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problem with surface representation
by Miriam Gochin 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

I am having trouble with some pointed edges to my surface (attached). It only happens in one location - everywhere else the surface is smooth. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Miriam Gochin Touro University - CA miriam.gochin(a)tu.edu 707-638-5463

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Coloring range for residues
by Ibrahim Moustafa 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Dear Chimera team, I wonder if there is a way to color a certain range of residues using rainbow. I tried to use the rainbow command with atom_spec but it applied for the whole chain. What I want to do is to color part of the structure as a rainbow (from blue-white-red) with an increasing order of residues number. I just wanted to highlight a region of conformational change so the eye can follow which part of the structure has changed dramatically. Thanks in advance for your help. Ibrahim -- Ibrahim M. Moustafa, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. 201 Althouse Lab., University Park, Pennsylvania State University PA 16802 Tel. (814) 863-8703 Fax (814) 865-7927

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External SAS calculation
by Yasser Almeida Hernández 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hi all.. In the Chimera source where is located the sources files for the calculation of SAS. I'm writing a python script for calculate the SAS and i want to call the Chimera's routines to do this task... Best regards -- Lic. Yasser Almeida Hernández Center of Molecular Inmunology (CIM) Nanobiology Group P.O.Box 16040, Havana, Cuba Phone: (537) 271-7933, ext. 221 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Correo FENHI

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access rotation and translation matrices
by Lori Nyland 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello, I have been trying to rotate a large volume relative to a reference volume using the vop resample command. The problem is that both volumes are nearly 2GB. However, If I were to bin the volumes (by n) and had access to the rotation R(alpha, beta, gamma) and translation T(x,y,z) matrices I could perform the rotation in an alternate program via R and nT. Thanks! Lori

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How to increase h bond width
by Kshatresh Dutta Dubey 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Dear Users, I want to increase the hydrogen bond width and change bond color. How can i do this ? Any help is heartily appreciated. Regards Kshatresh

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classifying contact interactions
by M. Shahid 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Dear All, I have a question regarding the contact interactions between a protein-ligand complex. I can retrieve the contacts by the findclash command in --nogui mode as below: chimera --nogui protligcomplex.pdb clash.com and similarly I can find the hbonds. The output I am getting is as below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32 contacts atom1 atom2 overlap distance LIG 1 H ALA 265.A O 1.045 1.435 LIG 1 O ALA 265.A O 0.550 2.430 LIG 1 N GLU 169.A OE2 0.439 2.666 LIG 1 H GLU 169.A CD 0.116 2.584 LIG 1 O ASN 253.A 1HD2 0.094 2.386 LIG 1 H ALA 265.A C 0.090 2.610 LIG 1 C ALA 265.A O 0.059 3.121 LIG 1 N ASN 253.A OD1 -0.037 3.142 LIG 1 C ALA 265.A O -0.039 3.219 LIG 1 N GLU 169.A HG3 -0.072 2.697 LIG 1 C PHE 168.A HB2 -0.081 2.781 LIG 1 N GLU 169.A CG -0.113 3.438 LIG 1 N GLU 169.A CD -0.125 3.450 LIG 1 N GLU 169.A CD -0.128 3.453 LIG 1 C MET 270.A HG2 -0.140 2.840 LIG 1 N PHE 168.A CD2 -0.163 3.488 .......... .... ... .. . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I want to further classify these contact interactions into more other types: Aromatic and Ionic (anion < - > cation). Is there any way in Chimera to achieve this? Or if I want to do it with some scripting, which atoms I would say are involved in ionic and aromatic interactions considering the distance value as well? I would be very much grateful if someone suggest me a way to do this. Thanks, Best regards, -- Shahid.

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Help Installing Chimera
by Muhammad Ahmad Chaudary 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, I am trying to install chimera on Fedora 11 and i am running into problems. After config i tried running make and got the following error. #first i got the error evp.h not found Even though yum said openssl was installed. Anyway i downloaded openssl and tried to install it manually. But i still got the same error. So then i copied the openssl header files folder to /usr/include This got me past this error. #Next i got this error gcc -g -O2 -o sha1_keygen sha1_keygen.o -L/home/ahmad/chimera/src -lchimera -lpthread -lcrypto /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [sha1_keygen] Error 1 I just installed openssl with the default options. Any ideas what i am doing wrong here! Ahmad

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binning large volumes
by Lori Nyland 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hello, I have two volumes with the same dimensions and each are nearly 2GB. I can use the vop resample command in a 64 bit Chimera for Linux and reassign one volumes coordinates relative to the other. However, it is slow to execute, but it does work. In order to speed things up is there a way to bin the volumes (to use less space), place it through the vop resample command, and then un-bin the volume without losing information? Thanks! Lori

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script for
by lorenzo 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Dear all, I'm trying to write a script to interpolate between two structures and save the intermediate conformations as pdb files. I need a script since I have to repeat this procedure several times. As far as importing the structures and interpolating is concerned I have no problem: open A.pdb open B.pdb morph start #0 morph interpolate #1 frames 6 (I need 5 intermediates) What I don't manage to figure out is how to save the intermediate configurations. Figuring out that morph interpolate was generating a trajectory stored as the model #2 I tried write format pdb trajectory #2 out.pdb but it didn't write anything I also unsuccessfully tried with perframe write format pdb out.pdb but I still got no output. Does anybody have any suggestion? Regards Lorenzo Bongini

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problems display a mrc or ccp4 file
by maillist＠dejung.net 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi all, I have problems diplaying a 3D map in chimera. I recognized this problems with .mrc and .ccp4 maps. And only at my system. When I load a map, I get an image like this: http://download.dejung.net/chimera.png My version of chimera is: $ chimera --version chimera snapshot version 1.4 (build 28596) 2009-08-20 19:46:50 GMT I tried also other versions (chimera alpha version 1.3 (build 2577)) but they will not start at all. Tell me there is a segmentation fault at the beginning without any molecule, map or other things. Just exits directly at start up. Friends of mine told me, it will be maybe the wrong graphic driver, but I all ready tried different ones. At the Moment I use nvidia drivers 185.18.14 on a Linux 64 bit system. I have no idea now, so hope someone can help me at this point... Best regards! Mario

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