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Enquiry: Match Maker
by Anna Hernandez 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi, I have a question regarding structural alignments with Match Maker. I would like to know if there is any way to obtain a list of all possible alignment solutions (or a subset) tested by Match Maker, instead of only the "best" one, so that I can further assess the different options manually. Specifically I am trying to find an homologous substructure/motif from my template structure within a query structure. The pattern to be searched is rather small as compared to the whole protein and it can be aligned in multiple positions. I would like to assess each of the possibilities more carefully based on the biological knowledge of the protein. Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Anna Hernandez

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Re: [Chimera-users] how to save distance to a file
by Eric Pettersen 05 May '14

05 May '14

On May 5, 2014, at 4:07 PM, chang YG <changyg2008(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Thank you very much for the quick response. I can't wait to try the script you provided. > > For the RMSD, I have two conformers for the same sequence. If I encounter any problem, I will give it my best shot before posting questions. In that case it should be easy: from chimera import openModels, Molecule m1, m2 = openModels.list(modelTypes=[Molecule]) import Midas rmsd = Midas.rmsd(m1.atoms, m2.atoms) etc. --Eric > > Yonggang > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > On May 5, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > >> print>>f, a1, a2, diet > > Stupid auto-correct spelling. "diet" should be "dist". > > --Eric > >

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how to save distance to a file
by chang YG 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hi, Thanks for taking time to answer the questions. Could you advise me of how to save distances using a python script. Here is what I have: from chimera import runCommand as rc rc("open 1t4y") rc("distance :33@H :34@H") #how to save distance. Another related question: how to save "rmsd" of two structures using a python script? Thanks, Yonggang

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patching ACE NME
by Francesco Pietra 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hello; In parameterizing a new metal cluster, I would like to patch the various amino acids (which stand isolated from one another) with what are called by AMBER ACE and NME. I would like to do that within the whole block, not for each amino acid isolated from the block. Also, I would like to avoid tleap, which gets into troubles here. I could do that by modifying structure, but a problem arises of residue names, i.e, the original residue takes the name ACE or NME, or viceversa the capping groups take the name of the amino acid being capped. Is there a specific tool with chimera? thanks francesco pietra

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A question on tunnelling chimera through ssh between a linux server and OSX client
by Miguel Ortiz Lombardía 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Hi all, I understand that this is not a typical use of chimera, so I don't expect much support, but I would appreciate if someone can give me a clue to solve the issue... We have a GNU/Linux server (Debian wheezy) with some EM software installed on it. One of these programs calls at some point chimera to show something on which the user has to act upon (or just check, not sure, I'm not the user as you've guessed) This machine is accessed from client OSX machines via ssh. All permissions are set so X11 is seamlessly tunnelled between them (checked with many graphical programs) Now, for a OSX client running on 10.6.8 (snow leopard) and using Apple's X11 the whole process works without problems. But for a OSX on 10.7.5 (lion) with a parallel installation of Apple's X11 and Xquartz 2.7.5 the first small window opens and then the chimera process hangs (it can be killed via Ctrl-C, which returns the control to the program that launched chimera and things can proceed, though without the information provided by chimera) If I connect to the Linux server from the lion machine and directly execute chimera I make a different observation: the first small window opens but then chimera crashes leaving this error in the terminal: Error of failed request: GLXBadCurrentWindow Major opcode of failed request: 149 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 1360 Current serial number in output stream: 1360 Now, I would appreciate any clues on the meaning and possible solution of this error or at least any directions on how to properly remove both Apple's X11 and Xquartz (they are supposed to be able to work side-by-side but I presume that a possible source of problems could arise from some conflict between them) AND re-install them to test them in a fresh install. Downgrading the lion machine to snow leopard does not seem to be an option... Thank you! Cheers, -- Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (UMR7257) CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université Case 932, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France Tel: +33(0) 491 82 86 44 Fax: +33(0) 491 26 67 20 mailto:miguel.ortiz-lombardia@afmb.univ-mrs.fr http://www.afmb.univ-mrs.fr/Miguel-Ortiz-Lombardia

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Preparation of the protein-ligand system for the amber simulation
by James Starlight 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Dear Chimera Users, I wounder to know if it's possible to use combination of the amber ff with the cgenff for the both parametrization of the small ligands in complex with the proteins using amber tools built in Chimera's? Does it possible to use some scripts instead of GUI for such tasks ? I'll be thankfull for some tutorial or example Thanks for help, James

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multi-channel solid rendering
by Nick Walter 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hello, I've been attempting to create a movie in Chimera using multiple data files in solid style volume rendering, and I have been running into an issue where Chimera consistently shows the last channel to be loaded on top, regardless of the spacial position of the data with respect to the other solid channels. I found this message ( http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2011-May/006329.html) which explains that multi-channel solid rendering was removed in 2008. I was wondering, if there are any plans to reinstate this feature, or if you were aware of any work-arounds that would work well for creating movies. Thank you for your time, Nick Walter

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related with Fit in map option
by SRDA.DRAKULIC.599589 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi, I have a question related to Fit in Map option and how to evaluate subsequently given results. I have a EM map at 19 ang. resolution of protein at yet non-characterised activity state, and there are two atomic structures of homologue of that protein, at clenched and open, active state. I would like to relate that state to one of the atomic structures, thus, both of them were fitted in my EM map and for the clenched state I got following values: cross correlation: 0.8447; average map value 9.526; and number of atoms outside the contour: 1709/7621 (or 22.42%) For the open state: cross correlation: 0.8385; average map value 9.085; and number of atoms outside the contour: 2064/8124 (or 25.42%) Are those differences big enough to say with certainty that my protein is at conformation similar to the clenched one or due to the EM map resolution this can not be said. Sincerely, Srdja Drakulic

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Saving ribbons as PDBs?
by Maja Divjak 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hello Chimera Gurus, Is there a way to save ribbon structures as PDBs for import into Maya? I've found only the surface structures are saved in the PDB, even though I am working with the ribbon structure in chimera initially. If there is a way to do this, I would be mightily pleased! I used to export chimera domains as vrml files and then convert them to maya files and both the ribbon and surface structures would be included. You can reply to my work email at divjak.m(a)wehi.edu.au if you prefer. Thank you so much and best wishes, Maja Divjak, PhD Biomedical Animator Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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select zone & rename script
by Michael Garton 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi all, Can anyone show me a good way to select all residues that are <2Å from zinc atoms, then rename any selected CYS and HIS, to CYM and HIN respectively ... I'm trying to write a script to do this on ~300 files. Thanks!! Mike Here's what I have so far import os from chimera import runCommand as rc from chimera import replyobj # gather the names of .pdb files in the folder file_names = [fn for fn in os.listdir(".") if fn.endswith(".pdb")] # loop through the files, opening, processing, and closing each in turn for fn in file_names: replyobj.status("Processing " + fn) # show what file we're working on rc("open " + fn) rc("select :ZNB zr<2") rc("writesel "reslist + fn") rc("close all") rc("stop now")

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Question About Using Chimera In Python Scripts with Other Features
by John Dougherty 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Hello, I am not very computer savvy and very new to programming. I am using Windows 7, Python 2.7.3 32 bit I would like to know if it is possible to use features from Chimera in a python script. For example: from chimera import * from otherprogram import * otherprogram stuff runCommand('blah blah blah') Chimera does some things the other program does not and vice versa. My life would be made much easier if I could just integrate them into one script. I do not understand the instructions about this matter which are posted on the FAQs on the website. Sincerely, -- John J. Dougherty III Biomathematics Major Rutgers, New Brunswick (P) 856 981 9491

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Re: [Chimera-users] (no subject)
by Elaine Meng 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Hi Joshua, The linewidth issue is mentioned in the supersampling documentation, but you wouldn't be expected to know that your problem was related to supersampling in the first place! Most people report encounter it as the lines being too thin rather than being completely invisible. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/print.html#supersampling> If you use the Image Save dialog, it reports near the bottom of the dialog the "effective maximum linewidth" given the specified level of supersampling and image pixel dimensions. Elaine On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Joshua, > I'm glad to hear it worked! And of course you're welcome. Don't hesitate to send other problems or concerns to the list, and I'm sure you're right that others will benefit from having the info Googlable from the list archive. > > --Eric > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Joshua Broyde <jb3401(a)c2b2.columbia.edu> wrote: > >> Dear Eric, >> Thank you so much. The first thing I did is change the supersampling from 3x3 to 1x1 and it worked! Thanks so much! >> >> Sincerel, >> Joshua Broyde >> p.s. feel free to share this email with others who have this problem. When I googled "dashed lines not saving chimera".Thanks again! >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eric Pettersen" <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >> To: "Joshua Broyde" <jb3401(a)c2b2.columbia.edu> >> Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 2:06:04 PM >> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] (no subject) >> >> Hi Joshua, >> The first thing you should do is make sure you have the latest driver installed for your graphics card. Based on the info you provided, I believe the latest release for your card was 4/24/14 -- only 4 days ago! Go to the AMD drivers site here: >> >> >> Download Drivers >> >> >> and input the values for your system to get to the latest drivers. >> If that doesn't help, my best guess as to the issue is that the card/driver can't show dashed lines beyond a certain thickness and that the supersampling done while saving the image requires lines thicker than the card supports (each "tile" of the supersampled image is essentially a zoomed-in depiction of that part of the image and is later sampled down to its final size -- which reduces aliasing artifacts). Therefore the two things to try are to reduce the amount of supersampling as you save the image, or reduce the thickness of the dashed lines before you save the image. >> There is a "Supersample" control on the Save-Image dialog, and there is a "supersample" keyword to the "copy" command, if that's what you're using. >> You can reduce the line width of the hydrogen bonds by bringing up the PseudoBond Panel (in the General Controls tool category) and double clicking on the "hydrogen bonds" group (assuming you've made some hydrogen bonds). The "line width" control is in the lower part of the inspector that comes up. >> I hope one of these things work! :-) >> >> >> --Eric >> >> >> Eric Pettersen >> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab >> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 27, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Joshua Broyde < jb3401(a)c2b2.columbia.edu > wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I had a chimera-related problem. When saving images from chimera, chimera is not saving the dashed hbonds (I am NOT using POV-Ray), in the images, even though they appear on the screen. Does this have to do with the graphics driver, or is is there something internally in chimera that is likely causing this? >> I am using the AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics driver on ubuntu 12.04. When I tried this on another computer with ubuntu 12.10 (using Gallium .04 graphics driver) , it worked fine and the image came out perfectly. This problem happens whether I use chimera 1.8, 1.8.1, or any release after that. >> >> Sincerely, >> Joshua Broyde >> _______________________________________________ >> Chimera-users mailing list >> Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users >> >> > >

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(no subject)
by Joshua Broyde 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Hi, > I had a chimera-related problem. When saving images from chimera, chimera is not saving the dashed hbonds (I am NOT using POV-Ray), in the images, even though they appear on the screen. Does this have to do with the graphics driver, or is is there something internally in chimera that is likely causing this? > I am using the AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics driver on ubuntu 12.04. When I tried this on another computer with ubuntu 12.10 (using Gallium .04 graphics driver) , it worked fine and the image came out perfectly. This problem happens whether I use chimera 1.8, 1.8.1, or any release after that. > > Sincerely, > Joshua Broyde

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Print selected
by m.maletta＠nki.nl 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Dear all, I would like to select all the atoms of the chain B that are less than 3.5A far away from chain A. And I would also like to print out all the distances that Chimera finds. I manage to do the first part with this command, but I do not manage to have a list of all the distances found. select #0:.A za<3.5 & #0:.B Is there a way to get the list? Best and thank you in advance Max __________________________________ Massimiliano Maletta post-doc in NKI Netherlands Cancer Institute -Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital Plesmanlaan 121 B6 1066CX Amsterdam group of Peter Peters www.nki.nl/research/peters/ | www.necen.nl m.maletta(a)nki.nl Tel : +31 20 512 2022 Fax : +31 20 512 2029

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Multiscale models color
by Hernando J Sosa 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

Hi, How do you control the color of the surfaces generated by the multi-scale models command "Make models" so that the user can specify the color associated with each chain? I tried to follow the documentation on how to do this but still I don't get it right as I didn't manage to change the colors assigned by default. Thanks Hernando

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1.9 release candidate
by Eric Pettersen 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hi everybody, There is a release candidate of Chimera 1.9 on the download page. If you can, please try it out and let us know if you have any problems or questions. The differences between 1.9 and 1.8 are covered in the release notes. Thanks! --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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Export Pov-Ray file with a python script.
by jiserte＠unq.edu.ar 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

I'm writing a small python script to generate Pov-Ray with chimera. The script loads a pdb file containing a protein and a ligand, modifies the protein view to ribbon and the ligand to surface. Then exports the .pov file. However the image created by Pov-Ray shows only the surface of ligand. The image is shown correctly in the chimera GUI. If I run the commands one by one in the chimera command line, the .pov file generated is ok. The script is: ----------------------------------------- import chimera from chimera import runCommand runCommand('windowsize 800 600') runCommand('open ../../kinase.domain.2/A.4K9Y.pdb') runCommand('ribbon #0') runCommand('surf ligand') runCommand('export test.pov') ------------------------------------------ After running the script the ReplyLog contains: ----------------------------------------- A.4K9Y.pdb opened /opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.7/bin/mscalc 1.400000 2.000000 1 MSMSLIB 1.3 started on hamal Copyright M.F. Sanner (March 2000) Compilation flags Surface A.4K9Y.pdb, category ligand, probe radius 1.4, vertex density 2 1 connected surface components Total solvent excluded surface area = 436.845 Total solvent accessible surface area = 772.871 ----------------------------------------- Javier Iserte

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Transparency of selected atoms
by Chinaza Egbuta 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi, Is there a way to change the transparency of selected atoms in a model? I am trying to visualize what is behind the plane of my model without using the surface capping function. Thanks! CE Chinaza Egbuta Ph.D. Candidate Department of Pharmacology & SUNY Upstate Cancer Research Institute SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY 13210

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] read file by python script and color pdb file with script
by Eric Pettersen 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hi Sariya, Your "check" file contains this (one) line: 67 23 which means that the residue range you generate is ":67-23" which contains nothing. You want "check" to contain "23 67" so that your residue range becomes ":23-67". --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On Apr 21, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Sanjeev Sariya <s.sariya_work(a)ymail.com> wrote: > > I am having 2 coordinates in check file. I want to take/read them and paint my pdb file loaded in chimera. > I have chimera in my ~/bin/ > System specs: ubuntu 64 bit, 13.10, 4gb ram > > Below is the command I have used for script-chimera communication > > $ chimera64-1.8.1 --script "y.py check" -- Q6UXT6.pdb > > > I am storing values in listu and want to use them for coloring my file loaded. > > rc("color blue :"+listu[0]+"-"+listu[1]) > > This works well, if hard coded > rc ("color red :55-86") > > I do not get any error. The particular protein length is not colored. > > attached 3 files. > Kindly suggest, how do I proceed. > > > -- > Regards > Sariya > > <Q6UXT6.pdb><y.py><check>_______________________________________________ > Chimera-dev mailing list > Chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev

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read file by python script and color pdb file with script
by Sanjeev Sariya 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Hello Chimera team, I am having 2 coordinates in check file. I want to take/read them and paint my pdb file loaded in chimera. I have chimera in my ~/bin/ System specs: ubuntu 64 bit, 13.10, 4gb ram Below is the command I have used for script-chimera communication $ chimera64-1.8.1 --script "y.py check" -- Q6UXT6.pdb I am storing values in listu and want to use them for coloring my file loaded. rc("color blue :"+listu[0]+"-"+listu[1]) This works well, if hard coded rc ("color red :55-86") I do not get any error. The particular protein length is not colored. attached 3 files. Kindly suggest, how do I proceed. PS: I had sent the same mail to chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu>; Sorry, I didn't find this mailing list before. -- Regards Sariya

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Structure editing: add charge
by George Tzotzos 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Hi everybody, I’m trying to add to a ligand intended for an MD simulation using Amber. The ligand is 7-octenoic acid. The charge added to the ligand is non-integer 0.999. Given that he unperturbed charge on the protein is +9.000, the charge on the complex is +9.999. Amber does not accept non-integer charges, so it adds on 9 Na+ ions. Is there a way to force the charge on the ligand to be +1.000? Apologies if this question should be addressed to the Amber list, but I used chimera to add hydrogens and charges (AM1-BCC). Regards George

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Problem with charges when writing mol2 file with a python script.
by jiserte＠unq.edu.ar 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

I'm trying to write a simple python script to open a mol2 file with a ligand, add hydrogens, add charges and write it into another mol2. The script is this: ----------------------------------------- import chimera #1 from chimera import runCommand #2 runCommand('open ligands/lig_in.mol2') #3 runCommand('addh') #4 runCommand('addcharge') #5 runCommand('write format mol2 #0 lig_out.mol2') #6 ------------------------------------------ The result mol2 file does no contain any charges. However, if a run another script that is exactly like this but does not contain the last line (#6), and then execute the command 'write format mol2 #0 lig_out.mol2' manually, the mol2 file contains charges. I don't understand why there is a difference with both methods. best regards. javier

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how to calculate the core diameter of a trimer (the individual subunits of this trimer is a helix)
by ashok rout 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Hi, I have a transmembrane domain of a protein (20 amino acid long, single helix). The NMR derived structure comes out as a coiled-coil trimer. So can you please assists me how to calculate the core diameter of this trimer. Regards, Ashok -- thanks & regards, Ashok

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Chimera-crashing-ubuntu
by Prasanth Kumar 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Dear Sir/Madam, I have been using chimera for past 3 months. In the past two days, when i load my saved sessions (.py files), chimera is getting hanged and my ubuntu 12.04 OS is also getting hanged. So please help me on how to fix the problem. Chimera has been a really useful tool in my research. Waiting for your reply. Thank you, Yours Truly, *PRASANTH*, Undergraduate Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012. Contact:- prasanth.311994(a)gmail.com, prasanth(a)ug.iisc.in.

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Rendering into 3d
by Rebecca Swett 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hey All, I'm looking at rendering some movies output from chimera as a 3d movie for viewing with nvidia 3d vision pro glasses. From everything I've read as long as the left/right eye frames are sequential, making the movie with ffmpeg should work fine. The problem I'm having is that ffmpeg has no way to alternate between 0-left.ppm 0-right.ppm 1-left.ppm 1-right.ppm, which is how chimera saves images when recording movies in stereo mode. If those same images were named 1.ppm 2.ppm 3.ppm 4.ppm, there would be no problem. Is there a quick fix that can be inserted to change the naming of the recorded frames? Any other suggestions? Rebecca Swett

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morphs
by Moses Adenaike 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello Chimera users, Is there a way to make a morph between two PDBs that don't have the same amount of atoms or chains. For example, I want to morph between an enzyme bound to DNA and one without DNA. Moses

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call file-> open gui popup from script ?
by Katrina Lexa 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello All, I’m wondering if there is a way to call the file->open popup within chimera when running a python script? I know that it’s possible to run the script on the command line and read the desired arguments in that way, and obviously the files I want could be coded in and then changed every time I want to look at something new, but I’m not seeing an obvious option from the mailing list or in the runCommand list for writing in a mid-script call for the user to select a file. Is such a thing possible? Thanks for your help, -- Katrina

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Doubts regarding building a structure using Build Structure option
by Garg, Ayush A. 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Dear Developer I was working with with UCSF Chimera. I was trying to reproduce structure 1V4S - Glucokinase structure using the Build Structure option under the tab Structure Editing in Tools. I have the sequence of the 455 amino acids and also know the sequence which is alpha helix, beta helix but the sequence of connectors between these structures is not a secondary structure. I was wondering how to reproduce those using your structure builder option. I have attached a word file with the sequence and the image of 1V4S in UCSF Chimera. I hope that will help you understand my doubt better. Thank and Regards Ayush Arpit Garg Graduate Student Ohio State University

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Working with several proteins
by Navya Shilpa Josyula 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi, I am working on a set of 400 proteins and for all these proteins I have specific list of amino acid residues. I wanted to know if there is any available script or a command to get the following 1. atomic areaSAS 2. atomic B-factor values 3. CASTp identified pocket residues and 4. CASTp identified pocket volumes for all the residues of these 400 proteins to be written in a single file. Kindly help me at your earliest. Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Navya

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Relevant interacting amino acids between molecules
by Ogunniyan, Abisola 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi, My name is Abisola Abisoye-Ogunniyan, a first year Biology Graduate student in Tuskegee University. I got to learn about the use of Chimera in my Biochemistry Class. I have been having difficulty in trying to determine the relevant interacting amino acids between molecules. Please, I will really appreciate it if this is made clearer to me. Thank You. Best Regards, Abisola Abisoye-Ogunniyan.

