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movie panel
by Susan Tsutakawa 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Dear Users List, I apologize for these novice questions. I looked in the archives and could not find it. How do I get a MD molecular movement panel if I accidentally close it or I start a new session? I made a morph and I can see it on the model panel. Another very novice question is how do I delete a pdb in my model panel. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Susan

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Chimera Installation - NOVELL SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 11 (64bit)
by Madhumita Pattanayak 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Request you let me know, whether the following specification will support the installation of Chimera: Operating System Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 (64 bit) Processor Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor E8400 Chipset Intel® Q43 Express Memory (RAM) 4 GB PC-3-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SDRAM Memory Graphics ATI Radeon HD 3470 256MB Appreciate an early reply in this regard. Many thanks for your help. Regards, Madhumita Senior Research Fellow CCMB, Hyderabad India "The person addressed in the email is the sole authorized recipient. Should you receive it in error, immediately notify the sender of the error and delete the e-mail. Any unauthorized dissemination or copying of this e-mail (or any attachment to this e-mail) or the wrongful disclosure of the information herein contained is prohibited. Also note that this form of communication is not secure, it can be intercepted, and may not necessarily be free of errors and viruses in spite of reasonable efforts to secure this medium."

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renumber model IDs
by Dougherty, Matthew T 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

There are a number of times I would like to change the model ID numbers. Sometimes it is because a researcher gives me a session file that has sequences like monomer-b, monomer-d, monomer-a, monomer-c; or sometimes when I got an easy sequence to memorize (monomer-a, monomer-b, monomer-c, monomer-d), I do a colorzone split map that causes sequence names to comeback in a different order (monomer-b, monomer-d, monomer-a, monomer-c). Is there a way using commands to maintain better ID order?

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Re: [Chimera-users] structure based sequence alignment
by Eric Pettersen 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

Hi Sonya, On Jun 24, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Sona Vasudevan wrote: > Hello Eric, > > Thanks for all the great features you have added in the last couple > of years since I was last in touch with you. This is a fantastic tool! Thanks! Glad you like it. > I need some help with the alignment editor. > > I am trying to import an alignment in fasta format (fasta aligned) > (see attached). The alignment as you can see has three structures. I > use Load structures from the sequence > window and it brings in all the chains corresponding to teh > structures. It does, but there's a subtlety here that I should point out. The first two sequences in the alignment are for 1XVA, chain A and chain B. Chimera opens two copies of 1XVA and associates one copy with each sequence, but it associates chain A in both, since the sequences of the two chains are identical. It doesn't really look at the sequence name to try to figure out which chain to associate, just how well the sequences match and in this case they both match perfectly. By hovering the mouse over the sequence name you can see which structure/ chain it is associated with. To change the association of the second sequence to use chain B, you need to go to the alignment's Structure menu and choose "Associations...". Thus will bring up a panel showing the association of each structure to a sequence. Change the association of "1xva (#1)" from "chain A" to "chain B" and then click OK. > I then use Matchmaker to align them. I have a few questions: > > 1. Does the match maker use the info from the imported alignment > since the structures are already aligned? In other words is the > structural alignment I am seeing the saem as that was imported. No. MatchMaker is its own tool and doesn't use any open alignments. After all, you could have several alignments involving those structures open. If you want to superimpose the structures based on your alignment, use the alignment's own "Structure->Match" menu item. That brings up a dialog offering a variety of options as to how to carry out the match. I like using the "Iterate" option, but it's totally up to you. > 2. Is there a way to just output the superposed co-ordinates without > the chains that are not being used? There are probably several ways. One that comes to mind is to click on one of the alignment's "Consensus" letters to select all the residues in that column. Then click into the graphics window and hit the up-arrow key to expand the selection to the entire chain. Then either choose Select->Invert or hit right-arrow to invert the selection -- now the unused chains are selected. Actions->Atoms/Bonds- >delete will delete them. You can then write out what's left. Keep in mind that if you want to get model 2's coordinates as superimposed with model 0's original coordinates (for instance) then make sure to use the "relative 0" option in the "write" command or check the "Save relative to" option in the Write PDB dialog and choose model 0. Or you could just write out all models current coordinates. They will all differ from their originals, but they will be superimposed. > 3. Looks like I can add sequences to the alignement. Can I add a > fasta file with many sequences? No. It is on my to-do list but I haven't gotten to it yet. I'll open a feature-request ticket in our Trac database with you on the recipient list so you'll know when it gets implemented. Sorry! > Thanks so much! I have alignment files for 100 families which are > high-qualityas they were manually aligned with Cn3d and I would like > to import them into chimera for further analysis. > > Thanks so much for your time! You're welcome! --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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Paint a pseudobond....
by Yasser Almeida Hernández 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

Hi... I want to connect two atoms that belongs to different models with a pseudobond. It's that possible with Chimera? If it does, how would be the Python API code? Thanks ;) -- Yasser Almeida Hernández, BSc Center of Molecular Inmunology (CIM) Nanobiology Group P.O.Box 16040, Havana, Cuba Phone: (537) 214-3178 almeida(a)cim.sld.cu ---------------------------------------------------------------- Correo FENHI

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Question about attribute assignment file
by Peng Ni 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

Hi, I am trying to use the define attribute function. However, the attribute assignment sheet I generated cannot be read. It reports: "Line 1 of file is either not 'name: value' or is missing initial tab". I cannot spot anything wrong in my txt file, which is also attached in the e-mail. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could help me fix this problem. Regards Peng

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Lost hydrogens when saving mol2 file
by Varela, Lawrence Rocco 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

I'm encountering a problem where I'm loosing hydrogens from my small molecules after saving them in Chimera. Here is the situation: the original mol2 file I open has a number of small molecules listed under separate MOLECULE tag identifiers. Using the GUI menu I select "save Mol2", select all the models to save, and select the Save multiple models in "a single file [combined @MOLECULE section] option. When I open the newly saved Mol2 file with the combined MOLECULE section it's obvious that the hydrogens have been removed. How do a save multiple models in a combined MOLECULE section without loosing any hydrogen atoms? Thanks :-) Rocco

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PDB
by Dougherty, Matthew T 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Hi, When PDF files are read by Chimera and the session is written, the PDB data becomes part and parcel with the session files. That is, Chimera does not go back to the PDB files when it reloads the session, it uses the PDB data within the session file instead; as contrasted to density volume files, which are referenced by the session file, and the density volume files reloaded when the session file is read by Chimera. Is there a way to force the session file not to save the PDB internally to the session file, and instead reference and interact with it similar to the way volume files are managed? Matthew

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Grouping Molecules
by Varela, Lawrence Rocco 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Is there a way of grouping molecules in Chimera? Here is my situation. I have 4 molecules A, B, C, and D and I want to group A with B and C with D so that A and B has one center of rotation and C and D has another center of rotation. Rocco

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Fwd: Chimera 3-D viewing
by Eric Pettersen 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Forwarding Ed Pate's question (below) to this list, in the hope that someone who actually knows the answer can chime in! --Eric Begin forwarded message: > From: Edward Pate <edpate(a)hotmail.com> > Date: June 19, 2010 2:39:09 PM PDT > To: <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Chimera 3-D viewing > > Hi Eric: > > I am looking into getting a new workstation for Chimera. In the > past, we have gotten CRT displays in order to do 3-D visualization. > Could you recommend other display options that are available now and > that users have been happy with? Is a CRT still the best option? > > Thanks for the help. > > Ed

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