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Pseudobonds
by David Chenoweth 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi, I am trying to delete/hide a single pseudobond in a group of pseudobonds. Can anyone tell me how to do this, or to specify a set of new pseudobonds which doesn't include the one I would like to remove. I tried to do this in the pseudobond panel but didn't get anywhere. Thanks, Dave -------------------------------------------------------- David Chenoweth NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Swager Research Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemistry Department, 18-053 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: dcheno(a)mit.edu Lab Phone: 617-258-6537 --------------------------------------------------------

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Pseudobonds
by David Chenoweth 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi, I am trying to delete/hide a single pseudobond in a group of pseudobonds. Can anyone tell me how to do this, or to specify a set of new pseudobonds which doesn't include the one I would like to remove. I tried to do this in the pseudobond panel but didn't get anywhere. Thanks, Dave -------------------------------------------------------- David Chenoweth NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Swager Research Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemistry Department, 18-053 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: dcheno(a)mit.edu Lab Phone: 617-258-6537 --------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Chimera-users] Displaying Surface For Selected Residues
by Eric Pettersen 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: > Thanks Eric, but just to follow up on the surf sel command, > > It displays the surface for the selected residues, > > does it assign solvent-excluded and solvent-accessible surface areas > per atom and residue to attributes named areaSES and areaSAS to the > selected residues or to the whole protein?. > > after I do "surf sel" I have select:/areaSAS > 50 , looks like it > selects for the whole protein. Shouldn't it show only for the > selected surface region. > Hi Thiru, Surfaces are computed for the entirety of the molecule (that the surface covers), not just the residues you display the surface on. So therefore other residues also got areaSAS/SES attributes. To get what you want I think you need: sel :/areaSAS > 50 & @/surfaceDisplay --Eric > Thanks > > -Thiru > > --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > From: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: Displaying Surface For Selected Residues > To: "Thiruvarangan Ramaraj" <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> > Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:14 PM > > Yes, most commands work on everything if you don't specify what to > work on. For instance "color red" colors everything red whereas > "color red sel" colors the selection red. > > --Eric > > On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: > >> Worked fine, Thanks, Eric >> >> -Thiru >> >> --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >> >> From: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >> Subject: Re: Displaying Surface For Selected Residues >> To: "Thiruvarangan Ramaraj" <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> >> Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:04 PM >> >> "surface sel" >> >> --Eric >> >> On Oct 7, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: >> >>> Hi Eric, >>> >>> I have a protein with a few residues selected, and I wanted to >>> show surface only on the selected residues, when I go to Actions - >>> Surface -Show , it shows surface only for the selected residues, >>> but when I use the command surface on the command line it shows >>> the surface for the entire protein. Is there a command line >>> option to show surface only for the selected residues on the >>> protein. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Thiru >>> >>> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >>> >>> From: Eric Pettersen <pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >>> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Solvent Accessible Surface Area >>> To: "Thiruvarangan Ramaraj" <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> >>> Cc: "UCSF Chimera Mailing List" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >>> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 3:38 PM >>> >>> Oops, spotted a bug in the script. This line: >>> >>> out = open(os.path.expanduser("~/out", "w")) >>> >>> should be: >>> >>> out = open(os.path.expanduser("~/out"), "w") >>> >>> --Eric >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera pov-tracing question
by Tom Goddard 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi Maya, Your mesh is transparent in the povray image (zoom in on the image and look at the mesh lines) but I guess is much less transparent than in the Chimera window. I ran some test images with the current Chimera 1.4 daily build which also showed the povray mesh looked much different (darker, thicker and less transparent) than in the Chimera window. While we have improved the match between povray images and what you see in the Chimera window it is still very bad. Dozens of messages on the chimera-users mailing list relate to the poor quality of Chimera Povray images. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=povray+site%3Awww.cgl.ucsf.edu%2Fpiper… As suggested in the following message, with these poor quality povray results a better presentation can almost always be obtained by not using povray: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-June/004030.html Attached are 5 test images showing some of the problems. 1mwm chain A, molmap 6 angstroms. test.png - povray transparent mesh 0.24, appears very dark test2.png - povray transparent mesh 0.04, black specks all over the mesh test4.png - povray transparent surface 0.24, ugly multilayer mosaic test5.png - no povray, transparent surf 0.24, glossy lighting, silhouette edges test6.png - no povray, same as test5 but mesh. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Chimera pov-tracing question From: maya shcushan To: 'Thomas Goddard' Date: 10/7/09 9:59 AM > > Dear Dr Goddard, > > > > You previously assisted me with other problems with Chimera, so now I > am asking your help again. > > I have a density map and a structure mapped on it. I showed the map as > transparent mesh, and tried to pov-ray the image. However, the picture > came up with the map not transparent (attached). Do you have any idea > how to resolve this issue, making the map transparent in the image as > it is in the main window > > > > Thanks, > > Best, > > *Maya Schushan* > > Department of Biochemistry > > George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences > Tel Aviv University >