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Structure editing: addH
by George Tzotzos 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hi everybody, I’ve been trying to add hydrogens to a ligand (7-octenoic acid) obtained from docking. Hydrogens are added but not on the carboxyl group. I’m attaching the ligand.pdb for easy reference. I’d appreciate any suggestions regarding this behavior Best regards George

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Request for guidance
by MUHAMMAD RAMZAN MANWAR 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Dear Dr. Ferrin, Hope this email finds you the best of your health. First of all, I did appreciate the effort that You and Your team did in the form of UCSF Chimera. Being the part of academic/government university, I have used Chimera tool for protein modeling and cited in my two articles: one published in JCB-Wiley and other in Hundawi in 2014. Current email I am sending to request for guidance about how can I substitute an amino acid (wild type to mutant residue) within protein 3D model by using Chimera. I will be thankful for your guidance, if possible. With regards Hussain MR PACER-HD, KAU, KSA

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Surprising "measure symmetry" result
by ingvar 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello, I fetched entry EMD-2463 from EMDB and issued: measure symmetry #0 nMax 24 and got the result "Symmetry emd_2463.map: C13, center 64 64 37" Increasing the number of sampling points does not change the result, but if I increase the correlation criteria a little, to say 0.992, I get the expected C12 symmetry. Also if I change the contour level to 0.05, the author recommended level, I get C12 again. Looking at the volume at several different contour levels, it is difficult to see how it could be considered C13, and also how it would go from C13 to C12. Kind Regards, Ingvar Lagerstedt -- Ingvar Lagerstedt European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD Tel: +44 (0)1223 492533

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Docking ligands and protein using Chimera
by Sook Wong 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Good morning, I am currently doing research with a professor for protein-ligand structure and would like to dock the receptor molecule (pdb file of the protein) and ligands (pdb file of the sugars). Since I have both the structure files from Chimera, how would I predict and assume which orientation bound to each other forming a stable complex? Looking forward to hear from you. Thank you so much! Sincerely, Sook Y Wong Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering '14 A. James Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 swong18(a)terpmail.umd.edu

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Calculating SAS and SES with Chimera-MSMS wrap
by Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Dear Chimera dev team, I am trying to use your MSMS wrapper to compute some SAS/SES values for a given set of atoms. As suggested in a previous post in this list, I've taken a look into Measure.measure.buried_area() and I think I've got it, but just wanted to make sure. Here is my current procedure: ``` import chimera, Measure, MoleculeSurface atoms = chimera.selection.currentAtoms() xyzr_data = Measure.measure.atom_xyzr(atoms) surfaces = MoleculeSurface.xyzr_surface_geometry(xyzr_data) for i, a in enumerate(atoms): print "Atom: {0}, SAS: {1}, SES: {2}".format(a.name, surfaces[3][i,0], surfaces[3][i,1]) ``` Is this OK? I don't know how to handle all that output that MSMS is giving back! Thanks in advance, Jaime.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Reaction Mechanism Movie
by Eric Pettersen 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

On Apr 5, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Moses Adenaike wrote: > Dear Dr. Pettersen, > I am wondering how I would go about making a moive detailing a biochemical reaction. For example, I want to show a DNA polymerase reaction, essentially a ligation between the backbone of two nucleotides. How would I go about doing so? I know chimera has a make new bond function but I haven't been too successful at getting that to work. Hi Moses, It is typically better to send questions like this to the chimera-users mailing list than to me directly so that others can benefit from the answer and in case others on the list have more expertise on the topic than I do. The simplest method is to decide which frame# you want the bond to start existing and use the "Define script…" entry in MD Movie's Per-Frame menu to define a one-command script to execute at that frame. For example, if you wanted a bond between :337.A@P and :338.A@O3' to exist starting with frame 53, in the Per-Frame dialog you would set "Interpret script as" to "Chimera commands" and enter as your script: #53 bond :337.A@P :338.A@O3' There is also a hidden capability in Chimera to compute all bonds on a per-frame basis. I can tell you how to access that if it turns out you really need it. However, for the purpose of making a movie it might be nice to have a more "continuous" representation of the bond forming than just the binary on/off that the above approaches give you. I have attached a Python script that you can use the Per-Frame dialog (with "Interpret script as" set to Python, and reading in the script with the "Insert text file…" button) to have a bond form (by starting out very thin and becoming thicker) as two designated atoms approach each other. There are some values at the top of the script that you can edit to make it work best in your situation. There is a distance value for when the bond begins to exist (noBond, default 3.5) and when it reaches full size (fullBond, default 2.0). There is a two-member list of residue IDs (resIDs) for the atoms involved in the bond, and a list of atom names (atomNames). Let me know if you need more help than this. Hmmm, this all assumes you have a trajectory of the reaction. You may have to use the Morph Conformations tool to create such a trajectory if you don't have one already. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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presets-interactive 3-hydrophobicity surface- those water molecules stay!
by Ying-Chieh Sun 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hi, I did a simulation using Amber package and saved a snapshot into its pdb file, and use Chimera to open it. The pdb file contains a protein-ligand complex plus a box of about 20000 TIP3P water molecules. When I pressed presets-interactive 3-hydrophobicity surface, there are 8 water molecules stayed close to the ligand binding site. I am wondering how these 8 water molecules were determined? The reason I ask is because we are trying to find a way to determine 'crystal (or say, ordered) water molecules'. This presets-interactive 3-hydrophobicity surface seems to perform this function in some way. Thank you for your help. Ying-chieh Ying-Chieh Sun, Professor of Computational Chemistry Chemistry Department National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan 11617 Tel: +886-2-7734-6215 Fax: +886-2-2932-4249

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Resolution of .stl file of ribbon representatiom
by Gavin Whittaker 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Dear all, I'm in the process of 3d printing a large protein in ribbon format; I've generated the .stl file, but the resolution of the mesh that Chimera creates means that the resulting file is too large to use easily. I've managed to use other software to reduce the resolution of the mesh, so I /can/ now get around the problem, but can anyone tell me if it's possible to reduce the resolution of the mesh in Chimera to save me a step for future models? I know how to reduce the resolution of a surface mesh, but files of ribbon representations remain obstinately large. One method I've used that gives limited results is to simplify the cross-sectional form of the ribbon, but I wonder, am I missing something obvious and more effective? thanks! Gavin

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query
by Bhaskar Bagchi 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Respected Sir I want to calculate surface area of different atoms in a molecule. Is it possible in chimera? Please help me. Thanking you Yours faithfully, Bhaskar Bagchi Research Scholar Raiganj University College Email: bhaskarbagchi(a)gmail.com

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ellipsoid main axis alignment ?
by Hugo J Bohorquez 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hi, I am writing a script in python for generating a series of ellipses linking the nuclei a molecule. Every ellipsoid should be positioned at a specific location *P* = (X,Y,Z) and should be aligned with the orthonormal vectors describing its main directions-*A*, *B*, *C*. However, when I create an ellipsoid with shape_command it gets located correctly at *P* but it is aligned with the global axis. I can't find a general way to reorient an object so its original axes point along the vectors *A*, *B*, and *C*. I will appreciate any suggestion how to do it. -- Hugo J Bohórquez <https://sites.google.com/site/hugojbohorquez/home>, PhD *Investigador* Grupo de Biofísica Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia TEL. +57 +1 -3158920 Ext. 122 CEL. +57 315-6169069 *The Pauli energy grows exponentially with the electronic localisation <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2013.836605>*

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resampling maps
by Jason Kaelber 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Hi all, I decided to do a rough alignment of density maps manually and resample onto a common coordinate system to feed the output mrc files into my fine aligner. But, when I vop resample #1 onGrid #0, I get, TypeError: Cannot cast ufunc add output from dtype('float32') to dtype('uint8') with casting rule 'same_kind' What might I be doing wrong to get this error? As far as I know, all the maps should be uint8 since they were most recently operated on by David Mastronarde's newstack command which outputs them as unsigned bytes. Thanks, Jason <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> Exception in Tk callback Function: <bound method MidasUI.processCommand of <Midas.midas_ui.MidasUI instance at 0x276b2d88>> (type: <type 'instancemethod'>) Args: (<Tkinter.Event instance at 0x276a2ea8>,) Event type: KeyPress (type num: 2) Traceback (innermost last): File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_3/lib/PmwBase.py", line 1747, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/Midas/midas_ui.py", line 283, in processCommand midas_text.makeCommand(cmdText) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 69, in makeCommand f(c, args) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeFilter/ChimeraExtension.py", line 24, in vop_cmd vop_command(cmdname, args) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeFilter/vopcommand.py", line 91, in vop_command doExtensionFunc(func, fargs, specInfo = spec) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/Midas/midas_text.py", line 435, in doExtensionFunc extFunc(*tuple(processedArgs), **kw) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeFilter/vopcommand.py", line 553, in resample_op boundingGrid, False, None, modelId) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeFilter/vopcommand.py", line 168, in add_operation scale = scale[i]) File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeViewer/volume.py", line 1535, in add_interpolated_values m[:,:,:] += values <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Cannot cast ufunc add output from dtype('float32') to dtype('uint8') with casting rule 'same_kind' ================================================ Event contents: char: delta: 36 height: ?? keycode: 36 keysym: Return keysym_num: 65293 num: ?? send_event: False serial: 39103 state: 16 time: 139539396 type: 2 widget: .59791048.661335648.802317088.802317376.802317448 width: ?? x: 159 x_root: 524 y: 9 y_root: 988 TypeError: Cannot cast ufunc add output from dtype('float32') to dtype('uint8') with casting rule 'same_kind' File "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.8.1/share/VolumeViewer/volume.py", line 1535, in add_interpolated_values m[:,:,:] += values See reply log for Python traceback. -- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, N420 Baylor College of Medicine, MS BCM125 1 Baylor Plaza Houston, TX, USA

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Is there a way to save animation editing process?
by Li, Leon 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

Dear all, I'm try to save all my editing of animation, it seems that 'save session' can't save 'scenes', 'timelines', etc. I wonder is there a way to save all the process, so that I can re-open it to edit. Thanks, Leon

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combining different chains
by faeze mohajer 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

good day I have modeled heavy and light chains of myosin now I want to combine them through chimera, would you plz help me on that your faithfully *FAEZE SADAT MOHAJERPhD Student * *Faculty of Bioscience and Medical Engineering (FBME)* *Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)* Buzzdock ads <http://www.buzzdock.com/setting/V2hpbG9raWk=> Search ResultsFaculty of Biosciences & Medical Engineering<http://fbme.utm.my/>

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera Shutting Down
by Tom Goddard 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi Joshua, Glad to hear that the new graphics driver fixed the Chimera side view crash on your Ubuntu 12.04 system. Maybe this will help some other Chimera users. Tom On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Joshua Broyde wrote: > Dear Tom, > I installed a new graphics driver, so now it works. In case anybody else has this same problem, I installed the Gallium Radeon driver and it worked fine. I followed step 2 from this link: > http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1137372 > > Thanks for the tip. > Sincerely, > Joshua Broyde > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Goddard" <goddard(a)sonic.net> > To: "Joshua Broyde" <jb3401(a)c2b2.columbia.edu> > Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:58:50 AM > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera Shutting Down > > The crash is due to a buggy graphics driver and the only fix is likely to be installing a working graphics driver. Sometimes some trick like starting the side view before opening models as described in the post you referenced avoids the problem, but usually there is no way to avoid a graphics driver crash other than replace the driver with one that doesn’t have the bug. > > Tom > > > On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Joshua Broyde wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am using the Chimera Linux 64-bit (chimera-alpha-linux_x86_64.bin), and Chimera shuts down when I try to open the Side View option. I tried the workaround mentioned here: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-April/008765.html but it is not working for me. >> >> OS: Ubuntu 12.04 >> Version of Chimera: Linux 64-bit Daily Build (Mar 24, 2014) >> >> >> For what it's worth, on another computer where I am running Ubuntu 12.10, with Chimera Linux 64-bit Daily Build (July 10, 2013), I did not have this problem. >> Is there another workaround that I could do to open the side view? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Sincerely, >> Joshua Broyde >> _______________________________________________ >> Chimera-users mailing list >> Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users >> >

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Binding pocket surface command script not working
by Markus Heller 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hello, I'm trying to reproduce the Binding Pocket Surface image from the Gallery with a different pdb file. I can successfully reproduce with the pdb used in the example (2zcp), but not with 2v5z. Running latest Chimera. Steps to reproduce: open 2v5z delete :.b split atoms :sag surface measure contactArea #0.2 #0.1 3 slab -.1,0 color tan gives an error: error: Array must be 2-dimensional, got 1-dimensional File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.8.1\share\MeasureVolume\__init__.py", line 60, in surface_area area = surface_area(varray, tarray) See reply log for Python traceback. Why, and would it be helpful to file a bug report? Thanks and Cheers Markus -- Markus Heller, Ph.D. NMR Scientist CDRD - The Centre for Drug Research and Development 2405 Wesbrook Mall, Fourth Floor | Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 | Main: (604) 827-1147 Direct: (604) 827-1122 | F: (604) 827-1299 | E: mheller(a)cdrd.ca<mailto:mheller@cdrd.ca> | www.cdrd.ca [cid:image007.png@01CF49BD.0097D1F0] Follow us: [Description: cid:image003.jpg@01CD86A6.39B41A10] <https://twitter.com/C_D_R_D> [Description: cid:image005.jpg@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CDRD-3186016/about?report%2Esuccess=3NcE4iZo…> [Description: cid:image009.png@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Centre-for-Drug-Research-and-Development…> [Description: cid:image010.png@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <http://www.youtube.com/user/CDRDCVI?view_as=public> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute, copy, or alter this email.

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Chimera surface error
by Elaine Meng 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:27 AM, Uzma Saqib wrote: > Hi Elaine, > Chimera is not showing me the surface of my protein file and gives the attached eror. > i tried what it suggested, but no improvement. > plz help. > attashed , is the pdb. This is a common problem in Chimera. Some explanation and all of our ideas for possible solutions are in this page (no use for me just to repeat that information here): <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html> #3 and #4 in that page will always work because they use different methods instead of the standard molecular surface calculation. Sorry for the inconvenience, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco P.S. better to send chimera questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu, unless including private data

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Measuring surface area of region
by Anindito Sen 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Dear all, I was wondering if there is any way one can measure the surface area with a threshold higher than its neighbouring region in a TEM micrograph ? Thanks Andy Dr. Anindito Sen (Ph.D) >

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Chimera Shutting Down
by Joshua Broyde 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi, I am using the Chimera Linux 64-bit (chimera-alpha-linux_x86_64.bin), and Chimera shuts down when I try to open the Side View option. I tried the workaround mentioned here: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-April/008765.html but it is not working for me. OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Version of Chimera: Linux 64-bit Daily Build (Mar 24, 2014) For what it's worth, on another computer where I am running Ubuntu 12.10, with Chimera Linux 64-bit Daily Build (July 10, 2013), I did not have this problem. Is there another workaround that I could do to open the side view? Thanks! Sincerely, Joshua Broyde

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Viewing Gromacs 4.6.5 trajectories
by William McDonald 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hello Chimera users, I recently upgraded my gromacs simulation software from 4.5.5 to 4.6.5; however, when I attempt to load a new simulation trajectory (either a .xtc or .trr file), Chimera allocates ~13GB RAM causing my machine to swap, and Chimera never loads the trajectory. The old trajectories from gromacs 4.5.5 load with out any problems. Has anyone else experienced this? I am using 64 bit Chimera 1.8.1 on a dual quad-core Mac Pro running OS 10.6.8. The simulation has ~50000 atoms of protein, lipid, and water and is 1ns long. -- William J. McDonald Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Santa Cruz

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selection color
by George Tzotzos 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi everybody, I’ve conducted Principal Component Analysis on a trajectory and generated an ensemble of structures (see attachment, pc2.pdb). There should be a way of coloring (occupancy?) the most mobile regions of the protein (e.g. residues 67 - 72). I haven’t found a way to do this. Any help would be much appreciated. Best regards George

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stereo3D
by Dougherty, Matthew T 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

I have a toshiba qosmio x875-7390 S3D laptop, which is based on the NVidia NVision 3D. Toshiba structured the device to be user unfriendly, limiting stereo3D for bluray and youtube 3d via adobe flash. coming across a pymol S3D post I see there is a workaround, for a different Toshiba model. http://nanonan.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/pymol-and-coot-3d-stereo-on-qosmio-… http://coxcoppes.nl/3DScreenActivator/index.php?pagina=1 Any comments about chimera using S3D on NVidia NVision 3D? Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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(no subject)
by Francesco Pietra 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hello: About stereo drawings with chimera (GNU Linux), I received from the editorial staff: All stereoview illustrations have been drawn in the cross-eye mode, i.e. the > picture for the right eye is on the left and vice versa. > Has this been chosen deliberately? In our opinion, the parallel-eye mode > seems to be used more often. > Please let us know whether we should switch the figures (you would not need > to send new ones) or not. They did the job of transformation to parallel-eye. Next time, I would like to be able to do that myself, while I don't see the parallel-eye mode in chimera. Which is the equivalent? thanks francesco pietra

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Detection of Internal water along MD trajectory
by James Starlight 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Dear Chimera users! I've performed md simulation of water soluble protein having water-assessable channel in its interior. I'd like to perform analysis of average number of water molecules detected within the protein interior during MD trajectory with the possible visualization of such internal water binding sites. Does SASA calculation which I've seen in vmd could provide me with additional insights? I'd be thankful if you provide me with some Chimera tools suitable for such task. Many thanks for help, James

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Chimera Sequence alignment window
by meginir urestal 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way of printing the contents of the chimera alignment window. If not, could anyone suggest something for printing saved aligned fasta sequences. Thanks

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Morph conformation - conformation collapsing
by Helge.Paternoga＠bzh.uni-heidelberg.de 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello, I'm trying to morph two structures which have two chains each. The problem is that if I just add the two confirmations one chain will turn the wrong way, because it is taking the shortest distance to the final position. What i did now is I used this initial morphing to extract 4 frames of the movement of the other chain and inserted the movement of the smaller chain in each of these structures by hand (so the movement is in the right direction and happening at the same time as the other chain). But when I now add these 4 structures in my morph confirmation list like this: Start confirmation frame 1 frame 2 frame 3 frame 4 End confirmation It nicely starts moving in the right way but then at a transition to a new frame the whole structre collapses, bonds get distorted, it somehow shrinks and then extends again later to end up at the final confirmation... I think this is independent of which frame i use (I tried to simplify it by using only 2 intermediates) Do you have any idea what is causing this collapse? The initial confirmation has the same number of chains as the end confirmation (with the same names) but they have a different number of atoms (which i don't quite understand because they are the same macromolecules...) Could this be part of the problem? best regards, Helge

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Recording movie with simultaneous map morph and PDB morph conformation
by Joel Meyerson 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hi, Is it possible to record a movie that shows both an MRC map morph and PDB conformation morph happening simultaneously? Joel

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residue number in Gromacs tpr file
by Mario Dejung 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

Hi all, I am experimenting with Gromacs a little bit and try to open the tpr file and the corresponding trajectory in chimera. Works fine, but the numbering is completely wrong. The residues get numbered continuous and not starting at 1 for the next chain. Not sure if the problem is in the tpr file or in chimera. I have 4 chains in my pdb file and all have a chain identifier, O P g and h and they are separated by TER I have also 4 .itp files with names like “topol_Protein_chain_O.itp” My topol.top file say 4 molecules [ molecules ] ; Compound #mols Protein_chain_O 1 Protein_chain_P 1 Protein_chain_g 1 Protein_chain_h 1 and ; Include chain topologies #include "topol_Protein_chain_O.itp" #include "topol_Protein_chain_P.itp" #include "topol_Protein_chain_g.itp" #include “topol_Protein_chain_h.itp" I create my tpr file with grompp Has anybody experience with this kind of issue? Kind regards Mario

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Chimera and XP?
by Boaz Shaanan 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hi, For some reason, I couldn't get Chimera (1.8.1 and the 12/3 daily build) to work today on my laptop running XP (32bit). It gets stuck in 'initializing graphics'. See attached screen shot of run with --debug. Chimera worked for years on this machine. Other programs work fine (spdbv, Coot, etc.). I can't imagine it has to do with the imminent downfall of XP support, or maybe it does? Please advise. Thanks, Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel E-mail: bshaanan(a)bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710 ________________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] on behalf of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 9:00 PM To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 13 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. match-align using just selected protein areas ? (Marek Maly) 2. Re: match-align using just selected protein areas ? (Elaine Meng) 3. Re: surface failures (Elaine Meng) 4. Re: match-align using just selected protein areas ? (Marek Maly) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:53:47 +0100 From: "Marek Maly" <marek.maly(a)ujep.cz> To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: [Chimera-users] match-align using just selected protein areas ? Message-ID: <op.xck57xhvlc8gdf(a)pocitadlon.ujep.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hello, I would like to know if it is possible in Chimera align two proteins let say protein A and protein B, but just using selected subsequences A_sel, B_sel (i.e. just the selected subsequences are going to be optimally matched and the rest of both proteins is not involved in the matching process/calculation) ? Thank you in advance ! Best wishes, Marek -- Tato zpr?va byla vytvo?ena p?evratn?m po?tovn?m klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:35:39 -0700 From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> To: "Marek Maly" <marek.maly(a)ujep.cz> Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] match-align using just selected protein areas ? Message-ID: <67EFA59C-7032-4F2A-8517-6D32E11C4F2D(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Marek, Yes, if you mean MatchMaker (Match->Align does not align the structures, it just makes a sequence alignment from a structural alignment you already made). In the MatchMaker GUI, there is a "Further restrict matching to current selection" setting: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchmaker/matchm…> In the matchmaker (mmaker) command, <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mmaker.html> ... it is similar but you instead specify the residues directly instead of selecting them: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mmaker.html#restrict> 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 Mar 11, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Marek Maly wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know if it is possible in Chimera > align two proteins let say protein A and protein B, > but just using selected subsequences A_sel, B_sel > (i.e. just the selected subsequences are going to be > optimally matched and the rest of both proteins is not involved > in the matching process/calculation) ? > Thank you in advance ! > Best wishes, > Marek ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:51:04 -0700 From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> To: Julian Marzi <julian.marzi(a)googlemail.com> Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] surface failures Message-ID: <91C53A76-7F10-4123-9752-0AE5F5C58689(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Julian Marzi wrote: > Dear Eric, > I tryed the command surfcat c1 and surfcat c1 :.1 & ~:ohx, but this will also not work on my mac... The mac show for short time an activity, but nothing happens. The comand from Elaine molmap :.1&~:ohx 5 worked and it looks great! Is there also a possibility to select a part of the sequence in the "surface" (molmap) presentation to show it in an other color? I select one part on the 25S-rRNa in green, but the molmap view covers it in grey and if I make a higher transparency, the selected part will be seen. But it would be better, if the selected part is colored in the molmap view. This would allow the marked spot directly recognize without transparency. If there is an answer for my question, please let it me know. If not, is not bad, you two have helped me incredibly much. > Thank you so much > Regards > Julian Hi Julian, The "molmap" surface can be colored to match atoms with the Color Zone tool. The atoms can be hidden, it is just a step to the surface coloring that you want. After you color some atoms (for example, some part of the RNA that you selected) you can also color the part of the surface that is near the currently selected atoms with Color Zone (in menu under Tools... Depiction). Color Zone is mentioned along with molmap in #3 in the surface workarounds page: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/colorzone/colorzo…> Also, you could color the molmap surface any overall color you want first, it doesn't have to be the default grayish color. You could just click the color square on the Volume Viewer tool (that appears when you create the molmap surface) and then use the Color Editor, or you can select the surface directly in the main window and use the Actions... Color menu. I hope this helps! P.S. please send chimera questions to the chimera-users address instead of our individual addresses (to allow others to see the Q & A) - thanks! Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:44:27 +0100 From: "Marek Maly" <marek.maly(a)ujep.cz> To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] match-align using just selected protein areas ? Message-ID: <op.xcmg0dxylc8gdf(a)pocitadlon.ujep.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed; delsp=yes Dear Elaine, thank you very much for your help ! Best wishes, Marek Dne Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:35:39 +0100 Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> napsal/-a: > Hi Marek, > Yes, if you mean MatchMaker (Match->Align does not align the structures, > it just makes a sequence alignment from a structural alignment you > already made). > > In the MatchMaker GUI, there is a "Further restrict matching to current > selection" setting: > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchmaker/matchm…> > > In the matchmaker (mmaker) command, > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mmaker.html> > ... it is similar but you instead specify the residues directly instead > of selecting them: > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mmaker.html#restrict> > > 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 Mar 11, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Marek Maly wrote: > >> Hello, >> I would like to know if it is possible in Chimera >> align two proteins let say protein A and protein B, >> but just using selected subsequences A_sel, B_sel >> (i.e. just the selected subsequences are going to be >> optimally matched and the rest of both proteins is not involved >> in the matching process/calculation) ? >> Thank you in advance ! >> Best wishes, >> Marek > > > __________ Informace od ESET NOD32 Antivirus, verze databaze 9532 > (20140312) __________ > > Tuto zpravu proveril ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.cz > > > -- Tato zpr?va byla vytvo?ena p?evratn?m po?tovn?m klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users End of Chimera-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 13 **********************************************

