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color key in chimera X
by Pranav Shah 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi, I have a isosurface rendering that I have colored by radius as well as local resolution. I want to now place a colour key in the image to indicate the relevance of the colors. Is there a way to achieve this in ChimeraX? If not, is there a way to easily port the commands to Chimera? Cheers, Pranav -- Pranav Shah Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Hogle Lab Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Building C2 - First Floor 240 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 432-4360 (fax) (617) 432-3839 (lab)

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could not find binaries for addh and addcharge programs
by Zafer AYDIN 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi, I installed chimera software to my Ubuntu workstation. I want to add hydrogen bonds and charges to ligand molecules. I could not find the addh and addcharge executables under the chimera directory. I would readlly appreciate if you can provide me basic guidelines for how to add hydrogen bonds and charges to ligand molecules using chimera from command-line (not from GUI). Many thanks, Zafer Aydin AGÜ Computer Engineering Department Kayseri, Turkey

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drawing axes of rotational symmetry
by Arvind SHARMA 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hi, I would like to calculate the rotation axis between two domains of a protein (domains are highly similar in fold and sequence). Is there a way to calculate transformation matrix between two objects in chimera (two domains here) to obtain the direction of rotation axis and rotation angle values? Also is it possible to generate a translation vector along rotation axis in graphic screen? Would be great if there is a script available for that and someone can share. Have a lovely weekend, arvind.

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32-bit release
by Marwa Elnaiem 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Dear UCSF Chimera team, I highly need to use the software Chimera, but unfortunately, my operating system is 32-bit which is no longer supported. I would like to ask if any old release of chimera that I could download on my 32-bit operating system. Could you please help? Regards, Marwa

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Re: [Chimera-users] CASTp to Chimera
by Elaine Meng 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

> On Mar 13, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Chakraborty, Joydeep <jc323(a)njit.edu> wrote: > > Hi Elaine > I am trying to show the active site space fill model as depicted by the CASTp. However I am having difficulty to generate the same file using chimera. I was wondering if there is any special way we could depict a ribbon diagram of the protein with a space filled active site pocket. > Thanks, > Joydeep. Hi Joydeep, A picture would have been helpful, but I’m guessing you mean how it looks at the CASTp website. I looked at the website and see it shows some transparent spheres filling the pocket. However, these spheres are not described in any of the files Chimera gets from CASTp (which are the same as the files you get if you choose “Download” on their website), so we don’t have any way of showing them, sorry. I didn’t see any way to get the spheres from the website… I agree it would be useful! Just to help explain it to everybody else, I attached an image showing left to right: the Chimera CASTp dialog, Chimera window showing PDB structure 3TRG ribbon with molecular surface of biggest pocket from CASTp, and image of the same structure and pocket at the CASTp website <http://sts.bioe.uic.edu/castp/index.html?3trg>, including the transparent spheres: For future reference, it is better to send Chimera questions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu (CC’d on this message) to ensure you get an answer. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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MD simulation fails with barostat
by Simon Wheeler 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi everyone. I'm trying to run an MD simulation in Chimera. It works with no thermostat and no barostat and it works with just a thermostat. But when I try to run it with a barostat it gets about 15% of the way through the equilibration stage and then Chimera hangs and the simulation never finishes. I've applied periodic boundary conditions and specified the box size. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Simon

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CHIMERA ISSUES
by Acco . 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hello, I am a beginner with Chimera and I am looking for how to "bring to front" the residues that I have selected displaying the remaining structure of the protein in kind of blurred view. Is it possible to do this? Thank you in advance for your help Sincerely, Andrea

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how to load pseudobonds from command line?
by Michał Kadlof 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hello, I'd like to display my psudobond in chimera script. How can I do it? -- regards Michał Kadlof <m.kadlof(a)cent.uw.edu.pl>

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membrane boundaries
by Anaswara Ashok 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hi I would like to know if we could add membrane boundaries of proteins with chimera? -- Regards Anaswara Ashok

