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Chimera on RHEL7
by Ted Schnitzer 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hi, Is Chimera certified to run on RHEL7? Thanks, Ted Schnitzer This email message and any attachments are confidential and intended for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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trajectory smoothing
by Chami, Fatima 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Dear all, I would like to make a movie from and MD trajectory and I need to smooth the frame. When i record the move it is flaky has any one there developed a script to do the average for image smoothing Many thanks Fatima

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Chimera does not run
by Quim Aguirre 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Dear Sir/Madame, I have recently installed Chimera on my computer which has Ubuntu 14.04 as OS. The followed the installation instructions of this link: https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/downloads/1.6.2/linux.html I executed the chimera-1.10.2-linux_x86_64.bin file, added the symbolic link in /usr/local/bin/chimera, and the installation appeared to succeed. However, then I tried to run the program but the application was not able to start. There was no error message. It just runs a loading window for a second but then it is closed automatically. What should I do to be able to install the program properly? Thank you very much for your attention, Quim -- *Joaquim Aguirre Plans* Student of the MSc Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (UPF/UB) Graduate in Biotechnology (UAB), specialization in Biotechnology of Processes [Tel.] +34 692 352 112 quim.aguirre(a)gmail.com joaquim.aguirre01(a)estudiant.upf.edu

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Chimera ESP values
by Sarah Keasey 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Hello, I have generated structure images in Chimera and colored according to Coulomb ESP. I would like to export the ESP values so that I would have an ESP value for each residue in my protein. Is this possible? Thanks in advance, Sarah Keasey Ph.D. Candidate Biological Sciences University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Will ChimeraX deal with data in Fourier space (MTZ format)?
by Oliver Clarke 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hi, I was just wondering whether reading MTZ files and calculating maps derived from them is on the cards for ChimeraX? This would have obvious advantages for crystallographers using the package, but also increasingly for cryoEM folks - I typically convert my EM maps to reciprocal space for use in Coot, and this has certain advantages - e.g. being able to perform operations in Fourier space (e.g. low pass filtering, B-factor sharpening) at the time the map is loaded. Cheers, Oli

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Export Scene, Mesh Surface, wrl
by Cynthia Turner 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Dear Chimera, I would like to export a scene of 1PRH (PDB of Cyclooxygenase) with a surface mesh, in wrl format for import into Cinema4D. (Screen shot attached) I am able to import scenes with ball and stick, sphere, solid surface, ribbons etc, in this way without problem. However, the mesh doesn’t seem to be in the wrl file once imported. The ribbon is there, but the mesh is not, or the mesh is not imaging for some reason. Am I missing something, or missing a step? Thank you so much for your assistance in advance, Kind regards, Cynthia Turner

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Running out of memory when recording movies
by Oliver Clarke 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello, I am consistently running out of memory when recording long-ish movies (using the Animation tool) on a Macbook pro with 16GB RAM. Admittedly there are a lot of atoms in the model I am using (~120,000), but most are not displayed (only ribbons). Chimera is consistently crashing at about the 300 frame mark and looking at the activity monitor during the recording I can see memory pressure gradually increasing until Chimera freezes (which is generally not recoverable). Is there any way to reduce the amount of memory required for movie recording? Will deleting all undisplayed atoms help? Is there some way to perform these operations on disk rather than in memory (most likely a silly question)? Cheers, Oli.

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Morph groups of maps?
by Oliver Clarke 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello, In a situation where I have maps for two conformations, and I've extracted out domain specific maps in both cases, is it possible to run morph maps on both groups of maps simultaneously? Or is there any way to apply color zone to the trajectory generated by morph maps? I would like to generate a morph map movie where the map is colored by domain throughout the morph, and can't figure out how to do so. Cheers, Oli

