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Graphics cards for Mac
by Tom Goddard 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Here's a comparison of Chimera graphics benchmarks for the current standard PowerMac graphics versus the top-of-the-line graphics: Radeon HD 2600 - no additional cost Quadro FX 5600 - $2850 additional cost Surfaces and meshes: 1.8x faster Volume solid style: size 443**3 vs 325**3. Quadro system was limited 32-bit main memory address space. Molecule: Neglible difference for 34000 atom model in wire, stick, ball and stick, ribbon, sphere styles. The Quadro card has 1.5 Gbytes of memory and will probably have significantly higher performance on solid style volume rendering if the Chimera volume display code is optimized. Probably adding more main memory will not help because the limitation is the 32-bit address space (a limit of Mac OS graphical applications). The Quadro card did not correctly display volume data in solid style with 3d textures (solid rendering 2d texture option turned off) -- displayed a chessboard pattern. Did not test 3d textures on Radeon card. Tom

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scens/movies rendered with povray
by Klaas Decanniere 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hello, The option to make movies using povray works nice and easy, so I want to push the boundaries a bit :-) - the standard texture included in the .pov files has a very simple finish - is there an easy way to include a spiced-up version? - when not using a "wait" command, several movements (roll, move, scale) are combined. When using the wait command, movements become separated with a small "hesitation" before the second movement starts. Is there a way to minimize this hesitation? Thanks, Klaas P.S.: if you know why powerpoint would play a movie fine 3 or 4 times in a row and then fail after that (nothing else changes, except maybe time), please let me know.

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saving positions
by William Jeffrey Triffo 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

hello, if I have used 'savepos' to save several orientations in a chimera session, is there a way to list these positions if I have forgotten what I named some of them? thanks, -Jeff

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Re: [Chimera-users] longer bonds in image
by Elaine Meng 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi Bala, This is an expected behavior of Chimera: the ribbon is a smoothed path that does not go exactly through the atom positions. When ribbon is shown, the default is to simply draw the longer or shorter bonds where the ribbon is farther from or closer to the displayed atoms (ribose/base or amino acid side chain) than are the backbone atoms that the ribbon represents. However, there are ways to change the behavior: (A) use the command "ribbackbone" to allow display of both backbone atoms and ribbon. This will not make any bonds look longer or shorter, but it is usually ugly because the ribbon is not in the same place as the backbone atoms. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/ribbackbone.html (B) with Ribbon Style Editor, "Residue Class" section, you can set which atoms control the ribbon path and which are hidden automatically (by default, without using "ribbackbone") when ribbon is shown: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/ribbonstyle/ ribbonstyle.html I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html P.S. you can send attachments such as images to chimera-users, but the message will not appear until the moderator has a chance to approve it... just be patient and it will be sent! On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:00 PM, bala wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: bala > Sent: Fri 2/29/2008 12:13 PM > To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > Subject: longer bonds in image > > Hi all, > > Thank you for the suggestions for my previous query. > > When the ribbons are displayed for the backbone of a RNA molecule. > Some of the bonds look longer than usual. Herewith i have attached > the image of a RNA molecule in which residues colored in cyan have > some bonds longer in appearance. Kindly help me to get this of this. > > Thanks, > Bala

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surface "holes"
by Fabian Gmail 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hi all, I enjoy very much using chimera, I have a question regarding surfaces. When I am working on a multi chain protein complex, and I want to present only one chain as surface and the others as ribbon or sticks, oftenly the surface present "holes" on the contact points with the ribbon. I understand they represent contact points between the chains, but I don't like how the surface looks like. Is there a way to avoid this? (I do that but uploading another copy of the chain). Thanks a lot, Fabian -- Fabian Glaser, PhD Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit, The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, ISRAEL Web: http://bku.technion.ac.il Email: fglaser(a)tx.technion.ac.il Tel: +972-(0)4-8293701 Cel: +972-(0)54-4772396

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longer bonds in image
by bala 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi all, Thank you for the suggestions for my previous query. When the ribbons are displayed for the backbone of a RNA molecule. Some of the bonds look longer than usual. Herewith i have attached the image of a RNA molecule in which residues colored in cyan have some bonds longer in appearance. Kindly help me to get this of this. Thanks, Bala

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Re: [Chimera-users] command line mode
by snoze pa 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi Eric, Is there some API with examples of chimera available. I am trying to add hydrogen in previous script. I tried cmdAddH and simpleAddhydrogens but it is not working. I am trying to put hydrogen and then charge to each ligand in the database. May be later I will call mmtk minimization from chimera itself to minimize each ligand. thanks in advance s

