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chimera help - calmodulin
by roach a.p.l. (aplr1g08) 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi, I am a student trying to do a project on the protein calmodulin. I have just started using chimera and have gone though your tutorials and understood everything as it is very clear but i don't know how i would select the protein calmodulin and put it in the chimera display to make my images. I realise this is probably a simple step but this is all new to me and i would much appreciate your help. Thank you Annabel Roach

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Maximizing performance with large volume data maps
by Ryan Rochat 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hello, I was wondering how much video memory Chimera is capable of accessing. I currently have a 898Mb videocard that begins to slow down with a 550x550x550 map (at step size 1). This map is actually a downsample of the true 1100x1100x1100 map coming in at 5GB. I was contemplating going for a much larger video card at 4GB, however I was curious to what extent I could expect to see acceleration using Chimera with such a massive dataset (600+MB) and video card. Thank you, Ryan H. Rochat MS MD/PhD Candidate (Baylor College of Medicine) Graduate Student SCBMB (Baylor College of Medicine) Chiu Lab One Baylor Plaza N420 Alkek Houston Texas 77030

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Re: [Chimera-users] To consult the Morph conformation
by Elaine Meng 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Dear Jiraporn, Sorry, Morph Conformations only includes parts that are in both structures in the morphing trajectory. In your situation, I suggest text-editing one of the input PDB files (more details below). Morph Conformations maps residues in the starting structure to residues in the ending structure by creating a sequence alignment. Where the residue in the starting structure is aligned with the same type of residue in the ending structure, the whole residue will be included. Where the residue in the starting structure is aligned with a different type of residue, only the parts that are the same will be included, which will include the backbone and sometimes part of the sidechain. Where there are backbone atoms, you can show a ribbon. If the residue is aligned with a gap, it will not be included. Here is the explanation in the manual: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/morph/morph.html#p… > Currently Morph Conformations will only use the sequence alignment it figures out itself. A future improvement will be to allow the user to provide the sequence alignment (perhaps avoiding some of the gaps), but that is not available yet. I took a look at your proteins, 3DRR and 3DRS. They are the same protein, and the only difference is that the 3DRR crystal structure has more residues at the C-terminal end, forming a helix. 3DRR ends at 557 and 3DRS ends at 548. I guess you want that end part shown in the morphing trajectory. The structures look nearly the same in the residues before the difference, so to do this I would just use a text- editor and add the end residues from 3DRR onto the 3DRS structure. For example, make a copy of the 3DRR PDB file, then edit it to replace 543-end with 543-end from the 3DRS PDB file. Then you would just open the new edited 3DRR with the longer tail and then morph from that to 3DRS. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Dec 5, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Nok :p wrote: > Dear Chimera teme, > > First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jiraporn > Yongpisanphop. Now, I am a master student of KMUTT university in > Bioinformatics field. > > My thesis topic involve in drug design. A part of my work is > concerning about overaly binding pocket of single mutant enzymes > (PDB file: 3DRR and 3DRS). And, I > > use Morph Conformation method. It is good but it not complete for my > work. Because the intermedate structure was generate from compare of > same amino acid > > of both structures. However, the difference amino acid was kept only > reference model. Therefore, I would like to consult you how I will > keep amino acid that > > differece of both structures into intermediate structure. > > Thank you very much for your kind. > > Best regards, > > Jiraporn

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Movie spinning and slicing a density map
by Thomas Goddard 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hi Andy, I've added an example movie spinning and slicing a virus EM density map to the Chimera Animations page. See the bacteriophage phi6 entry. There is also a link to the movie script. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/animations/animations.html Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: making a movie From: Anindito Sen To: Thomas Goddard Date: 12/2/09 5:50 PM > Hi Tom > > I am not sure if this email can be out on the general Chimera wiki. THe > following movie is from a published work of mine. Can you help me > getting the script for generating such a movie. There is a Chimera session in the > webpage but I think its a bit too much for me to understand. > > Please feel free to reframe the question and put it in the Chimera wiki > email list which may prove helpful to others. > > Thanks for your help. > > Best > > Andy > > > > http://emnavi.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/emnavi_detail.php?id=1500 > > Dr. Anindito Sen (Ph.D) > >

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drawing elipsolids
by Keren Lasker 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear Chimera team, Is there a way to draw ellipsoids in Chimera. The ellipsoid is defined by its center and 3 radii. Thanks for your help. Best, Keren.

