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by Eslam Nofal 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Hello Thanks a lot for your effort please help me to know how can I determine My Model for a certain mutated gene (like smn protein for normal sequences,type I,II,III,and IV Spinal muscular atrophy) How can I know the protein model for different seq is functional or non functional? I made models for different affected cases of SMA with A suitable template for pdb and Recorded The Qmean and GMQE number for each model with but till now I can not be able to determine this sequence produce good functional protein or not especially with gene have Frame shift mutation which produce new protein and also have a lot of stop codon in the sequence I hope you understand the meaning of my Question ? and hope to guide me to suitable tool or method Thanks

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What is exactly matchDist?
by Murpholino Peligro 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Got 8 x-ray structures. Load them into Chimera and did Structure Comparison -> MatchMaker (with multiple sequence alignment). In the alignment I choose Structure-> Asses Match and it creates a residue attribute named matchDist. I guess is the Distance in angstroms for every alpha carbon in my ith structure (where i=1, 2, 3, ...7) to every matching alpha carbon in my reference structure? Thanks

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Horrible FPS Drop after Operation Chimera Update
by Bellamy Baron 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Any of you got this problem? I had a Horrible FPS Drop after Operation Chimera Update. Thanks in advance for your assistance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bellamy Specialist - iWYZE https://www.iwyze.co.za/products/car-insurance

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Please unbundle libRMF
by Yuri 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Chimera installs lib/libRMF.so, and UCSF IMP also installs lib/libRMF.so, so that they can't be used together, despite the claim that "IMP can also be used from the Chimera <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/> molecular modeling system" (see https://integrativemodeling.org/) Please unbundle libRMF (https://github.com/salilab/rmf) and use an external package for it. Also imagine if some other software used libRMF too, how can they all be installed together? Bundling is a mess. Please never bundle software packages because this only causes problems down the road. I also asked IMP to unbundle libRMF.so: https://github.com/salilab/imp/issues/1005 Thanks, Yuri

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Chimera application questions
by Yanhe Zhao 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

To whom may concern, This is Yanhe Zhao from UT Southwestern Medical Center. I have to question when use Chimera as below, hopefully someone could do me a favor to answer it. 1, my crystal structure have four copies in one Asymmetrical structural unit. When I try to combine two of them by selection and combine command, always combine all of them. I pretty sure that I only select two of them; 2, I got one PDB from SASDB, how can I show it as a density map like CryoEM? When I open, it's shown as lines-like map so as to which couldn't be used for docking. I really appreciate it if someone could do me this favor. Thanks a lot. Best, Yanhe

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Chimera Through VirtualGL
by Logan Sweezy 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hello! I have been trying to get Chimera working through ssh, where the Chimera installation is located on a Red Hat based cluster, but the user is using a MacOS machine to access the cluster. Looking through the archives of the mailing list, I found a suggestion to use VirtualGL to run Chimera through ssh. VirtualGL seems to be running as intended, but isn't working entirely correctly with Chimera (it runs glxgears and other applications fine). It gets farther in start up than without VirtualGL, but crashes on the Initializing OpenGL step around 80% of the time. I have traced the point of failure to reside within a call to the makeGraphicsWindow function within the tkgui.py file. Specifically, it fails at the line within the makeGraphicsWindow function: graphics = Togl.Togl(parent, **kw) which is found somewhere around line 2690 within the try / except portion which is itself nested in the while 1 loop. I can't determine why exactly it is failing here, and trying to trace the problem to a specific line within the instantiation of the Togl object proved fruitless. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed some light on what could be causing this issue, or know how to fix it? Alternatively, if anyone knows of another good solution for using Chimera through ssh on a Mac machine, that information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read my inquiry! Best, Logan Sweezy Scientific Systems Admin Rockefeller University

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adding measurement to Angles/Torsions via command line
by Ryan Pavlovicz 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hi, Is there a way to add a torsion measurement to the Angles/Torsions table via command line so that i can create a .com file to more easily analyze multiple measurements upon opening my session? The best workaround I can think of is to just use the 'angle' command followed by 'start Reply Log'. Thanks, ryan

