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Electrostatical surface of a virus
by Eduardo Sanz-Garcia 24 May '07

24 May '07

I need to visualize the electrostatic surface of a virus. I don't know how to do it. I was thinking in the following sequence of instructions: 1. Use the DelPhiController to generate the potential map (*.phi) for the asymmetric unit. 2. Use Multiscale Models tool to generate the 60-related units. Is this a logic sequence ? Any hint would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Mac stereo
by Greg Couch 23 May '07

23 May '07

To deal with the issue that the Mac OS X's X11 doesn't work with stereo very well, we have decided to release an Aqua version of chimera concurrent with production releases of the X11 version. The Aqua version will be labeled as a snapshot because we still recommend using the X11 version (the user interface works much better than the Aqua version). But if you need stereo, multisampling (full window antialiasing), or background transparency/opacity, then you need to use the Aqua version. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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Re: [Chimera-users] Virus Images for the MSD Database
by Tom Goddard 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi Jawahar, Unfortunately Chimera is not able to save images without displaying the graphical user interface. The image saving code grabs the image directly from the main window OpenGL graphics buffer, so it also will not work if the main window is covered or iconified. Greg Couch once made a special version of Chimera for Linux using the OSMesa graphics library that could do all the graphics off-screen including saving images. But I don't see that version in the Chimera download archive, and I believe it was made more than a year ago. We recently added raytraced image capture using POVray. Since that does not use the OpenGL graphics it should be able to work in nogui mode but a Chimera bug report indicates that does not work http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=3678&database=chime… and is expected to be difficult to fix. Unfortunately the only option at this time is to have the Chimera window appear to save an image. Tom Jawahar Swaminathan wrote: > Dear Tom, > We are interested in making virus capsid pictures for the MSD Database > atlas pages using chimera. For this purpose, I was recently provided > with a script from Cathy Lawson (RCSB) which makes really pretty > images of viral capsids. I attach the script given by Cathy below. > > However, since we would want to run chimera in an automatic manner > (ideally with the --nogui) option, I've been trying to run the script > with --nogui and this appears to conflict with the module tkgui which > is called in the program. > > So my question: is it possible to make images without necessarily > opening up a GUI ? > > I would be really grateful if you could clear this us.. > > best regards, > > Jawahar Swaminathan > PDB Depositions > Macromolecular Structure Database > EBI

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Problem with DCD not containing periodic box info when I use MD
by Antoine Daina 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi Eric, I got a "DCD format error 9" returned by MD Movie in Chimera 1.2304 when trying to see the trajectory of a Charmm simulation without periodic box info. Can we easily fix it ? Antoine Daina, PhD, University of Geneva.

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Tips for making density map images.
by Thomas Goddard 21 May '07

21 May '07

Here are some suggestions for making density map images in Chimera 1.2382. White background color. Set with two menu entries Actions/Color/Background and Actions/Color/White. To make white the default use Favorites/Preferences, category Background, set background color button to white and press Preferences dialog Save button. Surface smoothing. Use volume dialog Features/Surface-And-Mesh-Options and click "Surface smoothing..." checkbutton. To make this the default, turn it on then use Features/Save-default-dialog-settings. Close the surface-and-mesh-options panel before saving the settings or it will always be shown taking up alot of space. Image supersampling. Removes saw-tooth edges from saved images that are especially visible with white background. Does this by making a larger image in memory then averaging down to a smaller size. When saving an image you see many small pieces flash by in main window if supersampling is being used. To turn it on use File/Save-image, press the Image Setup button in the save image dialog, then set Supersample to 3x3 in the preferences dialog that appears. Press the Save button in the preferences dialog to make this the default. For Chimera versions after 1.2392 this will look different. Supersample will be an option on the save image dialog. Saving image same size as on screen. To make a saved image the same size in pixels as it appears in the Chimera window press the Get Pixels button in the File/Save-image dialog. In Chimera versions after 1.2392 this will be the default. Silhouette edges. To add black edges around maps that makes it easier to see when part of map is in front of another part use Favorites/Side-view, choose the Effects tab in the viewing dialog that appears, click on silhouette edges. Save raytraced image. Gives glossy appearance and shadows. Use File/Save-image and set "Raytrace with POV-Ray" to True. Make back parts of surface darker. Use Favorites/Side-view and move the right vertical yellow line towards the left. The surface gets dimmer from half way between the yellow lines to the right yellow line. Your eye position in this side view is shown as the square at the left and the red lines indicate how wide your field of view is. If you move the right yellow line (rear clipping plane) it will hide parts of the map -- everything to its right is invisible. Probably want to avoid that. Make recesses in surfaces darker to improve sense of depth. Use Tools/Volume-data/Surface-color. For spherical virus color the surface using "Radius", use 2 colors, Gray pattern, press "Set full range colormap values" to get minimum and maximum surface radius, press Color. You may need to press the Center button if the virus map is not centered at (0,0,0), and also press the "Set full range..." button again in that case. Probably you'll want to modify the minimum and maximum radius to get the best effect, also maybe adjust the two colors. For filaments use "Cylinder radius". Make recesses darker for asymmetric maps. This is a bit trickier than for spherical or cylindrical maps. For ribosomes or other asymmetric maps first create a blurred version of the map using Tools/Volume-data/Gaussian-filter. This tool has to be downloaded separately from the Chimera experimental features web page http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html and installed. Choose a gaussian width of about 1/3 the diameter of the surface (in angstroms, maybe 30 for a ribosome) and press Filter. Use the Tools/Volume-data/Surface-color and color the original map using the gaussian smoothed map. High values of the Gaussian smoothed map are in the interior and should be made a dark color. This makes the perception of depth dramatically better. Tom

