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density maps
by Antonio Coluccia 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear all I have computed a molecular dynamic and i would like to have the density maps for some molecules of the system. I tried with isopropanol molecules and I obtain the map for each atom type: H; C3; O3, CH and another called density map_iso.mcr My concerns are about the last one map. What does it mean? Is it the map for the whole molecules, while the other maps are for each atom type? Is it possible to analyse the maps contemporary thus I am able to visualize just three per time? Any help will be really appreciated. Antonio Antonio Coluccia Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Drugs Technology Rome 00185 Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 antonio.coluccia(a)uniroma1.it

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Two questions about a model
by Steven D. Aird 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dear Elaine, I have a couple of questions about the attached model set. These are catalytic residues and residues forming the hydrophobic channel in four phospholipases. The first question almost seems silly. I decided to experiment with the label command and labeled one residue in the lower right enzyme of the figure. I didn’t like the position or form of the label. I couldn’t get rid of the “.A” on the label and when I tried to delete the entire label, I couldn’t. Selecting the residue and then selecting LABEL>Off, doesn’t work. In all four plots there are fine lines that resemble the earlier ribspline problem, but they are not resolved by "ribspline cardinal.” Any idea as to what these are? As always, thank you for your tutelage. I am making steady progress. Sincerely yours, Steve Steven D. Aird Technical Editor Faculty Affairs Division Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son Kunigami-gun, Okinawa-ken Japan 904-0495 Phone: 098-982-3584 Cell: 080-4154-9504 Email: steven.aird(a)oist.jp

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Windows & dialogues outside the screen
by Hernando J Sosa 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Dear UCSF-Chimera, I have noticed (perhaps since I upgraded, currently running v1.11.2) that when opening new windows/dialogues many times they pop-up outside the screen. This seems to happen more often when many windows are opened simultaneously. It is more of a nuisance than a real problem but it can get annoying having to continuously search for those elusive windows. So I wonder if there is a way to fix this behavior (e.g. to force newly opened windows to always appear on top and within the screen boundaries) . I am running Windows 64 UCSF-Chimera version 1.11.2 on a Windows 7 and Windows 10 machine (problem occurs in both computers) Thanks Hernando

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Converting a part of a molecule in pdb to xyz format
by Vladyslav Dziuba 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

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Re: [Chimera-users] MatchMaker working beautifully, and Transform Coordinates definitely does move things....
by Elaine Meng 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 3:47 AM, Steven D. Aird <steven.d.aird(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Elaine, > I apologize for the deluge of Email, but within minutes of writing you, I figured out how to use MatchMaker to align two ribbon models of interest. Again, it’s simple and elegant. > > I also found the transform coordinates command, which I had missed earlier. That enables me to move one of the models relative to the other. But moving a model is tricky because it seems impossible to know what relationship the two models have with a Cartesian coordinate system. I had assumed that x, y, and z would be relative to the monitor surface, but that is not the case. > > Is there a more intuitive way to move molecules while maintaining the same relative orientation? > Thanks very much for your help. > Sincerely yours, > Steve Hi Steve, Thanks for the kind words! After you use Matchmaker (or matrixcopy or the mouse or some other method) to position structures relative to one another, you shouldn’t have to do anything special… now when you move “everything” they will still retain their relationships. I.e. you can rotate and translate everything with the mouse and structures will still be superimposed, docked, etc. as they were after you moved them separately. Personally I never use the Transform Coordinates tool and I don’t understand why you wanted to use it. You can translate and rotate relative to screen coordinates (X horizontal Y vertical Z normal to screen) using commands “move” and “turn” and these can apply to everything or only certain models (they have a “models” keyword option). You can also move only certain models with the mouse by activating/deactivating (freezing) them with the “A” checkboxes in the Model Panel, which can be opened from the Favorites menu. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/mouse.html#activedef> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/move.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/turn.html> Also, for future reference, we really prefer questions to be sent to chimera-users (CC’d here) so that other people can benefit from the answers, and also give you better support if I don’t know the answer or am away. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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Chimera refuses to attach short peptide to protein C-terminus
by Steven Douglas Aird 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Dear Sirs: I am modeling novel proteins on homologous structures from other organisms using SWISS-MODEL. After the model is completed I import the PDB file into Chimera to form disulfides and to produce publication quality graphics. I thought all was going well until I discovered that SWISS-MODEL was actually truncating one or both termini of my target sequences by 1-5 residues. In one case, I created the missing C-terminal tripeptide using MacPyMol, but MacPyMol will not not add the tripeptide to the C-terminus, because it is designed only to create intramolecular bonds. So I imported the protein and the tripeptide into Chimera. I selected the C-terminal oxygen of the protein and the N-terminal nitrogen of the tripeptide and tried to create a peptide bond using Build Structure>Adjust Bonds>Add Bond. Chimera claims that only one atom is selected, but in fact, both are selected. I do not want to try to build a tripeptide one atom at a time. Is there any way to do ligate the tripeptide? Thanks very much! Steve Aird Steven D. Aird Technical Editor Faculty Affairs Division Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son Kunigami-gun, Okinawa-ken Japan 904-0495 Phone: 098-982-3584 Cell: 080-4154-9504 Email: steven.aird(a)oist.jp<mailto:steven.aird@oist.jp>

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Visualisation of membrane proteins
by James Starlight 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Dear Chimera users! I am on the preparation of interactive molecular visualisation, focusing on ligand-binding representation in GPCRs system. Working with the X-ray structures of the receptor bound with the ligand, I wonder to ask some suggestions: 1 - I need to move ligand from ligand binding pocket burried within receptor (as on default in the X-ray structure) towards the selected position outside of it - e.g in case where I would like to depict "vestibule" for the ligand enterance. As I understood for the realisation I should to select ligand within the current model and than to copy it to new model (layer) which then should be moved against the structure, shouldn't it? 2- Is it possible using some Chimera tool to indicate "approximate" membrane plane assuming that GPCRs structure is shown in latteral perspective? Thanks so much for the help! James