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How to clip surface using mclip
by Marhoefer, R (Richard) 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear Chimera Team and Users, I like to clip the surface of a model (but not the model itself) using the command mclip. Unfortunately, this command apparently is waiting for a model number and therefore works on the surface as well as the model itself. On the other hand, the interactive tool "Per Model Clipping" allows to clip the surface only. Because I like to use clipping in a movie, using the interactive interface is not an option. Does anybody know how this could be acomplished using the command line? Kind regards, Richard Dr. Richard Marhoefer Senior Scientist BioChemInformatics Intervet Innovation GmbH Zur Propstei 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany E-Mail: richard.marhoefer(a)sp.intervet.com Phone: +49 (6130) 948 204 Fax: +49 (6130) 948 517 Mobile: +49 175 723 081 4 Home http://www.intervet.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Schwabenheim Amtsgericht Mainz, HRB 23 166 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Peter Schmid -------------------------------------- This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete. --------------------------------------

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Re: [Chimera-users] missing ribbon loop
by klumpler＠sci.muni.cz 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear Elaine, I think PDB is alright, I send it as a attachment. Could you help me with the editing? Thank you very much Tomas > Hello, > My guess is there is something strange about the structure or the format of the input file -- for example, maybe the residues don't all have the same chain ID, or the backbone atoms do not have the expected names (N,CA,C,O). If Chimera does not show a ribbon at that position even though you told it to show ribbons for everything, it is probably necessary to edit the input file to fix the problem. I couldn't be more specific without seeing the file. > Best, > Elaine > ----- > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry > University of California, San Francisco > > On Nov 27, 2009, at 2:16 AM, klumpler(a)sci.muni.cz wrote: > >> Hallo, >> please, can you tell me how to create missing part of ribbon >> representation of loop? >> >> Using "ball and stick" representation is peptide chain complete without >> gap, but in "ribbon" representation is one residue missing and forms the >> gap. >> >> Thank you very much >

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keyboard input gone
by Zhou, Wei 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hi, Yesterday I installed the latest 1.4 32bit linux version of chimera into my opensuse 11.1. Soon after I fetched some pdb files and started to use it, at some point, I can no longer input any text into the program, such as typing another pdb id, or typing a command line, or type a file name to save it. I can still use mouse. Please help. I'm here at mission bay, rock hall. My extension is 60421. Thanks, Wei Zhou

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phenix map not reading in chimera
by Geoffrey Feld 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Greetings, I'm trying to make a figure showing off my best density from a 2Fo-Fc map I generated using phenix.refine. The output file has a .map suffix. However, Chimera gives an error about the header, which I've included: MRC header value nsymbt (538976288) is invalid. How do I give Chimera a map with a header it can read? Thanks, -- Geoffrey K. Feld Department of Chemistry 492 Stanley Hall University of California, Berkeley "Vigilia pretium libertatis"

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Chimera question with Mac
by Durga Velukumar 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hello, I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia and I'm using your system, UCSF Chimera, for my powerpoint presentation. I'm having some problems with trying to create a movie. I have a MacBook Pro, which I just got this recent August, and downloaded the latest Chimera version for the Mac. I'm trying to save the commands in a separate file, like TextEdit, but I don't know what type of file to save it as. I'm hoping to be able to open the file through Chimera to play the movie. I tried saving the commands as "movie.cmd" but TextEdit is not allowing me to save that type of file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Durga

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