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'Old-style' silhouette edges?
by Thomas Mitterfellner 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hello! It seems that somewhere between 1.6.2 and 1.7, the way silhouette edges are drawn has changed. Most of the silhouette edges are now drawn in white regardless of the color I set (presumably due to some smart algorithm?). In my opinion, the old way gave a much clearer appearance of the molecule on different backgrounds and it gave it a 'cartoonish' flavor which made it look quite distinguished from the images other software produces and I really loved that. So my question is: is there any way to get back the 'old-style' (pre 1.7) silhouette edges in 1.7+ releases? Kind regards, Thomas

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editing selected dihedral angles
by Francesco Pietra 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hello: I would appreciate receiving instructions on changing selected dihedral angles in a peptide. Imagine that the initial and final stretches are alpha-helices, while in the middle, dihedral angles are such that two alpha-helix coiled portions make an angle different from 180 degrees. In all that, all dihedrals in the alpha-helix portions should not be modified. Thanks francesco pietra

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anti aliasing
by George Tzotzos 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi everybody, I’m trying to produce images of a protein for publication. However, using the publication presets, I get jagged edges in ribbons/helices. Is there a way to set up the anti aliasing. Thank you in advance for any suggestions Regards George

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match-align using just selected protein areas ?
by Marek Maly 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible in Chimera align two proteins let say protein A and protein B, but just using selected subsequences A_sel, B_sel (i.e. just the selected subsequences are going to be optimally matched and the rest of both proteins is not involved in the matching process/calculation) ? Thank you in advance ! Best wishes, Marek -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Re: [Chimera-users] surface failures
by Elaine Meng 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Julian Marzi wrote: > Dear Eric, > I tryed the command surfcat c1 and surfcat c1 :.1 & ~:ohx, but this will also not work on my mac... The mac show for short time an activity, but nothing happens. The comand from Elaine molmap :.1&~:ohx 5 worked and it looks great! Is there also a possibility to select a part of the sequence in the "surface" (molmap) presentation to show it in an other color? I select one part on the 25S-rRNa in green, but the molmap view covers it in grey and if I make a higher transparency, the selected part will be seen. But it would be better, if the selected part is colored in the molmap view. This would allow the marked spot directly recognize without transparency. If there is an answer for my question, please let it me know. If not, is not bad, you two have helped me incredibly much. > Thank you so much > Regards > Julian Hi Julian, The "molmap" surface can be colored to match atoms with the Color Zone tool. The atoms can be hidden, it is just a step to the surface coloring that you want. After you color some atoms (for example, some part of the RNA that you selected) you can also color the part of the surface that is near the currently selected atoms with Color Zone (in menu under Tools... Depiction). Color Zone is mentioned along with molmap in #3 in the surface workarounds page: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/colorzone/colorzo…> Also, you could color the molmap surface any overall color you want first, it doesn't have to be the default grayish color. You could just click the color square on the Volume Viewer tool (that appears when you create the molmap surface) and then use the Color Editor, or you can select the surface directly in the main window and use the Actions... Color menu. I hope this helps! P.S. please send chimera questions to the chimera-users address instead of our individual addresses (to allow others to see the Q & A) - thanks! Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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surface failures
by Julian Marzi 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

Dear Chimera, I try to show the surface of the 60S in yeast (PDB: 3O5H), but it doesn't work. Mscalc returned code 11 is shown. If I split the 60S every chain show the surface except the first strain (25S). How can I show the surface from the first chain? Thank you very much Best regards Julian Marzi

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Editing named selections
by Yasser Almeida Hernández 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hi all, It is possible to edit (rename, remove, etc.) named selections? Regards Yasser -- Yasser Almeida Hernández, MSc. Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) System Biology Department 216 St. & 15th Ave, Siboney, Playa P.O.Box 16040, Havana 11600 CUBA Phone: (+53-7) 214-3127 almeida(a)cim.sld.cu --------------------------------------------------- [http://5.cim.co.cu/cim.gif]

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Visualizing trajectory
by Yasser Almeida Hernández 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hi all, I have a MD trajectory from GROMACS and I want to visualize it in Chimera using MD Movie tool. My protein move inside the water box. How I cant fix the protein to see the its dynamics in each frame? I have used VMD for this task, using the RMSD trajectory calculator plugin. Here the trajectory is loaded and then press the Align button. The protein coordinates in each frame is superposed on those from the first frame. Whith this the protein stay in a fixed position. It is this possible in Chimera? On the other hand, It is possible load the trajectory just by every N frames? I have a trajectory with 2 000 000 of frames, and I want to load the trajectory every 100 frames. Thanks in advance Yasser -- Yasser Almeida Hernández, MSc. Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) System Biology Department 216 St. & 15th Ave, Siboney, Playa P.O.Box 16040, Havana 11600 CUBA Phone: (+53-7) 214-3127 almeida(a)cim.sld.cu --------------------------------------------------- [http://5.cim.co.cu/cim.gif]

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To get CHIMERA to work: "with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card"
by Peter Engelhardt 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Dear Chimera, Sorry - Specification - We naturally meant: CHIMERA to WORK with "stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" > Dear Chimera, > > We recently got a mail on instruction to install correct parameters > to get VMD-L to work: > > "vmd-l: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" > > Now we ask, do you have any suggestions to get "Samsung "3D" LCD and > quadro card" and to get CHIMERA work not only for: > > 1. Linux (Ubuntu) with "quadro card" > > but also and on: > > 2. MacPro/Mavericks with "a quadro card" > > We thank you in advance > > Cheers > Peter et al. > > Quoting John Stone <johns(a)ks.uiuc.edu>: > > [Hide Quoted Text] > Carlos, > Ah, I had missed the startup message you included when I read > your first note. All of the VMD stereo modes other than "QuadBuffered" > are implemented by rendering code within VMD itself, and they do not > depend on the graphics driver or any special hardware capabilities. > So, the fact that you are able to use the "SideBySide" or other modes > just indicates that your TV can work with the VMD-supplied mode, but > that's separate from the issue of having the Quadro's stereo sync and > other features working. > > The VMD "QuadBuffered" stereo mode relies entirely on the GPU and > its driver for stereoscopic display. This is the best mode to use > if you want the IR or RF stereo emitter to remain in proper sync with > the displayed images, but it requires that the GPU drivers and windowing > system be configured correctly, and that the GPU and driver will actually > support the target display. If you're running on Linux, then the thing > to do is to check the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for > the word "Stereo". Here's an example of the kinds of output you're looking > for, as seen on a couple of our machines: > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" > > Here's a machine that has stereo enabled: > (II) Setting vga for screen 0. > (II) Setting vga for screen 1. > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "2560x1600 +0+0" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0)) > does not support NVIDIA > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): 3D Vision stereo. > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at > PCI:8:0:0 (GPU-0) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 6291456 kBytes > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.10.4a.00.01 > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro > 7000 at PCI:8:0:0 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0) > (boot, connected) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): Internal > Dual Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): 330.0 > MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: Internal Single Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges > from the EDID for display > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): device Samsung SyncMaster > (DFP-0) (Using EDID frequencies > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): has been enabled on all display devices.) > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): "2560x1600+0+0" > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be > 2560 x 1600 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (101, 101); computed from > "UseEdidDpi" X config > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): option > (**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): USB IR emitter stereo requested > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): For stereo to work with Xinerama, > stereo X configuration > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): option should be enabled on all > X screens in the X server. > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Stereo is disabled on one (or > more) X screens, while > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Xinerama is enabled. Stereo > visuals will not be > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): available. > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): OpenGL stereo forced > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) > supports NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at > PCI:9:0:0 (GPU-1) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Memory: 6291456 kBytes > > > Here's a machine that has stereo disabled currently: > (II) Setting vga for screen 0. > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Stereo" "0" > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-3" > (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Stereo disabled by request > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select > +2560+520, DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0, > DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-3: > nvidia-auto-select +1920+0" > (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) > supports NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (HP ZR30w (DFP-3)) does not > support NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro K6000 (GK110BGL) > at PCI:131:0:0 (GPU-0) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 12582912 kBytes > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.80.16.00.01 > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro > K6000 at PCI:131:0:0 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0) (boot, connected) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-2 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): HP ZR30w (DFP-3) (connected) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-4 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-5 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz > maximum pixel clo > -- ___________________________________________________________ Peter Engelhardt, PhD, docent Adjunct Professor in Molecular Genetics Unit of Molecular Electron Tomography Department of Pathology Haartman Institute P.O.Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: Peter.Engelhardt(a)Helsinki.Fi URL: http://www.lce.hut.fi/~engelhar/ Department of Pathology lab. tel: (+358-9)-19126729, 19126442 EM-lab, Tel: (+358-9)-19126261 Fax: (+358-9)-19126700 (Dept. of Pathology) Nanomicroscopy Center, Department of Applied Physics Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Puumiehenkuja 2, FI02150 Espoo Finland Mobil: +358-400193342 Home address: Lindstedstvägen 1 B 7 FIN-02700 Grankulla, Finland Home Tel: +358400193342

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CHIMERA: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card
by Peter Engelhardt 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Sorry2 for a typo - now corrected: Dear Chimera, We recently got a mail on instruction to install correct parameters to get VMD-L to work: "vmd-l: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" Now we ask, do you have any suggestions to get "Samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" to work - not only for: 1. Linux (Ubuntu) with "quadro card" but also and on: 2. MacPro/Mavericks with "a quadro card" We thank you in advance Cheers Peter et al. Quoting John Stone <johns(a)ks.uiuc.edu>: [Hide Quoted Text] Carlos, Ah, I had missed the startup message you included when I read your first note. All of the VMD stereo modes other than "QuadBuffered" are implemented by rendering code within VMD itself, and they do not depend on the graphics driver or any special hardware capabilities. So, the fact that you are able to use the "SideBySide" or other modes just indicates that your TV can work with the VMD-supplied mode, but that's separate from the issue of having the Quadro's stereo sync and other features working. The VMD "QuadBuffered" stereo mode relies entirely on the GPU and its driver for stereoscopic display. This is the best mode to use if you want the IR or RF stereo emitter to remain in proper sync with the displayed images, but it requires that the GPU drivers and windowing system be configured correctly, and that the GPU and driver will actually support the target display. If you're running on Linux, then the thing to do is to check the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for the word "Stereo". Here's an example of the kinds of output you're looking for, as seen on a couple of our machines: (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" Here's a machine that has stereo enabled: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Setting vga for screen 1. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "2560x1600 +0+0" (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0)) does not support NVIDIA (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): 3D Vision stereo. (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at PCI:8:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 6291456 kBytes (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.10.4a.00.01 (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro 7000 at PCI:8:0:0 (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0) (boot, connected) (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link TMDS (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: Internal Single Link TMDS (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for display (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): device Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0) (Using EDID frequencies (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): has been enabled on all display devices.) (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): "2560x1600+0+0" (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2560 x 1600 (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (101, 101); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): option (**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): USB IR emitter stereo requested (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): For stereo to work with Xinerama, stereo X configuration (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): option should be enabled on all X screens in the X server. (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Stereo is disabled on one (or more) X screens, while (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Xinerama is enabled. Stereo visuals will not be (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): available. (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): OpenGL stereo forced (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Enabling 2D acceleration (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) supports NVIDIA 3D Vision (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): stereo. (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at PCI:9:0:0 (GPU-1) (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Memory: 6291456 kBytes Here's a machine that has stereo disabled currently: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Stereo" "0" (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-3" (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Stereo disabled by request (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +2560+520, DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0, DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-3: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0" (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) supports NVIDIA 3D Vision (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (HP ZR30w (DFP-3)) does not support NVIDIA 3D Vision (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro K6000 (GK110BGL) at PCI:131:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 12582912 kBytes (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.80.16.00.01 (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro K6000 at PCI:131:0:0 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0) (boot, connected) (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-2 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): HP ZR30w (DFP-3) (connected) (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-4 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-5 (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link TMDS (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clo On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 08:06:04AM -0500, Carlos Simmerling wrote: Hi John, thanks for the quick reply. I included VMD's output in my original post- yes, it says stereo, and I can indeed get VMD to do stereo if I pick side by side mode in VMD. I'm using win 7 pro (though I'd upgrade to win 8 if I knew that would solve the problem). The TV is HDMI only, unfortunately. The quadro card has only DVI outputs, so I'm using a DVI to HDMI cable. I'm hoping to find a way to do quad buffered stereo at a reasonable refresh rate. Carlos On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:53 PM, John Stone <johns(a)ks.uiuc.edu> wrote: Hi Carlos, I'm not familiar with the TV you're using, but I can say a few things that are broadly true of a wide range of HDTVs that support stereo that may also apply in your case. If a TV has a DVI input (unlikely), then one is sometimes able to use it just like any other stereo display. If the TV uses HDMI, then the options for stereo will depend somewhat on which operating system the computer is running what video card, and what driver are being used. In regards to the NVIDIA GPUs, the "Quadro" GPUs have the best support for stereoscopic display across all OS platforms. Last I knew however, HDTVs are considered a special case, and at least on the Windows platform there was/is a special driver that one had to use to allow stereoscopic display to an HDTV over HDMI (3DTV Play) for games and the like: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dtv-play-overview.html I just looked up the NVIDIA web site regarding stereoscopic display, and they have clearly rewritten much of it since the last time I looked: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-professional-users.html I would expect that the Quadro would have a good chance of working with a 3D HDTV, but you will likely have to set the NVIDIA driver's stereo mode to one that your TV agrees with. If you tell me which OS you're running, we can work through a few of the details there. The most important thing is to see if VMD lists "STEREO" during the OpenGL feature startup messages that it prints to the text console. Cheers, John Stone vmd(a)ks.uiuc.edu On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:25:25PM -0500, Carlos Simmerling wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to optimize my stereo viewing. I have windows 7 pro, a quadro fx-4600 and a samsung UN60F8000BF LCD TV (http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN60F8000BFXZA) that came with active stereo glasses. I also have an old stereographics emitter with 3-pin DIN connector that plugs into my quadro card, along with some stereographics glasses. VMD tells me this at startup: Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 4600/PCIe/SSE2 Info) Features: STENCIL STEREO MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF) So, what I need help with is optimizing my 3D viewing. So far I can only get this setup to work when I select side by side 3D in VMD, and on the TV I also select side by side and use the glasses that came with it. It's ok, but the glasses are cheap and there's some bleed through, and of course I lose resolution. I suspect I'd be better off using the emitter and the expensive SG glasses. When I plug in the emitter, the red light goes on so it seems to be working. If I select stereo/quadbuffered in VMD, it looks like it's doing the right thing, but using the SG glasses doesn't seem to sync properly. A few other questions: 1) do the settings in the Nvidia control panel under "manage 3D settings" impact VMD? In there you can choose the 3D mode, antialiasing, etc. I don't know if that controls the openGL part. 2) Is it possible to send a >60HZ signal to these screens? It claims it is 240Hz, but I don't know if that's internal interpolation or accepts inputs >60Hz. thanks! -- NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349 http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ -- NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349 http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ -- -- ___________________________________________________________ Peter Engelhardt, PhD, docent Adjunct Professor in Molecular Genetics Unit of Molecular Electron Tomography Department of Pathology Haartman Institute P.O.Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: Peter.Engelhardt(a)Helsinki.Fi URL: http://www.lce.hut.fi/~engelhar/ Department of Pathology lab. tel: (+358-9)-19126729, 19126442 EM-lab, Tel: (+358-9)-19126261 Fax: (+358-9)-19126700 (Dept. of Pathology) Nanomicroscopy Center, Department of Applied Physics Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Puumiehenkuja 2, FI02150 Espoo Finland Mobil: +358-400193342 Home address: Lindstedstvägen 1 B 7 FIN-02700 Grankulla, Finland Home Tel: +358400193342

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CHIMERA: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card
by Peter Engelhardt 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Sorry for the earlier mail the body text was not correct here a new mail with the original vmd-l mail included (see below) Dear Chimera, We recently got a mail on instruction to install correct parameters to get VMD-L to work: "vmd-l: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" Now we ask, do you have any suggestion how to get "Samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card not to work - not only for: 1. Linux (Ubuntu) with "quadro card" but also and on: 2. MacPro/Mavericks with "a quadro card" We thank you in advance Cheers Peter et al. Quoting John Stone <johns(a)ks.uiuc.edu>: > Carlos, > Ah, I had missed the startup message you included when I read > your first note. All of the VMD stereo modes other than "QuadBuffered" > are implemented by rendering code within VMD itself, and they do not > depend on the graphics driver or any special hardware capabilities. > So, the fact that you are able to use the "SideBySide" or other modes > just indicates that your TV can work with the VMD-supplied mode, but > that's separate from the issue of having the Quadro's stereo sync and > other features working. > > The VMD "QuadBuffered" stereo mode relies entirely on the GPU and > its driver for stereoscopic display. This is the best mode to use > if you want the IR or RF stereo emitter to remain in proper sync with > the displayed images, but it requires that the GPU drivers and windowing > system be configured correctly, and that the GPU and driver will actually > support the target display. If you're running on Linux, then the thing > to do is to check the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for > the word "Stereo". Here's an example of the kinds of output you're looking > for, as seen on a couple of our machines: > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" > > Here's a machine that has stereo enabled: > (II) Setting vga for screen 0. > (II) Setting vga for screen 1. > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "2560x1600 +0+0" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0)) > does not support NVIDIA > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): 3D Vision stereo. > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at > PCI:8:0:0 (GPU-0) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 6291456 kBytes > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 70.10.4a.00.01 > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro > 7000 at PCI:8:0:0 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0) > (boot, connected) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): Internal > Dual Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): 330.0 > MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: Internal Single Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges > from the EDID for display > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): device Samsung SyncMaster > (DFP-0) (Using EDID frequencies > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): has been enabled on all display devices.) > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): "2560x1600+0+0" > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be > 2560 x 1600 > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (101, 101); computed from > "UseEdidDpi" X config > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): option > (**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "Stereo" "10" > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "ForceStereoFlipping" "true" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): USB IR emitter stereo requested > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): For stereo to work with Xinerama, > stereo X configuration > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): option should be enabled on all > X screens in the X server. > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Stereo is disabled on one (or > more) X screens, while > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Xinerama is enabled. Stereo > visuals will not be > (WW) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): available. > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): OpenGL stereo forced > (**) NVIDIA(1): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > (**) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) > supports NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU Quadro 7000 (GF110GL) at > PCI:9:0:0 (GPU-1) > (--) Feb 17 16:21:29 NVIDIA(1): Memory: 6291456 kBytes > > > > > > > Here's a machine that has stereo disabled currently: > (II) Setting vga for screen 0. > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Stereo" "0" > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-3" > (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Stereo disabled by request > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select > +2560+520, DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0, > DFP-3: 2560x1600 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-3: > nvidia-auto-select +1920+0" > (**) Feb 17 17:20:19 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (Acer HN274H (DFP-0)) > supports NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Display (HP ZR30w (DFP-3)) does not > support NVIDIA 3D Vision > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): stereo. > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro K6000 (GK110BGL) > at PCI:131:0:0 (GPU-0) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 12582912 kBytes > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.80.16.00.01 > (II) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on Quadro > K6000 at PCI:131:0:0 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0) (boot, connected) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-1 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-2 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): HP ZR30w (DFP-3) (connected) > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-4 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): DFP-5 > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link TMDS > (--) Feb 17 17:20:21 NVIDIA(0): Acer HN274H (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz > maximum pixel clo > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 08:06:04AM -0500, Carlos Simmerling wrote: >> Hi John, >> thanks for the quick reply. >> I included VMD's output in my original post- yes, it says stereo, and >> I can indeed get VMD to do stereo if I pick side by side mode in VMD. >> I'm using win 7 pro (though I'd upgrade to win 8 if I knew that would >> solve the problem). The TV is HDMI only, unfortunately. The quadro >> card has only DVI outputs, so I'm using a DVI to HDMI cable. >> >> I'm hoping to find a way to do quad buffered stereo at a reasonable >> refresh rate. >> Carlos >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:53 PM, John Stone <johns(a)ks.uiuc.edu> wrote: >> > Hi Carlos, >> > I'm not familiar with the TV you're using, but I can say a few >> > things that are broadly true of a wide range of HDTVs that support >> > stereo that may also apply in your case. >> > >> > If a TV has a DVI input (unlikely), then one is sometimes able to use it >> > just like any other stereo display. >> > >> > If the TV uses HDMI, then the options for stereo will depend >> > somewhat on which operating system the computer is running what >> > video card, and what driver are being used. >> > >> > In regards to the NVIDIA GPUs, the "Quadro" GPUs have the best support >> > for stereoscopic display across all OS platforms. Last I knew however, >> > HDTVs are considered a special case, and at least on the Windows platform >> > there was/is a special driver that one had to use to allow stereoscopic >> > display to an HDTV over HDMI (3DTV Play) for games and the like: >> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dtv-play-overview.html >> > >> > I just looked up the NVIDIA web site regarding stereoscopic display, >> > and they have clearly rewritten much of it since the last time I looked: >> > http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-professional-users.html >> > >> > I would expect that the Quadro would have a good chance of working with >> > a 3D HDTV, but you will likely have to set the NVIDIA driver's stereo >> > mode to one that your TV agrees with. If you tell me which OS >> > you're running, we can work through a few of the details there. >> > The most important thing is to see if VMD lists "STEREO" during the >> > OpenGL feature startup messages that it prints to the text console. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > John Stone >> > vmd(a)ks.uiuc.edu >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:25:25PM -0500, Carlos Simmerling wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to optimize my stereo viewing. >> >> I have windows 7 pro, a quadro fx-4600 and a samsung UN60F8000BF LCD >> >> TV (http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN60F8000BFXZA) that came with >> >> active stereo glasses. I also have an old stereographics emitter with >> >> 3-pin DIN connector that plugs into my quadro card, along with some >> >> stereographics glasses. VMD tells me this at startup: >> >> Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 4600/PCIe/SSE2 >> >> Info) Features: STENCIL STEREO MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVF) >> >> >> >> So, what I need help with is optimizing my 3D viewing. So far I can >> >> only get this setup to work when I select side by side 3D in VMD, and >> >> on the TV I also select side by side and use the glasses that came >> >> with it. It's ok, but the glasses are cheap and there's some bleed >> >> through, and of course I lose resolution. >> >> >> >> I suspect I'd be better off using the emitter and the expensive SG >> >> glasses. When I plug in the emitter, the red light goes on so it seems >> >> to be working. If I select stereo/quadbuffered in VMD, it looks like >> >> it's doing the right thing, but using the SG glasses doesn't seem to >> >> sync properly. >> >> >> >> A few other questions: >> >> 1) do the settings in the Nvidia control panel under "manage 3D >> >> settings" impact VMD? In there you can choose the 3D mode, >> >> antialiasing, etc. I don't know if that controls the openGL part. >> >> 2) Is it possible to send a >60HZ signal to these screens? It claims >> >> it is 240Hz, but I don't know if that's internal interpolation or >> >> accepts inputs >60Hz. >> >> >> >> thanks! >> > >> > -- >> > NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics >> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology >> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 >> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349 >> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ > > -- > NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349 > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ -- ___________________________________________________________ Peter Engelhardt, PhD, docent Adjunct Professor in Molecular Genetics Unit of Molecular Electron Tomography Department of Pathology Haartman Institute P.O.Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: Peter.Engelhardt(a)Helsinki.Fi URL: http://www.lce.hut.fi/~engelhar/ Department of Pathology lab. tel: (+358-9)-19126729, 19126442 EM-lab, Tel: (+358-9)-19126261 Fax: (+358-9)-19126700 (Dept. of Pathology) Nanomicroscopy Center, Department of Applied Physics Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Puumiehenkuja 2, FI02150 Espoo Finland Mobil: +358-400193342 Home address: Lindstedstvägen 1 B 7 FIN-02700 Grankulla, Finland Home Tel: +358400193342