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] Protein to ligand shortest distances?
by Elaine Meng 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi Kate, The Find Clashes/Contacts tool will report all atoms near your ligand and the corresponding distances. However, it does not work with a single strict cutoff, but instead uses the atoms' VDW radii. For example, if you used a cutoff of 0.0 overlap, that would find all atoms with VDW surfaces either intersecting or just touching. It finds all the atoms meeting your specified cutoff criteria, so you would still need to look at the list of results to see which atom is the closest from each residue. There are two cutoff parameters, the amount of VDW overlap and the extra closeness allowed for H-bonding pairs. As mentioned in the manual page, http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/findclash/ findclash.html the suggested values for these two parameters are: 0.4-1.0 and 0.2-0.6, respectively, if you only want to detect "clashes" (unfavorably close contacts) -0.4-1.0 (negative values) and 0.0, respectively, to detect contacts in general It sounds like you want the latter. Select your ligand (for example by Ctrl-click on one atom and then hitting the keyboard up arrow), open the tool (Tools... Structure Analysis... Find Clashes/Contacts), click "Designate" to specify you want to find contacts of the selected atoms (the ligand) versus all other atoms. Set the parameters to -0.5 and 0.0. In the bottom section check "Write information to reply log" and uncheck the other options. Open the reply log (it's in the Favorites menu). Click Apply and the list of results will be written in the Reply Log window. You could play around with the VDW overlap parameter and when you think you have what you want, you could use the "Write information to file" instead of the reply log. As I mentioned above, you would still have to look through the results to see the closest atom from each residue. The more negative the parameter, the more atoms will be found (including those which are further away from the ligand). There is also a command version of this tool, http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/findclash.html If you really care that you include all residues with any atom within 5 angstroms, you could do an additional step first: select the ligand, then Select... Zone using 5 angstroms, then use Actions... Write List to save the names of the "selected residues" to a file. You can compare this list to the more detailed results from Find Clashes/Contacts to find the closest atom from each of the residues. I hope this helps, Elaine p.s. I'm sending this to chimera-users too because that is more for user questions, while chimera-dev is more for developer/programmer questions ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On May 20, 2007, at 10:12 PM, khar6039(a)mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new to chimera and would like a simple way to zone 5 Angstroms > around a > ligand and then have chimera tell me what the shortest distances are > between these residues and the ligand. Is this possible? > Cheers, > Kate

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Multiple stucture comparision
by Pankaj Barah 19 May '07

19 May '07

Dear all, I have been using UCSF Chimera for structural superpositions for last few days. But while trying to do multiple superimposition for a set of proteins, i am unable to perform it. can anybody give me any suggestion? Regards Pankaj Barah Junior Research Fellow, Phone:+91-9922346120(M) Bioinformatics Centre, +91-20-25692039(O) University of Pune, Pune 411 007,Maharashtra, India. Pankaj Borah MSc Bioinformatics Univ of Madras(HCAS) Mobile number: 09884270481(Chennai)/ 09844514157(B'lore) Home number:(03752)259201 Alt. Mail id: pankajborah(a)gmail.com Group homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bioinformatrix/ --------------------------------- Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Here's a solution!

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Pub3D database URL
by Elaine Meng 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi everybody, In a previous message I mentioned Pub3D as a useful source of 3D coordinates (SDF files) for many PubChem entries. The URL for that server is now http://www.chembiogrid.org/cheminfo/p3d Enjoy! Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html Begin forwarded message: > From: Rajarshi Guha <rguha(a)indiana.edu> > Date: May 17, 2007 4:44:53 PM PDT > To: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: Pub3D SDFs > >> I noticed that your Pub3D site has not been reachable for a while. >> ( http://rguha.ath.cx/~rguha/p3d/ ) > > Aah! My Apache redirect failed again :( > > Actually, we have a new URL for it which should be constant (and is > independent of my machine) > > http://www.chembiogrid.org/cheminfo/p3d > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rajarshi Guha <rguha(a)indiana.edu> > GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE > -------------------------------------------------------------------

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mac stereo
by Dougherty, Matthew T. 14 May '07

14 May '07

what is the status of mac quadro fx4500 stereographics on chimera? thanks, matt Matthew Dougherty *** 713-433-3849 *** National Center for Macromolecular Imaging***

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benchmark
by Dougherty, Matthew T. 14 May '07

14 May '07

nvidia quadro fx 4500 macpro Dual-Core Intel Xeon clock 2.66 GHz macos 10.4.9 pci express date 5/11/7 chimera 2382 graphics memory 512 MB main memory 2GB unknown apple graphics driver Molecule (Atoms): Null Wire Stick BStick Ribbon Sphere Ops 1GCN (246): 4439.0 4263.0 827.0 828.0 4344.0 1201.0 11755.0 1YTI (798): 4285.0 4034.0 307.0 307.0 4119.0 475.0 3562.0 2GBP (2575): 3384.0 3217.0 103.0 102.0 3139.0 166.0 1063.0 1GOT (6449): 1833.0 1602.0 41.0 41.0 1702.0 67.0 395.0 2HMG (12189): 461.0 478.0 22.0 21.0 489.0 35.0 143.0 2PDA (18894): 271.0 293.0 14.0 14.0 297.0 22.0 76.0 1YNJ (24369): 211.0 230.0 11.0 11.0 232.0 18.0 56.0 1F4H (33805): 154.0 166.0 8.0 8.0 169.0 13.0 38.0 Matthew Dougherty *** 713-433-3849 *** National Center for Macromolecular Imaging***

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Normal Modes, arrows and more...
by Jean-Didier Marechal 14 May '07

14 May '07

Dear All, I am trying to use chimera to draw arrows of the Normal Modes vectors I previously calculated with charmm. I see different possibilities to provide chimera with the vectors, but how can I draw the arrows? I found a request on the list from Mingfeng Yang that Petter answered in october 2004 regarding a similar problem. Unfortunately the link indicated for VRML does not work anymore. What are the actual features of chimera that would allow me to do something like this ? All the best, JD -- Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal Professor Assistant Physical-Chemistry Unit Department of Chemistry University Autonomous of Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Tel: (+34).93.581.49.36 Fax: (+34).93.581.29.20 e-mail: jeandidier.marechal(a)uab.es

