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Alphafold
by Kornelius Zeth 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

Dear all - I'm using Alphafold in Chimera and I have a problem to run this properly on Colab. The people from Colab say that the error messages I get since recently are related to Alphafold developers having installed a new version. Could you please let me know what I could do to get the program running again? Thanks and have a nice day Kornelius

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Using Chimera and Autodock Vina on Catalina OS
by Rao, Mallika 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had been able to find a workaround in order to use the autodock vina add-on in Chimera for a mac that is running Catalina OS. Thanks in advance, Mallika

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Saving omega angles to file
by Prathvi Singh 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hello Elaine, Is there a way to save the omega angle of residues to a file using either chimera or chimeraX? I am able to save the phi, psi, chi angles using the *Render by attribute *tool in chimera but I could not find a way to save the omega angle. -- Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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How to insert a nucleotide to a pdb
by Magdalena Riad 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hi, I have a pdb-file of the ribosome and would like to insert two nucleotides to one of the rRNA-chains. How do I do that? I’ve found the addaa command for amino acids, is there a similar one for nucleotides? Best regards, Magdalena När du skickar e-post till Karolinska Institutet (KI) innebär detta att KI kommer att behandla dina personuppgifter. Här finns information om hur KI behandlar personuppgifter<https://ki.se/medarbetare/integritetsskyddspolicy>. Sending email to Karolinska Institutet (KI) will result in KI processing your personal data. You can read more about KI’s processing of personal data here<https://ki.se/en/staff/data-protection-policy>.

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Query regarding the Zone tool in UCSF chimera
by Prathvi Singh 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Elaine, In UCSF Chimera, when I try to find all the atoms within 4A of a selected residue using the *Zone* tool, it selects several atoms around that residue. However, I am not able to understand which atom of the selected residue was taken as the reference point for calculating the distances. Please help. -- Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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Information regarding double bonds
by Naima syed 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hello, I have one concern, before docking there is a double bond which i can check in pymol but after docking that double bond was lost. Can you please tell me how to fix this problem. Thank you

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No MMTK name for atom "H" in standard residue "GLY"
by Marco Sette 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Dear all, i'm trying to minimize a peptide (Tools, Structure editing, Minimize Structure) but I obtain this error message: No MMTK name for atom "H" in standard residue "GLY". I have a Gly in position 1, does this depends on the NH protonation? Also, I fixed most of the residues, including Gly 1, trying to minimize a small region (Fixed Atoms: selected, in minimize panel) but still have the same errors. How can I solve it? Thanks for your help, Best Marco -- Dr Marco Sette, PhD. Department of Chemical Sciences and Technology University of Rome, "Tor Vergata" via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Rome, Italy e-mail: sette(a)uniroma2.it Tel.: +39-0672594424 -- Questa email è stata esaminata alla ricerca di virus dal software antivirus Avast. www.avast.com

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combining two models into single model with two chains
by Elaine Meng 13 Nov '22

13 Nov '22

Hi Ali, I don't know what you mean by "sub-branches of that chain" -- if they are listed as two separate things in the Model Panel (e.g. #0.1 and #0.2), then it means they are two separate models. You can show Model Panel from the Favorites menu. If so, then you want to put them together into one model with two different chains. For that, see the "copy/combine" function in the Model Panel (in the menu under Favorites) or the "combine" command. Details in the User Guide: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/modelpanel.html> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/modelpanel.html#combine> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/combine.html> If they are really only one model with one chain, then you can only change the ID of part of the chain if the two parts are really disconnected. See Tools... Structure Editing... Change Chain IDs: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/editing/changech…> If they are NOT disconnected, you would have to manually edit the PDB file in some text editor first to add a TER between the parts. <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/framepdbintro.h…> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco P.S. for general questions the better address is chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu CC'd here. The chimera-dev address is for programming questions. > On Nov 12, 2022, at 5:56 AM, Ali Doostmohammadi via Chimera-dev <chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > Hi! > I gave my protein to ClusPro for docking and it gave me the PDB file. For the next step, I need to upload to Prodigy, which requires me to separate the ligand chain and receptor chain to perform the analysis. But in the PDB file that I open in Chimera, there is only one chain, and ligand and receptor are divided as sub-branches of that chain, and Prodigy algorithm does not accept it. > I wanted to know how to divide the protein and its receptor into two different chains? > > Best regards!