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 5
by Peter Engelhardt 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Dear Chimera, We recently got a mail on instruction to install correct parameters to get VMD-L to work: "vmd-l: help with stereo viz on new samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card" Now we ask, do you have any suggestion how to get "Samsung "3D" LCD and quadro card not to work - not only for: 1. Linux (Ubuntu) with "quadro card" but also and on: 2. MacPro/Mavericks with "a quadro card" We thank you in advance Cheers Peter et al. Quoting chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu: > Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to > chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. surface failures (Julian Marzi) > 2. Re: surface failures (Elaine Meng) > 3. Area/Volume from Web not working (Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:31:46 +0100 > From: Julian Marzi <julian.marzi(a)googlemail.com> > To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > Subject: [Chimera-users] surface failures > Message-ID: <F372C2E9-7034-47D3-B94A-CBE2D6DEF470(a)googlemail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Dear Chimera, > > I try to show the surface of the 60S in yeast (PDB: 3O5H), but it > doesn't work. Mscalc returned code 11 is shown. If I split the 60S > every chain show the surface except the first strain (25S). How can > I show the surface from the first chain? > > Thank you very much > > Best regards > > Julian Marzi > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:20:22 -0800 > From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > To: Julian Marzi <julian.marzi(a)googlemail.com> > Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] surface failures > Message-ID: <E468C80B-D21F-40B7-A569-B66126212530(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Dear Julian, > The surface failure is a numerical thing that may differ on > different machines, and there is not a consistent recipe for how to > solve the problem. Please see this page on possible solutions, > including showing some alternative types of surface instead of a > "molecular" surface: > > <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html> > > 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 Mar 4, 2014, at 3:31 AM, Julian Marzi <julian.marzi(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Chimera, >> I try to show the surface of the 60S in yeast (PDB: 3O5H), but it >> doesn't work. Mscalc returned code 11 is shown. If I split the 60S >> every chain show the surface except the first strain (25S). How can >> I show the surface from the first chain? >> Thank you very much >> Best regards >> Julian Marzi > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:48:26 +0000 > From: "Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <darrellh(a)niaid.nih.gov> > To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: [Chimera-users] Area/Volume from Web not working > Message-ID: <CF3E3B45.E956%darrellh(a)niaid.nih.gov> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Chimera friends, > > I'm trying to use "Area/Volume from Web", but I keep getting an > error about how the server is not giving the expected output. > > I'm using build 39297. > > Any hints? > > Thanks, > Darrell > > -- > Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. > Section Head, Computational Biology > Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) > OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH > > 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 > Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 > Office: 301-402-0095 > Mobile: 301-758-3559 > Web: BCBB Home > Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> > Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> > > Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its > attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. > It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended > recipient. 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Area/Volume from Web not working
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi Chimera friends, I'm trying to use "Area/Volume from Web", but I keep getting an error about how the server is not giving the expected output. I'm using build 39297. Any hints? Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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superimposition of DNA moleucles
by Urszula Uciechowska 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Dear chimera users, I need to supeimpose a DNA molecule DNA-1.pdb into the protein-DNA complex. I was trying to do this using Mach Maker, but I am getting errors. I am not sure if I can do it using this tool and how should I do it. Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions... best regards Urszula ----------------------------------------- Ta wiadomość została wysłana z serwera Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego http://www.ug.edu.pl/

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exported as PDB, but structure is not the same upon reopening
by Stern, Alexander Thomas 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hello, I am attempting to attach a covalent (cysteine modifying) ligand to my protein, and I will later be optimizing/minimizing in another program. I opened my structure in Chimera, loaded the ligands, moved them roughly into place, and merged the models. I then added the bonds and exported the file as a pdb. Upon reopening that very same pdb in Chimera, the bonds I made are gone (however, the ligands are in the position I placed them in). Curious to understand what I am doing incorrectly here. Alex The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

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Building protein-protein complex with known interacting residues
by fei.wu＠chem.utah.edu 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Dear Chimera Team, I am studying the interactions between three enzymes with their biological assembly structures available in PDB. Using mass spectrometry, I have been able to identify interfacial residues, and what I want to do is build up a super complex (made of the three proteins) in a desired way that these proteins are oriented by interactions between experimentally-determined residues. Would you please tell me that, if I can make or draw this in chimera? And I am also trying to compare experimentally-proposed complex structure with simulated structure. Is there a specific way in chimera to simulate interactions between two or more proteins? I found that when I opened multiple protein files in one session, chimera would gave me a complex of these proteins (not always true with different pdb files). Is this an automatic generation of simulated protein complexes or just a superimposition of part of proteins? Thanks, Fei -- Fei Wu, Ph.D. candidate Shelley D. Minteer Group Chemistry Department University of Utah Phone: 385-234-0603 Email: fei.wu(a)chem.utah.edu

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Expanding EMdatabank map to full map
by Jason C Porta 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Greetings, I am searching for a way to take a map from the EMdatabank which is just a cut-out of an icosahedral asymmetric and generate the full map via the sym operators. I see there are similar options for generating sym-related models, but is there a way to do this for a section of a map in Chimera? Many thanks, Jason P

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pocket cavity file produced by rdock
by Fabian Glaser 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Hi all, I am trying to upload and examine the cavity file produced by the rbcavity program from rdock, an open source docking program. There are both a binary form and a regular file "RBT FFT GRID" but I am not able to upload or visualize them. Can you please help me to do it? Files are attached. Thanks a lot, Fabian

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Using sym command to generate icosahedral cage
by Yen-Ting Lai 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi, I noticed that the sym command can be used to generate icosahedral symmetry, but it requires that the molecule to be oriented in specific ways (222, 2n5, n25, ...), which requires aligning the symmetry axes to the X, Y or Z axes. I am wondering if there is a way to specify the symmetries axes by vectors (instead of aligning them to the three principal axes) and then use sym command to generate the whole icosahedral cage? Yen

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Chimera hardware resources
by Derrick Smith 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Hi Chimera users, I've been working with what are probably some pretty big files (400 MB - 3 GB) for ultramicrotomed sections of holograms. I've trimmed the volume down as well as I can while keeping it large enough to see what we ultimately were aiming for. However, I am running into some hardware resource issues. None of our computers in the lab can handle it, so I've been using my gaming rig at home to do it. I run a server off it also, so have some decent hardware to work with, but I cannot figure out how to reallocate the resources that Chimera seems to default to. I have 64 GB of system RAM available, and after recording 1-2 movies of rotations or a flythrough of clippings etc. Chimera has never used more than 1.5 GB. My graphics card has 4 GB. After filtering and post-processing, before any rotation or video capturing, the vid card has used around 2 GB already. During video capture, depending on if I'm rotating or clipping (clipping uses up a lot more faster), the vid card memory slowly gets eaten up, eventually crashing Chimera altogether. I can usually only get about 800-1000 frames before this happens on a smaller file (400 MB), and usually can't get through a whole 10s, or 250 framed, video on one of the larger files. I have pretty limited experience with this program, so I'm hoping it's a simple settings or otherwise fix I've overlooked. Any suggestions on this? Best, Derrick -- Derrick Smith Drexel University Soft Materials Group Philadelphia PA 19104 dms348(a)drexel.edu http://www.mse.drexel.edu/srg/

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Receptor-Ligand bonding at the LBP
by Graziella Portelli 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

To whom it may concern I would like to ask if there is a function where the bonds with which the ligand binds inside the LBP of the receptor would be visualised, or whether one has to search the amino acids involved in binding with the ligand one by one? I thank you in advance for your time Graziella Portelli

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Symmetry-aware segmentation?
by Joel Meyerson 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Is it possible for Chimera to segment with an awareness of symmetry, such that the collection of segments in the asymmetric units are identical? For example, a molecule with C2 symmetry would have two copies of each segment. Also, is it possible to select a segment and then have Chimera further sub-divide that segment into additional segments? Thanks, Joel

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when will NoResidueRotamersError be raised?
by Xiao-Bo Li 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

I would like to mutate one residue to another. So far, the only way I found is to use the rotamers of the other residues on the original. I'm using chimera's python script. I would like to know if the NoResidueRotamersError will only be raised for residues that don't have rotamers like GLY. If not, then how can I replace the amino acid residue that I want to mutate? I am using the "getRotamers" function, which returns this error. XBL

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Problem in using BondRot
by amin＠imtech.res.in 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Dear Chimera users, I am trying to write a script to change the phi and psi angle of a peptide. I am trying to adapt the code from http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2005-September/000456.html . I am trying to invert the angles so I am multiplying the angles by -1. My code is import chimera from chimera import selection, UserError, BondRot, replyobj opened = chimera.openModels.open('fun.pdb') mol = opened[0] RES_LIST = mol.residues for res in mol.residues: b = str(res.phi) if b != 'None': c = -1*float(b) atomsMap = res.atomsMap N = atomsMap['N'][0] CA = atomsMap['CA'][0] C = atomsMap['C'][0] CAmap = CA.bondsMap phiBond = CAmap[N] psiBond = CAmap[C] phiAnchor = N psiAnchor = CA phi = BondRot(phiBond) phi.setAngle(c, phiAnchor) When I run this script i get the error phi.setAngle(c, phiAnchor) AttributeError: '_molecule.BondRot' object has no attribute 'setAngle' Can someone please help me with this? Warm regards. Amin.

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un-subscribe
by Ted Holman 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

hi there i made a mistake and signed up for the email questions on chimera to be copied to me. i tried to un-subscribe but it did not work. can you tell me how to do this? thanks ted ___ Ted Holman, Ph.D. Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Department 250 PSB, Thimann Receiving University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 831-459-5884 Email: holman(a)ucsc.edu

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vrml lighting
by Dougherty, Matthew T 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

I have a multiple vrml models that vary by scale. 1, 10 & 100 I notice the lighting significantly drops off as the scale increases. When I have another model, say PDB, that is in approximate relation (ie, viewable in regards to the volume size similar to the vrml files volumes); the PDB file looks good regardless of size (eg, tRNA or ribosome). I can increase the brightness to compensate (10-20) but it washes out the PDB models when brightness goes beyond 2. is the lighting handled differently between these different types of models? Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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superimposing two structures based on a specific selection
by David Martin 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Chimera 1.8 on Windows I have been trying to align (superimpose) models based on a specific conserved region. Unfortunately Chimera doesn't seem to do what the documentation claims it does. I run (example): match #0:5-15@CA,20-30@CA #1: 5-15@CA,20-30@CA and get an RMSD calculation (more on this below), but no movement of the model occurs. I specify 'move true show true' as options. Still no movement but I have a transformation matrix. Unfortunately this is not in a form that can be understood by Transform Coordinates. How do I persuade my structures to superimpose on the specific atoms? The RMSD calculation appears to be broken. If I take the command rmsd #0:5-15@CA,20-30@CA #1: 5-15@CA,20-30@CA then I will get a number If I then run rmsd #0:5-15@CA,20-30@CA #1: 5-15@CA,21-31@CA I get exactly the same number. In fact, if I specify atom sets of different sizes (as long as it is not the first block) then I continue to get exactly the same number rmsd #0:5-15@CA,20-30@CA #1: 5-15@CA,20-35@CA This should fail but doesn't Have I completely misunderstood what Chimera should be doing here? ..d The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

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Query on introducing an external protein
by Aditya Padhi 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Dear All, I want to place a protein molecule (appx. 20 kDa in size) into a viral capsid loop region which is about 7 amino acid long. What I want to do is to remove the 5 amino acids out from the loop region and place the 20 kDa protein, so that the loop region can accommodate the 20 kDa protein. I am finding it difficult as the co-ordinates of both the molecules are different. Although, this is not related to MD simulation or associated stuff, it would be grateful if I can get some suggestions. Thanking you, Regards Aditya.

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Query on introducing a protein
by Aditya Padhi 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Dear All, I want to place a protein molecule (appx. 20 kDa in size) into a viral capsid loop region which is about 7 amino acid long. What I want to do is to remove the 5 amino acids out from the loop region and place the 20 kDa protein, so that the loop region can accommodate the 20 kDa protein. I am finding it difficult as the co-ordinates of both the molecules are different. Although, this is not related to MD simulation or associated stuff, it would be grateful if I can get some suggestions. Thanking you, Regards Aditya.

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Question about "Color Zone" and "Render by Attribute"
by Helge Paternoga 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello, I have a question regarding the colouring of surfaces and their caps. I am trying to recreate the colouring by hydrophobicity on capped surfaces as shown in (on the right side): http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/2dlabels/2dlabels.… So first I've opened the "Render by Attribute" dialog and assigned "kdHydrophobicity". This only coloured the surface and not the surface cap though. I am assuming this is done by "Color Zone"? Indeed this colours the surface cap but I have one problem: The colouring of the surface is different between "Render by Attribute" and "Color Zone" and I don't know why. The differences are small but I would like to know which one is more accurate (intuitively I would say the one from "Render by Attribute"). I've played around with the radius of "Color Zone" but this doesn't achieve the same colouring as "Render by Attribute". So my question is: How can I achieve the same surface colouring by "Color Zone" as in "Render by Attribute"? Does it have something to to with "bondzone" or the hierachy in which the atoms apply their respective colour in "Color Zone"? Thanks for reading! Helge

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Question about opening mrc and PDB files
by Min Woo Sung 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi, This is Min Woo Sung from Texas A&M University. I was using Chimera to see EM structure(.mrc file) and wanted to put a PDB file to fit that in EM map. I'm wondering if I can use Chimera to analyze the volume, size or domains of these two files for the purpose of analysis. I saw one PDB file seemed much bigger that EM map when I opened it in Chimera. Do I have to normalize the size of any files? If so, how can I do that? Any suggests would greatly appreciated. Best regard, Min Woo Sung

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Creating output with IDATM naming
by Nikolay Igorovich Rodionov 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi, Does anyone know a way to rename all of the atom names in a PDB file to their IDATM types, so that a new PDB file can be generated with the IDATM naming scheme? Best, Nikolay Rodionov

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Zoom problem?
by Damien Larivière 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Dear all, I try to zoom in the scene, to get very close to my model shown here below. I cannot be closer than in the image below, the zooming function is at its maximum. When zooming, I get the error message : /refocus to continue scaling/ I do not know whether it is a bug or something I'm doing wrong. Thanks for your help, Damien

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Need help in Coulombic surface coloring
by Haresh Tukaram More 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hi, I tried to get the Coulombic surface coloring for one of the protein that I modified by removing certain residue at the C-termini and then mutated some residues to the non-natural amino acid 5,5,5-trifluoroleucine using Swisssidechin option. I am getting this error which I am not able to understand. Disabled GPU programs because a graphics driver bug was encountered while compiling a vertex shader. #0, chain A: COMP #0, chain B: COMP #0, chain C: COMP #0, chain D: COMP #0, chain E: COMP C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.8.1\bin\mscalc.exe 1.400000 2.000000 1 MSMSLIB 1.3 started on Local PC Copyright M.F. Sanner (March 2000) Compilation flags Surface CC TFLE.pdb, category main, probe radius 1.4, vertex density 2 22 connected surface components Total solvent excluded surface area = 10393.6 component areas = 8599.46, 624.842, 225.9, 216.153, 81.7059, 54.8894, 54.839, 48.0624, 45.9525, 43.9588, 41.5667, 39.1204, 38.7549, 37.0513, 35.5418, 33.6712, 32.9167, 28.9293, 27.8262, 27.7523, 27.7319, 26.9429 Total solvent accessible surface area = 10372 component areas = 9971.67, 202.012, 92.2225, 70.7414, 13.8165, 4.12717, 3.62753, 3.24856, 2.597, 1.1866, 1.72654, 1.33137, 1.08737, 0.962375, 0.64812, 0.231422, 0.40193, 0.120068, 0.0570046, 0.0515394, 0.0674059, 0.0311705 No SEQRES records for combination (#-2147483648.-2147483648) chain A; guessing terminii instead No SEQRES records for combination (#-2147483648.-2147483648) chain B; guessing terminii instead No SEQRES records for combination (#-2147483648.-2147483648) chain C; guessing terminii instead No SEQRES records for combination (#-2147483648.-2147483648) chain D; guessing terminii instead No SEQRES records for combination (#-2147483648.-2147483648) chain E; guessing terminii instead Chain-initial residues that are actual N terminii: #-2147483648.-2147483648 MET 27.A, #-2147483648.-2147483648 MET 27.B, #-2147483648.-2147483648 MET 27.C, #-2147483648.-2147483648 MET 27.D, #-2147483648.-2147483648 MET 27.E Chain-initial residues that are not actual N terminii: Chain-final residues that are actual C terminii: #-2147483648.-2147483648 TFLE 67.A, #-2147483648.-2147483648 TFLE 67.B, #-2147483648.-2147483648 TFLE 67.C, #-2147483648.-2147483648 TFLE 67.D, #-2147483648.-2147483648 TFLE 67.E Chain-final residues that are not actual C terminii: 424 hydrogen bonds Hydrogens added Charge model: AMBER ff12SB Assigning partial charges to residue TFLE+TFLE (net charge +0) with am1-bcc method Running ANTECHAMBER command: C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/bin\antechamber -ek qm_theory='AM1', -i c:\users\haresh~1.pol\appdata\local\temp\tmpipssqi\ante.in.mol2 -fi mol2 -o c:\users\haresh~1.pol\appdata\local\temp\tmpipssqi\ante.out.mol2 -fo mol2 -c bcc -nc 0 -j 5 -s 2 (TFLE+TFLE) Cannot automatically determine charges for residue TFLE+TFLE; Run AddCharge tool manually to add charges and then rerun ESP Can someone please tell me a step by step procedure to make this work. Thanks & Regards, Haresh

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Re: [Chimera-users] Coloring map by curvature
by Tom Goddard 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi Joel, I don't think surface curvature will be helpful understand the differences between two EM maps. But I was curious what it would look like. So here's a Python script and an image on a simulated map at 15 Angstroms. You use the script by opening your map, selecting the surface (ctrl-click on it), then open the curvature.py script (menu File / Open…). Here's a description of the method it uses from the comments at the top of the curvature.py file. # Color selected surface pieces by mean curvature. # # Gray at the average curvature value over the surface, and blue and red # at +/- 3 standard deviations of curvature values across the surface. # # The curvature is estimated from the vertices and normals of the triangulated # surface in simple way which will show artifacts from non-isotropic meshes. # For each triangle edge it computes the normal vector rotation from one vertex # to the other divided by the edge length. The vertex mean curvature is the # mean of the curvatures computed for each edge. # And the steps to make the example image open 1grl molmap #0 15 grid 2 model #1 select #1 open ~/Desktop/curvature.py Tom On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Joel Meyerson wrote: > Hi Darrell, > Thanks for the tip! I hadn't considered mesh lab but that link you sent looks promising. I'll also wait to see if Tom has any further suggestions. > Joel > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Hi Joel, > > I love Chimera and use it all the time. However, a quick-and-dirty solution to your problem might be to try Meshlab. It is kind of buggy software, but can be very useful. Here's a tutorial/blog entry that I found in a quick search. At the very least, it describes what I think Tom was communicating about enhancing surface shading: > http://meshlabstuff.blogspot.com/2010/03/mean-curvature-cavity-map-zbrush-a… > > FWIW, > Darrell > > -- > Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. > Section Head, Computational Biology > Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) > OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH > > 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 > Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 > > > Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. > > From: <Meyerson>, "Joel [F] (NIH/NCI)" > Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:08 PM > To: Tom Goddard > Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu List" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Coloring map by curvature > > Hi Tom, > I have cryo-EM maps for two conformations of a protein, both in the 15 Angstrom resolution range. The conformations are visibly different, but I am also interested in seeing where they differ in terms of their surface curvature, as it could have bearing on how I interpret the conformations. If there's any other info I can provide just let me know. > Thanks! > Joel > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Tom Goddard wrote: > Hi Joel, > > No, Chimera does not compute surface curvature. It would not be too hard to make a Python script that computed it and used it to color a surface. The main trouble is defining numerically the curvature for a triangulated surface at each vertex. Why are you interested in this? Is the idea to simulate ambient occlusion lighting where surface cavities are dark and projections are brighter? Is the idea to try it on EM maps or molecular surfaces? > > Tom > > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Joel Meyerson wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is it possible to color a map based on surface curvature? > > Thanks, > > Joel > > _______________________________________________ > > Chimera-users mailing list > > Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users > > >