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Movies in Chimera
by Anindito Sen 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Dear All These questions may have been answered in the past ( and I must have missed it)- 1. I have 3 movies (.mov) made in Chimera. I want to add them all together to make a single movie. How can I do that? 2. How can I build a movie where I "zoom"-inside a crystal structure or an EM density map showing the regions of interest. Thank you Andy Dr. Anindito Sen (Ph.D)

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(no subject)
by Cathy Lawson 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Dear Chimera Team, I have been using Chimera fairly intensively in recent days with good success. Just wanted to pass along a short list of features I wish were available. (maybe some are already available in Chimera or there are workarounds but I haven't been able to figure them out...). I'm using the current production release (1.3) mac osx (X11). (1) A way "close" the command line at the bottom of the view window (among other reasons why one might want to do this, I can't figure out how to get accelerator shortcuts to work after the command line is open). (2) An "undo" button for "fit in map" (restore model to position before fit) (3) Fine tuning of the "preset" views -- interactive (ribbons) is something I use frequently but I'd prefer a white background. (4) It is great to have the down and up arrow to narrow and broaden selection, would be great if a final down arrow would lead to clearing the selection. cheers, Cathy ********************************** Catherine Lawson, Ph.D. Rutgers University Chemistry & Chemical Biology 610 Taylor Rd Piscataway, NJ 08854 732 445 5494 cathy.lawson(a)rutgers.edu http://roma.rutgers.edu **********************************

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Re: [Chimera-users] SAS values for single atoms and residues
by Elaine Meng 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi Dave, It is not clear to me what you did to list values in the Reply Log. After you display surface to create those surface area attributes, then start "Render by Attribute" (for example, from under Tools... Depiction) and in that dialog, choose "File... Save Attributes." In the resulting file-save dialog you can specify not only which attribute you want to save, but there is a checkbox "Restrict save to current selection" that you will want to activate before saving the file. For example, you could select all the LYS and then this would be used to write a file listing the areaSAS of each of those residues. Alternatively you could select all the :lys@nz and then write the areas of the selected atoms. 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 Oct 6, 2009, at 9:23 AM, David Chenoweth wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > I'm trying to calculate the solvent accessible surface area for > several lysine residues in a protein to evaluate which are most > likely to be free on the surface for functionalization. My thought > was to just calculate the SAS area and rank order them. When I > select just the primary amine of all the lysine residues and go to > the reply log I get several numbers in a row under SAS and I'm not > sure which are correct. These numbers don't seem to change if I > select different residues so I'm not sure how to get the SAS values > just for my lysine amines. > > Thanks, > Dave

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SAS values for single atoms and residues
by David Chenoweth 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi Elaine, I'm trying to calculate the solvent accessible surface area for several lysine residues in a protein to evaluate which are most likely to be free on the surface for functionalization. My thought was to just calculate the SAS area and rank order them. When I select just the primary amine of all the lysine residues and go to the reply log I get several numbers in a row under SAS and I'm not sure which are correct. These numbers don't seem to change if I select different residues so I'm not sure how to get the SAS values just for my lysine amines. Thanks, Dave -------------------------------------------------------- David Chenoweth NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Swager Research Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemistry Department, 18-053 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Email: dcheno(a)mit.edu Lab Phone: 617-258-6537 --------------------------------------------------------

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citation
by Abeer Shokeer 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hello I have used Chimera to prepare very nice figure in my manuscript and I would like to cite the Chimera. which reference that should be cited? Best wishes Abeer

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python scripting for multiscale model
by Pat Weinkam 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hi, I am a new postdoc with Andrej Sali. I am looking to use the multiscale model tool to recreate a 3x3x3 set of unit cells around my pdb file. I can use the GUI to do this just fine but I would like to incorporate this into a python script. Is such a thing available? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Pat