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electrostatic surface
by chemocev marker 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi I am calculating the electrostatic surface of the protein that has a peptide bound inside the catalytic camber. There are two ways to calculate, either i can split the molecule in indivual chain and calculate their surface indivdually and run the APBS server for the electrostatic potential, or i can do it use the surfcat command. Both of them works but the results are different. To me the results are more logical by splitting the molecule in indivual chain, but u am not sure if its right to do that specially when you want to measure the electrostatic potential. What is your opinion. best Jiri

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Write out coordinates for Centre of mass
by Soumya Govinda Remesh 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hello, I wanted to know if I can write out the coordinates for the object placed at the 'centre of mass' of selected atoms from a domain. I used the following command to place a marker at the location of interest. - measure center sel mark true Thanks Best, Soumya Govinda Remesh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow at Advanced Light Source Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road MS 6R2100 Berkeley, CA 94720 (phone) 510-495-8179 (cell) 804-402-8730 sgremesh(a)lbl.gov

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Re: [Chimera-users] CHIMERA ERROR
by Eric Pettersen 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Stellamaris Sotomayor Burneo <stellamaris_sb(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Dear Dr. Eric, > > My name is Stellamaris. I am an undergraduate student from Ecuador. There is almost no one working in molecular docking in my country so far. So, it is very difficult to find somebody to ask for help. I would like to kindly ask you a question about the problem I am having with Chimera and I would really appreciate your help. > > I am trying to convert a set of receptors (named receptor.pdb) to receptor.mol2. using chimera. However i am having problems with the charges of FAD, NAD, NDP, and FMN. Receptors that have problems in those groups are not being transformed. > > Is there a way to transform those files without having to change to charges? I have tried changing the charges and it seems to work. However, I am very afraid of changing the conditions of my simulations if I change the charges. > > I have gotten the following message: > NAD) Error: cannot run "/opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.10.2/bin/amber14/bin/sqm -O -i sqm.in -o sqm.out" of bcc() in charge.c properly, exit > Failure running ANTECHAMBER for residue NAD Hi Stellamaris, As you have discovered, the underlying tools that Chimera relies on to derive charges (AmberTools/antechamber/sqm) sometimes fail for entities with concentrated areas of negative charge. It is for this reason that Chimera already includes pre-calculated charges for ADP, ATP, GDP, and GTP. These charges were taken from the AMBER parameter database <http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/bryce/amber>. Charges for the moieties you mentioned are also in that database, and I’ve gone ahead and added NAD and NDP to the ones that Chimera knows about without needing to do a calculation. Precalculated NAD/NDP charges will be available in daily builds dated Feb. 9 or later. Unfortunately, FMN and FAD are more problematic in that Chimera doesn’t protonate them in the standard way used in the database. It adds a proton (and positive charge) to the isoalloxazine ring system so that the central ring becomes aromatic. Obviously, the simplest way to deal with this if you don’t need FAD/FMN as a cofactor is to simply delete them. If you do need them then things get hairy. I guess what I would do is: 1) Delete FMN/FAD. 2) Run Dock Prep which will get you a Mol2 file of the remainder of the system with charges. 3) Close your system and reopen it. 4) Delete everything but the FMN/FAD. 5) Set the IDATM types of the FMN/FAD so that they correspond to the standard protonation pattern. 6) Add hydrogens. 7) Write another Mol2 file with just FMN/FAD. 8) Edit this second Mol2 file and transcribe the charges found in the corresponding Amber parameter database file to the atoms. 9) Combine your two Mol2 files. Step 6 is a little tricky in that the atom names in the “OFF” parameter files aren’t all the same as the PDB standard names, but there is connectivity information in the OFF file, so you can figure out which atom is which. You can do step 5 by running the “defattr” command with the file I have attached, which will set the types of FMN/FAD heavy atoms to the standard protonation pattern. Also, instead of step 8, you could work up another “defattr” file to assign charges to the FMN/FAD before you write out the Mol2 file. Probably easier. —Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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large structures and two letter chain IDs
by Petr Leiman 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Dear Chimera Users and Developers, I am writing to ask if there is a way to animate multiple conformations of a structure containing 144 chains (~300,000 atoms)? Is it possible to read in such a structure into Chimera and preserve chain IDs? We have to use two-letter chain IDs, something that Chimera does not seem to like. Thank you, Petr -------------- Petr Leiman UTMB Galveston, TX77555

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Re: [Chimera-users] Fwd: chimera MAV
by Elaine Meng 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Hi Jackie, Yes, see the sequence window menu: "Preferences… Appearance. " There are several options for spacing, font, and coloring, including “Space between wrapped blocks.” <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> Best, Elaine > On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Jacqueline Vitali <jackie.vitali(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Elaine, > > Thank you so much. Doing it by hand is the easiest. > Also, is there a way to increase the distance between wrapped blocks? > > Jackie Vitali > Cleveland State University > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > You can also: > > (1) hide/show the header lines (Conservation, Consensus, etc.) using the sequence window Headers menu > (2) change how Conservation is calculated (sequence window Preferences… Headers) > (3) add your own headers with quantities or symbols, e.g. put stars over the columns with superfamily-conserved residues > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> > > Elaine > > > On Feb 8, 2017, at 8:30 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi Jackie, > > You can draw boxes (we call them “regions”) in the alignment wherever you want with click and drag, and then change their colors using the Region Browser. > > > > Multalign Viewer: > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/f…> > > > > Regions, including how to create them manually: > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> > > > > Region Browser (click the square color wells to change colors): > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> > > > > I hope this helps, > > Elaine > > > > > >> On Feb 7, 2017, at 10:57 PM, Jacqueline Vitali <jackie.vitali(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Elaine, > >> > >> I would appreciate it very much if you could let me know how to highlight specific conserved residues in a sequence alignment between 2 proteins with chimera using the MAV? I highlight helices and beta sheets with colors, conservation between the 2 proteins is shown with the blocks on top. But there are 15-20 residues conserved in the superfamily of proteins and i would like to use blocks around them or highlight them in different color. In other words, 60 residues are conserved between the 2 proteins and 20 are special and need to be shown in a different way. > >> > >> I hope my question is clear. > >> > >> Thank you in advance. > >> > >> Jackie Vitali > >> Cleveland State University > >