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OS differences in Chimera
by Marco J. Müller 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Dear Chimera team, I do have a question regarding differences between OSes. Our group recently encountered a problem in the surface creation of proteins, which might be related to the OS. Recently, for some structures, directly obtained from the PDB (e.g. 6GB5, 1H97, 4YLJ) or prepared single-chain structures for docking runs, the surface creation of the proteins resulted in error 5 from mscalc.exe. This, however, seems to be an isolated problem of the Windows versions of ucsf chimera 1.12-1.13.1, as the same versions of chimera on macOS or Linux (Lubuntu) could successfully create these surfaces. Even more strangely, we are pretty sure that we could show surfaces of the very same files about half a year ago with these versions (1.12 and 1.13rc1). Did a recent update of Windows change the behavior of chimera? ChimeraX could actually show these surfaces on Windows, but gave us some other troubles. We did have a look at http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2016-November/012874.html which did solve our problem for now, but we would like to know whether we can improve the reliability of chimera's functions, aside from tips mentioned in http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html. An older post (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2010-December/005805.html) indicates that it is a numerical problem, is this still the case and means that it is indeed OS-dependent? Thank you in advance, Marco -- Marco J. Müller PhD student Technische Universität Braunschweig Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry https://www.tu-bs.de/pharmchem Beethovenstr. 55 | 38106 Braunschweig | Germany

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font problem
by 管泓翔 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

When I started chimera, it showed "Cannot find a usable font Aborted (core dumped)". How to fix the problem? Thank you HH

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Deterministic traversal of a chemical graph
by Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra Pedregal 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Dear Chimera team, I have two questions regarding the same idea. I am trying to develop a script to find topologically equivalent residues in a structure (e.g. MOF, cages, and so on). To do this, I am using SplitMolecule.split.split_connected and then comparing the resulting pieces by number of atoms, empirical formula and, ultimately, I would like to compare the chemical graph (i.e. test for graph isomorphism). Is there any built-in function/object for that in Chimera? Since I didn't want to overcomplicate the algorithm, for now I am trusting that there won't be isomers in the structure and the empirical formula (actually a collections.Counter applied to atom.element.name<http://atom.element.name>) is enough of a test.This is working ok but, in some cases, the resulting pieces have totally different atom names because they come from a unified generic residue that encompasses all the pieces. As a result, I want to rename them in the same way consistently. My first attempt at this consists of finding the chimera.Root atom of each piece and then using chimera.Molecule.traverseAtoms to iterate over the piece. However, I've found that the Root is not always the same (topologically speaking) atom, so the naming scheme differs from piece to piece. Is there anyway to guarantee topologically equivalent traversals? I guess that both questions would lead to the same result, because it seems that I will need a chemical graph anyway. Thank you in advance, Jaime.

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Saving files from MD Movie
by Divjak Maja 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Hello! I have been using Chimera for analysis of H-Ras morphing from its GDP-bound inactive state to the GTP-bound active state. It works very nicely and a lovely movie is produced. What I am having difficulty with however, is saving the output of the morph as a series of PDB files that I can import to Autodesk Maya with the molecular Maya plugin. When I try to save from the movie window ie using file >save PDB, all I get is one PDB file containing a single structure. I also tried to save using the main window file > save PDB > save all frames and the same thing happens. I then tried selecting each frame individually and saving with unique numbered file names, but again, when trying to import into Maya, all I get is one structure, not a changing structure. Even the first and last frame PDBs are the same. Could you please advise as to how to save the morph output as a useful PDB series, I must be missing something? Thanks so much and best wishes, Maja Dr Maja Divjak BAppSc(Hons), PhD, Grad Cert 3D Animation (AFTRS) Biomedical Animator Office of Cancer Research [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01D35ECE.31407C60] Phone +61 3 8559 5961 Email maja.divjak(a)petermac.org<mailto:maja.divjak@petermac.org> 305 Grattan Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 www.petermac.org<http://www.petermac.org/> Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments or links) may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information and is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this email (including any attachments) are not waived or lost by reason of its mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre provides no guarantee that this transmission is free of virus or that it has not been intercepted or altered and will not be liable for any delay in its receipt.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera installation on Windows Sub System Ubuntu
by Tom Goddard 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