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mouse selection not working
by lorenzo 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hi everybody, I just installed chimera-1.3-linux.exe on an atom netbook. The OS is ubuntu 9.04. My problem is that the mouse selection tool does not work. To complete the scenario I add a few details 1) I don't have the green outline and setting Fill mode for selection highlighting in Preferences does not work around the problem (probably just a screen setting problem). 2) Other forms of selections work. For example by Select -> Chemistry -> Element -> H and then by Actions -> Atoms/Bonds -> Delete I can delete hydrogens. 3) I cannot delete anything that I select by ctrl + mouse left button. 4) libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri are installed. Thanks for your attention Lorenzo Bongini

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CA-only shown as ribbons
by Andrei Neamtu 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hello, Just a quick question: I have downloaded the latest daily build of CHIMERA and I want to make a ribbon picture only fom the alpha-Carbon trace. On the site it is said in the Appearance and Image-Saving section that "CA-only and P-only structures can be shown as ribbons and worms " I tried but didn't succeded . Does anybody know what are the steps in displayng such a structure? Andrei

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comparing protein structures
by Beale, John 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hello, I am trying to compare a protein structure generated through molecular dynamics to a reference structure that is the starting pdb file. I was using MATCHMAKER. I get the rms value and the residue matches, but when I do this I don't get the overlaid reference and MD structure in the viewing window. Can someone tell me what I need to do to get the overlaid structures? Thanks! John

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Saving ligand and protein as a single PDB
by Nancy 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hello, I am planning to run a docking simulation in a different program, and I need to have a "reference ligand" included in the PDB file. The particular PDB I am working on does not have a ligand included. So I am trying to position one using Chimera. I started with the protein file and a ligand file (ligand is in .mol2 format). I loaded both into Chimera, and I correctly positioned the ligand relative to the PDB. I then saved both using File -> Save PDB... I choose to save the file relative to the protein, and I select "save multiple models: in a single file". However, when I load the file into the docking program, it does not show the ligand. Additionally, there are a few structural errors in the output PDB file. Please advise. Thanks, Nancy

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zone command
by Francesco Pietra 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Hi: I prepared with the zone command a model (#0) of a protein partly immersed into a hydrated lipidic bilayer (cut-and-paste from the two models from the zone command). Now I would like to solvate with water the part of protein which protrudes out of the bilayer. Water is single-point (coarse-grain simulations) indicated in model #0 as ATOM 2724 W W 2060 45.420 3.750 23.380 1.00 0.00 W and in the pdb file of the water block (model #1) to be added ATOM 27558 W W 5018 84.320 142.862 11.262 1.00 0.00 Once model #0 and model #1 are superimposed, clearly the zone command does not distinguish W from the two models. How could the zone command be made working now? I renamed W to WAT in model #1 but the zone command does not recognizes WAT under such circumstances. Not yet found a way out, which should be simple. Thanks for suggestions. (solvating model #0 with programs from the MD suite also solvates what it should not; this is why I am trying with CHIMERA) francesco pietra

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3D-glassen
by Thomas Classen 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Dear colleaques; I want to use 3D-glasses of nVidia for the sequential stereo view in chimera. Are there any experiences with that system in combination with chimera? Or are there some problems with that kind of technology known? Wanted hardware - nVidia GF 3D Vision 3D-Glasses -nVidia graphicboard; GTX285 Series min. 1024MB Additional hardware: - Intel 2 Duo Quad Prozessor; Q9650; boxed - 8GB DDR2 RAM PC1066 Thanks for your help from germany Tom

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licensing
by Schulz-Gasch, Tanja 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Hi there, I have a single-user license for Chimera at Roche. Meanwhile others are interested in using Chimera as well. Could you please send me an update on licensing scemes and costs? Thanks, Tanja __________________________________________ Dr. Tanja Schulz-Gasch F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd Pharmaceuticals Division PRCBLM Bldg. 92/2.10D CH-4070 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41(0)61 68 88309 Fax. +41(0)61 68 86459 http://compchem.bas.roche.com:8080/schulzt2/PICS_DB/index.html <http://compchem.bas.roche.com:8080/schulzt2/PICS_DB/index.html> Email: tanja.schulz-gasch(a)roche.com "The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer."