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Coloring map by curvature
by Joel Meyerson 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi, Is it possible to color a map based on surface curvature? Thanks, Joel

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adding GalNac moiety on Threonine residue
by Elsa Marquez 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hi there! Do you guys know if I can add or somehow draw a carbohydrate moiety such as GalNac to a single Threonine in a protein complex? Thanks! Elsa Marquez University of Alberta

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Surface Transparency Command Issues
by Joshua Carter 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hello, I'm having trouble getting the surface transparency command to work correctly. I'm currently making a movie about the formation of a protein complex and I want the subunits to be shown as ribbons while they dock and then after they dock the electrostatic surface to appear. I have the script written and the surface generated but when I use either the surftransp or transparency command nothing happens. The command is correct, if I use it to change the transparency of a ribbon or atom it does so, but if I try to make the surface appear after docking nothing changes. In addition, if I go to the Actions menu and change the surface transparency from there it also works. If you could help me figure out why the command won't work that would be extremely helpful. Thanks,Josh

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Re: [Chimera-users] Overlay structures in Chimera (UNCLASSIFIED)
by Elaine Meng 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:45 AM, "Keasey, Sarah L CTR USARMY MEDCOM USAMRIID (US)" <sarah.l.keasey.ctr(a)mail.mil> wrote: > Elaine, > > I have a new question regarding overlaying structures using Chimera. > > I have opened two structures in Chimera. I am trying to move them so that they are overlaid. It appears as though I should be able to inactivate one of the structures in order to freely move the other, but this doesn't work for me and I'm not sure where I am going wrong. When I inactivate one structure, I can freely rotate the other, but not move it from one place to another. I have watched the youtube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGYo1pRRZ8 which deals with merging two structures, and also watched the "Sequential Fitting" video on the "Videos" page of the UCSF Chimera site. > > Any suggestions for what I am doing wrong? I apologize for such elementary questions, I am a new Chimera user. > > Thanks in advance, > Sarah Keasey Hi Sarah, (we generally ask everyone to send questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu, CC'd here, so that everybody can benefit, unless the data are private) Those videos aren't that relevant to your situation. More relevant is the manual page discussing the various ways to superimpose structures. The Chimera User's Guide can be searched or browsed from the Help menu, or you can see the same thing on our website, e.g.: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/superposition.html> If using the mouse to move one structure, what you did is exactly correct: inactivate the other structure. The mouse should continue to work exactly the same for the movable structure as when everything was movable (both rotation and translation). The default control for XY-translation is middle mouse button, if you have one. For touchpad or mouse with fewer buttons, see here: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/mouse.html> However, more often one doesn't use the tedious approach of trying to do it by hand, and instead uses one of the other superposition methods. The easiest is usually MatchMaker (in the menu under Tools… Structure Comparison), so I would try that first. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchmaker/matchm…> To help you become more familiar with Chimera, there are several tutorials in the User's Guide (again also available from Help menu), ranging from "getting started" to more advanced. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/frametut.html> 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

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Multialign Viewer Header Definition File (UNCLASSIFIED)
by Keasey, Sarah L CTR USARMY MEDCOM USAMRIID (US) 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, I would like to generate a Header Definition File to load in to Multialign Viewer. I am unclear on the format of the file though, I keep getting errors when I try to load the file in and I think it has something to do with the way I am formatting the file. Would you be able to provide an example Header Definition file? Thank you in advance, Sarah Keasey Graduate Student University of Maryland, Baltimore County ORISE participant, USAMRIID, Fort Detrick MD Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE

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Segger : command line
by agnel-praveen.joseph＠stfc.ac.uk 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi, I would like to automate watershed segmentation (Segger) on a set of volumes. Given that I have the details on the volume threshold, number of smoothing steps and minimum voxels in each region, is there a way to automate segmentation with different parameter inputs? Many Thanks. -- Scanned by iCritical.

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Chimera Issues
by Roy Assis 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hello ! For some time i've been using chimera, but for some reason a week ago, when I try to lunch chimera, I get an error message (attached). Please help Roy Assis

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movie recode
by Wenda Wang 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Dear List, I am trying to use UCSF chimera to make a movie after TEM reconstruction using IMOD. But an error message always pops out, even I use the script in the examples. Belows shows the error messages in the Reply Log. Can anyone take a look and give me some clue where the problem is? Thank you. ----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.8.1\bin\ffmpeg.exe -r 25 -i c:\users\337\appdata\local\temp\chimovie_zUrR-%05d.ppm -vf crop=(in_w/2)*2:(in_h/2)*2:0:0 -y -vcodec libx264 -f mp4 -vb 200.0k C:\Users\Public\Desktop\rock.mp4 An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details. Error during MPEG encoding: ----------------------------- Exit value: 1 Error message: ----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.8.1\bin\ffmpeg.exe -r 25 -i c:\users\337\appdata\local\temp\chimovie_zUrR-%05d.ppm -y -vcodec libvpx -f webm -vb 200.0k C:\Users\Public\Desktop\rock.webm An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details. Error during MPEG encoding: ----------------------------- Exit value: 1 Error message: ----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.8.1\bin\ffmpeg.exe -r 25 -i c:\users\337\appdata\local\temp\chimovie_zUrR-%05d.ppm -y -vcodec libtheora -f ogg -vb 200.0k C:\Users\Public\Desktop\rock.ogv An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details. Error during MPEG encoding: ----------------------------- Exit value: 1 Error message: Thank you very much, Wenda Wenda Wang, PhD candidate Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 215-6883348

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Morphing
by James Naismith 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

I am experimenting with the morphing feature. I know I am being very stupid but I cannot get the analysis to work. I am using a MAC OSX latest version. I have created my morph which is running nicely. What I would like to do is analyse the morph for VDW clashes. (That is in going from structure 1 to structure 2, what residues would have to move). First problem is when I run cluster (under analysis in MD movie) then generate residue interaction for cluster, up pop a new dialogue with warnings but seems to ask about calculations When I click OK or apply I get a new box residue interaction contact parameters This always generates an error “No atoms designated for clash detection’ I seem only to have four options themselves all others atoms (default) other atoms in same model second set of designated atoms Any help gratefully received (Ps I have installed the latest cytoscope but it does not have the structure.viz plugin; I keep getting errors trying to install older version) best Jim Jim Naismith The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532

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Re: [Chimera-users] [Chimera] #12778: failure assigning charges to FAD (was: Chimera bug report submission)
by Eric Pettersen 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi Will, The underlying program that Chimera uses to compute charges, antechamber/sqm from AmberTools, frequently fails for molecules with regions of concentrated negative charge, such as the central phosphate connector of FAD. It not really something I can do much about. Nonetheless, the failure not only depends on the charge density but also on the specific atomic geometry. So for instance, I can compute the charges for the FAD in 4kpu, though it does take a long time (about 10 minutes). This means that there is kind of a work around. Compute the charges in a structure that works and then transfer them to your structure. You do this by bringing up the Render by Attribute tool after successfully computing charges and using it's File->Save Attributes menu entry to save the charges to a file. You should select the FAD and then restrict the save to selected atoms. Edit the resulting file and change the residue name and chain ID (in this case 401.A) to FAD so that it can be applied to all FADs in your structure. Then in the Chimera with your structure open, read in the charge-attribute file with the Define Attributes tool. To save you a lot of the effort here, I've attached the edited charge-attribute file I saved from 4kpu. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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how to display coordinate axes
by Michael H Peters 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi: I have a simple question - How do I display the lab or fixed frame coordinate axes? I am using the windows 32 bit UCSF Chimera on my desktop. In rasmol the command is "axes on". I cannot find anything similar in Chimera. Thanks for your help. An axes display is critical if you need to know the spatial orientation wrt the lab frame. Best wishes, Michael Dr. Michael H. Peters mpeters(a)vcu.edu 804-828-7790 www.engineering.vcu.edu/proteinengineering

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pyroglutamate distorted in 3PFJ
by Craig Dana 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

I'm looking at the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue in PDB: 3PFJ. It is clearly distorted, but when I open the same PDB file in VMD, the pyroglutamate is not distorted.

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Failed to start chimera
by jupiter 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hi, I installed Chimera 1.7 on CentOS 6.4. I can run any opengl applications, but failed to run chimera , it got following error message. Appreciate any tips to fix this issue. X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PutImage) Serial number of failed request: 34 Current serial number in output stream: 37

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Re: [Chimera-users] rna and set shadows commands
by Elaine Meng 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

On Jan 9, 2014, at 12:07 PM, "pythonchemia Gazeta.pl" <pythonchemia(a)gazeta.pl> wrote: > > Hello Elaine C. Meng > > Thank you very much for your reply and sorry that I answer only now. > When it comes to command rna path and rna model your tips helped me. :) > Although I do not know how to define the path for the command operations rna duplex. : ( > > Unfortunately for me the system WinXP / Chimera 1.8 - 32bit shadows set command does not work. : ( > Chimera returns this message: > > - Unable to turn on shadows (shadows not supported) > > After opening the Chimera Reply log returns this message: > > Disabled programs because the GPU and graphics driver bug > you encountered while compiling a vertex shader. > -------------------------------------------------- ----------- > > Maybe my graphics card is inappropriate? > > The User's Guide about the Build Structure writes that the helical DNA / RNA (not yet Implemented ) > and this option is disabled. > > Sincerely, Janusz Grabowski Hi Janusz, The message suggests your computer can't do the shadows. It might help to update your graphics driver, but I don't know for certain. However, other "set" options should work, for example: set bgColor white As mentioned in the "rna duplex" description, the path file is created using the command "rna path": <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/rna.html#duplex> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/rna.html#path> Also, as mentioned in an earlier message you have to get a daily build (version 1.9), also available from our download page, to use the "helical DNA/RNA" option in Build Structure. <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-December/009497.html> It is recommended to send chimera questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu instead of to me directly. Thanks, Elaine

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Re: [Chimera-users] batch writing of attributes
by Eric Pettersen 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi Jay, We thought as much really. Well, you are going to have to use a Python script. The good news is that it's a really simple Python script. Put the following in a file whose name ends in ".py": from chimera import openModels, Molecule for m in openModels.list(modelTypes=[Molecule]): from OpenSave import osOpen f = osOpen("~/surfData/%s.data" % m.name, "w") for a in m.atoms: print>>f, a, getattr(a, "areaSES", 0.0) f.close() The indentation matters, so make sure to preserve it. Then once you open your model and surface it, you can run the above script simply by opening it with the "open" command. It will create a file with a list of atoms and corresponding surface areas. The file will be named <model name>.data and it will be in the "surfData" folder in your home directory, so make sure that folder exists beforehand or modify the script to have it go to another location. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On Jan 14, 2014, at 5:56 AM, "Eifler, Jay Q. (UMKC-Student)" wrote: > Actually I'm doing ab-initio quantum mechanical calculations and need > to analyze on a atom and residue basis. I've already been able to > save the atom and residue results but can't figure out how to automate > it since you have got to click buttons in the render/select attribute. The > Chimera notes seem to imply it should be possible to save attributes to > file. However, areaSAS is supposed to be an attribute but doesn't seem > to belong to the model attributes. > From: Eric Pettersen > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:05 PM > To: Eifler, Jay Q. (UMKC-Student) > Cc: <Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> List > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] batch writing of attributes > > On Jan 11, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Jay Eifler wrote: > >> >> I'm trying to automate saving the areaSAS for a bunch >> of models. I've got no problem loading the models, etc. >> The problem is simply how do I use command line >> arguments to save the areaSAS. I've tried writesel. This >> works all fine in Render/Select by attribute simply >> because it has a feature to save the areaSAS to a file. >> Thanks. > > Hi Jay, > Do you really need the values on a per-atom basis? If you just need the grand total, it's reported in the reply log so you could just open and surface your structures one by one via a script (one by one to avoid possibly running out of memory) and then afterward save the reply log contents to a file manually (there's a "Save" button on the reply log). > > --Eric > > Eric Pettersen > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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Problem with HEADER keyword in PDBs
by Thomas Hrabe 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi everyone, I believe I found a problem with the >HEADER< keyword in PDB files. Some programs may create pdbs with the header keyword specifying the origin or a name of a chain or other metadata with the coordinates below. PyMol understands this keyword and colors chains that have identical chain ID (see example attached) in multiple colors while chimera interprets all as one chain. Thanks, Thomas

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MD trajectory play by commandline
by inhee park 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Dear Chimera developers and users: I am using Chimera (production version 1.8 (build 38824) 2013-06-07 21:09:20 UTC). I wanted to process MD trajectories to extract their detailed H-bond information. To do so, I would like to process by script with Hbond.py file. $ chimera --script Hbond.py #---[Hbond.py] from chimera import runCommand # pr trajectory movie with open("metafile", 'w') as m: meta_input = """amber mypdb.prmtop pr_dry_netcdf.crd """ print >> m, meta_input # runCommand("open movie:metafile") runCommand("alias ^myhb hbond relax true savefile hbond.$1") runCommand("perframe myhb") runCommand("coordset #0 1,1000,10; wait 100") #----------------------- As I have many MD trajectories to be processed, I was looking for a commandline in lieu of actually clicking buttons in MD movie GUI to play. I thought that "coordset #0 1,10000,10; wait 100" may operate like automatically starting the MD movie to load frame 1 to 1000 at every 100 interval. But resulting saved H-bond files contain same information all about the first frame (because graphically displayed was the first frame without any update unless clicking the button in MD movie GUI). Is there a way to achieve an automatic play via commandline? Thank you, inhee park

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RMSD per residue NMR structure
by cantini＠cerm.unifi.it 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Dear users Does anyone knows how to calculate through CHIMERA the backbone rmsd per residue of a NMR ensembles of protein structures ? thank a lot Francesca Cantini ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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batch writing of attributes
by Jay Eifler 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

I'm trying to automate saving the areaSAS for a bunch of models. I've got no problem loading the models, etc. The problem is simply how do I use command line arguments to save the areaSAS. I've tried writesel. This works all fine in Render/Select by attribute simply because it has a feature to save the areaSAS to a file. Thanks.

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Computing solvent accessible area without internal cavities
by Tom Goddard 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hi Numan, Chimera uses the MSMS program to compute solvent accessible surface area, and MSMS has an option to only compute for the outside surface component without internal cavities. So I think this is just what you want. Although you could script it in Chimera you might find it easier to write a script that uses the standalone program directly from Michel Sanner http://mgl.scripps.edu/people/sanner/html/msms_home.html The one trouble you may run into is the calculation failing on some molecules due to numerical instabilities. The older version of the MSMS library we use in Chimera often fails to compute the surfaces and areas for molecules larger than 10,000 atoms, and sometimes fails for much smaller molecules. The standalone program from Michel failed much less often in tests I did a few years ago, probably because it used some newer more reliable code. Tom On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:13 AM, "Oezguen, Numan" wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I am facing a problem that you have most probably already have solved and hoping you could help me out. I need to identify atoms that are solvent accessible. For this I used the program Getarea from Werner Braun’s group in Galveston Texas. It works fine, however it lists also internal cavity surface atoms as solvent exposed. Technically it is correct… but I am interested only in those surface areas that are not internal i.e. surface areas that are accessible to molecules approaching it from outside. > > Do you know of any commercial or free (preferably) program that can do this. Ideally it should be possible to call it from scripts (shell or Perl). > > Thank you very much for you time and help, > Numan > > > Numan Oezguen, Dr. rer. nat. > Instructor of Pathology & Immunology > Texas Children’s Microbiome Center > Feigin Center, Suite 830 > 1102 Bates Avenue > Houston, TX 77030

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Registration ?
by Jean-Paul Boissel 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Just downloaded the new dally build. At opening got the message: Registration file "/Users/JPB/.chimera/registration" has expired. Do we have to register again for 2014 Thanks > > Dr. Jean-Paul Boissel, Team Leader > Solute Transport Through Biological Membranes/ Ellen I. Closs' group > Department of Pharmacology > University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University > Obere Zahlbacher Strasse 67, D-55101 Mainz > Tel.: +49 6131-17 9189 > FAX: +49 6131-17 9329 > e-mail: boissel(a)uni-mainz.de > http://www.unimedizin-mainz.de/pharmakologie/research/solute-transport-thro… > -biological-membranes.html?L=1 > This e-mail contains confidential information and may also be legally > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or received this mail by > mistake, please inform the sender immediately and delete the mail. Any > un-authorized use, copying, disclosure or forwarding of this mail and of > information contained therein is prohibited.

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displaying electrostatic field
by Bala subramanian 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Friends, Kindly see the following link (Fig 22, left panel). http://www.bioscience.org/2009/v14/af/3398/fulltext.php?bframe=figures.htm Has anyone tried making the display of electric field in Chimera. Is there any way i can make the same in chimera. Thanks, Bala -- C. Balasubramanian

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running wild with Chimera :-)
by Eric Pettersen 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

New Year Cards in 3D

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BioPython in a Chimera Python script; PDBio?
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi Chimera friends, I've been trying to install BioPython into the Python interpreter embedded within Chimera. I've been following the guidelines posted a couple of years ago: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-dev/2011/000807.html This works up to a point for me. I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.5 with MacPorts installed. I'm trying to install BioPython 1.63: http://biopython.org/wiki/Download#Installation_Instructions The "build" process starts to work, but gets hung up with the error "xcrun: Error: failed to exec real xcrun. (No such file or directory)". It seems to be referencing "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk", which does not exist in recent versions of Xcode. I've been able to install the 10.6 frameworks into both Xcode 4.6.2 and Xcode 5.x, but that still doesn't work. I manually installed the MacOSX10.6.sdk from Xcode 4.2 into the appropriate location, but still no luck. I'm using BioPython because I want to pull some information out of the PDB headers. I was able to use PDBio as described in this discussion: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-February/001291.html But the "dictionary" entries "keyed by record type" need additional cleanup/parsing before I can use them (which is why I wanted to use BioPython). Is this just a case of Apple not building in enough backwards compatibility? Or is it something that Chimera needs to fix? Do you have any additional suggestions for me about "PDBio"? The fields I want are the DOI and title information. Finally, is there an analogous "EMDBio" for EMDB records? Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Updating coordinates without having to regenerate the depiction of an atomic model
by Mike Lawrence 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi, Within Chimera is there any way in which the underlying coordinates of an atomic model can be updated in order to yield the same depiction but based on the new coordinates, or (equivalently) can the attributes of one model be transferred to another, assuming of course that they have the same underlying protein sequence, etc. thanks Mike Lawrence Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Parkville Australia ______________________________________________________________________ The information in this email is confidential and intended solely for the addressee. You must not disclose, forward, print or use it without the permission of the sender. ______________________________________________________________________

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the old Mac OX 10.4 can not run Chimera
by Zhang, Yinghui 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Dear Sir/Madam, This is Yinghui Zhang from Massachusetts General Hospital. I am a postdoc here and my project requires me to use the Chimera often. However, the desktop I used is some old and I can not update and use Chimera right now. The Chimera installed is 1.2 version but cannot be started. The specifics of computer is as follows: Apple PowerMac G5 chip, duo core and 3G memory. The OS is Mac OX 10.4.11. The operating system very probably cannot be updated because of chip version problem. Could you please give us some information if there is some alternative we can install executable Chimera on this computer? Thank you very much! Yinghui Zhang EDR 514, Dept. of Anesthesia MGH Boston, MA 02148 The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

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General question about Chimera
by Lili Peng 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi, When I load a structure of a protein into Chimera, the structure is automatically rendered in ribbon mode, with select atoms being rendered in stick mode. I am curious as to why certain atoms are rendered as sticks, and other are not. What is the selection criteria? Thank you, Lili

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How to measure the radius of density map
by Jian Guan 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Hi all, I have density map of virus (mrc format) and want to measure the radius of it. I tried measure command, High-order structure-->Icosahedron surface. Both of them need me to measure it manually by eye. Are there any tools to measure the radius by chimera, so we can get more accurate result? Or does anybody know how to measure it accurately? Thank you so much. Sincerely yours, Happy New Year. Jian -----Original Message----- From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [mailto:chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu] On Behalf Of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Sent: 2014年1月2日 15:00 To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. rate of a reaction (Haider Abbas) 2. Error in generating sqm for FAD (Isha) 3. Re: rate of a reaction (Elaine Meng) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:51:05 +0530 From: Haider Abbas <haiderabbasphy(a)gmail.com> To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: [Chimera-users] rate of a reaction Message-ID: <CAO+nnti1fDSY+i59Fa4ioQzwVF+k77OPUDLC=jHJ5m_zt-4P_g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear all user, Could you please let me know how to calculate reaction rate of a barrierless chemical reaction in gas phase by chimera. with regards Haider Abbas

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Error in generating sqm for FAD
by Isha 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Dear Sir/Mam I used antechamber in chimera to add charges to ligand "FAD" using am-bcc, amber ffo3r.1 and +5 charge (as depicted by chimera). The procedure was Tools > structure editing > add H and then add charge. The error shown is : Charge model: AMBER ff03.r1 Assigning partial charges to residue FAD (net charge +1) with am1-bcc method Running ANTECHAMBER command: C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/binantechamber -ek qm_theory='AM1', -i c:usersamehtaappdatalocaltemptmpjjpoaqante.in.mol2 -fi mol2 -o c:usersamehtaappdatalocaltemptmpjjpoaqante.out.mol2 -fo mol2 -c bcc -nc 1 -j 5 -s 2 (FAD) (FAD) Running: "C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/bin/bondtype" -j part -i ANTECHAMBER_BOND_TYPE.AC0 -o ANTECHAMBER_BOND_TYPE.AC -f ac (FAD) (FAD) Running: "C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/bin/atomtype" -i ANTECHAMBER_AC.AC0 -o ANTECHAMBER_AC.AC -p gaff (FAD) Total number of electrons: 412; net charge: 1 (FAD) (FAD) Running: "C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/bin/sqm" -O -i sqm.in -o sqm.out (FAD) Error: cannot run ""C:/Program Files/Chimera 1.8.1/bin/amber12/bin/sqm" -O -i sqm.in -o sqm.out" of bcc() in charge.c properly, exit Failure running ANTECHAMBER for residue FAD Please help as it is very urgent. Hope for your reply. I have also attached the ligand. Please find the attachment. With Regards, Isha C/O Dr. Raman Parkesh Protein Science & Engg. Institute of Microbial Technology Sector 39A, Chandigarh 160036 Ext: 0172-6665489

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rate of a reaction
by Haider Abbas 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Dear all user, Could you please let me know how to calculate reaction rate of a barrierless chemical reaction in gas phase by chimera. with regards Haider Abbas

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Set and rna commands
by pythonchemia Gazeta.pl 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hello ! I have winXP and Chimera version 1.8. I wanted to use the commands rna and set. Unfortunately, they do not work. Why? What is it? I tried to repeat the example of the User's Guide for rna command and failed. Please help me or give me examples on the set command and rna Sincerely, Janusz Grabowski

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Find pseudo 2-fold axes relating heavy and light chain
by Jian Guan 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Dear all, I am trying to find pseudo 2-fold axes relating heavy and light chains in the constant domain and variable domain respectively in Fab. I tried Define Axes, it failed. And I made artificial double heavy chain, it failed again. I can only get axis which is horizontal passing through both light chain and heavy chain. It is not what I want. Can anyone help to give some clues? Thanks Jian

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Failure of energy miminization
by Ross KK Leung 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

In August there was a discussion entitled "Minimization and mystery nonstandard HIS atom name" and that's the exact problem supposed to have been solved last year. What I did is similar to Jason (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-August/009069.html) and unfortunately I'm unable to resolve the problem, giving that I'm using chimera 1.8.1 on a Win 7 32G RAM computer. I attach two files, one succeeded till completion while the other one failed early. What I did is simply "Structure editing", next, ok, next, .. Charges of 0.0 were assigned to the unknown atoms 1 model(s) had non-integral total charge Details in reply log No MMTK name for atom "HC1" in standard residue "ALA" Any suggestions to fix the problem is highly appreciated because Chimera is so impressive and I've been using it for many good analyses already. A pity to give up and switch to other programs at this very last stage.