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Re: [Chimera-users] imod model viewing
by Tom Goddard 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hi David, The Chimera IMOD model file reader only handles the meshes in the file. My guess is that the file you made does not contain meshes. Maybe it only has contour lines for the spheres. Or maybe the file format can contain geometric primitives like spheres without contour lines or meshes being specified. I don't know enough about IMOD to be sure. Tom David G. Morgan wrote: > Tom, > > I was trying to use the new IMOD file reader and must be doing something > foolish. I downloaded the newest chimera snapshot release (1.2392) and > the imod.zip file and made a new installation. I can load my IMOD > volume into chimera without any trouble. I then "opened" the IMOD model > file (it opened as an "IMOD segmentation" type). That works without > trouble, but I don't ever see the model. Even trying to use "focus" to > bring it into the field of view gives me a blank field. > > It's possible that my model is the wrong type - I'm playing with chimera > in preparation for needing to do something fancy, so I simply created a > set of spheres of different colors and different radii in IMOD, saved > that model and tried to read it into chimera. I thought I'd simply be > able to read this into chimera and see a couple of spheres, but I don't. > I'm sure I'm doing something silly, but figured I'd bother you while I > play around with it. > > David Gene Morgan > University of California at Davis >

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Question about background transparency
by Vanacore, Roberto M 09 May '07

09 May '07

What are the system requirements to run -bgopacity option in a windows machine? I've tried adding to option (--bgopacity) to the startup command but I can not get a transparent background I'm using Chimera 2.2199 Thanks! Roberto Roberto Vanacore, PhD B-3101 Medical Center North Vanderbilt University Medical Center 1161 Twenty-first Ave South Nashville, TN 37232-2372 Phone: 615-322-7306 Fax: 615-322-7381

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contour levels in Morph Map
by Gabor Papai 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dear all, Is it possible with the Morph Map tool to set the contour levels of the two maps differently? For e.g. if I would like to morph between a map, which is obtained from single particle analysis and has the right contour level of 0.2 - and a second map, which is obtained from tomography and has the right contour level of 2.2, it gives weird result. Other question: does somebody consider to make chimera able to read Imagic files? Thanks for the help! Regards, Gabor -- Gabor Papai IGBMC Department of Structural Biology and Genomics 1, rue Laurent Fries, BP 10142 67404 Illkirch, France phone +33-3-88655748 Fax +33-3-88653201 E-mail: papai(a)igbmc.u-strasbg.fr

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chain selection in a multi-conformatin pdb file.
by Hong Liang 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi Chimera fans, 1. If a pdb file contains more then one struture, how can I select and keep just one and get rid of the rest. Such as 1X95. It is a big mess after Chimera load the the DNA pdb structure. How can I leave just one double helix? 2. Can Chimera do the extension of DNA. Such as 1X95 has the hexamer with the sequence of ATGCAT, can Chimera double it to a dodecamer with a sequence ATGCATATGCAT? It Chimera can not do that, do you know which software has such a function. I tried PyMol but did not get what I wanted. Thanks a lot. Hong

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Defining a zone around a point defined by x, y, z coordinates
by Jean-Didier Marechal 08 May '07

08 May '07

Dear all, We are having difficulties in defining a certain type of selection zones in chimera. Our problem is that we don't want to centre the zone on an atom selection but on one point of the space defined by its 3D coordinates. Typically we want to give chimera the x,y,z coordinates and select all the atoms included in a sphere of 25 angstroms around this point. How can we do so? Thanks a lot JD -- Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal Professor Assistant Physical-Chemistry Unit Department of Chemistry University Autonomous of Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Tel: (+34).93.581.49.36 Fax: (+34).93.581.29.20 e-mail: jeandidier.marechal(a)uab.es

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Find Hbonds in batch
by Stefan Bienert 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello Chimera fans! Is there a way to use chimera for finding hydrogen bonds for tons of molecules? I'm thinking of something like a command line script, which loads a pdb file, fetches the hbonds and writes them to a file. I got around 1000 pdb files and therefore doing everything manually is not an option ;-) greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bienert Zentrum fuer Bioinformatik Universitaet Hamburg Bundesstrasse 43 20146 Hamburg Germany Email: bienert(a)zbh.uni-hamburg.de Phone: +49 (40) 42838 7345 Fax: +49 (40) 42838 7332