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segmentation fault
by Francesco Pietra 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi: On Debian Linux i386 squeeze I had the X system broken while attempting to install the gnome cd burner "brasero". I purged everything about that bad code, installed and reconfigured the X system, however something is still broken. Attempts at launching CHIMERA returned "segmentation fault". That also sitting in the directory where chimera is installed ( /usr/local/chimera/bin). As I had an old version, I reinstalled chimera-1.3-linux.exe, while that did not solve the above problem. I do not remember where to put the hands in such cases. Thankful for reminding me about that. francesco@deb32:~$ gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.3.4-2) 4.3.4 francesco pietra

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Re: [Chimera-users] Solvent Accessible Surface Area
by Elaine Meng 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: > Hi Elaine, > I am using Chimera for identifying the surface residues. > > I select areaSAS > 0.05 square angstroms, is this same as saying > areaSAS > 5%, I am getting confused with the numbers 5% and 0.05 sq > angstroms have these been switched some how or are they curiously > the same in the following statement? > > I just need some help in understanding. > Thank You > Sincerely > -Thiru Ramaraj Hi Thiru, In Chimera there is no percentage (%) measurement, it is only the area value in square angstroms. Some other programs give % exposed for a residue, which is a ratio of the area of that residue in your structure to the area of the same type of residue in some theoretical unfolded state. See for example the GetArea server, which gives "Ratio(%)": <http://curie.utmb.edu/area_man.html> However, what Chimera reports is just the surface area of the atom or residue in your structure. To choose surface residues, I'd probably use a bigger cutoff, say select :/areaSAS>10 but it depends on what you are going to do with the results. You can try different values and see what looks reasonable. 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

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Transparent Spheres
by Waight, Andrew 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hello everyone again. I apologize for a potentially embarassing question but is it possible to display sidechains as transparent spheres with solid stick representation inside. Seeing as I also can't find an image in the Chimera gallery where it is represented as such, I am wondering if it is possible to individually color (and set opacity) on spheres. I am also aware that vdw will create dots of varying density, but is it alternatively possible to display vdw as solid surface with opacity. Thanks to all for your patience. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------ This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message. Please note, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. =================================

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 77, Issue 26
by vamsi krishna 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Dear all, I am using chimera to calculate solvent accessibility of residues , may i ask you what cutoff is appropriate to identify surface residues significant for substrate binding . Thank you vamsi chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu wrote: > Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to > chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.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: Solvent Accessible Surface Area (Elaine Meng) > 2. Re: Solvent Accessible Surface Area (Thiruvarangan Ramaraj) > 3. Re: Solvent Accessible Surface Area (Greg Couch) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:14:48 -0700 > From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > To: Thiruvarangan Ramaraj <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Solvent Accessible Surface Area > Message-ID: <E24233F9-9564-4824-8D82-6D9506261ACB(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: > > >> Hi Elaine, >> I am using Chimera for identifying the surface residues. >> >> I select areaSAS > 0.05 square angstroms, is this same as saying >> areaSAS > 5%, I am getting confused with the numbers 5% and 0.05 sq >> angstroms have these been switched some how or are they curiously >> the same in the following statement? >> >> I just need some help in understanding. >> Thank You >> Sincerely >> -Thiru Ramaraj >> > > > Hi Thiru, > In Chimera there is no percentage (%) measurement, it is only the area > value in square angstroms. Some other programs give % exposed for a > residue, which is a ratio of the area of that residue in your > structure to the area of the same type of residue in some theoretical > unfolded state. See for example the GetArea server, which gives > "Ratio(%)": > <http://curie.utmb.edu/area_man.html> > > However, what Chimera reports is just the surface area of the atom or > residue in your structure. To choose surface residues, I'd probably > use a bigger cutoff, say > > select :/areaSAS>10 > > but it depends on what you are going to do with the results. You can > try different values and see what looks reasonable. > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:49:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: Thiruvarangan Ramaraj <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> > To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Solvent Accessible Surface Area > Message-ID: <842106.2825.qm(a)web53905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks,? Elaine for the information. > > Also I am having problems with installing Chimera on Linux Fedora 11(32 bit version). I am able to download it and install it. When I start chimera it comes up and then crashes immediately, the only message it gives is Segmentation Fault. > > Is there anyway I could resolve this problem. > > Thank You > > -Thiru Ramaraj > > --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: Solvent Accessible Surface Area > To: "Thiruvarangan Ramaraj" <thiruvaranganr(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 1:14 PM > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote: > > >> Hi Elaine, >> I am using Chimera for identifying the surface residues. >> >> I select areaSAS > 0.05 square angstroms, is this same as saying areaSAS > 5%, I am getting confused with the numbers? 5% and 0.05 sq angstroms have these been switched some how or are they curiously the same in the following statement? >> >> I just need some help in understanding. >> Thank You >> Sincerely >> -Thiru Ramaraj >> > > > Hi Thiru, > In Chimera there is no percentage (%) measurement, it is only the area value in square angstroms.? Some other programs give % exposed for a residue, which is a ratio of the area of that residue in your structure to the area of the same type of residue in some theoretical unfolded state.? See for example the GetArea server, which gives "Ratio(%)": > <http://curie.utmb.edu/area_man.html> > > However, what Chimera reports is just the surface area of the atom or residue in your structure.? To choose surface residues, I'd probably use a bigger cutoff, say > > select :/areaSAS>10 > > but it depends on what you are going to do with the results.? You can try different values and see what looks reasonable. > 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 > > > > > > >