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NHR Atomistic Simulation Center Online Symposium 2022, Nov 28-29
by Harald Lanig 11 Nov '22

11 Nov '22

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MD simulation movie in chimeraX
by Shivam Gupta 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Hello Support Team, I am a commercial license user of chimeraX. I have .trr and .tpr files from the Gromacs MD simulation. I am not getting any option to create an MD movie. I know how to do it in chimera but couldn't find a similar GUI/option in chimeraX. Literature/tutorial of chimeraX didn't help me much. Please help me out by guiding me to generate MD movies. Please reply to this email inline. I am Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks -- With Regards Gupta Shivam グプタシヴァム E-mail: *shivam-gupta(a)pharmafoods.co.jp <a-higashiyama(a)pharmafoods.co.jp>* Biomedical Department Pharma Foods International, Kyoto Japan 株式会社ファーマフーズ〒615-8245 京都市西京区御陵大原1-49 TEL:075-748-9811 FAX:075-948-9818 URL: http://www.pharmafoods.co.jp/

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EULA modification request
by Smith, Lua J. 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Hello UCSF Chimera creators, Our Chemistry department of Missouri University of Science and Technology would like to use your software. Our attorney reviewed the non-commercial software license agreement, and is requesting the legal jurisdiction be struck from the license agreement as well as other modifications. Due to the University being an instrumentality of the state of Missouri and having sovereign immunity under Missouri and federal law, we are not authorized to waive our legal jurisdiction (See Fowler v. Board of Regents, 637 S.W.2d 352 (Mo.App. 1982)). Would you please review the attached requested license agreement modifications, and initial if acceptable? Thank you! Lua Lua Smith Software Support, Information Technology 800 University Drive ljhqn8(a)mst.edu<mailto:ljhqn8@mst.edu> | 573-341-7990<tel:573-341-7990> | it.mst.edu<https://it.mst.edu> [Missouri S&T - 150 Years]<https://www.mst.edu/>

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Finding disulphide bonds
by Prathvi Singh 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Hi Elaine, I have found out a way to select the disulphide bonded CYS residues in UCSF chimera using the command: *select disulphide*. However, is there a way to count the number of disulphide bridges in a protein and save in a variable? -- Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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Question regarding 2dlabels in Chimera
by leonard.maurer＠uni-bonn.de 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

Hi, I am using Chimera for several years now and I really enjoy it, but there is one issue I could not solve until now: Is it possible to have subscript/superscript for the 2D labels? For example something like "subunit A\_{1}" and "subunit A\^{1}" that I can type either in the 2d labels GUI text part or with the 2dlabels command, which gives me the raised and lowered versions of the "1"? I am confident that this feature might be already implemented given Chimera's impressive amount of tools, but I was not able to find it in the documentation so far. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Leonard

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Running the Modify Structure tool using command line in UCSF Chimera
by Prathvi Singh 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Hi Elaine, Is there a way to run the *Modify Structure *tool in UCSF Chimera using command line? I want to substitute a S-atom with O-atom in more than 100 structures and doing it for each structure using the GUI looks very time consuming. Please help. -- Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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Jagged edges in chimera X
by Prathvi Singh 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Hello Elaine, Is there a way to smoothen the jagged edges seen around ribbons and sheets in ChimeraX? The jagged edges can be removed in UCSF chimera by setting the *subdivision *value to 20 and enabling multisampling but I do not see these features in chimeraX. -- Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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Doubt regarding Copyright for the use of UCSF Chimera free software in research paper
by aiswarya tressa chacko 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Sir/Madam, I am a post graduate student who is working on a research article which involves molecular docking and analysis. I am using the free software of UCSF Chimera (version 1.16) for obtaining results and analysing them. I am wondering whether using these results and images that I acquired from Chimera in my research study, will subject me to Copyright Issues. Kindly address my doubt as soon as possible.

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xyz axis indicator
by Xiang Zhang 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hi all, I was wondering how I could hide the xyz indicator in the center of window when I was viewing the X-ray density from mtz file? It only appears in crystal unit view mode but disappears in EM projection side view. Best, Xiang

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AlphaFold Modeling
by S.M. RAIHAN RAHMAN 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi! Good Afternoon. I hope that you are doing well. I am facing a problem in running structure prediction of large protein sequence. Is there any way of predicting only 2 models of a given sequence in lieu of 5 models? Please let me know. Thank you. Regards, Raihan

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How to invert a map values in UCSF Chimera
by Junha Song BA 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear RBVI, I am currently looking into the ways to invert a map in UCSF Chimera so that I can flip the histogram of a map, but I cannot find a volume operation command that does the job. What command in UCSF Chimera allows creating a map with inverted map values? I thought it was vop but I cannot find a parameter that allows assigning negative value operation that would invert the map in UCSF Chimera command line documentation. Best, Junha Song.

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Question regarding protein-protein interactions in ChimeraX
by Lake, Camille (NIH/NIAID) [C] 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hello, My name is Camille Lake and I have used ChimeraX to model proteins. I was wondering - if I load two completely separate proteins from PDB, what is the nature of their interaction as shown by ChimeraX? The two proteins I'm interested in, TIM-3 (5f71) and CEACAM1 (5dzl), are predicted to interact in the literature, but if I load them separately into ChimeraX, is this predicted interaction what displays automatically? It seems that they are, but I can't find anywhere on the web whether this is automatically done in ChimeraX. Other proteins I randomly add in generally keep far away from each other in space. Thank you, Camille Camille Lake, PhD Emerging Leaders in Data Science (ORISE) Fellow National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) National Institutes of Health (NIH) 5601 Fishers Lane, 6C5 Rockville, MD 20871 camille.lake(a)nih.gov 301-761-7976 ---------------------------------------------- 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. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shall not accept liability for any statement made that are the sender’s own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives.