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importing sdf files from PubChem
by Mark Andrake 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hey Folks, It is a relatively new feature to be able to read SDF compound structure files in Chimera. (I have release 2350 for Windows - I will be upgrading to the new snapshot that I just saw while looking around the site) Anyway - I tried with a compound sdf file that I got from PubChem (enclosed) - but seemed to have problems. At first it gave an error shown in the first lines below - and then seemed to say that it opened the files - but no atoms were displayed and no new model ID was generated and put into the Model Panel . Opening C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf Error reading C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf: Unexpected end of file (parser state: post header 1) in MOL/SDF file 'C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf' Done opening C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf Opening C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf Error reading C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf: Unexpected end of file (parser state: post header 1) in MOL/SDF file 'C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf' Done opening C:\Documents and Settings\andrake\My Documents\WORK f\PDBs\Cy3_CID_16048627.sdf I tried various atom selections and displaying all - but it seems obvious that it has not read in atoms and bonds. I have browsed around the documentation and only found a link to the sdf file formats. (I checked this out and tried editing out two of the header lines - ) It seems the error is unexpected end of file past the header. When checking the sdf file format information it seems that the $$$$ should be the only end of file mark - and there is only one at the end of my file. I also tried the whole procedure with a different sdf file from PubChem. Can anyone recognize what is causing the error in the enclosed file? Beyond that - are there other instructions on sdf file use in chimera that I did not see in searching the documentation? 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47 93 1 0 0 0 0 48 94 1 0 0 0 0 49 51 1 0 0 0 0 49 95 1 0 0 0 0 49 96 1 0 0 0 0 50 52 1 0 0 0 0 50 97 1 0 0 0 0 50 98 1 0 0 0 0 51 53 1 0 0 0 0 51 99 1 0 0 0 0 51100 1 0 0 0 0 52 54 1 0 0 0 0 52101 1 0 0 0 0 52102 1 0 0 0 0 53 55 1 0 0 0 0 53103 1 0 0 0 0 53104 1 0 0 0 0 56 60 1 0 0 0 0 57 61 1 0 0 0 0 58 62 1 0 0 0 0 59 63 1 0 0 0 0 60 61 1 0 0 0 0 60106 1 0 0 0 0 60107 1 0 0 0 0 61108 1 0 0 0 0 61109 1 0 0 0 0 62 63 1 0 0 0 0 62110 1 0 0 0 0 62111 1 0 0 0 0 63112 1 0 0 0 0 63113 1 0 0 0 0 M CHG 2 6 -1 17 1 M END > <PUBCHEM_COMPOUND_CID> 16048627 > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_HBOND_ACCEPTOR> 15 > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_HBOND_DONOR> 1 > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_ROTATABLE_BOND> 19 > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_SUBSKEYS> AAADcfB/vABgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWLFiAAwYAAAAAAAAFgBQAAAHgQECAAADgjB2AQyyYMQAIKoAyXyXHDCAEAhAgAoiBk4ZJgIIDLAkZGEIAhkhCDIyAedyMAPgAQAgAACAAAACAEAAAQAAAAAAAAAAA== > <PUBCHEM_IUPAC_OPENEYE_NAME> (2E)-1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-2-[(E)-3-[1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-3,3-dimethyl-5-sulfo-indol-2-yl]prop-2-enylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-indoline-5-sulfonate > <PUBCHEM_IUPAC_CAS_NAME> (2E)-1-[5-[(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxy-oxo-methyl]pentyl]-2-[(E)-3-[1-[5-[(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxy-oxo-methyl]pentyl]-3,3-dimethyl-5-sulfo-indol-2-yl]prop-2-enylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-indoline-5-sulfonate > <PUBCHEM_IUPAC_NAME> (2E)-1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-2-[(E)-3-[1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-3,3-dimethyl-5-sulfo-indol-2-yl]prop-2-enylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-indole-5-sulfonate > <PUBCHEM_IUPAC_SYSTEMATIC_NAME> (2E)-1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-2-[(E)-3-[1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-3,3-dimethyl-5-sulfo-indol-2-yl]prop-2-enylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-indole-5-sulfonate > <PUBCHEM_IUPAC_TRADITIONAL_NAME> (2E)-1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-2-[(E)-3-[1-[5-(2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl)oxycarbonylpentyl]-3,3-dimethyl-5-sulfo-indol-2-yl]prop-2-enylidene]-3,3-dimethyl-indoline-5-sulfonate > <PUBCHEM_NIST_INCHI> InChI=1/C43H50N4O14S2/c1-42(2)30-26-28(62(54,55)56)16-18-32(30)44(24-9-5-7-14-40(52)60-46-36(48)20-21-37(46)49)34(42)12-11-13-35-43(3,4)31-27-29(63(57,58)59)17-19-33(31)45(35)25-10-6-8-15-41(53)61-47-38(50)22-23-39(47)51/h11-13,16-19,26-27H,5-10,14-15,20-25H2,1-4H3,(H-,54,55,56,57,58,59)/f/h54H > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_EXACT_MASS> 910.276 > <PUBCHEM_OPENEYE_MF> C43H50N4O14S2 > <PUBCHEM_OPENEYE_MW> 911.008 > <PUBCHEM_OPENEYE_CAN_SMILES> CC1(C2=C(C=CC(=C2)S(=O)(=O)O)[N+](=C1C=CC=C3C(C4=C(N3CCCCCC(=O)ON5C(=O)CCC5=O)C=CC(=C4)S(=O)(=O)[O-])(C)C)CCCCCC(=O)ON6C(=O)CCC6=O)C > <PUBCHEM_OPENEYE_ISO_SMILES> CC1(C2=C(C=CC(=C2)S(=O)(=O)O)[N+](=C1\C=C\C=C\3/C(C4=C(N3CCCCCC(=O)ON5C(=O)CCC5=O)C=CC(=C4)S(=O)(=O)[O-])(C)C)CCCCCC(=O)ON6C(=O)CCC6=O)C > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_TPSA> 245 > <PUBCHEM_OPENEYE_MONOISOTOPICWT> 910.276 > <PUBCHEM_TOTAL_CHARGE> 0 > <PUBCHEM_HEAVY_ATOM_COUNT> 63 > <PUBCHEM_ATOM_DEF_STEREO_COUNT> 0 > <PUBCHEM_ATOM_UDEF_STEREO_COUNT> 0 > <PUBCHEM_BOND_DEF_STEREO_COUNT> 2 > <PUBCHEM_BOND_UDEF_STEREO_COUNT> 0 > <PUBCHEM_ISOTOPIC_ATOM_COUNT> 0 > <PUBCHEM_COMPONENT_COUNT> 1 > <PUBCHEM_CACTVS_TAUTO_COUNT> 9 > <PUBCHEM_BONDANNOTATIONS> 25 27 8 25 37 8 26 28 8 26 38 8 27 41 8 28 42 8 37 44 8 38 45 8 41 46 8 42 48 8 44 46 8 45 48 8 $$$$

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Suggestion for Metal Geometry Feature
by Walter Fast 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hi Elaine (I think!), I know there is a measure angle feature in Chimera. I have been using this to define metal ligand geometries in our protein structures (for example, distinguishing between square pyramidal and trigonal bypramidal geometries). Maybe if there is enough interest, this could be an automated feature in the future where a metal ion is selected and then all of the ligands and angles are automatically displayed along with an assigned geometry. We've been using the following reference for assigning them. Just a suggestion! Many thanks, Walt -- Walter Fast, Ph.D. Assistant Professor The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy The Division of Medicinal Chemistry Phone: (512) 232-4000 Fax: (512) 232-2606 Lab: (512) 471-5839 Email: WaltFast(a)mail.utexas.edu http://www.utexas.edu/pharmacy/divisions/medicinalchem/faculty/fast.html