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Reset surface programatically from python
by Thomas Hrabe 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hi everyone, I have this line of code where I want to load a density and export a negative surface of it: import chimera as ch mod = ch.openModels.open(‘./density.em')[0] mod.surface_levels = [-1,0] mod.display = True ch.exports.doExportCommand('WebGL', 'tmp.html’) However, the surface of the density is rendered for positive values. How can I refresh the display after I specify the surface_levels? Thanks, Thomas

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] writing in b-factor field
by Elaine Meng 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:43 AM, MARIA VITTORIA CUBELLIS <cubellis(a)unina.it> wrote: > Dear sir/madam, > I have a file that associates to each amino acid of a protein A a given value v. > I would like to transfer this value to the b-factor field of the protein A the value v. I have a single value for each aminoacid N1,N2... I would like to transfer the value to each atom > > let say > > N1 C v1 > N1 CO v1 > N1 N v1 > .... > .... > N2 C v2 > N2 CO v2 > N2 N v2 > > and so on > > is it possible to this withe chimera? > thank you > > mvcubellis Dear M V Cubellis, Yes, you can do it, but another question is why do you want to do it? I'm guessing you want to color by those values. In Chimera you can assign the values to the atoms or residues directly as "attributes" and then do coloring to show those values. The B-factor from an input file is one atom attribute named bfactor, but you can create additional attributes with whatever names you wish, and color by any of them. The main work for you is to create an "attribute assignment file" which is mostly tab-separated columns with the atom (or residue) specifiers and values. The necessary format is described here, and there are also some example files: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/defineattrib/defi…> Probably the trickiest part is how to specify the residues in the file, e.g. could be something like :12.a for residue 12 in chain A. See instructions on atom/residue specification: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/atom_spec.html#basic> Once you have created that text file, you can read it in with Define Attribute (in menu under Tools… Structure Analysis) or command defattr. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/defineattrib/defi…> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/defattr.html> Then Render by Attribute (which may automatically appear when you create the attribute, but also is in menu under Tools… Structure Analysis) can be used to show the values with colors and/or radii: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/render/render.htm…> If you really wanted to write a PDB file with values in the B-factor column, you would still need to create an attribute assignment file as described above, but more specifically to assign an atom attribute named bfactor. Then when you use the File menu or write command to output a PDB file, your values will be in the B-factor column. See also the Attributes tutorial for examples of coloring by attribute value. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/attributes.html> 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

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keyboard shortcuts
by Dougherty, Matthew T 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

I am writing a bunch of USB-HID keyboard shortcuts for some extensions I am writing. Usually one shortcut per def. Since my decoding of HID is integrally tied to the extension, I would like to simplify all my shortcuts coming from one device to one def. As of now if I have 100 button commands I have to 1) register 100 shortcuts, 2) create 100 defs, 3) do corresponding stuff in my extension. I would prefer to call one def that passes the actual keyboard string to my extension, thereby simplifying my user accelerators to just registration. How do I get the string within my keyboard shortcuts python file? thanks, Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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display of improper peptide bond
by Tatiana Domitrovic 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hi, I am trying to get rid of an improper bond that chimera is displaying between two nearby segments that are actually cleaved. The bond is distorted, creating long CACB bonds if B-spline mode is active. I tried to turn off the auto-chaining, but didn’t work. Because PYmol can properly display these segments as independent polypetides, I was wondering if there is other adjustment that I can try before manually deleting the bond. The PDB is 1ohf and the bond is between residue 570 and 571. Cheers,

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Failure of energy miminization
by Ross KK Leung 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

In August there was a discussion entitled "Minimization and mystery nonstandard HIS atom name" and that's the exact problem supposed to have been solved last year. What I did is similar to Jason (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-August/009069.html) and unfortunately I'm unable to resolve the problem, giving that I'm using chimera 1.8.1 on a Win 7 32G RAM computer. I attach two files, one succeeded till completion while the other one failed early. What I did is simply "Structure editing", next, ok, next, .. Charges of 0.0 were assigned to the unknown atoms 1 model(s) had non-integral total charge Details in reply log No MMTK name for atom "HC1" in standard residue "ALA" Any suggestions to fix the problem is highly appreciated because Chimera is so impressive and I've been using it for many good analyses already. A pity to give up and switch to other programs at this very last stage.

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Sir, i donot want to recieve antomately letter from chimera, can you remove my email adress from your email list..
by 一波 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

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How to get central cross section which pass through two asigned cross axis
by Jian Guan 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

Dear all, I have a density map of virus-Fab complex. I want to make a central cross section which pass through the Fab pseudo-symmetry 2-fold axis. I have measure the angle of Fab relative to the capsid. Hope someone can help me. Thank you so much. Sincerely yours, Jian -----Original Message----- From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [mailto:chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu] On Behalf Of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Sent: 2013年12月24日 15:00 To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 128, Issue 25 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: saving coords from script (Eric Pettersen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 15:59:16 -0800 From: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> To: Tetsuro Fujisawa <fujisawa(a)gifu-u.ac.jp> Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Mailing List" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] saving coords from script Message-ID: <04B15E0C-844B-4594-8AE6-760588744D85(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" On Dec 20, 2013, at 1:58 AM, Tetsuro Fujisawa wrote: > Hi, > > I found some strange behavior in saving pdb file by script file. > I tried to modify the orientation of pdb file ?tst.pdb? (#1) in reference to axis coordinate (#0), then save the atomic coordinates in pdb file. > When I typed in the commands through either command line window or IDLE, transformed coordinates were saved. It worked fine. However, the exact identical commands (inside the brancket) or lines (rc(?..?)) were run by script file shown in below, the untransformed coordinates were saved. This is also the case for ?Midas.write method?. > I wondered this might be a bug. > > Regards, > Tetsuro > > Sample.py: > ---------------------------------------------- > from chimera import runCommand as rc > > rc('open axis.bild') > rc('open tst.pdb') > rc('rock y 60 1 center #1 coord #0 models #1') # orientation of > tst.pdb was modified > rc('focus') > rc('write relative #0 #1 tstA.pdb') > # write current coordinates to tstA.pdb rc('open tstA.pdb') # opened > tstA has original untransformed orientation > ----------------------------------------------- Hi Tetsuro, The issue is that unlike using the command line or IDLE or running a chimera-command script, no frames get drawn during the execution of a Python script unless explicitly requested and therefore the "rock" command in your script doesn't actually do anything until after the entire script runs, and by that time your coordinate file has already been written. To get the rock command to complete before proceeding with the rest of the script you need to append "; wait" or "; wait 1" (since you are rocking for 1 frame) to the end of your rock command. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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saving coords from script
by Tetsuro Fujisawa 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

The following bug report has been submitted: Platform: windows Chimera Version: 1.8.1 Description Hi, I found some strange behavior in saving pdb file by script file. I tried to modify the orientation of pdb file ‘tst.pdb’ (#1) in reference to axis coordinate (#0), then save the atomic coordinates in pdb file. When I typed in the commands through either command line window or IDLE, transformed coordinates were saved. It worked fine. However, the exact identical commands (inside the brancket) or lines (rc(’..’)) were run by script file shown in below, the untransformed coordinates were saved. This is also the case for “Midas.write method”. I wondered this might be a bug. Regards, Tetsuro Sample.py: ---------------------------------------------- from chimera import runCommand as rc rc('open axis.bild') rc('open tst.pdb') rc('rock y 60 1 center #1 coord #0 models #1') # orientation of tst.pdb was modified rc('focus') rc('write relative #0 #1 tstA.pdb') # write current coordinates to tstA.pdb rc('open tstA.pdb') # opened tstA has original untransformed orientation -----------------------------------------------

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Color by ramachandran probability? Or molprobity overlap?
by Oliver Clarke 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hi all, Quick question, just wondering if there is any way to color a structure by Ramachandran probability? Or by steric overlap scores for each atom as generated by mol probity? Either of these would be very handy as a way of getting a quick graphical overview of trouble spots in a structure. It seems like Chimera “knows about” Ramachandran plot data, (as one can generate such plots from the model panel) but I can’t find any convenient way to display this data on the structure. Many thanks, Oliver.

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Running Segger from a script
by Tom Goddard 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hi Rakesh, There is not Chimera command to run Segger, only a dialog. So you would have to use Python to run it and write out map files for each masked region if you wanted to script it. Segger uses several Chimera features such as Gaussian filtering, and watershed calculations that are in written in C++ and compiled against the Chimera Python. While you can get those to run in another Python if it has an identical version (e.g. 2.7.3), setting up the environment variables to find all the needed libraries is a difficult process. So I suggest using the Chimera Python. You can run Chimera scripts without the graphical interface by starting it from a shell "chimera --nogui myscript.py". The Segger Python functions are not documented so you would need to study the (complex and messy) code found in chimera/share/Segger or on Mac in Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/Segger Tom On Dec 18, 2013, at 5:54 PM, rakesh ramachandram wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if I can run Segger in a script in an automated fashion and then obtain the individual segmented regions as separate density maps. Is there a way to run chimera scripts from command line directly without using the chimera's python interpreter but using the default python interpreter after importing its libraries. > > Regards > Rakesh >

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question
by wanxiaobo＠nibs.ac.cn 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

Dear chimera team / users, I was looking for a way to save the content of Axis/plane/centroid information, not only the radii via command line, because I want to analyze the structure movement from MD trajectory. It is not convenient to save the information manually for each frame. Thanks Xiaobo

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Command line export to webgl
by Thomas Hrabe 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

Dear Chimera Team, I was curious if there was a functionality to export chimera scenes to webgl through the command line, without having to open the chimera window. Is there a set of python script commands that would do it? Thank you for your support, Thomas

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Attribute Calculator by command line?
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi Chimera friends, I'm trying to calculate convexity as demonstrated in the Attributes tutorial: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/attributes.html I can do it with the graphical tools without a problem, but when I try to do it via the command line, I run into trouble. I cannot find any documentation on running the Attributes Calculator on the command line. I've tried using "setattr": setattr a convexity atom.areaSAS/atom.areaSES This command generates a new atom attribute called "convexity" for every atom, but the value of this attribute for every atom is literally "atom.areaSAS/atom.areaSES" instead of the calculated value. Is there a way to calculate a new attribute value on the command line within Chimera? Sorry to be so demanding… Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Setting selection mode command line
by rswett＠chem.wayne.edu 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi all, I'm interested in putting together a script that will open several large pdb files, select some very specific pieces of those files and save the output to another file. The problem is that they are large files and unwieldy in a graphics window. I have no problem generating the commands to select the regions I'm interested in, but I still need to be able to switch selection modes in between commands. Is there a way to change the selection mode at the command line without navigating the selection menu? Rebecca

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Export options for x3d2stl
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi Chimera friends, Here's the second question of the day. Thanks for your patience with me. When I export the scene as an STL (for 3D printing), I think what happens is that Chimera outputs first an X3D file and then runs the utility program "x3d2stl" to create the STL. The X3D file is about 5 MB, but the STL is about 100 MB. I understand that much of this size inflation is because the "primitives" in X3D have to be converted to mesh objects for STL. However, when I look at the STL file, the meshes derived from the primitives are finer than I really need. I find that I can "get away with" a coarser meshification by using x3d2stl on the command line: x3d2stl -c -r 2 -o sticks.stl < sticks.x3d If I want to export the scene via the command line within Blender, is there any way to issue options to x3d2stl? Or should I just run x3d2stl outside of Blender? Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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import binary format .raw file
by Carol J Hirschmugl 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hello, I am new to chimera, but have seen its capabilities for rendering 3D images of complex data sets, and think that this will be an appropriate program for excellent image analysis for my 3D tomography data sets. My data sets are in general binary format, (.raw file), 32 float, big endian, x fastest order for an x,y,z data set of 128 x 128 x 128 voxels of grey scale information. I am using AVIZO and FIJI at present. Avizo is expensive, and fiji is slow and reduces the data to 8 bit before rendering it, which I find unacceptable. TO move to Chimera - I found the web page in the Users Manual that suggested ADDING A FILE TYPE But I am lost by the description of how to proceed since I do not have prior knowledge of python and how to do the mapping to CHIMERA (x,y,z) that is suggested. I gather I need to write a python code - or numpy code maybe. Can you help or provide more context or a self-tutorial link so I can fill in the details? Thank you, Carol

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Local execution of pdb2pqr and APBS
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi Chimera friends, Sorry to bother you again with so many questions. I'm trying to use PDB2PQR and APBS in a script to calculate an EP map. I know how to specify a local executable location for these external applications if I use the graphics interface, but the documentation that I can find does not indicate how to do this via the command line. Is it possible? How do I do it? Thanks! Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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changing the rgb for stereo images
by Bala subramanian 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Friends, I have a glass with a red-cyan color. When i use the Chimera stereo mode (red-cyan) under view controls. I still see some ghost images. I would like to know if there is any possibility to add a features something like a box where i can give the rgb (the light frequencies) values of the images to match my glass. Thank you, Bala -- C. Balasubramanian

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Dynamic scolor custom cmap?
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hi Chimera friends, I have a volumetric potential file loaded that I want to map onto a molecular surface. For my application, I want the color mapping to use a custom palette of at least three colors that spans the full range of surface values. I know that I can do this by simply specifying the custom colors in the Surface Color panel and then clicking "Set full range of surface values". That works for me. However, I want to do this via command line. The following line works for me (I've omitted "cmapRange full" because that is the default setting): scolor #0 volume #1 offset 1.4 cmap cyanmaroon My problem become if I want to set a custom palette: scolor #0 volume #1 offset 1.4 cmap -10,yellow:0,white:10,green This line also works, but for values lower or higher than –10 or +10, the color ramp "plateaus". And this line only works because the extents of this particular mapping happen to go from –29 to +17. Is it possible to obtain the values for the full range and specify them for a custom palette? Or is it possible to assign a custom palette and call it like the default palettes? I'm happy to clarify if needed. Thanks! Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Modeling with cryo-EM
by Aurore Vaitinadapoule 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Dear all, I'm would like tu use this following script to model with cryo-EM: from modeller import * log.verbose() env = environ() struct='./M60_9.pdb' map='new_map.mrc' resolution=10.2 box_size=48 # how to define the box size ?? apix=1.88 x=90; y=63; z=23 #origin steps=20 # Read in cryo-EM density map den = density(env, file=map, em_density_format='MRC', voxel_size=apix, resolution=resolution, em_map_size=box_size, density_type='GAUSS', px=x,py=y,pz=z) # Fit the PDB file into the map by MC simulated annealing den.grid_search(em_density_format='MRC', num_structures=1, em_pdb_name=struct, chains_num=[1], start_type='CENTER', number_of_steps=steps, angular_step_size=30., temperature=100., best_docked_models=1, translate_type='RANDOM', em_fit_output_file='modem.log') But i got this error message: _modeller.ModellerError: read_mrc_h_E> Density map must be cubic, and of dimension em_map_size (48): actual dimensions (40, 40, 36) What is exactly the box size? And how to define it? Thank's Aurore -- Aurore G. VAÏTINADAPOULÉ aurore <a.vaitinadapoule(a)inserm.fr>.vaitinadapoule(a)inserm.fr<a.vaitinadapoule(a)inserm.fr> a.vaitinadapoule(a)gmail.com PhD Student in Bioinformatics INSERM UMR-S665, DSIMB Team, Dynamique des Structures et des Interactions des Macromolécules Biologiques Mobile phone: +33(0) 778 18 52 07

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chimera slow
by Daniel Murin 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Hi, I have been trying to use the Unit Cell function on Chimera. It works, but the graphic is so large that moving it around is nearly impossible because the program is running so slowly. It is rendered in ribbon. Is there a way to lower the quality in order to manipulate the graphic faster? Thanks! Charles Daniel Murin Ph.D. Candidate - Ward/Ollmann Saphire Labs Integrative Structural and Computational Biology Immunology and Microbial Science Kellogg School of Science and Technology The Scripps Research Institute 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, CimBio 105 La Jolla, CA 92037 Office: 858.784.3326 Lab: 858.784.7170 Fax: 858.784.8218 email: cmurin(a)scripps.edu

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(no subject)
by Danilo Di Maio 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

danilo.dimaio(a)gmail.com

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Launch external program from Chimera python script?
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi Chimera friends, I am thinking of writing a script for Chimera that allows the user to map lipophilicity to the surface of protein. There are a few algorithms out there, but the easiest that I've found to use is "pyMLP": http://code.google.com/p/pymlp/ I see two ways to do this: (1) Write a wrapper script (shell, Python, etc.) to first run pyMLP to generate a DX file and then launch Chimera with its own script to generate the surface and do the mapping. (2) Write a Chimera Python script to launch pyMLP to get the DX file, generate the surface, and do the mapping. For my purposes, it might be easier in the long run to choose option 2, but that seems a little trickier starting out. Can you advise me on the best way to proceed? Also, I know that you aren't looking to add new functionality to Chimera v1, but the generation of a lipophilicity map might be a nice feature to add to Chimera at some point and pyMLP seems relatively easy to package with Chimera… Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Journal of Organic and Biomolecular Simulations: Full page charge waiver
by CompChem News 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

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select all side chains
by Zhou, Ming (NIH/NCI) [C] 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Dear Elaine: I have a quick question for you. How should I select all the amino acid side chains in a protein but not the backbone (without CA/C1/N/O). How should I write this command? Thanks Ming Zhou

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Silhouette toggle
by Luca Pellegrini 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Hi, I have set Silhouette ON in the Effects tab of the Viewing panel, and now I would like to toggle it off for one specific object. However, the Attributes window from Model Panel does not show the Silhouette option (it should feature between 'ribbon spline' and 'stick scale'). Can anyone please advice? I am using Chimera 1.9 (build 39137) for Mac . Kind regards, Luca Luca Pellegrini Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge 80 Tennis Court Road Cambridge CB2 1GA - UK Email: lp212(a)cam.ac.uk Tel: 0044-1223-760469 Fax: 0044-1223-766002 Sanger building, room 3.59

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calculate buried surface area
by Bala subramanian 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Friends, I have a dimer protein (say monomers 1,2). I have calculated the electrostatic potential of monomer 1 using apbs. I used volume viewer to display the electrostatic surface. I see that the elect. surface of one monomer 1, touches the vdw surface of monomer 2 at a contour level of 1. I want to calculate the total surface area of monomer 2 that is exposed/buried within the elec. surface of monomer 1. Is there any simple. If not suggestion how i can do it with a python script perhaps. Thanks, Bala -- C. Balasubramanian

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Problem of Launching Chimera Remotely on a Mac
by Anindito Sen 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Dear All, I am having difficulty to launch Chimera remotely with the following Error message on my Mac. I understand that the current OS X (version 10.8.5) and the latest Xcode has some issues and cannot handle the process ?! Is there a way out of this ? Thanks and Best Wishes Andy [andy@****** ~]$ chimera Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:15.0". Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:15.0". X Error of failed request: GLXBadCurrentWindow Major opcode of failed request: 149 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 1354 Current serial number in output stream: 1354 Dr. Anindito Sen (Ph.D) >Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy >Graduate School of Medicine >University of Tokyo >Tel & fax: +81-3-5841-3339