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Joining models question
by Kyle J. Lauersen 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hello, I am trying to join the two models attached to this sequence. I have used the sequence selection code in atom specifier: #1:559.a@C #0:2.a@N Where model #0 is YFP and #1 is PcPs. When I go to join models, the Apply button is not accessible. Can you indicate if I am doing something incorrect in the selection of the C and N atoms? Thank you for your time. Kyle Dr. Kyle J. Lauersen Algae Biotechnology & Bioenergy Center for Biotechnology Bielefeld University p: +49 (0) 521 106 12289 e: kyle.lauersen(a)uni-bielefeld.de <mailto:kyle.lauersen@uni-bielefeld.de>

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Question from PhD student
by T-I 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Dear Chimera, I would like to know exactly how to enclose my EM density map within a cube of specified size (where x, y and z have equal dimensions, i.e x,y,z = 150 pixels). It seems that when I place a marker (from volume tracer) on my map and then specify the padding number a rectangular cube is produced instead. I there a simple command to do this or can it be done from the GUI? Many thanks T.I PhD student, London

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Tool:Structure Editing:Model:Refine loops
by Jingchuan Sun 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hello, When I tried MODEL plugin to model loop, the changes in result model is not just the selected loop to be modelled. It renumbered residues. There are several missing residues outside the selected loop in my old model. They become connected (in not accepting way) in returned models. Could I disable this "over-reach"? I only need to model the selected loop, no change to other places or renumbering. Best, Jingchuan

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rendering of custom annotation
by Helge 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Dear Chimera users, I have some data, which contains numbers of hits for each given residue of a chain (in my case the 25S rRNA). The data consists of a table with two columns: residues and corresponding hits. I would now like to color each residue in Chimera, relative to the amount of hits, with the highest number always getting a defined color. Is this possible? best regards, Helge

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Add Charges failure (libquadmath)
by Lluis Blancafort 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi, I’m running Chimera alpha version 1.11 on Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11.2 The Add Charges tool does not work for non-standard residues with AM1-BCC. The Reply Log reports a problem with libquadmath and later with sqm utility (see below). I don’t have libquadmath.0.dylib installed. Can anybody help? Thanks! Lluís Blancafort Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi Universitat de Girona 17071 Girona Spain (1) Charge model: AMBER ff14SB Assigning partial charges to residue SGA (net charge -1) with am1-bcc method Running ANTECHAMBER command: /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/amber14/bin/antechamber -ek qm_theory='AM1', -i /var/folders/6j/nf071g8n2b5csd0rdcm8n5sc0000gn/T/tmpKi57P0/ante.in.mol2 -fi mol2 -o /var/folders/6j/nf071g8n2b5csd0rdcm8n5sc0000gn/T/tmpKi57P0/ante.out.mol2 -fo mol2 -c bcc -nc -1 -j 5 -s 2 (SGA) (SGA) dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libquadmath.0.dylib (SGA) Referenced from: /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgfortran.3.dylib (SGA) Reason: image not found SGA) Running: /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/amber14/bin/bondtype -j part -i ANTECHAMBER_BOND_TYPE.AC0 -o ANTECHAMBER_BOND_TYPE.AC -f ac (SGA) (SGA) Running: /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/amber14/bin/atomtype -i ANTECHAMBER_AC.AC0 -o ANTECHAMBER_AC.AC -p gaff (SGA) Total number of electrons: 136; net charge: -1 (SGA) (SGA) Running: /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/amber14/bin/sqm -O -i sqm.in -o sqm.out (SGA) Error: cannot run "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/amber14/bin/sqm -O -i sqm.in -o sqm.out" of bcc() in charge.c properly, exit

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my question
by Yanli Li 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Dear sirs/madams, I am a PhD student in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I am working on the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV). I have got differences of cytokine profiles and phenotype regulation of antigen presenting cells by different isolates through the lab work. Now I intend to predict the structure of the whole or some parts of the viral particle with UCSF CHIMERA. However, there are only three relevant structures(nucleocapsid, nsp1, nsp4) that have been published. Is it possible to realize it? If yes, can you tell me the method in brief? Thanks a lot! Waiting for your reply. Best wishes, Yanli LI