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Re: [Chimera-users] importing sdf files from PubChem
by Elaine Meng 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hi Mark, You're welcome! I tried getting an SDF directly from PubChem, and that caused the same error you sent, again fixed by cutting and pasting the contents into another SDF file. Cutting/pasting (or otherwise getting rid of bad invisible characters) is the way to go for SDFs from PubChem, at least for now. We may take a look at those files (although I doubt there is a high demand for viewing 2D structures in Chimera!). Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On May 5, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Mark Andrake wrote: > Elaine, > > Thanks so much for your fast reply. > I can see from the users group that you guys do such a great job in > responding to user questions and concerns. > > After a quick gaze and trying on my laptop chimera at home - > it looks like there must be a hidden character issue. > I also had tried MS Word and saved it as a txt file > (in case there was some problem in the browser creating the file) > but maybe MS Word does not flatten out the file with just ASCI > characters. > > Next time I will try cutting and pasting through something like > WordPad first. > > In any case your test.sdf opened fine in my laptop chimera. > Thanks so much - have a great weekend! > > Mark > > Mark Andrake, Ph.D. > Research Associate > > Fox Chase Cancer Center > ICR428 > 7701 Burholme Ave. > Philadelphia, PA 19111 > 215-728-3654 > mark.andrake(a)fccc.edu > > > Elaine Meng wrote:Hi Mark, >> I've attached the test.sdf file mentioned in my previous message. >> Best, >> Elaine >> ----- >> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab >> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry >> University of California, San Francisco >> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html >> >> >>

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selecting a unique ligand structure from multiple copy
by Jean-Didier Marechal 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi everyone, I am working with different protein structures that have at least two copies of the ligand in their binding site. How could I select only one of them? (I'd like a selection specification that does not require the atom numbers if possible). Cheers JD -- Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal Professor Assistant Physical-Chemistry Unit Department of Chemistry University Autonomous of Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Tel: (+34).93.581.49.36 Fax: (+34).93.581.29.20 e-mail: jeandidier.marechal(a)uab.es

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wwPDB Announcement: Release of Remediated PDB Data
by Cathy Lawson 03 May '07

03 May '07

***wwPDB Announcement: Release of Remediated PDB Data*** The wwPDB has collaborated on a project to remediate the PDB archive and create a new set of corrected files. The entire archive has been reviewed and remediated with the objectives of improving the detailed chemical description of non- polymer and monomer chemical components; standardizing atom nomenclature; updating sequence database references and taxonomies; resolving any remaining differences between chemical and macromolecular sequences; improving the representation of viruses; and verifying primary citation assignments. In addition, the atom nomenclature for amino acids and nucleotides now conforms with IUPAC standards. A new FTP server containing the remediated data has been set up for testing. The access details for this site are provided at http:// www.wwpdb.org/remediation-downloads.html. The new ftp site will be updated weekly in concert with the current production site at ftp:// ftp.rcsb.org. Both sites share the same directory structure. Starting May 1, the remediated data will be served using gzip compression. Your input is very important to us. PDB users are encouraged to test the remediated data files between now and July 2007. The details of the final transition will be announced on the wwPDB website (http:// www.wwpdb.org) Detailed information about the wwPDB remediation project can be found at http://remediation.wwpdb.org. Comments about the files should be sent to info(a)wwpdb.org. Major announcements will be made at the wwPDB website (http:// www.wwpdb.org) as well as on the individual member websites.

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Ligand structure minimization
by Jean-Didier Marechal 02 May '07

02 May '07

Dear all, I don't know whether my problem falls in "bug" or "user request" category, pcorry if I use the wrong list. I am preparing a course where students will perform some protein-ligand dockings. I was thinking in minimizing the ligand in chimera using the "minimize structure" tool. I have installed the 1.2356 (that's what I thought but the message in the "About UCSF Chimera" pop up window says 1.2376 actually) version of chimera on ubuntu 6.10 and when I try to minimize my ligand (a HIV protease inhibitor), I am stopped at the PARMCHK run. Chimera seems to have compatibility problems with numpy. I join here the message given in the reply log file: .... Charges for residue U0E determined Total charge for #0: 1.0000 Running PARMCHK for U0E1.pdb command: /usr/local/chimera/bin/antechamber/exe/parmchk -i /tmp/tmpc6R8F8/parmchk.in.0 -f mol2 -o /tmp/tmpc6R8F8/frcmod.0 -p /usr/local/chimera/share/MMMD/parm/gaff.dat Finished PARMCHK for U0E1.pdbThis version of Chimera uses numpy for calculations. Numeric is only available in Chimera 1.2318 and earlier. Is there an easy way to move around this problem or should I install a earlier version of chimera for the moment? cheers, JD

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How does chimera invoke msms?
by aladdin 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I need to know the solvent accessible surface of a protein, that means the info of solvent accessibility of residues or atoms . If I directly run "msms" with "-af" option, I can get an .area file in which stored such information. But in chimera's surface model, I cannot find what I need. How can I get the solvent accessible info in chimera? Thanks. liren --------------------------------------------

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Re: [Chimera-users] mutating amino acid side chain_deleting single atom
by Gary Laco 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, How can I mutate an amino acid side chain in a protein to another residue using Chimera? Also, how do I delete a single atom on an amino acid (for example a hydrogen). I looked through all the tools and did not find a way to do it. Thanks, Gary Gary S. Laco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton 5000 Lakewood Ranch Blvd. Bradenton, FL 34211 Office: 941-782-5666 Fax: 941-782-5729 E-mail: <mailto:glaco@lecom.edu> glaco(a)lecom.edu

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movie and 'side view'
by jean-francois menetret 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Is it possible to include the 'side view' during movie recording ? Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret(a)bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street

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Secondary Structure Editing
by anat＠chem.ch.huji.ac.il 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to edit (manually) the secondary structure attribute of single amino acid in the computed sequence given by Chimera (e.g. from strand to helix). Thank you for your help, Anat, the Hebrew university of Jerusalem. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17
by Puey Ounjai 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Dear all; I am wondering can we manually assign secondary structure to each residues in the PDB file in chimera? Thanks Puey

