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LINK record not honoured in Chimera?
by Kate Kim 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hello, I would like to visualize a thioester bond between a CYS residue of my protein and a carbonyl carbon of ligand (DCR) in my model. I have a LINK record for the DCR-CYS thioester bond created from Jligand and inserted in the PDB right before the CRYST1 line. However, when I open this PDB in Chimera, the thioester linkage is not drawn. The distance between the C1 of DCR and SG of CYS is 1.79 angstrom. Does Chimera need something else other than the LINK record in the PDB to display the bond? Thank you, Kate

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desktop hardware
by joe viterbo 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hi everyone, I am about to purchase a PC desktop computer to run Chimera. Regarding the hardware, should I focus more on CPU speed & cores or should I focus more on a powerful GPU? Or should I try to find both? Thanks for your time! Best, Joe

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how to create a sphere in Chimera
by Ke Shyue-Chu 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hi, I would like to know how to create a sphere of certain radius around a selected atom, for visualization purpose. Thank you. Sc Ke Professor Department of Physics National Dong Hua University Hualien, Taiwan

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Auto-Stereo 3D
by Engelhardt, Peter 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Dear Chimera developers, We are most interested of always using stereo in Chimera. Lately there have been presented Auto-Stereo 3D displays: https://www.tri-evolution.com/en/auto-stereo-3d/ Auto-Stereo 3D - TRI Evolution – 3D without glasses<https://www.tri-evolution.com/en/auto-stereo-3d/> We unfold digital vision. We unfold your product and video data in “GLASSES-FREE 3D”. We offer numerous services and solutions for perfect handling of the latest auto stereo 3D technology. We are an official Solutions Partner of 3D Global. Find out everything worth knowing about our AS3D offer in this section. AS3D Hardware AS3D Hardware More […] www.tri-evolution.com Because of this convenience in 'no need to use any stereo glasses' we wonder if Chimera is supporting Auto-stereo 3D displays, now or in near future. We thank you in advance Cheers Peter

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Comparison of cryo-em maps
by Dmitry Semchonok 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, I have similar cryo-em maps that have also some differences. I want to compare them. Is there a tool in chimera that can compare the cryo-em maps? Thank you! Sincerely, Dmitry

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debug
by 陈文心 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

When I open chimera, introduction webpages will continuously open and many interfaces pop out. Could you please help me solve the problem? Thanks a lot. 发送自 Windows 10 版邮件应用

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Contour plot of intersurf surface
by Miguel Romero 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hello, I am looking for a way to generate a contour plot from the interface surface generated with the intersurf command. The idea is to have a 2D representation of the interface. I would really appreciate any suggestion. Thanks in advance, Miguel

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Ctrl-Shift-click iimpaired on MacOS Mojave
by Visvaldas K. 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Dear Chimera Users, recently I noticed a bug (?): I am not able to multiple select atoms using Ctrl-Shift-click easily, as I was able before (I am not sure when the problem started). If I use mouse, sometimes I am able to select two atoms after a while by going back and forth between the two atoms and keep clicking, and after some time I succeed to select, but but the required number of tries is unpredictable. However, with the touchpad, forget it, it does not work at all. Needless to say, I find this to be very annoying. I tried today's Chimera daily build, versions 14 and 13.1 with the same results. I am running MacOS Mojave. Sincerely yours, Visvaldas

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How to change font size for scale bar
by Engelhardt, Peter 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi We can’t find any options for font size in scale bar wondering if possible. Any suggestions Cheers Peter Sent from my iPhone

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Unable to Install ChimeraX 1.14 on MacOS 10.15.3
by Shawn Rumrill 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hello, I recently tried installing ChimeraX 1.14 on my MacBook Pro OS 10.15.3. I receive a message that the software cannot be installed because it cannot be verified and needs to be updated. So you have any solution to this problem? Screenshot of error message attached. Best, Shawn Rumrill srr131(a)cabm.rutgers.edu<mailto:srr131@cabm.rutgers.edu> [cid:F2EDAD80-53DE-442C-B590-72AD2EE15870@ruw.rutgers.edu]

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Biological assembly from the asymmetric unit and using it for MD
by David Sáez 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi, very basic question here. I found ways to generate the tetramer biological assembly starting from the monomer asymmetric unit . (Downloading the BA directly from RCSB and alternatively using the BU function in Chimera's Model panel). The procedures are equivalent AFAIU. Now, this generated structure should be a valid starting point for molecular dynamics simulations? Does anybody have experience with that?. There are other structures showing the tetramer, but the resolution is too low. Thanks! David.

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Font size in menu bar
by svle＠tiscali.it 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

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FW: website broken?
by Cain, Cheryl A 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hello, Passing on this message to the help desk. Thanks, Cheryl Cheryl Cain Operations Coordinator Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry UCSF ***Please note that my work hours are Tu-Wed-Th, 9am-4pm*** On 2/24/20, 7:56 AM, "Hoover, David (NIH/CIT) [E]" <hooverdm(a)hpc.nih.gov> wrote: Hi, The homepage for Chimera (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/) appears to be down or blocked. Is everything ok? David -- David Hoover, Ph.D. Computational Biologist High Performance Computing Services, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health 12 South Dr., Rm 2N207 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA TEL: (+1) 301-435-2986 Email: hooverdm(a)hpc.nih.gov

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visualizing formal charges
by Tasneem Vaid 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hi everyone, I want to see the formal charges on the ligand as well as the receptor. Is there a way to get that in Chimera? There is an option of setting charges under ‘label’, but that gives partial charges and not formal. Thanks, Tasneem

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chimera exiting every time after clicking browse
by Dominique Gutierrez 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello, I have MacOS Catalina 10.15.3. Chimera is exiting every time after clicking browse. Versions 1.13 and 1.14 are doing this. Best, Dominique