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Re: [Chimera-users] Display errors
by Elaine Meng 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hi Ahmad, To summarize for the others: this is not a display error but missing secondary structure information. The reason is that the multiple-model single-PDB format is technically only for multiple coordinate sets of the same set of atoms (like an NMR ensemble), and there is only one set of helix/strand information at the top of the file that is used for each of the models. Chimera includes only the information from the first model when writing the file. In your case, although the two models look like copies of each other, they actually have some different chain IDs. In the new single file, your second model is mostly lacking this information. As I mentioned before, you can simply calculate helix and strand after opening the file: ksdssp However (and you might not care about this anyway), the assignments might be slightly different than in the original files. If you want to keep exactly the original secondary structure assignments , the better way to make a single PDB file is to combine the two models into one model before saving. You can combine models using the Model Panel (open from Favorites menu): choose both models on the left, then click “copy/combine” on the right, or with the “combine” command, for example: combine #0,1 model #2 close true and then save only the new combined model (#2) to a PDB file. I hope this helps, Elaine > On Jun 28, 2018, at 11:01 AM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks a lot Elaine. I would appreciate you taking a look at my structures. Please find it in the attachments. > > Kind regards. > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Ahmad, > I do not have this problem when I just open two structures and save them as a single PDB. When I reopen the saved PDB it shows all the secondary structure of both structures. > > When you save make sure you are saving all of the atoms (do not use options “Save displayed atoms only” or “Save selected atoms only”). Other than that, I don’t have any idea what happened with your file, without seeing that file. You could send (attach) it to e-mail. You could send to just me if you don’t want to put it on the list. > Regards, > Elaine > > > > On Jun 27, 2018, at 5:30 PM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I open the structures in the first image, which have the secondary structures displayed correctly. I click file save pdb as single file.That's the process I follow to save the file. How can I fix it? > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > Hi Ahmad, > > I don’t what process you used to save the structures in a single file, so I don’t know what went wrong. All I can tell from your images is that in the bottom image, some of the copies do not have secondary structure assignments, and that is why they show up as thin “coil” ribbon instead of the wider helix and strand ribbon. It might be that something is wrong about the format of your single file, or that some of the backbone atoms are missing. If you don’t think there are missing backbone atoms, you could try command “ksdssp” to reassign helix and strand, but the assignments probably won’t be exactly the same as from the original PDB file. > > <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/ksdssp.html> > > I hope this helps, > > Elaine > > ----- > > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. > > UCSF Chimera(X) team > > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry > > University of California, San Francisco > > > > > On Jun 27, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Ahmad Abdelzaher <underoath006(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > After saving the two side by side structures in a single file, I get the weird display errors in the picture shown below. How can I fix that? > > > > > > Regards. > > > <before_saving.png><after_Saving.png> > > > > > <A9_padded.pdb><A10_padded.pdb>

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Display errors
by Ahmad Abdelzaher 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Hello, After saving the two side by side structures in a single file, I get the weird display errors in the picture shown below. How can I fix that? Regards.

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by Ahir Pushpanath 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

Dear Chimera Team/Users, I wanted to write a python script within chimera that aims to essentially print out a contact map of a selected chunk of residues on an open structure. However, before doing so, I wondered if there is any programmatic way to generate the rotamer library at every position (i.e when you open up the rotamer tool, you get an option of 5-6 conformations you can pick for a residue), I wanted to generate that for every residue in the protein programmatically (and save every rotamer possibility) (as an altlocation?) in the crystal structure. Only after that do I want to calculate the contact map, in essence, I am trying to be as expansive as possible for each residue's "possible" contacts with any other, taking into account the full rotamer ensemble. Any tips on how to manage this programmatically? -- Dr. Ahir Pushpanath* PhD.* Senior Biologist, Johnson Matthey.

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