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Re: [Chimera-users] Fwd: chimera MAV
by Elaine Meng 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Hi Jackie, You can draw boxes (we call them “regions”) in the alignment wherever you want with click and drag, and then change their colors using the Region Browser. Multalign Viewer: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/f…> Regions, including how to create them manually: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> Region Browser (click the square color wells to change colors): <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/multalignviewer/m…> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco > On Feb 7, 2017, at 10:57 PM, Jacqueline Vitali <jackie.vitali(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Elaine, > > I would appreciate it very much if you could let me know how to highlight specific conserved residues in a sequence alignment between 2 proteins with chimera using the MAV? I highlight helices and beta sheets with colors, conservation between the 2 proteins is shown with the blocks on top. But there are 15-20 residues conserved in the superfamily of proteins and i would like to use blocks around them or highlight them in different color. In other words, 60 residues are conserved between the 2 proteins and 20 are special and need to be shown in a different way. > > I hope my question is clear. > > Thank you in advance. > > Jackie Vitali > Cleveland State University >

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Re: [Chimera-users] Upgrade to Sierra
by Elaine Meng 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Upgrade to Sierra > Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 17:58:53 +0100 > From: F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth <fxgr(a)ibmb.csic.es> > > Dear Elaine, > I recently had to upgrade to Sierra from Mountain Lion and now I find that ions are displayed as black spheres only > in Chimera v. 1.9. Any ideas on what I should change? > Kind regards, > Xavier > On Feb 5, 2017, at 9:11 AM, F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth <fxgr(a)ibmb.csic.es> wrote: > > Elaine, it's not only the ions, its all the atoms and bonds. > Ribbon appear fine though.... > Dear Xavier, I’m not an expert on this kind of thing, so I’m forwarding to the chimera-users list. (Sending to the list is always recommended… I will still answer it if I can, just as fast!) Although I don’t know if it’s related, maybe you should get a newer version of Chimera. Using Chimera versions 1.11.2 and 1.12 daily build on both a laptop and a desktop running Sierra, I do not have this problem. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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Re: [Chimera-users] Contour level animation ?
by Elaine Meng 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

> On Feb 3, 2017, at 4:21 PM, esserlo(a)helix.nih.gov wrote: > > Hi Elaine, > for a small demonstration, I want to make a movie in chimera where I animate > a change in contour level. I have an EM map with noisy features that improve > upon changing the level. I can do it by hand in the volume section but I > cannot figure out what parameter it is even if I wanted to set it on the > command line. > Setting it on the command line I suppose would be the first step but then my > question is: can this parameter be changed during an animation? > Thanks, > Lothar Hi Lothar, Yes, you can use the “volume” command “level” option to change the contour level. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/volume.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/volume.html#general> The “volume” command doesn’t itself have frames option, but you can combine it with the “perframe” command to perform a gradual change in a single line, as illustrated with this video mini-example: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/movie-howto-mar2012/movie_examples.htm…> We generally encourage emailing questions to chimera-users (CC’d here) unless they involve private data, since others may like to know the answer. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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Re: [Chimera-users] [chimera-dev] (no subject)
by Tom Goddard 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi Kavya, How about just measuring the distance between the two monomer center of mass points of the homodimer and dividing that distance by 2 since the line between the two monomers will intersect the symmetry axis in the middle. For example for monomer chains A and B "measure center :.A ; measure center :.B ; distance #1,2”. Send this type of question to chimera-users instead of the chimera-dev list which is for developer programming questions. Tom > On Feb 2, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Kavya Shankar wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to find the distance between a point and a line in chimera? I am trying to find the distance from the center of mass of the protein to the 2 fold axis of the homodimer. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Kavya > _______________________________________________ > Chimera-dev mailing list > Chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev

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3D movies for projects
by Kenward Vaughan 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, I'm developing a project for my class which feels like it's taking on Chimera (as in the creature) like proportions for the students. The thought is to have presentations of their visualization studies presented in a conference like setting at our school, open to all students. The question that has pounced into my thoughts is the possibility of using some settings within Chimera allowing them to record a movie (even as simple as a screen capture) which can then be played using an Oculus headset (or similar) with a phone. This would be a simple way to get the technology out into the street, so to speak. I do not yet have one of these myself so really don't know this first hand, but thought using wall-eye stereo made sense...?? Has anyone tried this, hopefully successfully? Kenward ps. Is there a way to use the phone as a monitor so one can manipulate the images via an external device, or use a Bluetooth hand controller? (I expect this is not possible given the graphics constraints of phones...) -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca

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Help with coordinates please
by drew richardson 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi, I am very new chimera and I am having to use it for a project at university. I have to create a picture from chimera and then list commands so anybody can recreate it just by typing in the commands in the command box. The problem I am having is: once I have rotated and zoomed manually using the mouse I don't know how to recreate that position and view by using typed commands. I can't even seem to find anywhere the coordinates of the new rotation. Could you please help me? How do I recreate the zoom and rotation using commands only, so that anyone wanting to recreate the view I have can do it just by typing in a list of commands after loading my original PDB file? Kind regards Drew Richardson ID: 27927431 (1st year biochemistry)

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Help!
by Kempfer, Jamie E. 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

i cannot get chimera to work on my windows computer!

