fwd: Re: run chimera remotely over nice dcv
by Greg Couch 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

Solution found! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] run chimera remotely over nice dcv Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:20:11 +0200 From: Mihajlo Vanevic <m.vanevic(a)uu.nl> To: Greg Couch <gregc(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Dear Greg, Thank you very much for the prompt reply. About ssh -X, indeed putting the compatible libGL.so from local machine to Chimera's lib folder does the trick. About Nice DCV, I have contacted Nice DCV developers and will let you know if the problem is solved. With best wishes, Mihajlo On 04/20/2018 07:54 PM, Greg Couch wrote: > > Hi Mihajlo, > > We don't have any experience with Nice DCV, perhaps some other user on > the mailing list can help. But guessing at possible problems, make > sure that Chimera is displaying locally in Nice DCV virtual machine > (the DISPLAY environment variable should be ":0"), and the remote > display is done using the Nice DCV client. > > If, instead, you're using X11's remote display capability, then you > wouldn't need to use Nice DCV, any virtual machine technology would do > (or not do) -- the trick there is to have compatible OpenGL drivers on > both the virtual machine and your local computer (running the X11 > server). Assuming compatible versions of Linux on both ends, you > could copy libGL.so from your local machine to the Chimera's lib > directory on the remote machine, and it should work. > > Good luck, > > Greg > > On 4/20/2018 5:07 AM, Mihajlo Vanevic wrote: >> >> Dear Chimera users and developers, >> >> We are trying to run Chimera remotely on our cluster via Nice DCV >> visualization software: >> >> https://www.nice-software.com/products/dcv >> >> This package provides GPU acceleration for OpenGL and >> DirectX applications. It indeed works for most of apps, however with >> Chimera >> we get the following startup error >> >> X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext >> Major opcode of failed request: 152 (GLX) >> Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) >> Serial number of failed request: 73 >> Current serial number in output stream: 73 >> >> Our cluster visualization node has nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards >> and nvidia drivers 384.81 >> >> Chimera works if we use software mesa rendering, but it would be great if >> we can make it work remotely with hardware rendering. >> >> With kind regards, >> Mihajlo Vanevic >> Cryo-EM group, Utrecht University >>

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