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Color surface by electrostatic potential vs color by value at atom position
by Yu Zhou 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Hi there, I want to color protein surface by electrostatic potential datacalculated using APBS 1.5. I tried two methods in Chimera and got quite differentresults. The resulted images can be found in attachment. In the first attached figure (fig1_ep surface) the surface wascolored by the “Electrostatic Surface Coloring” tool, in the second attachedfigure (fig2_value atom) the surface was colored by the “Values at AtomPositions” tool. Same color palette (red: -35, white: 0, blue: +35) and potential file was used in bothcases. Thanks for your help. Yu Zhou

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Problem during Residue interaction network generation
by Aditya Padhi 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Dear Chimera users, I am using the StructueViz plugin of Cytoscape to launch Chimera and then loading the MD trajectory from Gromacs, where I need to generate the residue interaction network. After this step, when I click "apply" for displaying the interaction network in Cytoscape, it often shows "Importing Residue Network from Chimera", sometimes "getting data for attribute secondarystructure" and sometimes "getting data for attribute ishelix". Even after I wait for half a day, the message continues to show and I am not able to work on Cytoscape. I have even tried to reduce the number of frames of the MD trajectory to see if that helps, but that doesn't work even. Can anyone help me to how to resolve this problem? With best regards Aditya

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Aligning a 2Fo-Fc map with the molecule in Chimera
by Miriam Gochin 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

The 2F0-Fc map was created with Phenix. I tried the "vop cover #1 atom #0" command but got the following error: NameError: global name 'step' is not defined File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/VolumeFilter/cover.py", line 9, in map_covering_box g = volume.grid_data(subregion = 'all', step = step, mask_zone = False) Hoping to figure out how to make it work. Many thanks, --------------------------------- Miriam Gochin Touro University California / LBL miriam.gochin(a)tu.edu mgochin(a)lbl.gov 707-638-5463

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"subtract selected segment from map" from a specific map
by Dominique Gutierrez 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hello, Can I use the "subtract selected segment from map" in Segger tool to subtract the selected from a specific map and not just the map used for segmentation. In my case the segmented map is from a vop subtracted intermediate used to facilitate segmentation but I would like to quickly subtract several segments from the original map. Or is the only way to do that with vop subtract? Best, Dominique

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Hydrogen labeling scheme
by Jack Fuller 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hello, I am part of a computational chemistry research group that frequently uses chimera to add hydrogens to pdbs. My coworkers and I have noticed that chimera uses several different labeling schemes for hydrogens. We have been unable to determine how chimera chooses which scheme to use. Is there a way to specify which scheme to use or to know which scheme chimera will choose? Thank you, Jack Fuller

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Mx 230 gpu, chimera and chimerax
by Yehuda Halfon 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi all, A friend of mine in my lab wants to buy a new laptop with mx230. Will it work fine with chimera and chimerax? The cpu is i5-10210u and 8 GB of ram. Thanks a lot, Yehuda Halfon PS I know this isn't the chimerax mailing list but I hope to get a double answer in one mail

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BLAST Database error
by Ebrahim Barzegari 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

I'm doing Blast protein for a single sequence. After selecting the database (pdb) and setting other params, I receive this error in Reply log: BLAST Database error: Error: Not a valid version 4 database. How can I sort out it? Thanks for help

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SplitCommand python
by Healey, Joseph 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Hi Chimera Team, I’m trying to reduce some overheads in one of my scripts part of which is coming from my use of `runCommand`. At the moment, I’m only using it for `split`, but I’d like to first test whether a model is already split to avoid unnecessary invocation. I’m aware the python equivalent of the command is buried inside chimera.SplitMolecule and the command split_command, however it doesn’t seem to be importable, as when I try: >>> from chimera import SplitMolecule Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#25>", line 2, in <module> ImportError: cannot import name SplitMolecule I’m getting the above ImportError. I can import other members of the chimera class (e.g. chimera.openModels or chimera.Molecule and chimera itself without issue). I’ve seen in the source code that SplitMolecule gets imported elsewhere, and it has the __init__ file, so I assume I’m just doing something stupid with paths or similar. That said, SplitMolecule is clearly within the main chimera modules directory, so I would have expected it to only be one ‘layer’ below `chimera` itself. Can you elighten me? I’m currently on chimera production version 1.14 (build 42094) 2019-11-13 06:05:13 UTC if that helps. If you could point me in the right direction to understand how the code will check for multiple chains and decide to split by chain, that would also be a massive help. Many thanks, Joe Dr. Joseph Healey Ph.D. M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons) MRSB Research Fellow Warwick Medical School University of Warwick Coventry CV47AL Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620 | Twitter: @JRJHealey<https://twitter.com/JRJHealey> | Website<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey> Email: J.Healey.1(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:J.Healey.1@warwick.ac.uk> | ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9569-6738

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missing color option in model panel
by abhisek Mondal 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Hi, Newest version of chimera does not have the color option in the model panel. Is this a bug of some sort? Please see the attached image. Regards Abhisek -- *Abhisek Mondal, Ph.D.* *Cardiovascular Research InstituteUniversity of California San Francisco555 Mission Bay Blvd. South. Rm 482Dan Minor's LabSan Francisco, CA 94158USPS address:UCSFAbhisek Mondal, Ph.D.Cardiovascular Research Institute, Box 3122555 Mission Bay Blvd., Floor 4San Francisco, CA 94143*

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Default storage folder, ChimeraX
by Martín González Buitrón 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Dears all, Hope you are well. I have started to use ChimeraX in Ubuntu and I realised that one folder was created with my fetches and other things (i.e. ~/Download/ChimeraX/). How can I change this to other of my own preference? All the best, Martín

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