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Re: [Chimera-users] on chimera unit cell function
by Elaine Meng 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hi Smith, The Unit Cell results for a structure with and without “pack” are equivalent because the symmetry describes a repeating pattern: each single copy could be shown in any of several places around the first copy. In other words, as I said before, there are multiple equally correct ways of presenting the same information. Although I cannot spend a lot of time looking at your specific data, I see the 3 structures are all the same space group with similar unit cell dimensions and angles, and the paper says “we could present nucleotide-induced conformational changes in the same crystal lattice by eliminating possible artificial structural differences because of different crystal packing.” Therefore I infer that the crystal packing is approximately the same in the 3 structures. It cannot be EXACTLY the same, however, since there are conformational changes between the structures. Since I didn’t write the Unit Cell code or look at the symmetry matrices in detail, I don’t know why the structures don’t give the same arrangement without “pack,” but I don’t think it is important, since the different possible arrangements for a single structure are equally correct. I hope this helps, Elaine P.S. please send questions to chimera-users rather than to me individually - thanks > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Smith Liu" <smith_liu123(a)163.com> > Subject: Fw:Re: [Chimera-users] on chimera unit cell function > Date: January 31, 2017 at 7:01:54 AM PST > To: meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu > > Dear Elaine, > > Related to our previous communication on "on chimera unit cell function" , here I have more to discuss with you. > > Attached 1 was the paper “Nucleotide-Dependent Conformational Changes and > Assembly of the AAA ATPase SKD1/VPS4B” published in Traffic 2008. PDB ID 2ZAM, 2ZAN, 2ZAO were 3 pdbs from this paper, and 2ZAM was the VPS4B without any nucleotide, 2ZAN was the VPS4B bound with ATP, 2ZAO as the VPS4B bound with ADP. > > As the paper wrote, “Because our attempts to crystallize SKD1 (VPS4B) in the presence > of ATP or ADP failed, we soaked the apo form crystals in solutions of ATP or ADP”, thus the 2ZAN and 2ZAO were got by soaking the crystal for 2ZAM with ATP and ADP separately. All 3 crystals were with space group P 65. > > The pdb for the 6 mates for each of 2ZAM, 2ZAN and 2ZAO are attached in attachment 2, 3, 4 separately (prepared without clicking ""Pack molecules in unit cell"). If viewed by Chimera, you will find the mates of 2ZAM arrange in the same way as the mates of 2ZAO, i.e., the 6 mates connect each other closely (side by side) and packed in a screw way. However for the 6 mates of 2ZAN, although still in screw way, the 6 mates arrange not closely but have a space between the adjacent mates. Correspondingly, the diameters of the z-axis projection of the 6 mates of 2ZAM and 2ZAO were much smaller than that of the 6 mates of 2ZAN. > > However, if we by Chimera we click the "Pack molecules in unit cell",we will find the 6 mates of 2ZAN displayed exactly (or very similarly) as the 6 mates of 2ZAM and 2ZAO (Am I right). > > Then my question would be, in the crystal for 2ZAN and 2ZAO, do the proteins arranged in exactly the same pattern? And why if we did not click ""Pack molecules in unit cell", the mates of 2ZAN and 2ZAO were displayed differently, and with clicking ""Pack molecules in unit cell",the mates of 2ZAN and 2ZAO were displayed similarly? > > If the protein arranged differently in the crystal for 2ZAN and 2ZAO, then in the crystal packing of 2ZAN, how can I identify the 6 protein which were from the 6 screwed mates in 2ZAM? > > I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. > Smith > -------- Forwarding messages -------- > From: "Elaine Meng" <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Date: 2017-01-30 04:05:22 > To: "Smith Liu" <smith_liu123(a)163.com> > Cc: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] on chimera unit cell function > Hi Smith, > The number of copies and their positions are all correct no matter whether you choose the “pack” option or not. If you cut out a part of the real crystal, there will be a real copy in the same place as the copy from Chimera. So imagine if you had specified an infinite (or large) number of unit cells in Chimera, a chunk from the middle of the result would look the same as some chunk of the real idealized crystal, regardless of whether you used “pack”. However, since you are probably specifying 1 x 1 x 1 or some small number of unit cells, yes choose the “pack” option to show the copies packed together, instead of with some spaces where a copy is shown inside a neighboring box rather than in the central outline box. > Best, > Elaine > > > On Jan 29, 2017, at 5:10 AM, Smith Liu <smith_liu123(a)163.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Elaine, > > > > I am still confusing on the function of "Pack molecules in unit cell" in Chimera. If we cut out a cube (or a volume) of crystal based on which a pdb was got, do you think the molecules packed in the cube in the way without "Pack molecules in unit cell" clicked, or the molecules packed in the cube in the way with "Pack molecules in unit cell" clicked? > > > > I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. > > > > Smith > > > > > > At 2017-01-29 00:50:44, "Elaine Meng" <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > >Hi Smith, > > >It is my understanding that you will get the same number of copies whether or not you choose the “pack” option, and that there are multiple equally correct ways in which the copies will be positioned according to the symmetry information. The “pack” option simply chooses, out of these many equally correct alternatives, a configuration that places the centers of all the copies inside one unit cell outline box instead of spreading them out among neighboring boxes. > > >I hope this helps, > > >Elaine > > >----- > > >Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. > > >UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab > > >Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry > > >University of California, San Francisco > > > > > >> On Jan 28, 2017, at 1:47 AM, Smith Liu <smith_liu123(a)163.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Dear All, > > >> > > >> In Chimera, we do Tools →Higher-Order Structure→Unit Cell, then what will be the diffenrence if we clicked "Pack molecules in unit cell" in comparison with if we did not click "Pack molecules in unit cell"? Does it mean that what we observed (or what Chimera displayed) if we click "Pack molecules in unit cell" , was really part of what it displayed if we did not click "Pack molecules in unit cell" but we increased the "Number of Cells" significantly? > > >> > > >> I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. > > >> > > >> Smith >

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Save marker sets from command line or python
by Kyle Morris 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Dear Chimera dev and community, I would like to save a marker set from the command line and ultimately do so in a script. Using the write command which I would use for PDB's, marker sets get saved in PDB format, of course. Is there a command to save the marker set as XML .cmm as it would from the volume tracer menu? I notice at the bottom of the following page this is a suggested development: https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumepathtracer/… - supply Python code for reading and writing the XML files containing saved marker sets Is it there already and I can't find perhaps? Thanks for your help as ever! Best wishes, Kyle

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on chimera unit cell function
by Smith Liu 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Dear All, In Chimera, we do Tools →Higher-Order Structure→Unit Cell, then what will be the diffenrence if we clicked "Pack molecules in unit cell" in comparison with if we did not click "Pack molecules in unit cell"? Does it mean that what we observed (or what Chimera displayed) if we click "Pack molecules in unit cell" , was really part of what it displayed if we did not click "Pack molecules in unit cell" but we increased the "Number of Cells" significantly? I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. Smith