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Electrostatic potential values at each residue
by Tatsuhito Matsuo 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Dear All, I'd like to get the electrostatic potential (ESP) values at each residue in a protein. I implemented the "Coulombic Surface Coloring", then get the distribution of ESP values at each residue by "Render/Select by Attribute" (Attributes of [residues], Select -> Attribute [value_Coulombic_ESP]). However, The surface plot and the ESP values obtained by "Render/Select by Attribute" do not coincide with each other. For example, there are some residues where the surface plot reports positive ESP values, while "Render/Select by Attribute" gives negative ones (e.g. VAL70 CG2 in the Chimera session file attached.). Could you teach me how to solve this discrepancy? Thank you very much in advance, T.M.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Surface area with positive electrostatic potential
by Tom Goddard 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi T.M., To find the surface area with positive electrostatic potential would require computing the potential at surface points. Chimera does not compute solvent accessible surface (SAS) points (although it does compute total area). So there is no simple way to get the SAS area for positive potential points. Chimera does compute the solvent excluded surface (SES) using menu Actions / Surface or command "surface". For an SES surface a little Python code can give the fraction of the surface area colored red. I've attached that Python code red_area.py. You color the surface using the normal red-blue electrostatic coloring. The red_area.py code adds a command called "redarea" that computes the area of the surface that is more red than blue. Here's an example from the header of the red_area.py file. # Example use. # # menu File / Open..., red_area.py, Creates the new redarea command. # # open 1a0m # surface # coulombic -10 red 0 white 10 blue #0 # redarea #0 # # menu Favorites / Reply Log # -> "Surface MSMS main surface of 1a0m, red area 1400, total area 1888, ratio 0.7414" This script and other odd Python code for doing computations is on the Chimera developer web site: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts Tom On Dec 3, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Tatsuhito Matsuo wrote: > Dear Tom, > > Thank you very much for the reply and I'm sorry for inadequate information on what I've done (your guess is completely right). What I'd like to know is the ratio of the solvent accessible surface (SAS) with positive (or negative) potential values to the total SAS. The total SAS value is automatically calculated by the surface plot, and I need the value of SAS having positive/negative potential values. > At first, I thought the ESP value of "Attributes of Residues" is relevant to the one at the corresponding protein surface area. I now understand that this was wrong. Could you teach me how to get the SAS having positive/negative potential values? > > Best regards, > > T.M. > > On 2013/12/04, at 12:19, Tom Goddard wrote: > >> Hi T.M., >> >> I think you've left out details about what you have done -- how did you get this value_Coulombic_ESP attribute? Did you use values at atom positions? Did you use the "compute grid" option in the Coulombic Surface Coloring dialog? I guess you did that. And you say you use Attributes of Residues -- is that an average of the atom attribute obtained from the values at atom positions dialog? I can't be sure what you've done, but here's a guess at what your problem is. The Chimera Coulombic Surface Coloring dialog computes the potential at points 1.4 Angstroms out from the solvent excluded molecular surface and colors the surface points using that value. If you instead use a potential value interpolated at the center of an atom, that will give a much different value -- in fact it should tend to give an extremely large value because if the atom is charged the potential at the atom center is infinite using the simple Coulomb calculation. But because you are (I think) using a value interpolated from a grid you don't get an infinite value, just a very large value. So I think your problem is you are not considering that the electrostatic potential varies rapidly in space and you are comparing colors using potential values at different positions in space. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> On Dec 2, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Tatsuhito Matsuo wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I'd like to get the electrostatic potential (ESP) values at each residue in a protein. I implemented the "Coulombic Surface Coloring", then get the distribution of ESP values at each residue by "Render/Select by Attribute" (Attributes of [residues], Select -> Attribute [value_Coulombic_ESP]). However, The surface plot and the ESP values obtained by "Render/Select by Attribute" do not coincide with each other. For example, there are some residues where the surface plot reports positive ESP values, while "Render/Select by Attribute" gives negative ones (e.g. VAL70 CG2 in the Chimera session file attached.). Could you teach me how to solve this discrepancy? >>> >>> Thank you very much in advance, >>> >>> T.M. >>> >>> <ubiquitin.py><ubiquitin.pyc>_______________________________________________ >>> Chimera-users mailing list >>> Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >>> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users >> > >

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request for removal from mailing list
by Aani Homeira 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A n i . H o m e i r a . A m i r k h a n i .

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Re: [Chimera-users] reading PDB-format alignment files
by Tom Duncan 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Eric, It's not the structural info I want to extract - just the sequence alignment info. See the remarks in the file header. Thanks, Tom ----------------------------------------------------- Thomas M. Duncan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY On Dec 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu wrote: > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 11:27:02 -0800 > From: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > To: Tom Duncan <duncant(a)upstate.edu> > Cc: chimera-users BB <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] reading PDB-format alignment files > Message-ID: <9EF6E8D1-3C93-4C30-AD51-2B110CF5C813(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Tom Duncan <duncant(a)upstate.edu> wrote: > >> Can Chimera read sequence alignments from PDB-format alignment files, such as those generated by the I-Tasser modeling server? Or are there scripts to convert them? I have attached an example file. > > Hi Tom, > Well, this "PDB" file doesn't conform to the PDB standard in a variety of ways, but the one you care about is the extra two columns on the ATOM records. The presence of those columns causes Chimera to skip those records. If you simply edit them out then Chimera displays the structure. I've attached an edited version of your file. I will open an enhancement-request ticket in our bug-tracking database for having Chimera ignore non-standard columns past the coordinate records (there are some standard columns that are supposed to be there!) and put you on the notification list for that ticket. > > --Eric

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reading PDB-format alignment files
by Tom Duncan 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Can Chimera read sequence alignments from PDB-format alignment files, such as those generated by the I-Tasser modeling server? Or are there scripts to convert them? I have attached an example file. Thanks Tom ----------------------------------------------------- Thomas M. Duncan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY

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<< measuring areas >>
by Hatuey Hack 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hellos ChimeraUsers, It could be possible to measure different parts of a surface according to a given parameter? For example, from the electrostatic potential surface, I would like to know the respective area surface with positive and/or negative values. Best regards, Hatuey

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Information
by Mabel Guzman Rodriguez 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello! I few days ago I tried to use your program Chimera, the reason is because I try to make a structure of a multimer protein but I need to know how can I bond the single subunits of the protein to make an hexamer. I hope you can help me. Greetings Mabel G.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera- Imod file size problems
by Elaine Meng 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi Ariane, I only know how to do it for "volume data" like MRC files and other density maps, but not for IMOD segmentation mesh (You said "imod mrc" but then it sounded like you meant a segmentation file instead.) <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html#volume> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/imod…> If it's a density map, you can adjust voxel size in the Volume Viewer (choose Features… Coordinates to show those settings) <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/volu…> The same thing can also be done with the volume command, see "dimension and scale options": <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/volume.html> Unless data are private, please send Chimera questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu instead of only to me. Then If I don't know the answer or am away from work, others can respond. Thanks, 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 2, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Ariane Briegel <ariane.briegel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Elaine, > I have a question you might have a quick answer to. I am trying to open a model file I generated with the IMOD program. > Generally, when I open Imod mrc files in chimera the pixel size is correct in both programs. With this model the size is way off in chimera (I have never used an imod model in chimera before, just mrc files so far). > See screenshots below- the first one shows that the model has the correct pixel size when opened in IMOD, the second shows the wrong size in chimera (the blue and green layers should have the same height as the crystal structures below), and the last screenshot shows how the data opened in chimera (as a mesh). Is there a way for me to manually adjust the pixel size of a mesh? > If you have any idea how I can fix this issue I would be very grateful! > Thank you! > Ariane > <Screen Shot 2013-12-02 at 10.03.41 AM.png><Screen Shot 2013-12-02 at 10.35.06 AM.png><Screen Shot 2013-12-02 at 10.39.27 AM.png> > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > Ariane Briegel, Ph.D. > California Institute of Technology > Broad Center, MC 114-96 > 1200 E. California Blvd. > Pasadena, CA 91125 > > Tel: 626-395-8848 > Fax: 626-395-5730 > –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > >

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Query about increasing resolution for vrml export
by Darren Gowers 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Dear Chimera community, Sorry to bother. I'm very interested in trying to increase the vrml export resolution (of any pdb model) so that more polygons are used to describe the curvature of the electron density more smoothly. There is a command in PyMol that does the equivalent (I think it is 'surface_quality'), but I'd rather use Chimera to generate vrml files! Does anyone have any suggestions how to make molecular surfaces much smoother please? Many thanks, Darren -- Dr Darren Gowers<http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/biology/staff/title,30538,en.html> Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry School of Biological Sciences University of Portsmouth PO1 2DY +44(0)2392 842057

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Re: [Chimera-users] solvent-accessible surface area
by Amit Goyal 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi Elaine, Today I subscribe to Chimera mailing list, but unable to get the proper way to post a query on it. So I am sending the query this way. I have been reading this post about how to get the areaSAS and areaSES values for any residues. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2008-May/002617.html Still, I think, is there any specific values/range for the areas AS to decide whether a particular amino acid residues is buried or exposed to the solvent. Hoping for Thanks for your help. Sincerely, AMIT -- AMIT GOYAL, Pusan National University, Korea south. amitgsir(a)pusan.ac.kr

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translation matrix
by Antón Vila Sanjurjo 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hi, I'm trying to get a translation matrix for two different crystal structures of ribisomal subunits. I've been trying to use the "measure rotation" command but I can only get it to display the following message "rotation angle is near zero (0 degrees)". I was wondering whether the command might be failing due to the fact that the ribosome contains numerous chains, or perhaps because the command does not deal with RNA. At any rate, how would one go about obtaining a translation matrix that can be applied to any model? best, Antón -- Antón Vila-Sanjurjo, PhD Marie Curie fellow Grupo QOSBIOS, Dept. Química Fundamental Facultade de Ciencias Universidade de A Coruña (UDC) Campus Zapateira, s/n 15.071 - A Coruña - España (Spain). tlf: (34) 981-167000 ext:2659 e-mail: antonvila.s(a)gmail.com

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colouring according to hydrophobicity
by Dieter Blaas 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Hi, I am wondering whether there is any (easy) way of colouring a volume (e.g. an MRC file made from a pdb file and filtered to say, 10 A with e.g. xmipp) according to hydrophobicity (using the values derived from the amino acid residues in the pdb file)? I am aware of the way to colour the van der Waals surface but the resolution is somewhat too high not allowing to get a more general view, for example whether the molecule is more hydrophobic on one side than on another side. The same question applies to the charge distribution.... Thanks, Dieter -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: dieter.blaas(a)meduniwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Overlay binding sites
by Markus Heller 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

Hello all, I'm pretty sure this has been done before, so before re-inventing the wheel or failing miserably and doing everything by hand, I thought I'd ask here first :) I have a protein that has been crystallized with about a dozen ligands of different sizes. I'd like to overlap the protein residues forming the binding site. My plan was to pick the 2 largest ligands, select all protein residues within say 7 A, and consider these to be the residues forming the binding site. Then, I'd like to match this set of residues for all proteins to the same reference. I suppose I could do this all manually, but I'm hoping that there is a quicker, more efficient way! Any tips are appreciated! Thanks and Cheers Markus -- Markus Heller, Ph.D. NMR Scientist CDRD - The Centre for Drug Research and Development 2405 Wesbrook Mall, Fourth Floor | Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 | Main: (604) 827-1147 Direct: (604) 827-1122 | F: (604) 827-1299 | E: mheller(a)cdrd.ca<mailto:mheller@cdrd.ca> | www.cdrd.ca [cid:image007.png@01CEEC32.879D5C80] Follow us: [Description: cid:image003.jpg@01CD86A6.39B41A10] <https://twitter.com/C_D_R_D> [Description: cid:image005.jpg@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CDRD-3186016/about?report%2Esuccess=3NcE4iZo…> [Description: cid:image009.png@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Centre-for-Drug-Research-and-Development…> [Description: cid:image010.png@01CD86AE.B197F5D0] <http://www.youtube.com/user/CDRDCVI?view_as=public> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute, copy, or alter this email.

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features/question: stereo3d and volume rendering
by Dougherty, Matthew T 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

1) I have been doing S3D animations. One of things I am realizing is that I need to frequently adjust the interaxial and screen distances. Sometimes my IA might be 1mm or it might be 23 inches depending on the shot. Currently chimera does not maintain this camera metadata, so every session I need to reset the values which makes my animations slightly different. Since rendering can take several hours, one typo can trash the effort. Any suggestions on a workaround? There is also a linkage between IA, horizontal field of view, and screen distance, sometimes I think I get caught in a hysteresis loop trying to converge to the desired shot. As a note, I pretty much stopped using the zoom and have gone to dolly, keeping the scale to one. 2) when doing volume rendering of electron tomograms I am finding it useful to load the same mrc map file in multiple times, such that each model has a different transfer function relating to different densities or structures. I can currently load seven, but four must be changed from floating point to byte in order to prevent memory lockout thrashing, error messages, etc. Is there a way to load a single map file in and have multiple models and transfer functions for the solid viewing? Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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Protonation of selected atoms ?
by Marek Maly 28 Nov '13

28 Nov '13

Dear all, I would like to protonate just several nitrogen atoms (tertiary amines) of my hyperbranched polymer. I tried Structure "Editing -> Add hydrogens" but it protonised all my tertiary amines in the structure ignoring the fact that only few of them were selected and considered for protonation. So is there any way how to protonate only selected N atoms ? If not would be a good idea to add this possibility into Add Hydrogens panel (function). Thank you, Best wishes, Marek -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Automatic setting of suggested contour level
by Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hi Chimera team, I love how Chimera seems to intelligently and automatically choose a contour level for fetched EMDB files. However, I have noticed that most EMDB files have a "suggested contour level" associated with them. It can be obtained in the "header" XML files under the tag <contourLevel>. How much more work would it be to automatically fetch this information when fetching the map and then set the contour level to the recommended setting? Would you consider doing it? Thanks, Darrell -- Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office: 301-402-0095 Mobile: 301-758-3559 Web: BCBB Home Page<http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/odoffices/omo/ocicb/Pages/bcbb.…> Twitter: @niaidbioit<https://twitter.com/niaidbioit> Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Fwd: generate raised cosine smoothed mask with "mask ones" and "vop falloff"
by Tom Goddard 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hi Dieter, Chimera does not make masks with cosine falloff. The only mask smoothing in Chimera is "vop falloff". The algorithm is completely described in the Chimera manual (copied below) and basically amounts to a "heat equation" falloff -- the grid points outside the mask are assigned the average of the neighboring values, essentially the diffusion of heat from the masked ones region to the outside zeros region. This works for any shape. Tom "vop falloff volume-spec [ iterations M ] general-options Smooth the boundaries of a masked map by replacing the value at each grid point outside the boundary with the average of the values of its six nearest neighbors, for M iterations (default 10). All grid points with values of zero before the first iteration are taken to be outside the boundary, thus assigned a new value at each iteration. Thanks to Greg Pintilie for the initial implementation." Begin forwarded message: > From: Dieter Blaas > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] generate raised cosine smoothed mask with "mask ones" and "vop falloff" > Date: November 26, 2013 8:34:17 AM PST > To: Tom Goddard > > Hi Tom, > > thanks for these explanations! I am still not sure whether such a mask behaves like a mask made with e.g. xmipp_transform_mask or with spider MA SOFT. I'd like to make an arbitrary mask (level 0 - 1) from a molecular volume which has a raised_cosine falloff. When comparing a spherical mask made with chimera (as given below) and with xmipp their histograms look quite different (probably also a question of the choice of parameters). The difference becomes much more striking when using a more irregular shaped molecular assembly. I found the Chimera procedure when looking for a method to make such masks as this is not provided in xmipp (only a sphere or a crown with raised-cosine but not an irregularly shaped mask). I want to use it in 3D-reconstructions...... > > Best, Dieter > > > > > > > > Am 25.11.2013 21:25, schrieb Tom Goddard: >> Hi Dieter, >> >> You should be able to generate a smooth volume mask using "mask ones" and "vop falloff" in Chimera. Here's an example making a smooth cylinder mask >> >> shape cylinder radius 100 height 100 caps true >> mask ones #0 border 10 >> vop falloff #1 iter 100 >> >> The boundary smoothing "vop falloff" is described on this web page >> >> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/falloff-sep2012/falloff.html >> >> Maybe you saw that page and got tripped up because it gave the wrong option name "step" instead of "iterations" in the vop falloff command -- I've fixed the web page. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:41 AM, Dieter Blaas wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I was wondering whether it is possible to generate binary raised cosine smooth masks with 'masked ones' followed by 'vop falloff' or anything alike. I'd like to generate an arbitrary mask (from a volume) with a smooth transition (over some few pixels) to 0 but I did not really find adequate parameters. Is this possible? >>> Thanks, D. >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Dieter Blaas, >>> Max F. Perutz Laboratories >>> Medical University of Vienna, >>> Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), >>> Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, >>> A-1030 Vienna, Austria, >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dieter Blaas, > Max F. Perutz Laboratories > Medical University of Vienna, > Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), > Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, > A-1030 Vienna, Austria, > ------------------------------

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generate raised cosine smoothed mask with "mask ones" and "vop falloff"
by Dieter Blaas 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Hi, I was wondering whether it is possible to generate binary raised cosine smooth masks with 'masked ones' followed by 'vop falloff' or anything alike. I'd like to generate an arbitrary mask (from a volume) with a smooth transition (over some few pixels) to 0 but I did not really find adequate parameters. Is this possible? Thanks, D. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: dieter.blaas(a)meduniwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22
by Boaz Shaanan 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

Hi Ahir, On my Dell & Nvidia dual boot (W7/linux) laptop there is the optimus feature which if it's on decides which graphics driver to use (on-board or Nvidia). You probably have a similar feature. In the system menu I switched the optimus off completely so I work only with the Nvidia driver. I did it mostly because of the linux side but keep this mode even when I'm under W7. My 2p advice. Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel E-mail: bshaanan(a)bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Skype: boaz.shaanan Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710 ________________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] on behalf of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu [chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:00 PM To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Graphics Driver not switching to Nvidia (a.pushpanath(a)mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk) 2. Re: Graphics Driver not switching to Nvidia (Tom Goddard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:54:51 +0000 From: a.pushpanath(a)mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: [Chimera-users] Graphics Driver not switching to Nvidia Message-ID: <20131122095451.15962g65x3dljxno(a)webmail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Dear Chimera Users/Admins, I am having a sudden issue with Chimera, which refuses to pick the Nvidia GT 540M gfx card as my primary card whenever I start the program. I always get the Debug Graphics card, regardless of whether I have told the Nvidia Optimus technology to use the Nvidia card for chimera.exe. I am not entirely sure why this is happening, any help would be recommended! The intel HD graphics card is not good enough for my needs. Ahir ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:07:27 -0800 From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net> To: a.pushpanath(a)mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk Cc: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Graphics Driver not switching to Nvidia Message-ID: <98429CC0-4EEE-4FB8-90D5-B67D0E27B913(a)sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi Ahir, Chimera does not decide which graphics card to use, your operating system decides that. The Chimera graphics debug dialog comes up every time because you set the Chimera preference "Debug OpenGL on Startup" and saved that preference setting. To turn that off use Chimera menu Favorites / Preferences?, turn the setting off and press the Save button at the bottom of the Preferences dialog. Tom On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:54 AM, wrote: > Dear Chimera Users/Admins, > I am having a sudden issue with Chimera, which refuses to pick the Nvidia GT 540M gfx card as my primary card whenever I start the program. I always get the Debug Graphics card, regardless of whether I have told the Nvidia Optimus technology to use the Nvidia card for chimera.exe. I am not entirely sure why this is happening, any help would be recommended! > > The intel HD graphics card is not good enough for my needs. > > Ahir > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users End of Chimera-users Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22 **********************************************

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Graphics Driver not switching to Nvidia
by a.pushpanath＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Dear Chimera Users/Admins, I am having a sudden issue with Chimera, which refuses to pick the Nvidia GT 540M gfx card as my primary card whenever I start the program. I always get the Debug Graphics card, regardless of whether I have told the Nvidia Optimus technology to use the Nvidia card for chimera.exe. I am not entirely sure why this is happening, any help would be recommended! The intel HD graphics card is not good enough for my needs. Ahir ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera STL files
by Tom Goddard 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Hi Julian, The problem is that you create a large density map for your protein, but then Chimera doesn't display it at full resolution, because it is so large. To make Chimera display the contour surface of the full resolution map set the "Step" value in the volume viewer dialog to 1, or use the equivalent command "volume #0 step 1" after the molmap command. Making the grid spacing 0.1 (40 times smaller than the resolution of 4 Angstroms) is likely to create a huge STL file that the printer will have trouble with, and it won't give any smoother appearance than say 0.4 I think. Tom On Nov 20, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Julian Gough wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I read what you wrote here: > > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2013-May/008825.html > > I am really struggling to make an STL file for a coiled coil protein for 3D printing. What I see happening in Chimera does not seem to correspond to what you say, i.e. I use "molmap #0 4 grid 0.1" which according to you should be super-smooth -being far beyond what you suggest-, but the STL file that I export still has very large and obvious triangles. > > I have played with it a great deal and I cannot find any way to control the number of triangles in the STL file. Whatever parameter I use for the grid, the output file is roughly similar in size. I can certainly fill the memory and crash it by making the grid smaller, but this is not reflected in the exported STL file. > > ANy guidance much appreciated. > > Julian > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Julian Gough > Professor of Bioinformatics > University of Bristol > Department of Computer Science > Merchant Venturers building > Woodland rd, Bristol, UK, BS8 1UB > Tel: +44 (0)117 3315221 > Web: http://bioinformatics.bris.ac.uk > <owen2.py><owen2.stl>

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Set interatomic distances
by George Patargias 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hello Do you know if there is a way to set interatomic distances to a certain value in chimera (rather than measuring them)? Basically what I want to do is rotate/translate a peptide with respect to a protein so that a set of interatomic distances between the two are satisfied Many thanks! George Dr. George Patargias Postdoctoral Researcher Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens 4, Soranou Ephessiou 115 27 Athens Greece Office: +302106597568

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measuring distances
by Ryan Pavlovicz 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, I am trying to measure the distance between two atoms from many different PDB structures using a python script. Using a command like: chimera.runCommand('distance #0:1@C1 #0:1@C2') will correctly output the distance within a tenth of an angstrom, however, i would like to output a more accurate measurement (more decimal places). Is there a way to do this when using chimera within a python script? Thanks for your help, ryan

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Commands for label formatting (font size etc)
by Andreas Göransson 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi! How do I set font size for label / rlabel command in a command file? Can't find info in the documentation or in the mail list archive. Thanks, Andreas

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WebGL
by Hansen, Bryan (NIH/NIAID) [F] 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, I'm trying to export a scene using the WebGL feature within Chimera, but something seems to be going wrong. I'm attaching what opens up after Chimera saves the scene. I'm not able to rotate the output at all either. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere within Chimera? Thanks for your help and input. ************************** Bryan Hansen Microbiologist Electron Microscopy Lab NIH/NIAID/Rocky Mountain Laboratory 903 S 4th St Hamilton, MT 59840 (406) 363-9202 *********************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information.It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ***********************************************************

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Changing default max number of histograms shown
by Joel Meyerson 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, By default, Chimera displays up to 3 histograms in the "Volume Viewer". I know that this number can be increased manually in the "Data display options" after launching the program, but I would like to change the default number. Is there a built-in Chimera preference to set the default number to something higher? If not, can you perhaps suggest how this might be scripted to happen upon launching the program? Thanks, Joel

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Multi-fragment fit in map
by Paolo Swuec 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Good morning, I am EM user and I was wondering wether is possible in Chimera to fit multiple pdb in the same volume (e.g. Fitting two monomers into a dimer map without overlaps and clashes). I am using Situs and the collage command, but I was wondering if there was an easy way of doing it in Chimera. Thank you very much, Paolo Paolo Swuec, Ph.D. Student Architecture and Dynamics of Macromolecular Machines London Research Institute Clare Hall Laboratories Cancer Research UK South Mimms Herts EN6 3LD, UK E-mail: paolo.swuec(a)cancer.org.uk<mailto:alessandro.costa@cancer.org.uk> NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER This e-mail (including any attachments) is intended for the above-named person(s). If you are not the intended recipient, notify the sender immediately, delete this email from your system and do not disclose or use for any purpose. We may monitor all incoming and outgoing emails in line with current legislation. We have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, but it remains your responsibility to ensure that viruses do not adversely affect you. Cancer Research UK Registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666) and the Isle of Man (1103) A company limited by guarantee. Registered company in England and Wales (4325234) and the Isle of Man (5713F). Registered Office Address: Angel Building, 407 St John Street, London EC1V 4AD.