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Chimera crash
by hsosa＠aecom.yu.edu 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi, I'm having problems later with chimera. Sometimes when rotating molecules or volumes the whole computer freezes for a while. Sometimes recover and will freeze again after a few more molecule movements. Sometimes the whole system crash with blue screen and reboot. It seems like a new problem as I've bee using chimera for a while and it didn't' happen before. As far as I know everything is the same in the computer. I'm running the latest snapshot release of chimera but that doesn't seem to be the problem. I deinstalled this version and installed the latest production release and got the same problem. Any ideas what the problem may be ?. Thanks Hernando System details UCSF chimera version 1.2382 (or 1.2304) OS: Windows XP service pack-2 Computer: Dell Precision 530 with Dual Xeon 1.4 GHZ processors and 1 GB RAM Graphic Card: NVDIA Quadro 900 XGL Video BIOS version 4.25.00.27.05 ForceWare version 91.36 -- ----------------------------------- Hernando Sosa Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Av. Bronx NY 10461 phone (718) 430-3456 FAX (718) 430-8819 email hsosa(a)aecom.yu.edu -----------------------------------

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Transform Molecule Coordinates
by rkhayat＠scripps.edu 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi, I was wondering if there is a stand alone version of the "Transform Molecule Coordinates" Chimera extension available. Alternatively, how will I be able to use this feature outside of Chimera? Thanks. Reza

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Re: [Chimera-users] rotating maps in chimera
by Tom Goddard 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi Preethi, Here's what caused the misalignment when you opened "subtracted map 2", let's call that one map 3, into Chimera where the original map 2 and reoriented map 1 were already opened. When you open map 3 Chimera needed to give it an initial transformation. Maps 1 and 2 had different transforms. Chimera chooses the transform of the map with the lowest id number (shown in Model Panel, menu entry Favorites / Model Panel). Map 1 must have had the lowest id number, so it got the transform of map 1 instead of the transform of map 2. Chimera had no way of knowing that map 3 was just a modified version of map 2. When you open data in Chimera it assigns an id number to it (shown in Model Panel). The id number is 0 for the first opened data set, then 1 for the next, .... In general it assigns the lowest available id number when a new data set is opened. When restoring Chimera sessions maps get their original model id numbers in Chimera versions 1.2354 and later, but are assigned new model id numbers in older versions. Since the data sets with lowest id number determines the transform of all newly opened models it is best to think of that data set as defining the reference frame. You can use the Model Panel / Transform As... button to correct the transform of a newly opened model. In the case you described you would need to transform map 3 as map 2 to fix the misalignment. This is probably easier than editing a session file. Tom preethi(a)bu.edu wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Chris I think had already discussed with you about how we transform > the PDB files that were originally fit into a brix map so that it now > fits into an MRC file in chimera. > > I am just repeating that here because I came across a problem when I > did this. > > I saved a session in chimera where I had rotated a MRC map say map 1 > w.r.t another MRC map 2 and then used the "fit map into map" feature > to align map 1 into map 2.So I saved the session(which would save the > transformation matrix) and then used the matrix to move certain PDB > files(using "transform as"). > > Now I did some zoning and volume erasing on map 2(the unrotated map) > and then saved the resulting map and then with another program outside > chimera subtracted the zoned out volume from the whole volume of map 2. > > SO when I read in the subtracted file into chimera it is now rotated > w.r.t the map 2 instead of being read with the original matrix that > was used for map2. I fixed this problem by going into chimera session > file and maunally changing the rotation and translation values for > this map to match that of map2. > > Also, if I opened chimera afresh and didnt restore the session where I > had done all the transformations but just opened map 2 and the > subtracted map then it reads them correctly without displacing one map > w.r.t the other. > > So I was just wondering why chimera automatically rotates the > subsequent MRC files that are read into a session where a > transformation was applied to some files only ? > > -Preethi > > > > > >

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rotating 2 models side-by-side
by jean-francois menetret 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

How can I make two models rotate side-by-side around their respective centers using chimera ? Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret(a)bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street

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Re: [Chimera-users] Proper display of oligosaccharide
by Greg Couch 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

To followup, I just tried the first Human milk saccarides example on the Sweet webside, 2'-Fucosyllactose, and the PDB file it generates doesn't display at all because of the non-standard data in columns 67-72. We have decided that we're being too strict in this case and will change chimera. In the iterim, if you're on a UNIX system (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.), you can truncate the lines with the following: awk '{if (/^ATOM/) print substr($0, 1, 67); else print $0}' < original > fixed with appropriate filename replacements for original and fixed. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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Proper display of oligosaccharide
by R. Andrew Byrd 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

We study protein:carbohydrate interactions, and we use chimera for protein displays. We have a model built for an oligosaccharide using the SWEET server at http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/sweet2/doc/index.php The file is in pdb format, but it has neither amino acid residue names nor nucleotide names. Hence, the molecule is invisible in Chimera. How could we make this a recognizable molecule so that we can examine various visualizations and modeling efforts using Chimera? Thanks! Andy P.S. I can send the file if you want.

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using different scale for 2 models
by jean-francois menetret 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Is it possible to vary the scale of one model in respect to another during a movie ? Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret(a)bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street

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Re: [Chimera-users] Rotate or rock commands for making movie?
by Elaine Meng 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Walter wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > I would like to make a movie using CHIMERA, but can only figure out > how to > rotate the molecule by hand and it ends up looking sloppy. Are there > command line entries for smoothly rotating or rocking a molecule? > > Thanks for your help! > > Walt Hi Walter, Sounds like you are looking for the "roll" command. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2376/docs/UsersGuide/midas/roll.html This page lists commands especially useful for scripting movies, and links to a few example command files: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2376/docs/UsersGuide/movies.html I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