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Metal Geometry Analysis - per frame
by Ilkow, Veronica 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Dear All, Is there a way I could include the metal geometry analysis as a per frame script for a MD movie? Ideally I would like to have an output file which lists the best geometry and essentially prints out the co-ordination table for two atom selections per frame. I am trying to figure out how to use the python or chimera per-frame commands to specifically select an atom and then print an output file. Any hints and suggestions on how to do this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help. -Veronica

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Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles
by Tom Goddard 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hi Vatsala, To change the arrow thickness change the line of code in the dipole.py script bildString = ".arrow %g %g %g %g %g %g .1 .2 .9" The values at the end control the shape, the “.1” is the cylinder radius, the “.2” is the arrow tip cone radius, and the “.9” is the fraction of the arrow length taken by the cylinder. This is described in the Chimera BILD format documentation here https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html> Tom > On Jan 25, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [E] wrote: > > Hi Tom, > Do you know how to change the dipole vector thickness. I am using dipole.py program to calculate dipoles in Chimera, and it is giving me a very thin line. > Thanks a lot, I sincerely appreciate it, > Vatsala Sagar > > From: "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" > Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 10:09 AM > To: Tom Goddard , "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles > > Hi Tom, > I am attaching the PQR files and raw PDB files of the crystal structure of human gamma D with two monomers rotated 90 degrees to one another. Please take a look at it and tell me what you think, > Thanks, > Vatsala > From: Tom Goddard > Date: Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM > To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles > > Hi Vatsala, > > I guess you are refering to the dipole.py script on the Chimera Python scripts web page: > > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts> > > Yes it should give the same answer for a molecule and a copy of that molecule rotated by 90 degrees. Without have the structure and rotated PQR files I don’t know what is going wrong. > > Tom > > >> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Do you know if there is a method to calculate dipoles in Chimera? I have generated a PQR structure in predicted protonation state and uploaded it onto Chimera. I then used a downloaded app called dimer.py to calculate the dipole moments of two of the same monomers rotated 90degrees. Technically they should both give the same dipole as the structures align 100% but according to the PDB coordinates are only rotated relative to one another. The dipole.py scipt is calculating them as two different dipoles. Can you help me with this? >> Thanks, >> Vatsala Sagar >> _______________________________________________ >> Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> >> Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users> >

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on Multiscale Models
by Smith Liu 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear Al, In the "Mutiscale Models" Windows , will you please tell me what does it mean for the item "Range"? I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. Smith

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Python script for reading volume values at atom positions
by Kyle Morris 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Dear chimera dev and users, Can anyone confirm with the latest chimera version (i’m running v1.11.2 build 41376) if this python script for measuring map values at atoms works for them? The script was reported previously on the users list here: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-May/001587.html For me I get a python import error: from VolumeViewer import Data_Region, full_region, Rendering_Options Thanks for your insight! Best wishes, Kyle

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beta sheet to loop
by chemocev marker 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi I am looking at some region of the protein in chimera and it looks like a loop but the from the procheck analysis it shows a beta-hair pin like structure. In the electron density, its shows a hydrogen bonding between the main chain atom. Why is this difference and how to overcome on it. best Jiri

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forget last question
by A G Szabo 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Forget the last question regarding visualizing nucleotides as balls and sticks. Figured it out. ags

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quick question
by A G Szabo 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

I am looking at a protein polynucleotide structure. How do I turn the rectangles that represent the individual nucleotide into balls and sticks? Thanks Arthur G. Szabo

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Autodock vina + modeller + ATOM syntax error
by Zirpel, Bastian 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi everyone, I'm using Chimera 1.11.2 on windows. I am experience following error after my workflow. I fetched a known pdb model from the servers and generated several structural models of similar sequences using the integrated MODELLER script. Since my pdb model contains a covalently attached cofactor in the active site, I let MODELLER include non-water HETATM into my structural models as well. Afterwards I tried to do substrate/product binding studies with the known pdb model as well as with the generated structural models using the AutoDockVina script. However, when I run the script with the known pdb model, everything works fine. But when I'm running the script with the structural models, I receive following error msg: "Parse error on line 8553 in file "receptor.pdbqt": ATOM syntax incorrect: "Ho" is not a valid AutoDock type. Note that AutoDock atom types are case-sensitive." It should be noted that this error does not occur if I won't include non-water HETATM by MODELLER. Makes sense, since having a look at the generated pdbqt file, the FAD lines are generating the error. " HETATM 8554 HO3' FAD 525 62.339 60.023 -29.788 1.00 0.00 0.238 Ho HETATM 8555 HO2' FAD 525 66.741 58.106 -28.406 1.00 0.00 0.397 Ho HETATM 8556 HO3B FAD 525 60.634 66.984 -32.274 1.00 0.00 0.221 Ho HETATM 8557 HO4' FAD 525 65.182 62.428 -29.602 1.00 0.00 0.217 Ho HETATM 8558 1H6A FAD 525 68.751 67.392 -38.565 1.00 0.00 0.157 HD HETATM 8559 2H6A FAD 525 68.156 65.783 -38.183 1.00 0.00 0.157 HD HETATM 8560 HO2B FAD 525 62.183 68.217 -34.408 1.00 0.00 0.253 Ho " I found that AutoDockVina needs a "HD" instead of a "Ho" entry at these positions? Is this correct? So my question is, why is AutoDock vina generating a pdbqt file in the first place which it cannot read properly in the next step? How can I prevent this? I cannot just change the pdbqt entries as AutoDockVina will overwrite it again. Thanks in advance for any help! Bastian

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model panel: long 'clicking time'
by Julian von der Ecken 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Dear Chimera Team, there is a long delay between on and off of the ’S’-checkbox (show button) in the model panel. I mean the model it self vanished instantly but the ckeckbox takes much longer to be set to on/off. Mac OS X 64-bit Version tested (1.11 2016-06-30, 1.11.2 2016-12-02; ): very slow. In older versions (1.10.2 2015-07-23) it was much faster. It is kind unfortunate when you click very fast through all models manually or you just want to alternatively show and hide one model very fast to see differences. Is it possible to set the speed somewhere/somehow? Thanks a lot for your advise Julian ————————————————————————————————— Julian von der Ecken, Ph.D. Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology Department of Structural Biochemistry Otto-Hahn-Str. 11 44227 Dortmund, Germany room: B2.27 tel: (+49) (0)231 133-2306 e-mail: julian.von-der-ecken(a)mpi-dortmund.mpg.de<mailto:julian.von-der-ecken@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de> institute: http://www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de group: http://www.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de/forschungsgruppen/raunser

