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Stereo
by Arthur Szabo 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Is it possible to create a stereo view image from a single pdf image. I have colored different segments of the original pdf image. Thanks A G Szabo agszabo(a)outlook.com<mailto:agszabo@outlook.com>

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Residue information failed
by Kunrong Mei 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hi all, I have met a problem as I used the mouse pointer to show the residue information. Normally, Chimera automatically displays the residue information (residue name, model ID, chain ID, and residue number...) by default when the mouse pointer is placed at a special position. This is ultra helpful when analyzing structures. My problem is that, after I registered to Chimera today, this function lost and it doesn't show the residue information any more. Has anyone met this kind of problem before? Or does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks, Kunrong

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera comparing homodimer with flipped homodimer
by Elaine Meng 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hi Kavya, The “mm” command used to align the structures and “measure rotation” used to report the resulting rotation are fully described in the documentation, see <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mmaker.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#rotation> Regards, Elaine > On Apr 3, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: > > Hi Elaine, > > I want to know exactly how the axis of symmetry has been calculated for the dimer. What coordinates are used to perform the alignment of the chains? This will really help me out with my research. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Kavya Shankar > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Kavya, > I didn’t have a good example handy yesterday, but here is a more specific example, in commands: > > open 5hvp > open 5hvp > mm #0:.a:.b #1:.b:.a pair ss > show :241.b > measure rotation #0 #1 > > This opens PDB 5HVP twice, matches it to itself except pairing A in one with B in the other and vice versa, shows only residue 241 in chain B so that you can see pairing is A-B, and measures axis of rotation between the two copies of 5HVP. The measurement is also reported in the Reply Log (open from Favorites menu): > > Position of 5hvp (#1) relative to 5hvp (#0) coordinates: > Matrix rotation and translation > -0.32555997 0.82635225 -0.45951350 0.78339640 > 0.82635225 0.01248149 -0.56301524 15.06413576 > -0.45951350 -0.56301524 -0.68692152 28.23994571 > Axis 0.58070648 0.71150597 -0.39565040 > Axis point -5.75571422 -0.00000000 18.30836454 > Rotation angle (degrees) 180.00000000 > Shift along axis 0.00000000 > > I also attach an image below. > 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 > > <flip-axis.png> > >> On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >> >> Hi Kavya, >> I think I understood you, but I can only repeat the same answer. I do not know of any way to get the axis in Chimera except by first superimposing two copies of the dimer. Open the AB dimer twice (A1-B1 and A2-B2), superimpose A1 to B2 and B1 to A2. Then if you still care about where the axis is you can calculate it from the already superimposed structures with “measure rotation.” >> Elaine >> >>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> To be more specific, I want to find the two-fold symmetry axis in the dimer so that when I rotate the original structure I get another structure that is similar to the first with the chains' positions interchanged. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kavya Shankar >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Is it possible to find the axis of symmetry for a dimer? I am looking to rotate the dimer along this axis by 180 degrees so that I can compare the two structures. >>>> Thank you. >>>> Regards, >>>> Kavya Shankar >>> >>> Hi Kavya, >>> Why not just match (superimpose) one monomer to the other and compare directly? At least from the Chimera perspective, the question seems backwards because maybe you could figure out the axis AFTER matching. However, if the purpose of finding the axis is just to compare the monomers, I would just superimpose them and forget about the axis. If you had dimer A-B you could either “split” (command) and match A to B, or you could open A-B twice and match A1 to B2 (and/or B1 to A2). This page discusses the ways to superimpose structures in Chimera; probably Matchmaker (GUI or command) would be the easiest. >>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/superposition.html> >>> >>> After two models are superimposed, you can get the axis and rotation amount with command “measure rotation” >>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#rotation> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> P.S. seemed like a user question so I put it on the chimera-users list … chimera-dev is more for programming issues >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chimera-dev mailing list >>> Chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >>> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev >> > >

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I figured it out
by Arthur Szabo 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Thanks A G Szabo

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question
by Arthur Szabo 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Previously I had stumbled on how to change the shading on ribbon structures. The default has shading, but with the default setting the colors of the ribbons are shaded and this shading changes when one rotates the structure. Kindly remind me how I can alter the shading of the ribbons. Presumably the settings are through the Tools section. Thank you Arthur G. Szabo

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UCSF Chimera installation - library ubuntu 16.04
by Vasileios Kargas 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

