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

01 Mar '19

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

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Chimera using question
by Khải Trần Gia 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

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

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Chimera Help
by Debamita Paul 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

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

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

28 Feb '19

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

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Seeking for help
by temban billyhp 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

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

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

26 Feb '19

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

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

22 Feb '19

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

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

21 Feb '19

Hi, Some journals require usage of CMYK color scheme. I see that the CMYK option exists in the color editor but is it possible to define CMYK for all the color actions (actions --> color) without having to go through the color editor for each color? Or am I missing something altogether? Thanks for you advice, Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel E-mail: bshaanan(a)bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-647-2220 Fax: 972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710

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

21 Feb '19

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

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ViewDock tool not showing PDBQT vina output file
by Walker, Kevin 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

The subject line summarizes the challenge. I can open all other file types of interest (pdb, pyc, py) for viewing. However, I am unable to open a pdbqt vinaout file within Chimera 1.13. The result: Chimera session freezes and can only be shut down through the Windows 10 task manager. Have uninstall and reinstalled Chimera, cycled computer off and back on, and updated graphic driver and rolled by graphic driver to previous version, all to no avail. Windows 10 64-bit Chimera 1.13 Graphics Card: AMD Radeon 480 Memory: 11 GB

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