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Transparency of surface colored with electrostatic potential file
by Sarah Piper 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Hi, I was wondering if you can make a surface transparent, which contains an electrostatic potential file (.dx), calculated with APBS? It would be nice to be able to see the ribbon structure of my .pdb file within the coloured surface. I’m using mol maps or SES to create the surface (my surface calculations (MSMS) usually fails, probably because of too large .pdb files) and then color this surface (Surface Color) with the submitted potential file from APBS. If I then want to make the surface with the potential colouring transparent, it doesn’t work. It just works to make the ’normal’ surface color itself transparent (e.g. transp 70,s #1). Does anyone have an idea if I can make the potential file or surface with electrostatic potential transparent as well? Many thanks for your help. Best regards, Sarah

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Visualization Martini coarse grained model in Chimera
by MOHD HOMAIDUR RAHMAN 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear All It is possible to visualize martini coarse grained bead of proteins and lipid in Chimera? if yes please guide me for same. Thanks & regards Rahman ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' *M*d* H*omaidur* R**ahman *( Research Scholar ) Lab No. 510, Computational Biophysics Lab. Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology-Madras Chennai-600 036, India *Mobile No = +91- 7845991785* '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

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on Unit Cell function
by Smith Liu 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear All, Once we load a PDB in chimera, in Tools-Higher order structure-Unit Cell, if we click "Make copies", the copies of the PDB would be created based on space group, with each copy has a specific # (0,1,2,3..., for example). Will you please let me know is any rule available for how the number of # for each copy of PDB was defined? It seems the PDB copies with consecutive specific # were not most closely related in the Chimera display. I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. Smith

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Fixing the Frame size
by chemocev marker 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hi I am making some images and I would like to know how to fix the zoom size so that in all the images size of the secondary structure should be similar. best Jiri

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Preference/default for H-bond representation
by Markus Heller 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Hello, Is there a way to set the preference for H-bonds to be represented as dashed lines, not as solid lines? I don't seem to be able to find anything in the Preferences or the documentation. Thanks and Cheers Markus

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virtualization project - UCSF
by Scholz, Sebastian 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

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Docking license
by Farah Yousef 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hello, I need an assisdtance in what I faced in submitting after I filled the required info for DOCK 6. Pages cannot be opened though I checked my net connection and I know DOCK program is free of charge and available for academic projects. Hope I get help in obtaining the license for DOCK 6, please. Best wishes,Farah Yousef

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Web services (Modeller, Blast, etc.) running
by Elaine Meng 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hello users, I believe the RBVI web services called from Chimera are now running, thanks to the efforts of my coworkers. I just now verified running Modeller, Blast (requires Chimera 1.11.2 or later), and sequence realignment with Clustal Omega or Muscle. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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Deleting a surface on command line, not just hiding it
by Rebecca Swett 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi all, I'm working on an animation, and I'd like to know if there's a way I can delete or close a calculated surface from the command line. For my purposes, I'd like to show the surface representation of the protein, remove it, then show a dynamics trajectory, and show the surface again at a separate point (while the trajectory is stopped). Currently, without being able to close the surface, it tries to recalculate the surface at each trajectory frame, which doesn't work for my purposes. Let me know if this is possible. Cheers, Rebecca This email message and any attachments are confidential and intended for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.

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Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles
by Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [E] 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi Tom, So if you align the pdb files of the rotated proteins, they have an exact match. But when you make the PQR files, it adds hydrogens differently to the rotated proteins, resulting in a charge difference in the said histidine. Should the program be adding hydrogens differently to the rotated proteins, and is there a way to remedy this> Thanks a lot, Vatsala Sagar From: "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov <mailto:vatsala.sagar@nih.gov>> Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 10:27 AM To: "chimera-bugs(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-bugs@cgl.ucsf.edu>" <chimera-bugs(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-bugs@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Subject: FW: [Chimera-users] dipoles Hi Tom, I am attaching the PQR files and raw PDB files of the crystal structure of human gamma D with two monomers rotated 90 degrees to one another. Please take a look at it and tell me what you think, Thanks, Vatsala From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net <mailto:goddard@sonic.net>> Date: Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov <mailto:vatsala.sagar@nih.gov>> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles Hi Vatsala, I guess you are refering to the dipole.py script on the Chimera Python scripts web page: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts> Yes it should give the same answer for a molecule and a copy of that molecule rotated by 90 degrees. Without have the structure and rotated PQR files I don’t know what is going wrong. Tom > On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F] wrote: > > Hi, > Do you know if there is a method to calculate dipoles in Chimera? I have generated a PQR structure in predicted protonation state and uploaded it onto Chimera. I then used a downloaded app called dimer.py to calculate the dipole moments of two of the same monomers rotated 90degrees. Technically they should both give the same dipole as the structures align 100% but according to the PDB coordinates are only rotated relative to one another. The dipole.py scipt is calculating them as two different dipoles. Can you help me with this? > Thanks, > Vatsala Sagar > _______________________________________________ > Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> > Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users>