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Question on labeling residues on a single-chain protein
by J. David Puett 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

I wish to label certain residues and have these appear along with the structure. I have used the Command line to enter the following. rlabel Met_71.A What other Command(s) is required to display and later print the labeled structure? Many thanks!

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Measure buried area
by Jian Guan 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Hi all, I use measure command to calculate the buried area between capsomer and Fab. My input file is pentamer.pdb and Fab.pdb. I made surface model for them respectively and use the command line as shown below: measure buriedArea #3 #2 probeRadius 1.4 However, it replied as "Surface calculation failed" I tried also delete all non-binding units in the pentamer, it still can not work. Does anyone know how to deal with that? Thank you so much. Sincerely yours, Jian

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Re: [Chimera-users] Residue selection
by Mark Girvin 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Thanks for the info Eric, - Mark ________________________________ From: Eric Pettersen [pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:43 PM To: Mark Girvin Cc: George Tzotzos ‎[gtzotzos@me.com]‎ Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Residue selection Yeah, waters with a blank chain ID are put in chain "water" and similarly residues in HETATM records with a blank chain ID are put in chain "het". If the chain ID is non-blank, both get assigned the given chain ID rather than "water" or "het". --Eric On Nov 14, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Mark Girvin <mark.girvin(a)einstein.yu.edu<mailto:mark.girvin@einstein.yu.edu>> wrote: Got it. And no problem - just not quite expected. So then chimera sets up internal chain names (like "water") for some entries in PDB files? I don't think George's file had any internal chain entries, or HETATM lines. - Mark ________________________________ From: Eric Pettersen [pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu>] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:50 PM To: Mark Girvin Cc: George Tzotzos; chimera List Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Residue selection Yeah, the :127@O behavior is deliberate. If you omit the chain ID, it only matches single-character chain IDs (i.e. not chain ID "water" or "het"). This choice was made so that if your structure has a bunch of waters that so happen to have the same numbers as various polymeric residues, :127 will get the polymeric residue(s) but not the waters. This behavior was more important before the PDB remediation a few years back where such occurrences were commonplace. Now, in standard PDB files waters are frequently assigned specific chain IDs and therefore have different numbers than the polymeric residues. Chimera's behavior still matters for non-standard PDB files generated by various programs. If I were making the decision about Chimera's behavior today, given that the issue no longer affects standard PDB files, it might go the other way (it might not), but I don't feel strongly enough to change anything. A bunch of complaining could change my mind. :-) --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/> On Nov 14, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Mark Girvin <mark.girvin(a)einstein.yu.edu<mailto:mark.girvin@einstein.yu.edu>> wrote: I don't know why that doesn't work, but: select :WAT@O seems to (if you only have the one water in your pdb file), as does: select :127.water@O (which would presumably limit the selection to the one water molecule) - Mark ________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu> [chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu>] on behalf of George Tzotzos [gtzotzos(a)me.com<mailto:gtzotzos@me.com>] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:08 AM To: chimera List Subject: [Chimera-users] Residue selection I'm attaching a pdb file of a protein ligand complex with a single conserve water molecule. The pdb file was constructed with Antechamber Leap. The water molecule is numbered as residue 127. When I try to select using: select :127 nothing happens. Selection works with: select :WAT The problem is that I need to monitor the distance between :127@O and a particular atom in the binding site of the protein during an MD trajectory. My question is if I'm doing something wrong with the residue selection. Many thanks in advance for your help Regards George _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users

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Residue selection
by George Tzotzos 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

I'm attaching a pdb file of a protein ligand complex with a single conserve water molecule. The pdb file was constructed with Antechamber Leap. The water molecule is numbered as residue 127. When I try to select using: select :127 nothing happens. Selection works with: select :WAT The problem is that I need to monitor the distance between :127@O and a particular atom in the binding site of the protein during an MD trajectory. My question is if I'm doing something wrong with the residue selection. Many thanks in advance for your help Regards George

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Re: [Chimera-users] Issues with characters on command line (OS X 10.9)
by Mario Dejung 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Hi Andreas, have you tried copy/paste the character from somewhere, for example Terminal, to the command line? I have “the same” problem with German keyboard layout. I am not able to type the ~ character within the command line of Chimera… But with copy paste, the character is visible and it works… Not a good workaround… by the way… Mario

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Speed problems under Mavericks
by Mario Dejung 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

I found Tom Goddard's post about the Mavericks bug and the change on the daily build with the disabled advanced graphics. So I am not sure, if my problem is related to the crashing of chimera. My problem is the speed of chimera under Mavericks. I work with molecules of about 20000 Atoms and rotating a PDB of this size is very painful. I didn’t had problems with Lion. I am wondering now, if I am the only person with speed problems under Mavericks, or if other people have similar issues. Is there a way to improve the speed of chimera under Mavericks? Kind regards Mario

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Re: [Chimera-users] Using runCommand outputs
by Tom Goddard 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Hi Ahir, Every Chimera command has an equivalent Python function. I just didn't tell you all the places you would have to look to find them. Commands that have a separate dialog (graphical user interface) usually have their own code directory and are not in Midas/__init__.py. So for example the findclash command has the equivalent Python function "detectClash()" in directory chimera/share/DetectClash (On Mac the directory is Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/DetectClash). So it can be a bit tricky to find the Python. Here's what I do when I can't find the Python code. Each command is registered in Chimera code with the routine addCommand(). So I search for addCommand in all the share directories. Below is a list for Chimera 1.8. You are right that trying to save reply log output instead of directly running Python functions is not feasible for more complex scripts. Tom $ cd Chimera-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/share $ grep "addCommand(" */*.py Accelerators/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('ac', accel_cmd, None, help = True, changesDisplay = True) AddAttr/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("defattr", cmdAddAttr, help=True, changesDisplay=False) AddCharge/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("addcharge", cmdAddCharge, help=True, changesDisplay=False) AddH/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("addh", cmdAddH, help=True) Addions/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("adions", cmdAddions, help=True) Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:# addCommand(command, cmdFunc, revFunc=None, help=None, changesDisplay=True) Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('scene', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:#addCommand('transition', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:#addCommand('animate', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfadd', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfclear', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfdel', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfmove', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfmovie', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfsave', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfshow', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kfstatus', Animate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('kftrans', Aniso/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("aniso", cmdAniso, revFunc=cmdUnaniso, help=True) BuildStructure/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("invert", cmdInvert, help=True) ChangeChainIDs/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("changechains", cmdChangeChains, help=True, changesDisplay=False) Combine/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("combine", cmdCombine, help=True) CrystalContacts/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('crystalcontacts', crystal_contacts_command, help = True) DetectClash/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("findclash", cmdDetectClash, revFunc=cmdUndetectClash, help=True) ESP/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("coulombic", wrapper, help=True) EnsembleMatch/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('tile', tile_cmd, tile_cmd, help = True) EnsembleMatch/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('cluster', cluster_cmd, None, help = True) FindHBond/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("hbonds", cmdHBonds, revFunc=cmdUnHBonds, help=True) FindHBond/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("findhbond", cmdHBonds, revFunc=cmdUnHBonds, help=True) FitMap/ChimeraExtension.py:mt.addCommand('fitmap', fit_map, unfit_map, help = True) Fly/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('fly', fly_cmd, help = True) IcosahedralCage/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('hkcage', hkcage, help = True) Ilabel/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("2dlabels", doLabel2DCmd, help=True) Intersurf/ChimeraExtension.py:midas_text.addCommand("intersurf", emo.commandLine) Lighting/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('lighting', lighting, help=True) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("list", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listmodels", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listchains", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listresidues", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listatoms", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listselection", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listphysicalchains", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("listen", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) ListInfo/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("sequence", emo.command, help=True, changesDisplay=False) MMMD/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("minimize", emo.cmdMMMD, help=True) MMMD/ChimeraExtension.py:#addCommand("dynamics", emo.cmdMMMD, help=True) Mask/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('mask', mask_cmd, help = True) MatchMaker/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("mmaker", cmdMatchMaker, help=True) MatchMaker/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("matchmaker", cmdMatchMaker, help=True) Measure/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('measure', measure_cmd, help = True) MeshToMolecule/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('meshmol', mesh_to_molecule, help = True) Midas/midas_text.py:def addCommand(command, cmdFunc, revFunc=None, help=None, changesDisplay=True): ModelClip/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('mclip', mclip_command, unclip_command, help = True) MoleculeCopy/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('mcopy', mcopy_cmd, help = True) MoleculeMap/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('molmap', molmap_cmd, help = True) Morph/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("morph", emo.cmdMorph, help=True) Movie/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('coordset', coordset, help = True) MovieRecorder/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("movie", doMovieCmd, help=True, changesDisplay=False) MultiscaleColor/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('msc', msc_command, msc_undo_command, help = True) NucleicAcids/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('nucleotides', nucleotides, revFunc=unnucleotides, help=True) Play/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('play', play, reverse_play, help = ('play.html', 'Play')) RNALayout/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('rna', rna_cmd, help = True) Ramachandran/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("ramachandran", emo.cmdLine, help=True) ResRenumber/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("resrenumber", cmdResRenumber, help=True, changesDisplay=False) Rotamers/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("swapaa", cmdRotamers, help=True) Segger/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('segment', segment, None, help = True) Shape/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('shape', shape_cmd, help = True) Solvate/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("solvate", cmdSolvate, help=True) SplitMolecule/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('split', split_molecules, help = True, changesDisplay=False) StructureDiagram/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("struct2d", emo.cmdLine, help=True, changesDisplay=False) Surface/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('sop', sop_cmd, unsop_cmd, help = True) SurfaceColor/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('scolor', scolor_cmd, scolor_cmd, help = True) SurfaceColor/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('scolour', scolor_cmd, scolor_cmd, help = True) SurfaceZone/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('bondzone', bzone, no_bzone, help = True, changesDisplay=False) SymmetryCopies/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('sym', symmetry_copies, undo_symmetry_copies, Topography/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('topography', topo, help = True) ViewDock/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("viewdock", emo.cmdViewdock, help=True) VolumeFilter/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('vop', vop_cmd, help = True) VolumeSeries/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('vseries', vseries_cmd, help = True) VolumeViewer/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand('volume', volume_cmd, help = True) Zone/ChimeraExtension.py:Midas.midas_text.addCommand('zonesel', zone_cmd, help = True) apbs/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("apbs", emo.cmdLine, help=True) blastpdb/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("blast", emo.cmdLine, help=True, changesDisplay=False) blastpdb/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("psiblast", emo.cmdLine, help=True, changesDisplay=False) chimera/writeSel.py:addCommand("writesel", midasCmd, help=True) pdb2pqr/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("pdb2pqr", emo.cmdLine, help=True) vina/ChimeraExtension.py:addCommand("vina", vinaEmo.cmdLine, help=True) $ On Nov 14, 2013, at 1:21 AM, wrote: > Thanks for the prompt reply Tom, that explains things! I took a look at the init.py file, and I can see that it's not as straight forward and as you said, some runcommand functionality is not represented by midas commands too right? For example, I cant find findclash for example. I am not beyond using runcommand ("findclash" blah blah log/savefile True) etc, but what is the easiest way to feed the output of runcommand that does not have a savefile option , i.e if the ouput goes not to the reply log but rather to IDLE, is there any way of getting this data back to a file, without manually cut and pasting it into a file and saving it? Because the saveReplyLog from tkgui does not save anything if I am running IDLE, because the output goes to IDLE (and I am using IDLE during writing/testing the script). If there is a way of doing this, then its a suitabe workaround for me! > > Thanks again > Ahir > > One thing, > > Quoting Tom Goddard > >> Hi Ahir, >> >> Unfortunately runCommand() does not return any Python objects resulting from the command -- would be convenient if it worked that way. If you want return values from a command you need to call the Python function that does that command. Most of those are in file >> >> chimera/share/Midas/__init__.py >> >> with the function name matching the command name, e.g. rmsd() for the "rmsd" command, or match() for the "match" command. So open that file in a text editor and search for the command you want. We unfortunately don't have documentation on the Python functions so this can be troublesome and I'm sure is why you prefer runCommand(). We will provide documentation for all the Python functions in our next generation Chimera that we are working on now. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:40 AM, wrote: >> >>> Hello all, I am getting confused by the runCommand() functionality when I am trying to run scripts. When I run my python script through IDLE(From Tools-General), the ouput of runcommand commands like rmsd etc are given the IDLE. I want to store the output from runcommand into a variable dynamically. I dont want to save from the ReplyLog (by running program without IDLE) or output to file, is there something in python itself that I am not understanding and hence, not using, or is it not possible to store the output of runcommand into a variable/list etc, as it is possible for the midas.rmsd function for example. I only ask because I prefer to use the command line functionality over the midas command. If it is only possible with the direct midas, how do I find out the equivalent command of the runcommand for the midas python formatting? >>> >>> Thank you >>> Sorry if my question is a bit confusing! >>> >>> Ahir >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chimera-users mailing list >>> Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >>> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users >>> >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >

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Query related to chimera downloading
by akhilesh verma 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Dear Sir/Madam, I am a research scholar from Cachar Cancer Hospital, India. I tried to download Chimera V-1.8.1. but could not download. It is showing insufficient permission. Kindly tell me how to set up this problem. Thanking you n anticipation -- Yours sincerely, *Dr. Akalesh Kumar Verma* *Post-Doc Research Associate* *Department of Molecular Oncology* *Cachar Cancer Hospital & Research Centre* *Mobile : +91-8471956679* *____________* *Personal Disclaimer:--* *Any information contained in this e-mail and/or any attachments is confidential and only intended for reception and use by the specified person. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the email to the sender and delete it afterwards. In this case any copying, forwarding, printing, disclosure and use is strictly prohibited.* *_____________________________*

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chimera multiple sequence alignment
by Covell, David (NIH/NCI) [E] 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Dear Chimera Help, I have used NCBI's COBALT to align the active site residues for the ~400 kinases in the 'kinome tree'. This fasta alignment can be exported and read into chimera. Once loaded, tools > sequence > multialign/viewer > info > percent identity gives me the % identity for a pair of sequences. Since I have ~400 sequences, I would like to know whether the upper-triangular matrix of percent identities can be done automatically. If so, can a weight matrix for scoring (BLOSUM62) be used? Thanks in advance for your help. David Covell, Ph.D.

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Issues with characters on command line (OS X 10.9)
by Andreas Göransson 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hi everybody! I am experiencing a strange issue with the command line. I have OS X 10.9 and Chimera 1.8.1. I can't type tilde sign (~) in the command line - nothing comes up. Other Alt-combinations to produce special characters as @ works fine. Have any of you the same problem / any suggestions for solution? Thanks, Andreas

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Using runCommand outputs
by a.pushpanath＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hello all, I am getting confused by the runCommand() functionality when I am trying to run scripts. When I run my python script through IDLE(From Tools-General), the ouput of runcommand commands like rmsd etc are given the IDLE. I want to store the output from runcommand into a variable dynamically. I dont want to save from the ReplyLog (by running program without IDLE) or output to file, is there something in python itself that I am not understanding and hence, not using, or is it not possible to store the output of runcommand into a variable/list etc, as it is possible for the midas.rmsd function for example. I only ask because I prefer to use the command line functionality over the midas command. If it is only possible with the direct midas, how do I find out the equivalent command of the runcommand for the midas python formatting? Thank you Sorry if my question is a bit confusing! Ahir ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Mapping Change in Surface Exposed Residues on Model
by Joshua Carter 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hello, My name is Josh Carter and I am an undergraduate at MSU working on some modeling. I am working in particular on a ribo-nucleo-protein complex that undergoes a conformational change upon target binding. I am trying to find a good way to map the change in surface exposed residues after this conformational change occurs. I have a morph model of the two states and was just wondering if there was a way to map using chimera which models are surface exposed or not? Thanks, Josh

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Re: [Chimera-users] set attribute coil/helix/sheet in chimera
by Tom Goddard 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

There is no isCoil attribute. If a residue is not helix and not sheet then it is coil. So to set residues 106-121 to coil use setattr r isHelix 0 :106-121 setattr r isSheet 0 :106-121 Tom On Nov 11, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Puey Ounjai wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I am wondering if there is any way to set attribute to coil for particular residue just for rendition? > I tried command "setattr" it works perfectly for helices and sheet but I dont know if option isCoil do exist > > Thanks, > Puey

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suggestion: stereo3D
by Dougherty, Matthew T 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi, I would recommend an option to lock the focal plane to the min clipping plane. having that track will make first pass stereography easier to create the stereo3D parallax budget. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine

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Automatic mutations
by James Starlight 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear Chimera users! I'm looking for the possible python script which using the Chimera's source would introduce selected mutations in the defined PDB file and produce PDB output containing such protein with the selected substitution residues. It would be also good if rotamers for mutation residues would be backbone dependent or taken from the existing rotamer libraries (although its not essence because I can run minimization on the mutants) Previously I've done such tasks with selectivity mutations via Chimera-GUI rotamer plugin but now I'd like to obtain big series of the mutant of studied protein for further examinations of such mutants by means of molecular dynamics simulation. Could someone provide me with such script if it could not be very complicated to make it? Thanks for help, James

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Re: [Chimera-users] Problems with binding site representation
by Elaine Meng 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Hi Vigneshwari, The CASTp approach is great in that it automatically figures out for you where the pocket boundaries are (where the pocket ends and the outside begins), and provides volume and other measurements. CASTp works with apo structures as well as liganded. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/castp.html> <http://sts-fw.bioengr.uic.edu/castp/calculation.php> Another tool that can be used with Chimera is the Voss Volume Voxelator (3V) web server, which will create "density"-type maps of the pockets and tunnels in a structure. In Chimera, you can open the resulting map, adjust the isosurface level as desired in Volume Viewer, then measure the volume enclosed in the isosurface with the "Measure and Color Blobs" tool (in menu under Tools… Volume Data). <http://3vee.molmovdb.org/> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/fram…> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/pickblobs/pickblo…> These do not display different inside and outside colors, but they use other ways to locate the pocket boundaries. The complicated procedure in Chimera to generate the pockets with different inside and outside coloring is because we currently don't have 2-sided coloring on a single surface. The map from 3V could be shown with two different isosurfaces slightly offset from each other in two differen colors, but I don't know how useful that would be. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/fram…> You may need to use a different program if none of the above suffice. 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 11, 2013, at 11:14 PM, vigneshwari subramanian <vignesh.bioinfo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Elaine, > Thanks for your email. > > Our aim is to show the differences in the volume of binding cavities when an agonist and antagonist binds. We also want to show the ligand free state of the cavity. The reason for having 2 different colors is to clearly see if the volume marks the inner or outer surface of the cavity. > > Since this doesn't work very well, I thought I could solvate the cavity and display that surface. I am not sure if there better ways to represent the volumes of binding cavities. > > regards, > vigneshwari >

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Re: [Chimera-users] Problems with binding site representation
by Elaine Meng 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi Vigneshwari, You can see the manual page by using command "help measure" or you can see it on our website here: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#contact…> 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 9, 2013, at 3:31 AM, vigneshwari subramanian wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > Thank you so much for your timely help. I could actually make the same figure. I need to do the same for our dataset. > > It would be really helpful if you can tell me what each of these parameters mean. I think you gave an overview. But I would like to know what each of these mean. > > 3 slab -.1,0 > > measure contactArea #0.2 #0.1 3 slab -.1,0 color tan > measure contactArea #0.2 #0.1 2.99 slab -.11,-.01 color cornflowerblue > > I checked the manual. But I couldn't find any information about measure contactArea. > > I am there in the chimera list. > > regards, > vigneshwari

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Change line width of stick representation?
by Amy Davenport Migliori 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the line width of stick representations? Either that or add the ability to have depth in wire representations (i.e. shading, etc)? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Amy Migliori, UCSD

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Problems with binding site representation
by vigneshwari subramanian 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Dear all, I have been trying hard to make a figure similar to the one shown in this web page. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/ImageGallery/ I would like to have 2 different colours to represent the inner and outer surfaces of binding site. I opened 2 different structures of the same protein and adjusted the surface parameters (probe radius and vertex density) . But that doesn't seem to work. I would be really happy if someone can help me to sort out this issue. thanks, vigneshwari

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