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the fastest way to convert a pdb to density map
by 李智海 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, Here I want to calculate a model-to-map FSC curve. If I am not wrong, firstly I am supposed to convert the pdb file to a density map. So I was just wondering in Chimera, how to use command molmap to generated a map with the same pixel size and dimensions as the corresponding map? Any help will be high appreciated. Best, Zhihai Li

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Select residues with missing atoms?
by Oliver Clarke 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Hello, Is there any way to select/color all protein residues with incomplete sidechains? This would be very helpful when looking at a structure and deciding whether it is necessary to run dock prep to fill them in prior to performing other calculations (e.g. sometimes I am only concerned with what is going on around a ligand binding site). Cheers, Oliver.

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question
by A G Szabo 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

I have to admit that my understanding of the various commands to use for very specific functions in Chimera is difficult for me to find the correct command. I know how to color a specific residue using the sequence table and the color chart. So how do I color a specific atom in a residue. For example I am interested in coloring the nitrogen of the Asn amide side chain say color red. How can I do this? When I highlight a residue and visualize it as a ball and stick, then color it different from the color of the helix, the color of that part of the helix changes to the color of the ball and stick, different from the color of the rest of the helix. How can I reset the color of the helix location of that residue, leaving the ball and stick as another color. Thank you Arthur Szabo Professor Emeritus Chemistry and Biochemistry Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo Canada.

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Geometric Center
by tobias.eilert＠uni-ulm.de 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hello, I want to translocate a protein such that its geometric center is the origin. Finally I want to save this new configuration in a pdb-file, so it is conserved like this. Do you have any suggestions? With kind regards Tobias Eilert

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save command
by Dougherty, Matthew T 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

The FILE pull down menu allows for "save" and "save as". The command "save" allows for two options: with or without a session_name. Without a session_name, a dialog box is presented and effectively I am doing the "save as" in the FILE menu at that point. With a session_name, it functions as a 'save as' without the dialog box. How do I create the same effect as FILE pull down menu "save", using the save command? Looking for a generic approach for any session, not knowing the file/session name apriori, & having to type the session name everytime. I suppose there is a python method to get the session filename & path, then build the command string. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine ================================================= =================================================

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header intact
by maozhouhe 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] Volume Eraser: Recentering the eraser
by Tom Goddard 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Hi Mohan, Here are a few more details about how to erase the density inside the capsid of a virus density map. The trick as you’ve seen is getting the sphere centered at the center of the virus and having the correct radius. Here’s how I do this. First I adjust the volume eraser sphere radius so it visually looks about the same radius as the outside of the virus map. Then I move the sphere with the mouse to try to center it on the virus. I rotate to look at it from different view angles and center with the mouse at each view direction. It helps if the radius of the sphere is set so that just a little bit of the density pokes through so you can visually see whether the same amount of density is poking through on all sides. Now I have the right centering and I try to get the radius I want. For this it helps to clip the map and sphere using menu Favorites / Side View and move the left vertical yellow line to the right to clip the models. I move the clip plane to cut through near the center of the virus, then adjust the sphere radius. In this view you can see the sphere size relative to the concentric layers of density. It helps here to make the sphere not transparent by clicking the color square in the Volume Eraser dialog and setting the A (opacity) channel to 1. I’ve attached a pickture. To do this in a more precise way I create a sphere and mask using it with commands shape sphere radius 240 center 0,0,0 coordinateSystem #0 color blue mask #0 #2 invert true This requires that the origin of the map is set to the center of the virus capsid. You can choose this center grid point using Volume Viewer menu Features / Coordinates setting the Origin Index. Tom > On Jan 7, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > Hello Mohan, > If you read the Help for Volume Eraser (press the Help button on the dialog to see it), it explains how to move and resize the eraser sphere. Or, you can see this information on our website: > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/voleraser/voleras…> > > Basically you can set which mouse button will be used to move the sphere, and then use the mouse to move it to where you want, including with Shift to move in Z (toward or away from you). There isn’t a feature to automatically put it at the center of the capsid. > > For user questions, the better address is chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu (not this address chimera-dev, which is more for programming questions). > > 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 Jan 6, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Mohan Sudabattula <mk.sudabattula(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> My name is Mohan Sudabattula, I am fairly new at using Chimera so please excuse my lack of understanding the program. >> >> I am currently utilizing the Volume Eraser tool and am trying to employ it erase the internal structure of a viral capsid. Upon opening the Volume Eraser it always seems to orient itself to the "frontmost face of the current display region". This is problematic because it is now only partially erasing what I am needing to be erased. >> >> Instead I am looking to have it oriented so that it is in the center of my virus. Is there any way to reorient the eraser so that this may be the case? >> >> Thank you! >> Mohan Sudabattula >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Chimera-dev mailing list > Chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev >