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Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles
by Tom Goddard 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Hi Vatsala, If you run the Chimera pdb2pqr command or graphical interface on a molecule and a rotated copy of the same molecule and it gives different protonation states for histidine that seems like a bug. As described in the Chimera documentation this uses the PDB2PQR web service provided by the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR). https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/pdb2pqr.html <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/pdb2pqr.html> You might want to contact the developers of PDB2PQR to pursue this matter further http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/support/home/ <http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/support/home/> Chimera can also add hydrogens and compute charges using the Chimera DockPrep tool so maybe that is an option for you to avoid this problem in pdb2pqr. Tom > On Jan 10, 2017, at 7:35 AM, Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [E] <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > So if you align the pdb files of the rotated proteins, they have an exact match. But when you make the PQR files, it adds hydrogens differently to the rotated proteins, resulting in a charge difference in the said histidine. Should the program be adding hydrogens differently to the rotated proteins, and is there a way to remedy this> > Thanks a lot, > Vatsala Sagar > > From: "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov <mailto:vatsala.sagar@nih.gov>> > Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 10:09 AM > To: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net <mailto:goddard@sonic.net>>, "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov <mailto:vatsala.sagar@nih.gov>> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles > > Hi Tom, > I am attaching the PQR files and raw PDB files of the crystal structure of human gamma D with two monomers rotated 90 degrees to one another. Please take a look at it and tell me what you think, > Thanks, > Vatsala > From: Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net <mailto:goddard@sonic.net>> > Date: Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM > To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, "Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F]" <vatsala.sagar(a)nih.gov <mailto:vatsala.sagar@nih.gov>> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dipoles > > Hi Vatsala, > > I guess you are refering to the dipole.py script on the Chimera Python scripts web page: > > http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts> > > Yes it should give the same answer for a molecule and a copy of that molecule rotated by 90 degrees. Without have the structure and rotated PQR files I don’t know what is going wrong. > > Tom > > >> On Jan 4, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Do you know if there is a method to calculate dipoles in Chimera? I have generated a PQR structure in predicted protonation state and uploaded it onto Chimera. I then used a downloaded app called dimer.py to calculate the dipole moments of two of the same monomers rotated 90degrees. Technically they should both give the same dipole as the structures align 100% but according to the PDB coordinates are only rotated relative to one another. The dipole.py scipt is calculating them as two different dipoles. Can you help me with this? >> Thanks, >> Vatsala Sagar >> _______________________________________________ >> Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> >> Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users> >

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Map conservation of my sequence compared to sequence alignment
by mfellner＠msu.edu 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Good day I like the mapping sequence conservation tool in chimera, however I ran into a problem that IÂ could not overcome with anything IÂ found online. I have the consensus mapped onto my protein but that is not what IÂ want. IÂ want to show how the residues of my protein are conserved. For example at a particular residue the consensus is a C but in my structure its a W. at the moment the W is colored to be highly conserved based on the consenus of the C. The W is maybe 15% conserved, how can IÂ map the conservation of my sequence compared to all the other sequences. IÂ hope IÂ explained what my issue is Thank you for this great tool Matthias Fellner

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dipoles
by Sagar, Vatsala (NIH/NEI) [F] 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hi, Do you know if there is a method to calculate dipoles in Chimera? I have generated a PQR structure in predicted protonation state and uploaded it onto Chimera. I then used a downloaded app called dimer.py to calculate the dipole moments of two of the same monomers rotated 90degrees. Technically they should both give the same dipole as the structures align 100% but according to the PDB coordinates are only rotated relative to one another. The dipole.py scipt is calculating them as two different dipoles. Can you help me with this? Thanks, Vatsala Sagar

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Mutation in Chimera
by Islam, Tanzila 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hi I am learning Chimera and I have gone through soe online tutorials. The tutorials showed how to introduce point mutation by Rotamers command. But it only allows to replace 1 ammino acid residue at a time. I want to insert 4-5 ammino acid residues in a gap of a sequence. Is there any standard procedure, command in Chimera that will let me do this type of residue insertion? This is really crucial for my research work. Thanks Tanzila Islam Graduate Student Washington State University

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Problem opening DOI from Protein Data Bank
by Tones,Jason R 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hello, I am a student and recently downloaded chimera to use for a class, when I clicked to open the DOI of a search on the protein database I picked the wrong file under chimera to use to open it and it wouldn't open. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it keeps going to the file that won't open what I'm trying to do. Thank you for any help or suggestions you may have for me. Jason

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Measuring hexamer asymmetry
by Tom Goddard 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hi Elena, Ok. The “measure rotation” command shows the rotation axis defined by the rigid motion of one subunit onto another — it has nothing to do with the hexamer axis. I think you are asking for is that if you take subunit 1, rotate it 60 degrees about the hexamer axis, then compare the orientation and translation of subunit 2 to that moved copy of subunit 1. Then do the same for subunits 3,4,5,6. To do this take subunit 1 and make 5 rotated copies by 60,120,180,240,300 degrees and save that as a new hexamer PDB file. Now open the asymmetric hexamer and this symmetric hexamer. If the subunits are chain ids A,B,C,D,E,F then use “measure rotation #0:.B #1:.B”, “measure rotation #0:.C #1:.C", …. This will still show a rotation axis that is not the hexamer axis which indicates the rotation needed to make the exact symmetry copy of subunit 1 rotate onto the asymmetric subunit 2, and it will give the translation, rotation axis and angle in the reply log. Maybe you are not interested in how the symmetric copies of subunit 1 rotate when being aligned to asymmetric subunits 2,3,4…. Then you can just ignore this rotation information and get the translation from the reply log. Tom > On Jan 5, 2017, at 7:38 AM, Elena Zehr wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > Thank you very much for you response. Yes within the asymmetric hexamer subunits have different conformations. To test your advice on RMSD, I first generated hexamer by using six copies of the same subunit to align to the original hexametric structure, then I closed the original hexametric structure. The asymmetric hexamer now consisted of subunits with identical conformation, please note the hexamer is still asymmetric. Then I opened a monomer with the same conformation as the subunits within the newly-generated hexamer, and calculated rotation and translation matrices between the first protomer within the hexamer and the rest of the subunits (#2-6). The central axis for each of the calculations deviated from each other. > > My issue is the following: to make the calculations reliable I wish to have the same central axis running through the center of the hexamer and not the axes between #1 and #2 or #1 and #4, etc. which deviate from each other due to the asymmetry of the hexametric structure. Is it possible? For example I wish to calculate the central axis of the whole hexamer and then use it as a reference to calculate rotation and translation for each subunit (#2-5) around the ring with respect to the subunit #1 and the central axis of the whole hexamer. Is it possible to define parameters for the central axis in the command line together with “measure rotation #1 #2 or #1 and #4” ? > > > Many thanks, > Elena > > > On Jan 4, 2017, at 4:47 PM, Tom Goddard wrote: > >> Hi Elena, >> >> Elaine asked me to look at your problem measuring orientation of subunits of a hexamer. Does your hexamer have cyclic symmetry? If so I think the reason the displayed axes don’t appear to align with the hexamer symmetry axis is because your alignment of one subunit to another is not good. You can get the root mean square deviation of C-alpha positions for the alignment by looking in the Reply Log (menu Favorites) after running the match maker command, for example, >> >> RMSD between 308 pruned atom pairs is 0.361 angstroms; (across all 308 pairs: 0.361) >> >> From your picture with blue and tan complexes it does not appear they are aligned at all. If the sequences of the subunits are very different then match maker may not be able to align them. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Elena Zehr >>> Subject: Re: user-defined rotation axis >>> Date: January 4, 2017 at 1:09:10 PM PST >>> To: Elaine Meng >>> >>> Dea Elaine, >>> >>> Thank you for getting back to me so soon. Sorry for sending you my question again. >>> >>> I am getting the following (see attached image) Where the central axis between protomer A and B is different than the one between protomer A and F. I wish to have the same central axis that would be the central axis of the hexamer, otherwise I assume my measurements are not accurate. I get the same if I use the hexamers or separate monomers >>> >>> >> <axis.tiff> >>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:15 PM, Elaine Meng wrote: >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>>> From: Elena Zehr >>>> Subject: Re: user-defined rotation axis >>>> Date: January 4, 2017 at 1:09:10 PM PST >>>> To: Elaine Meng >>>> >>>> Dea Elaine, >>>> >>>> Thank you for getting back to me so soon. Sorry for sending you my question again. >>>> >>>> I am getting the following (see attached image) Where the central axis between protomer A and B is different than the one between protomer A and F. I wish to have the same central axis that would be the central axis of the hexamer, otherwise I assume my measurements are not accurate. I get the same if I use the hexamers or separate monomers >>>> >>>> >>> <axis.tif> >> >