The OpenGL graphics library is an operating system library. If you install it then Chimera should find it. There is nothing more you would have to do. Tom > On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:00 PM, Rosenberg, Mark F <mark.rosenberg(a)imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi Tom > Sorry to bother you again. > I have found installed/ the library. How do I tell Chimera where to look for it please when building ? > Thank you again. > Mark > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 > > From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net> > Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 6:54:44 PM > To: Rosenberg, Mark F > Cc: Rosenberg, Mark F; chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB > Subject: Re: Chimera installation on Windows Sub System Ubuntu > > The error installing on the Ubuntu virtual machine means that the opengl graphics library libGL.so.1 was not found. Probably you need to install a graphics driver for the Ubuntu virtual machine in order for Chimera to start. > > Tom > > >> On Mar 4, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Rosenberg, Mark F wrote: >> >> >> Dear Tom >> Hope you are well. I think I have been at this for days. I am trying to install Chimera on a Windows installation but I have had a few bugs which I have submitted to Bugs. >> >> I thought in the meantime , I could try and install Chimera in the Windows Subsystem with Ubuntu. >> >> I have got so far but I keep on getting the below error. >> >> I have tried to see if I am missing any libraries to no avail. >> >> Do you have any suggestions please ? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Kind Regards >> >> Mark >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/opt/Chimera/share/__main__.py", line 73, in <module> >> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) >> File "/opt/Chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 666, in init >> import chimera >> File "/opt/Chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 16, in <module> >> from _chimera import BBox, Camera, Color, ColorGroup, DirectionalLight, LODControl, Lens, LensViewer, Light, Material, MaterialColor, Model, NoGuiViewer, OGLFont, OSLAbbreviation, OpenModels, OpenState, PathFinder, PixelMap, Plane, Point, PositionalLight, Selectable, SharedState, SpotLight, Sphere, Texture, TextureColor, TrackChanges, Vector, Viewer, X3DScene, Xform >> ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera installation on Windows Sub System Ubuntu
by Tom Goddard 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

The error installing on the Ubuntu virtual machine means that the opengl graphics library libGL.so.1 was not found. Probably you need to install a graphics driver for the Ubuntu virtual machine in order for Chimera to start. Tom > On Mar 4, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Rosenberg, Mark F wrote: > > > Dear Tom > Hope you are well. I think I have been at this for days. I am trying to install Chimera on a Windows installation but I have had a few bugs which I have submitted to Bugs. > > I thought in the meantime , I could try and install Chimera in the Windows Subsystem with Ubuntu. > > I have got so far but I keep on getting the below error. > > I have tried to see if I am missing any libraries to no avail. > > Do you have any suggestions please ? > > Thank you very much. > > Kind Regards > > Mark > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/opt/Chimera/share/__main__.py", line 73, in <module> > value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) > File "/opt/Chimera/share/chimeraInit.py", line 666, in init > import chimera > File "/opt/Chimera/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 16, in <module> > from _chimera import BBox, Camera, Color, ColorGroup, DirectionalLight, LODControl, Lens, LensViewer, Light, Material, MaterialColor, Model, NoGuiViewer, OGLFont, OSLAbbreviation, OpenModels, OpenState, PathFinder, PixelMap, Plane, Point, PositionalLight, Selectable, SharedState, SpotLight, Sphere, Texture, TextureColor, TrackChanges, Vector, Viewer, X3DScene, Xform > ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

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How to setup appropriate parameters during auto dock vina
by temban billyhp 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hi, How should I vary docking parameters when carrying out ligand/receptor docking in order to obtain correct results. Is there any logical trend to follow. I have always used the default mode. Best regards Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Re: [Chimera-users] Morph Help
by Elaine Meng 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi Debamita (Paul), You may not always be able to get the trajectory you want. All I can suggest is to try: (1) changing morph parameters. You did not say whether you were using Chimera or ChimeraX. Both allow changing method and core fraction, or forcing Cartesian intermediates (the latter has not been useful in the cases I’ve worked on, however). ChimeraX also allows changing hinge spacing. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/morph/morph.html> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/morph.html> (1b) Chimera has an option to minimize each frame, but it also has limited ability to “rescue” bad conformations, and it will take a lot longer to calculate your morph trajectory. (2) more difficult, if (1) does not solve your problem: manually create intermediate states to “guide” the overall trajectory and then morph in more stages involving these intermediates. I.e instead of morphing 1->2, create 1a and possibly 1b etc. then morph 1->1a->1b->2. I hope this helps. For future reference, to make it more likely you get your questions answered, please send to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu or chimerax-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu (depending on which program you’re asking about). Thanks, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco > On Feb 25, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Paul, Debamita <Debamita_Paul(a)baylor.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to morph two structures having a DNA lesion (6-4 Photoproduct). However the movie is showing weird geometry in the intermediate steps. Is there a way I can provide the parameter file for the 6-4 so that the geometry is not messed up. > > Thanks > Debamita

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Chimera using question
by Khải Trần Gia 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Dear Mr/Mrs, I am a person using Chimera to adding missing residues to a protein from Protein Data Bank. My protein has 2 chains: A and B which both have missing residues. I have used Chimera tools compliment with Modeller to adding missing residues in both chain. The problem is I want to save the whole protein which consists of 2 fixed chains, however when I saved with PDB it only show 1 chain. How can I do that? I am looking forward for your replying. Thank you. Best regards, Khai.