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Need guidance
by Naima syed 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Hello I am trying to find the RMSD between docked ligand and original ligand but I am not able to do it. When i tried the command "match" it showed the error atom spec missing. Can you please tell me how to fix this problem? Thank you

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Question about use of Chimera to view data from SALIGN program
by Edmund Marinelli 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Helllo: I used SALIGN to obtain alignment / superposition of peptides. On the SALIGN webpage there is a link for Launch Chimera. When I click this I get a download of a file named "show.chimerax". Then nothing happens. The file contents appear to be directing ChimeraX to the data on the web and are as follows: <?xml version="1.0"?> <ChimeraPuppet type="std_webdata"> <web_files> <file name="alignment.pir" format="text" loc=" https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/salign/results.cgi/job_225330/str-str_out.…" /> <file name="model1_fit.pdb" format="text" loc=" https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/salign/results.cgi/job_225330/model1_fit.p…" /> <file name="model2_fit.pdb" format="text" loc=" https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/salign/results.cgi/job_225330/model2_fit.p…" /> <file name="model3_fit.pdb" format="text" loc=" https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/salign/results.cgi/job_225330/model3_fit.p…" /> <file name="model4_fit.pdb" format="text" loc=" https://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/salign/results.cgi/job_225330/model4_fit.p…" /> </web_files> <commands> <py_cmd>chimera.processNewMolecules(chimera.openModels.list(modelTypes=[chimera.Molecule]))</py_cmd> <py_cmd>import MultAlignViewer</py_cmd> <py_cmd>mols = chimera.openModels.list()</py_cmd> <py_cmd> m=chimera.extension.manager for i in m.instances: if isinstance(i, MultAlignViewer.MAViewer.MAViewer): mav = i </py_cmd> <py_cmd> for m in mols: if not m in mav.associations.keys(): mav.associate([m]) mav.match(mols[0], mols[1:], iterate=True)</py_cmd> </commands> </ChimeraPuppet> What am I supposed to do with this file. ChimeraX does not have a file extension .ChimeraX hence I do not know how to proceed next. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

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Set a reference coordinate for a viral structure?
by Feng, Y. 20 Oct '22

20 Oct '22

Hi there, I am a fresh new user of Chimera and have literally no experience in it. So I was wondering how to perform the process as mentioned in the Figure S4 of the following article: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10131. My questions would be: In Chimera, 1. How to make an appointed atom in a viral structure with coordinates of (0,0,1)? 2. How to rotate the target point to the coordinates (0,0,1) and read out the original coordinates of the target point? What I want to do in Chimera is exactly the same as mentioned in the above article. But I don't have much experience with Chimera. So if you could explain how to do that step by step, that would be very much helpful. Sincerely appreciate! With best regards, Yuzhen Feng

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Set a reference coordinate and rotate target point to the reference coordinate?
by Feng, Y. 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

Hi there, I am a fresh new user of Chimera and have literally no experience in it. So I was wondering how to perform the process as mentioned in the *Figure S4* of the following article: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10131. My questions would be: In Chimera, 1. How to make an appointed atom in a viral structure with coordinates of (0,0,1)? 2. How to rotate the target point to the coordinates (0,0,1) and read out the original coordinates of the target point? What I want to do in Chimera is exactly the same as mentioned in the above article. But I don't have much experience with Chimera. So if you could explain how to do that step by step, that would be very much helpful. Sincerely appreciate! With best regards, Yuzhen Feng

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Question: Why hydrogen bonds are not displayed?
by Kenji MATSUI 16 Oct '22

16 Oct '22

Dear Chimera I am sorry to interrupt your busy schedule. My name is Matsui, and I am a second-year master's student at a Japanese university. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to respond to my question the other day. I am now looking at protein-ligand interactions. We found in the paper that His 421 interacted with another ligand. Therefore, the interaction between His-421 and the ligand. Problem :However, no hydrogen bonds were displayed.(first figure) I would like you to ask why this is caused. ---------------------------------------------------------- <detail> This is because the distance between the His-421 and OH oxygen atoms was 3.7 Å. A ligand with a structure similar to this one in the paper formed a hydrogen bond with His-421 at 3.8 Å. The thing I tried The Relax H-bond constraints section was adjusted from 3.0 to 5.0. [image: image.png] you can show this figure when you open the attached file Wheat: Ligand the other color:protein [image: image.png] H-bond parameter [image: image.png] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenji Matsui Graduate School of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology M2 2-24-16, Nakamachi, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan Mail: s214903z(a)st.go.tuat.ac.jp

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