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Using Chimera to read SMILES string into structure
by Miriam Gochin 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

I have downloaded the latest build (Aug 30, 2009) and don't seem to be able to input a SMILES string. I have tried both the Utilities -> Structure Diagram and the Structure Editing -> Build Structure tool, and in both cases I can see a box to input the SMILES string, but the copy and paste mechanism won't work. I can enter text in the box, but cannot paste it in, which I need to do. Thanks for your help. Miriam Gochin Touro University - CA miriam.gochin(a)tu.edu 707-638-5463

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Zoom factor for model when first opened
by Tom Goddard 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hi Kevin, The camera settings (position, amount of zoom, angular field of view) all contribute to how much of the Chimera window is filled when you open a map. How those are initially set when you start Chimera and open a map has changed a few times over the last year or two so if you run different Chimera versions (Help / About Chimera... to check version number) you may see different initial sizes. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: chimera question From: Kevin Koehntop To: goddard Date: 9/24/09 6:34 PM > Hi Tom, > > I have a quick chimera question. When I open the same EM map in two > different chimera sessions, even though the scale factor, origin, > voxel size, and isosurface threshold level are exactly the same, the > map appears much smaller in one of the windows and I can't determine > why. Is there another parameter that I need to check? Thank you > > Kevin

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] select opt
by Eric Pettersen 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Victor MuÃ±oz wrote: > I'd like to know if there's a way to select the select mode "append" > using the > command line instead of the visual interface. Hi Victor, There isn't a way to do that, but it typically isn't necessary. The "|" and "&" characters perform union and intersection operations respectively. So for example you can add all LYS residues to the current selection with: sel sel | : LYS or you could intersect the current selection with LYS residues with: sel sel & :LYS If you really need to change the mode for some reason, let me know what that reason is and maybe we can add something. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu P.S. The "|" character is a vertical bar, not a capital i, in case that's not clear in the font you're using.

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Re: [Chimera-users] question about Chimera
by 吴雪 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Dear Elaine: Thank you very much for your instruction. We'll follow your guide. Best wishes WU Xue >From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >Reply-To: UCSF Chimera Mailing List <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> >To: 吴雪<wuxue(a)nankai.edu.cn> >Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] question about Chimera >Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:00:11 -0700 > >Dear Wu Xue, >There are several different distance and angle cutoffs that depend on >the donor and acceptor atom types. For example, the distance and >angle cutoffs for finding a H-bond donated from hydroxyl -OH to >carbonyl =O will be different than from amine -NH3 to carbonyl =O. >The cutoff values are taken from tables in this paper: > > Three-dimensional hydrogen-bond geometry and probability >information from a crystal survey. Mills JE, Dean PM. J Comput Aided >Mol Des. 1996 Dec;10(6):607-22. > >As discussed in the FindHBond documentation, > findhbond.html#criteria> > >the criteria in this paper were based on very high resolution crystal >structures of small molecules. Typically the structures in the PDB >are not so high resolution and so the criteria are relaxed. For >example, if a strict criterion from the paper is 2.8 Angstroms >cutoff, then with 0.4 relaxation the cutoff becomes 3.2 Angstroms. >We set the default relaxation amounts to what we felt gives >reasonable results on most PDB structures. However, we made them >user-adjustable so that if you don't like them, you can change the >values to whatever you want. > >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 Sep 22, 2009, at 4:18 AM, 吴雪 wrote: > >> Dear colleague: >> I have a question about the "find hydrongen bond" in Chimera. >> The dumb relax constraints in Chimera are "0.04 nm" and "20 degree". >> I don't understand the meaning of the parameter. 20 degree may >> means the angle bias the line,but I can't figure out what is the >> 0.04nm. >> The cutoff of the hydrogen is 0.4nm, and the angle is about 90 >> degree or some other parameters depending on the strength of the >> hydrogen bond. >> If we set the constraint as 0.02nm or0.03nm , few hydrogen bonds >> are found. I don't know the criteria. Can you give me some advice >> so that I can follow your instruction? >> Sincerly Yours >> WU Xue > >

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