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Showing color key programatically colouring from a volume...
by Pablo Conesa 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Dear all We have this simple script to open a volume (#0) coloured using values from a second volume (#1): open betaGal.mrc open extra/MG_Chimera_resolution.vol volume #1 voxelSize 3.54 vol #1 hide scolor #0 volume #1 cmap rainbow reverseColors True For scolor command we are using a volume. https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/scolor.html#volume It would be nice to achieve something like this at start up (note the color key is based on the volume): I've did it dragging the mouse over the canvas while "Color key" utility is open. And, is there a posibility to round up the values. Some kind of: Psaudocode: Give the resulting color key for each round values display the color key I guess that if there is a way to get the color key, then rest can be done through commands. Cheers, Pablo.

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color zone on command line
by Kyle Morris 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Hi Chimera dev, Following on from this post back from 2009: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-January/003514.html <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-January/003514.html> How would one also split map in this python script? Thanks! Kyle

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera-users Digest, Vol 164, Issue 26
by Healey, Joe 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

I might be able to offer a bit of help here, the Chimera team and Jaime helped me with basically this exact problem. I have a script here https://github.com/jrjhealey/bioinfo-tools/blob/master/strucfit.py that you could take from. You'll probably want to look specifically at lines 216-240. (Note - you'll also need to look at the relevant module imports for match and pychimera etc. The script will need Jaime's implementation of pychimera too (he's super helpful!) https://github.com/insilichem/pychimera The script gives output as below, as the script automatically finds the best matching PDB file (that's what the first 150 lines or so is looking for), there is additional information there. Best Model I'm Hit Comparing RMSD Assorted homology metrics 2k4r PAK_01796_model5.pdb 2.81843275676 37.5 13 0.00035 21.5 2k4r PAK_01796_model4.pdb 12.6869844869 37.5 13 0.00035 21.5 2k4r PAK_01796_model3.pdb 14.4133021316 37.5 13 0.00035 21.5 2k4r PAK_01796_model1.pdb 0.459177533295 37.5 13 0.00035 21.5 2k4r PAK_01796_model2.pdb 15.1861411912 37.5 13 0.00035 21.5 Hope that's useful! Happy to offer more help (though I'm sure the chimera team have it covered!) Joe M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons) MSRB PhD Student MOAC CDT, Senate House University of Warwick Coventry CV47AL Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620 | Email: J.R.J.Healey(a)warwick.ac.uk Jointly working in: Waterfield Lab<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/tsm/microinfect/staff/waterfield…> (WMS Microbiology and Infection Unit) and the Gibson Lab<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/gibson/gibsongroup/> (Warwick Chemistry) Twitter: @JRJHealey<https://twitter.com/JRJHealey> | Website: MOAC Page<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey> | ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9569-6738 ________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> on behalf of chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: 22 December 2016 20:00 To: chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Chimera-users Digest, Vol 164, Issue 26 Send Chimera-users mailing list submissions to chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to chimera-users-request(a)cgl.ucsf.edu You can reach the person managing the list at chimera-users-owner(a)cgl.ucsf.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Chimera-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Saving Output From Match Align (Muk, Sanychen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:11:00 +0000 From: "Muk, Sanychen" <smuk(a)coh.org> To: "chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu" <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: [Chimera-users] Saving Output From Match Align Message-ID: <A69D81CB04F0734E96302AA9E36F9B233E521BEE(a)ppwexch2kx03.coh.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I'm working on a script to superimpose pdb structures onto one another and then run the match -> align tool to align them to get the RMSD between residues of the pdb structures. I know that from the multialign interviewer window, I can then go to structure acess match and then save the attributes as a text file that will contain the residue number and RMSD. Is there a command that I can use to output this attributes file automatically? Thank you, and happy holidays. Best, Sanychen Muk --------------------------------------------------------------------- *SECURITY/CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: This message and any attachments are intended solely for the individual or entity to which they are addressed. This communication may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law (e.g., personal health information, research data, financial information). Because this e-mail has been sent without encryption, individuals other than the intended recipient may be able to view the information, forward it to others or tamper with the information without the knowledge or consent of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of the communication is strictly prohibited. If you received the communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting the message and any accompanying files from your system. If, due to the security risks, you do not wi! sh to receive further communications via e-mail, please reply to this message and inform the sender that you do not wish to receive further e-mail from the sender. (fpc5p) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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