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Chimera Help
by Debamita Paul 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

morphg5-xtal_0222_new.pdb <https://drive.google.com/a/cornell.edu/file/d/1t0Up4tsMWqLe7ipmUEfRzth0OFNN…> morphg5-xtal_0222_new.pdb <https://drive.google.com/a/cornell.edu/file/d/1C_cQTG9d5k10rKOQnW_XayfDGZt1…> Hi Dr. Meng, I emailed you earlier about having trouble in morphing two structures of a DNA bound protein. The DNA has 6-4 photo lesion. I am attaching the pdb files and the morph results (64_IB to 6cfi). You can see in the morph

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Can Chimera read electron density difference map files from RIDL?
by Murpholino Peligro 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Here is what RIDL is https://github.com/GarmanGroup/RIDL I can open the map in coot specifying is a difference map and it opens nicely over the protein. In chimera I can open the map but .....all my clicks won't reproduce the coot behavior :P ... Thanks

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Seeking for help
by temban billyhp 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

SirI prepared the DNA molecule using the dock prep with its default options but when I lunched auto dock vina alongside with my ligand, I received a message that auto dock vina cannot prepare the receptor due to an error. How can I solve this problem. I will be greatful listening from you. Best wishes. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Installation problem on Fedora 29
by Murpholino Peligro 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

[murphy@eva02 Downloads]$ ./chimera.bin UnZipSFX 5.41 of 16 April 2000, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs(a)lists.wku.edu) Original path: '/home/murphy/Downloads' inflating: chimera_install_6JK7q6/installer inflating: chimera_install_6JK7q6/chimera.bin Enter install location: ~/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1 Extracting files. This may take a few minutes. Executing command: './chimera.bin -q -d /home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1' UnZipSFX 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP (http://www.info-zip.org) Install desktop menu and icon? yes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/__main__.py", line 73, in <module> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/chimeraInit.py", line 666, in init import chimera File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 2777, in <module> from SimpleSession import BEGIN_RESTORE_SESSION, END_RESTORE_SESSION File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/__init__.py", line 14, in <module> from save import saveSession, sessionID, noAutoRestore, autoRestorable, \ File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/SimpleSession/save.py", line 13, in <module> from chimera import replyobj, selection, SessionPDBio, version File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/share/chimera/replyobj.py", line 24, in <module> import Tkinter File "/home/murphy/.local/UCSF-Chimera64-1.13.1/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in <module> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk ImportError: /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var ERROR in chimera_final_install: unable to install desktop icon: result code from installer: 256 Installer returned unexpected return code '256' Cleaning up extract dir, 'chimera_install_6JK7q6' Installation is done; press return. Help please.

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how to hide just H-bonds between water molecules with themselves?
by masoud aliyar 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Hello I want to find H-bonds between 3 residues and the ligand and the water molecules around the ligand in 3 angstrom, but I don’t want H-bonds between water molecules. I Just want h-bonds between residues together and residues with ligand and residues and ligand with water. I have used Per-Frame script system. But I have two problems. First, if I set selection mode on replace mode and write this script: ********************* ~display :SOL zonesel :279 3 :SOL select up display sel select :38:53:147:279 findhbond linewidth 3 color blue selRestrict :SOL:38:53:147:279 ********************* The result is fine and H-bonds that I want were display. But if I apply this script, the system searches every water residues for find H-bond and take a lot of time per frame. second, if I set selection mode on append and write this script: ********************* ~display :SOL zonesel :279 3 :SOL select up display sel select :38:53:147:279 findhbond linewidth 3 color blue selRestrict both ********************* The calculations are going faster, but also, show H-bonds between water molecules with themselves that I don’t want it. How can I hide H-bonds between water molecule with themselves but H-bonds between selected residues and ligand and water retain? Thank you, everyone,

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Defining CMYK color scheme for color actions
by Boaz Shaanan 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi, Some journals require usage of CMYK color scheme. I see that the CMYK option exists in the color editor but is it possible to define CMYK for all the color actions (actions --> color) without having to go through the color editor for each color? Or am I missing something altogether? Thanks for you 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 Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710

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Measure angle and effect length
by Shishir Adhikari 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi, What is the correct way to measure the angle between the EGF and Lectin domain of L-selectin: 3CFW and also the effective length of those domains? What is the difference between Helical correction and mass weighting? When should I use Helical correction and mass weighting? How is the length of the axis is determined? Is there a way to pick the length of the axis to be the effective length of the domain? Thanks

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