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Help with installing DMS and Chimera
by Ben Keshet 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello everybody, I am a very inexperienced new user of Linux / cygwin and having problems in installing DMS and Chimera: 1. I am trying to install DMS but having problems with specifying correctly the pathway to the appropriate locations of the BINDIR and LIBDIR directories in the GNUmakefile. I am getting a message: "Cannot create directory. not such file or directory". I have tried it both on Linux enterprise 4 and on Windows using cygwin. My pathway includes spaces, i.e: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/User Name/Desktop/dms/bin Can anyone please tell me how exactly I should enter the pathway (I think the spaces cause the problem but not sure)? 2. I am having problems running the chimera-installer.exe. file of Chimera on Linux. When I double-clicked on it, it tells me that I cannot execute the file, so as suggested in the instructions (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2304/linux.html) I typed chmod +x 'filename' . When I checked the properties of the file after chmod, the box of 'execute' was checked (so I believe that I really changed the file's permissions). However, I am still getting the same error message when I double-click it. Does anyone know what am I doing wrong? Please consider my lack of experience in UNIX terminology if you try to answer one of my questions, Thanks a lot, Ben

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switching object on/off at the command line
by jean-francois menetret 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Is it possible to switch a model on/off from the command line ? "objdisplay #model / ~objdisplay #model" sound promissing but it doesn't work ... Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret(a)bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street

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gromacs trajectory - only atoms, no bonds
by Moo Cow 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

I believe one has to have a very recent chimera in order to be able to read gromacs trajectories. I have "beta version 1 build 2376 2007/04/11 It is terrific that chimera can read the trajectories (without problem), but it then does not seem to join the atoms with bonds (it certainly does so for normal pdb files). My trajectory is displayed as a set of lonely unbonded atoms. I believe I checked for obvious mistakes on my part. I went to the tutorial, found the lines repr stick and so on. They gave no error message, but did not help. Many thanks for any advice. = Search for products and services at: http://search.mail.com

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Re: [Chimera-users] Ribosomal RNA depiction
by Tom Goddard 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi Dave, The RNA display using surfaces for each base could be done easily in a Python script, but not with Chimera commands since those are not available for multiscale. The result could be exported to POV-ray, or since Chimera now includes POV-ray the raytraced image can be directly produced in Chimera. I still think that a fat tubular ribbon with a single base atom shown as sphere gives a cleaner coarse view of RNA that indicates base orientations. Here's a ribbon and sphere image, also a ribbon with surface bases, also an image with bases with NDB colors. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/1s72-rna/1s72.html Tom David Konerding wrote: > > > On 4/12/07, *Thomas Goddard* <goddard(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > <mailto:goddard@cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote: > > Hi Jean-Francois, > > Here are some tips for showing coarse RNA depictions. > > I too had lots of different colors for the ribosome rna bases using > the nucleic acid blobs tool but I changed them. Here was my > procedure. > > 1. open 1s72 > 2. select chain 0 (menu Select / Chain / 0) > 3. invert selection to select all proteins (menu Select / Invert) > 4. delete all the proteins (menu Actions / Atoms+Bonds / Delete > 5. open reschains.py > 6. open multiscale (menu Tools / Higher-order Structure / > Multiscale Models) > 7. select multiscale multimer type None and press Make models. > 8. press multiscale select All button, change resolution to 2, press > Resurface > 9. ctrl-click on backbone to select it > 10. invert selection (menu Select / Invert) > 11. click multiscale color button and set color of all bases > > > Tom- > > This looks nice. I don't have a lot of time to look into the > implementation right now, > but can steps 6-11 be done programmatically easily? > > Will the resulting images export to povray? > > Dave > >

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questions using chimera
by Xiaoyun Chen 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

I have two questions: 1) Is there a way for chimera to display the x-y-z axes? For example, for a pdb file, all the x/y/z coordinates are referenced to the molecular coordinate system. In the chimera screen, we can rotate the molecules. I want to know the orientation of the molecular coordinate system in the laboratory/chimera coordinate system, but cannot find a way for the x/y/z to show up on the screen. Many other protein visualization software (VMD, Molw, etc) have this feature. 2) by default, the z coordinate point out from the screen. often i would like to see the protein with its z direction in the plane of the screen and pointing up. tools-viewing controls-side view allow me to get what i want, but the image is only the protein projected onto the y-z plane. but it would be nice if there are two side view panels, one with an image in the y-z plane, one with an image in the x-z plane. Thank you! Xiaoyun Chen

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Ribosomal RNA depiction
by Thomas Goddard 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi Jean-Francois, Here are some tips for showing coarse RNA depictions. I too had lots of different colors for the ribosome rna bases using the nucleic acid blobs tool but I changed them. Here was my procedure. 1. open 1s72 2. select chain 0 (menu Select / Chain / 0) 3. invert selection to select all proteins (menu Select / Invert) 4. delete all the proteins (menu Actions / Atoms+Bonds / Delete 5. open reschains.py 6. open multiscale (menu Tools / Higher-order Structure / Multiscale Models) 7. select multiscale multimer type None and press Make models. 8. press multiscale select All button, change resolution to 2, press Resurface 9. ctrl-click on backbone to select it 10. invert selection (menu Select / Invert) 11. click multiscale color button and set color of all bases http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/1s72-rna.png Nicer simplified depictions can be made using ribbons with a single side chain atom as a sphere. The ribbon style editor (Tools / Depictions / Ribbon Style Editor) can fatten up the ribbon. Or for fancier bases shown as slabs use the Nucleotides tool (Tools / Depiction / Nucleotides), for example, http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/ImageGallery/entries/stmvrna/1a34.png Tom jean-francois menetret wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > the new reschains.py works well; but how did you specify the color > scheme in 1s72_rna.png using "multiscalemodel" option ? I am getting so > many different colours (see attached jpeg) > > Jean-François Ménétret, PhD > Boston University School of Medicine

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exporting ".pov" session
by Tom Goddard 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Jean-Francois asks about what is exported to POV-ray. jean-francois menetret wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > I have a question about saving ".pov" session > > Items of the chimera window that are not shown at the time of the > export command are saved in the povray scene. > Is that normal ? How can I save one object at a time ? > > Jean-Francois