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Drawing shapes given coordinates
by Oliver Clarke 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Dear Rebecca, I have used Elaine's suggestion before, and it works well, as in the following alias: alias ^pbond dist sel; setattr p label "" sel; setattr p drawMode 1 sel; setattr p radius 0.03 sel which places a thin black cylinder between two selected atoms. To make invisible dummy atoms at arbitrary coordinates, I would use the "mc" accelerator ("ac mc" on the command line), which places and selects a dummy atom at the center of rotation. So something like: cofr x1,y1,z1; ac mc; namesel atom1; cofr x2,y2,z2; ac mc; namesel atom2; sel atom1|atom2; pbond; vdwdefine 0.01 sel; transparency 100,a sel should work. Cheers, Oli. ------------------------------ Thank you! Theoretically if I was to create dummy atoms with coordinates at the locations where I want the cylinders to end, I could connect them with pseudobonds. I can easily shape my data that way, and if it doesn't work the BILD files will probably be fine. Thanks for the help! Cheers, Rebecca On 1/4/16, 5:20 PM, "Elaine Meng" <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users>> wrote: >*Hi Rebecca, *>*There are two approaches for adding cylinders independent of atomsŠ but I *>*don¹t know if either will be satisfactory: *>>*(1) ³shape cylinder² is command-line and doesn¹t require using atoms as *>*endpoints, but it doesn¹t allow specifying endpoint coordinates directly. *>* A cylinder is specified by only its center, height, radius, and a *>*rotation angle. I don¹t think it is easy to figure out what angle gives *>*the desired endpoint coordinates. (We¹ve discussed the need to improve *>*this, but it may be deferred to our next-generation software in *>*development.) *>*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi> *>*mera_docs_UsersGuide_midas_shape.html-23cylinder&d=CwIFaQ&c=TzEZu9LIcihmW3 *>*7vx9Ah6w&r=Z2BqCMuwlxQxgSzUiCDaK4rAd15j9FSes0phjplcAGU&m=ALnOY5nR3xnyH6akd *>*4eXf6HdP_BL9dt0gv_zz3oMdq8&s=9vZCIh2K2i-8UrGF7HkSZwZwT7CRFcS9RUZsHUsson4&e *>*= > *>>*(2) BILD-format input allows specifying endpoint coordinates of a *>*cylinder, but it is not a command. You generate a BILD text file *>*describing the objects and read it in to Chimera. BILD format is very *>*simple, however: *>*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi> *>*mera_docs_UsersGuide_bild.html&d=CwIFaQ&c=TzEZu9LIcihmW37vx9Ah6w&r=Z2BqCMu *>*wlxQxgSzUiCDaK4rAd15j9FSes0phjplcAGU&m=ALnOY5nR3xnyH6akd4eXf6HdP_BL9dt0gv_ *>*zz3oMdq8&s=2A5wPT06BJ7QN1TDyA4kS36ILONzhA703a7xRpdnJKY&e= > *>>*The objects created with ³shape² are surface models, so you can change *>*their colors afterward. The BILD objects are not surface models and *>*cannot be recolored and do not work well with transparency. *>>*There are two approaches that depend on atoms: *>>*(1) pseudobonds can be created with the ³distance² command (or atom pairs *>*can be read in from a file with Pseudobond Reader), but pseudobonds *>*require atoms as endpoints. *>*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi> *>*mera_docs_UsersGuide_midas_distance.html&d=CwIFaQ&c=TzEZu9LIcihmW37vx9Ah6w *>*&r=Z2BqCMuwlxQxgSzUiCDaK4rAd15j9FSes0phjplcAGU&m=ALnOY5nR3xnyH6akd4eXf6HdP *>*_BL9dt0gv_zz3oMdq8&s=tUGhl0z5yTsTqr2tyEgexdraCTB8o2JtwjuJZTgMwvo&e= > *>*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi> *>*mera_docs_ContributedSoftware_pbreader_pbreader.html&d=CwIFaQ&c=TzEZu9LIci *>*hmW37vx9Ah6w&r=Z2BqCMuwlxQxgSzUiCDaK4rAd15j9FSes0phjplcAGU&m=ALnOY5nR3xnyH *>*6akd4eXf6HdP_BL9dt0gv_zz3oMdq8&s=nRvWQ2FPg5n33Obqd9Bee1ovSNmgCCdbaT1EH6Uc1 *>*I8&e= > *>>*(2) the ³define² command (or Axes/Planes/Centroids) tool will show *>*cylindrical axes that are best fits to specified sets of atoms. However, *>*there is currently little control over lengthŠ it is automatically *>*determined from the atomic coordinates. *>*<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chi> *>*mera_docs_UsersGuide_midas_define.html&d=CwIFaQ&c=TzEZu9LIcihmW37vx9Ah6w&r *>*=Z2BqCMuwlxQxgSzUiCDaK4rAd15j9FSes0phjplcAGU&m=ALnOY5nR3xnyH6akd4eXf6HdP_B *>*L9dt0gv_zz3oMdq8&s=t9I-WC_-VvEvmTfphtU3ey2GT0sMRiFtO62hFkRj7Rk&e= > *>>*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 Jan 4, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Rebecca Swett <Rebecca_Swett at vrtx.com <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users>> *>>*wrote: *>>>>* Hi all, *>>* I'm trying to add some 3d shapes to a visualization. I was wondering if *>>*it would be possible to draw either a cylinder or tube given starting *>>*and ending coordinates rather than atom names/numbers or centroid? For *>>*example, if I had this coordinate pair: *>>* 6.17 1.10 -15.33 20.82 -0.70 -8.39 *>>>>* What would be the best way to go about drawing a line of some sort *>>*between those two points? I have dozens of pairs of coordinates so *>>*something command line would be ideal. *>>* Cheers, *>>* Rebecca *> This email message and any attachments are confidential and intended for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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Suggested Improvement of Command Line
by Eric Berg 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello, I have noticed that when giving the command line a list of residue indexes using the "select" function, the inclusion of white space will cause an error (see attachment). This is technically a pretty small quibble, but it may be beneficial in these instances to include something to filter out white space prior to parsing. Eric

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volume eraser and imod isosurface
by Wouter Van Putte 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Dear, I would like to use chimera for removing some densities manually of an isosurface generated with imod. I've loaded the map/model (.mod) and already used the function 'hide dust' to remove most of the noise. I now would like to use 'volume eraser' to remove the other noise manually. This however doesn't work, probably due to the file format (.mod). I thought saving in another file format would help, but it gave me errors when opening the file. How should I proceed? best wishes, Wouter

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Chimera and imod isosurface (*.mod files) and 'volume eraser'
by Wouter Van Putte 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Dear, I would like to use chimera for removing some densities manually of an isosurface generated with imod. I've loaded the map/model (.mod) and already used the function 'hide dust' to remove most of the noise. I now would like to use 'volume eraser' to remove the other noise manually. This however doesn't work, probably due to the file format (.mod). I thought saving in another file format would help, but it gave me errors when opening the file. How should I proceed? best wishes, Wouter

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