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calculating interphosphate distance
by bala 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Dear chimera users, i) Greetings. I have a trajectory of 1000 conformations of a RNA molecule. I want to see the distribution of interphosphate distance. say i want to see the P-P distance of the residue 3 paired with a residue 38 in the opposite strand. Is it possible in anyways. ii) Suppose when i source a file from command line option : source dist, chimera nicely takes the distance commands in the file and displays the distances in the GUI. Is it possible to send the output to a file rather than seeing in GUI. Thanks, Bala

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distance in log
by 吴超 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hope it helps... And thanks Elaine and Eric again! :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 吴超 <lynnwuchao(a)gmail.com> Date: 2008/2/23 Subject: [Chimera-users] distance To: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Cc: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu>, Chimera BB <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Thanks very much, Elaine and Eric! Both of methods worked very well... On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > In particular, if you have a script (name "dist.com" for instance) > that sets up your distance measurements, something like: > > dist :12@c :17@c > dist :14@c :19@c > > Then you could run chimera like this: > > chimera --nostatus --nogui pdb:1gcn dist.com printDist.py > > to produce: > > #0:12.A@C <-> #0:17.A@C 8.74043923381 > #0:14.A@C <-> #0:19.A@C 8.19707020831 > > on standard output. You could redirect the output into a file named > "dist.out" with: > > chimera --nostatus --nogui pdb:1gcn dist.com printDist.py > dist.out > > --Eric > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Elaine Meng wrote: > > > Hi! > > Eric has kindly provided a python script (attached at the bottom) > > that will write all the current distance measurements to the Reply > > Log. Just open the python file with Chimera and it will happen. > > > > Alternatively, depending on your situation, you could use > > "findclash," as discussed in these chimera-users messages a few > > months ago: > > > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-November/ > > 002061.html > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-November/ > > 002069.html > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-November/ > > 002070.html > > > > I hope this helps, > > Elaine > > ----- > > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab > > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry > > University of California, San Francisco > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html > > > > On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:24 PM, 吴超 wrote: > > > >> Thanks, Elaine! > >> The problem is that I want to automatically calculate a number of > >> distances in non-gui interface, and sent the date to a file, just > >> like the logfile. > >> So is there a chance that I can achieve it using chimera? > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > >> wrote: > >> > >> The distances are listed in a separate dialog - choose "Tools... > >> Structure Analysis... Distances" from the menu to open that dialog. > >> You can adjust the number of decimal places in the measurement, and > >> there is a "Save" button if you want to save distances or other > >> measurements to a text file. > > > > <printDist.py> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chimera-users mailing list > > Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users > > -- Chao Wu Currently: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing Huang Niu's Lab http://www.nibs.ac.cn/ Tel: 80726688-8572 Address: Beijing ZhongGuanCun Life Science Park, NO.7 Science Park East Road, NIBS B427 Postcode: 102206 Life Science Honors Program, China Agricultural University PO.1055, NO.2 YuanMingYuan west road, Beingjing, 100094 P.R. China Tel: 86-10-62812484 E-mail: lynnwuchao(a)gmail.com -- Chao Wu Currently: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing Huang Niu's Lab http://www.nibs.ac.cn/ Tel: 80726688-8572 Address: Beijing ZhongGuanCun Life Science Park, NO.7 Science Park East Road, NIBS B427 Postcode: 102206 Life Science Honors Program, China Agricultural University PO.1055, NO.2 YuanMingYuan west road, Beingjing, 100094 P.R. China Tel: 86-10-62812484 E-mail: lynnwuchao(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Chimera-users] minimize command
by snoze pa 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Elaine, I guess i can use either 'minimize' or "addh and addcharge" otherwise it will run the antechamber twice. *minimize is working fine but i can not save the result in mol2 format using COMMAND option. I try wrtiemol2 but it is not accepting it as a command. save is also not saving in mol2 format. *Any help, thanks in advance. s * * On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Conrad, > From looking at the documentation, sounds like you can't use the > minimize command with any nondefault settings of Dock Prep, addh, and > add charge. Is that correct? > > It would be nice if it could tell that you already added hydrogens > and charges to your liking and skip those steps. However, since this > is all done via Dock Prep, that may or may not be possible. > Elaine > ----- > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry > University of California, San Francisco > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html > > > > >

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