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Suggestion on biological assembly load
by Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I have small suggestion to make that I would find helpful if implemented in chimera: I think it would be great if the "biological assembly" could be fetched by ID from the File menu, just as it goes now for the pdb coordinates file from the RCSB site. Such assemblies are kept at the PQS database at the EBI (Cambridge). The links there follow this syntax: http://pqs.ebi.ac.uk/pqs-doc/macmol/<ID>.mmol where <ID> is obviously that of the PDB structure. Despite the extension, it is a plain PDB file. The CRYST1 record (for crystallographic structures) of such coordinates files has been modified to space group P1, since the crystallographic operations of the original structure don't hold. A potential problem if these files is that they don't seem to care about having duplicated atom numbers... These assemblies are most often correct and validated by experiments. However, you might want to add a caveat or, even better, an intermediate window with a link to the place where the PQS explains how that particular oligomer was generated and why it is considered biologically relevant: http://pqs.ebi.ac.uk/pqs-bin/macmol.pl?filename=<ID> Best regards, Miguel - -- Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Centro de Investigaciones Oncológicas C/ Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid, Spain Tel. +34 912 246 900 Fax. +34 912 246 976 e-mail: molatwork(a)yahoo.es - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Et ainsi ne pouvant faire que ce qui est juste fût fort, on a fait que ce qui est fort fût juste. Blaise Pascal, Pensées -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGGL+gF6oOrDvhbQIRAtQ2AKCi9oIpIJffYwshk1PgB2aiG4e9rgCghjzZ Uz0yTug1VXEHXNP2MG2HsmI= =EGzy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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exporting a mineral structure as VRML
by Janet Iwasa 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hello, I'm trying to use Chimera to export a mineral file ( http://virtual-museum.soils.wisc.edu/soil_smectite/soil_smectite.pdb) as a ball and stick VRML structure, but I'm running into a bit of difficulty since some of the bonds don't get made into sticks -- rather, they appear as purple dotted lines in the viewer. Any suggestions on how to get these bonds to be made into geometry? thanks! Janet Iwasa

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Extra Chimera marker attributes
by Tom Goddard 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi Jeff, The Chimera path tracer markers accommodate extra attributes that are read and written to the XML marker files. There is no user interface to define new marker attributes in Chimera. A user interface to define new marker attributes does not seem hard. You could specify an attribute name and value in a command or dialog that assigns that attribute for all selected markers. For these new attributes to be of any use within Chimera more capabilities would be needed. For example some command or dialog that would allow you to select all markers with a certain attribute and value (e.g. is_filament = true). These kinds of capabilities already exist for attributes of atoms of molecules. For example, see the "setattr" and "defattr" commands, and "Render/Select by Attribute" tool, and atom specifiers that can test for specific attribute values. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/setattr.html http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/defattr.html http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/render/render.html http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/atom_spec.html#descri… These will work with path tracer markers since markers are implemented as atoms. But there are problems. For example "defattr" uses names of atoms and the names of the path tracer atoms are not meaningful. Probably "setattr" is more useful and you can set an attribute for all currently selected atoms. The main weakness is that these atom attributes will not be saved in marker XML files. That is probably easy to fix but I would need to investigate how atom attributes are implemented. For markers the attributes are kept in a Python dictionary marker.extra_attributes. I do not know if atom attributes on markers will be saved in Chimera session files. Would have to test that. Tom Jeff wrote: > Tom, > > how hard would it be to add other attribute(s) to the markers > generated with the volume path tracer tool, aside from > marker-to-marker connectivity? Such as the ability to enumerate > individual filaments/objects within a single marker set, or a flag > that would tell whether a set/group is composed of filaments, or > surfaces, or just a point cloud? Either of of these (enumeration, or > object type) could be stored as an integer. > > -Jeff

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transparency factor
by jean-francois menetret 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Is it possible to change the transparency factor of a volume at the command line ? Jean-Fran�ois M�n�tret, PhD Boston University School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics Department 700 Albany Street W315 Boston, MA 02118 Email: menetret(a)bu.edu Mailing address: 715 Albany Street

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Fetch EMDB map by id
by Thomas Goddard 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi Cathy, It is a good idea to allow fetching EMDB maps by id in the current File / Fetch by ID dialog. Their are two issues related to the large size of some maps that I would like to solve to make that work well. First I would like Chimera not to freeze while the fetching is done. That is what currently happens when fetching files. Instead it could show a progress dialog with a cancel button (like a web browser) and open the map when it finally arrives. Second I would like the map to be saved on your local machine so that you don't have to fetch the same large file more than once. Perhaps the way that would work is the the first time you fetch any file it asks you where to save this and future fetched files, and there will be an option not to save them. This would be remembered in your Chimera preferences file. When you subsequently used the fetch dialog it could first look in the directory where you save fetched files and use the copy there if available. Thanks for the suggestion. It is on my requested features list. Tom

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Re: [Chimera-users] hkcage command
by Thomas Goddard 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi Padma, The code for the hkcage command had to be changed for Chimera version 1.2348 and newer because we switched from using the Numeric Python array package to its not completely compatible successor called NumPy. The new code for the hkcage command is on the experimental features web page http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html Use that new code with Chimera 1.2363. I have not had time to try flattening an icosahedral map. I made a small step toward another request of yours, plotting radial density. I tried a Python 2-d plotting library called matplotlib that could be used for making radial density plots. It is a pretty big package so we have not decided whether to include it in Chimera. Tom

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GIF animations in Chimera
by Tom Goddard 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Anyone interested in GIF animation output from Chimera? Their main appeal is that they play directly in most web browsers (like banner ads). It was easy to add to the Chimera movie recorder using ffmpeg which is included in the Chimera distribution. But ffmpeg uses a fixed color palette causing severe color banding and does not offer LZW compression resulting in large file sizes. That option looks unusable. I tried another approach using a separate program called "gifsicle". That gave decent coloring and compression but it would require adding gifsicle to the Chimera distribution. I am reluctant to do that (entails future maintenance) unless there is strong interest in making GIF animations. Tom

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