Dear Chimera developer, I am trying to install UCSF-Chimera and I have an issue with the libXext.so.6 library I 've installed the library package that contains this and I can locate it at: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu However I get this error: vk335@hunter:~$ ./chimera-1.11.2-linux.bin UnZipSFX 5.41 of 16 April 2000, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs(a)lists.wku.edu) Original path: '/home/vk335' inflating: chimera_install_L6RcLz/installer inflating: chimera_install_L6RcLz/chimera.bin Enter install location: ~/UCSF-Chimera-1.11.2 Extracting files. This may take a few minutes. Executing command: './chimera.bin -q -d /home/vk335/UCSF-Chimera-1.11.2' 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/vk335/UCSF-Chimera-1.11.2/share/__main__.py", line 69, in <module> value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) File "/home/vk335/UCSF-Chimera-1.11.2/share/chimeraInit.py", line 603, in init import chimera File "/home/vk335/UCSF-Chimera-1.11.2/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 16, in <module> from _chimera import BBox, Camera, Color, ColorGroup, DirectionalLight, LODControl, Lens, LensViewer, Light, Material, MaterialColor, Model, NoGuiViewer, OGLFont, OSLAbbreviation, OpenModels, OpenState, PathFinder, PixelMap, Plane, Point, PositionalLight, Selectable, SharedState, SpotLight, Sphere, Texture, TextureColor, TrackChanges, Vector, Viewer, X3DScene, Xform ImportError: libXext.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 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_L6RcLz' Installation is done; press return. If I install it in the default Chimera directory without desktop icon it proceeds to the installation but I can not run chimera - taking the same error: ImportError: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any suggestions how to solve it? Should this be linked to somewhere else in order the Chimera to find it? Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Vas

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Residue information failed
by Kunrong Mei 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hi all, I have met a problem as I used the mouse pointer to show the residue information. Normally, Chimera automatically displays the residue information (residue name, model ID, chain ID, and residue number...) by default when the mouse pointer is placed at a special position. This is ultra helpful when analyzing structures. My problem is that, after I registered to Chimera today, this function lost and it doesn't show the residue information any more. Has anyone met this kind of problem before? Or does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks, Kunrong

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Add secondary structure or symbols to headers of multalign viewer (sequence）
by 陈柳青 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Dear all ! Is it possible to add secondary structure or symbols to multalign viewer headers? I know can use "alignment header definition files" do this , but i don't know how to make the definition files, anyone can give me these files or tell me how to do it? thanks! Liuqing Chen School of Life Science & Biotechnology Minhang Campus Shanghai Jiao Tong University No. 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China Tel: +86 21 34207247

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Re: [Chimera-users] Chimera comparing homodimer with flipped homodimer
by Elaine Meng 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hi Kavya, Your “mm” command matched A to A and B to B, so there was no rotation between the two copies. It was hard to see if you entered exactly the same “mm” command as in my example (needs to be exactly the same, with colon : dot . and no extra spaces), but it you did, maybe you are using an old version of Chimera that interpreted the command differently. I only started Chimera and entered those 5 exact commands to get the result I showed. Tested in Chimera version 1.11.2 and recent 1.12 daily build. Elaine > On Mar 31, 2017, at 6:55 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: > > I have attached the screenshots. I have opened the same pdb file. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Kavya Shankar > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: > Thank you so much. When I do this I get a rotation angle of 0 degrees. Am I doing something wrong? > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Kavya Shankar > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Kavya, > I didn’t have a good example handy yesterday, but here is a more specific example, in commands: > > open 5hvp > open 5hvp > mm #0:.a:.b #1:.b:.a pair ss > show :241.b > measure rotation #0 #1 > > This opens PDB 5HVP twice, matches it to itself except pairing A in one with B in the other and vice versa, shows only residue 241 in chain B so that you can see pairing is A-B, and measures axis of rotation between the two copies of 5HVP. The measurement is also reported in the Reply Log (open from Favorites menu): > > Position of 5hvp (#1) relative to 5hvp (#0) coordinates: > Matrix rotation and translation > -0.32555997 0.82635225 -0.45951350 0.78339640 > 0.82635225 0.01248149 -0.56301524 15.06413576 > -0.45951350 -0.56301524 -0.68692152 28.23994571 > Axis 0.58070648 0.71150597 -0.39565040 > Axis point -5.75571422 -0.00000000 18.30836454 > Rotation angle (degrees) 180.00000000 > Shift along axis 0.00000000 > > I also attach an image below. > 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 > > <flip-axis.png> > >> On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >> >> Hi Kavya, >> I think I understood you, but I can only repeat the same answer. I do not know of any way to get the axis in Chimera except by first superimposing two copies of the dimer. Open the AB dimer twice (A1-B1 and A2-B2), superimpose A1 to B2 and B1 to A2. Then if you still care about where the axis is you can calculate it from the already superimposed structures with “measure rotation.” >> Elaine >> >>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> To be more specific, I want to find the two-fold symmetry axis in the dimer so that when I rotate the original structure I get another structure that is similar to the first with the chains' positions interchanged. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kavya Shankar >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Kavya Shankar <kavshank(a)umail.iu.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Is it possible to find the axis of symmetry for a dimer? I am looking to rotate the dimer along this axis by 180 degrees so that I can compare the two structures. >>>> Thank you. >>>> Regards, >>>> Kavya Shankar >>> >>> Hi Kavya, >>> Why not just match (superimpose) one monomer to the other and compare directly? At least from the Chimera perspective, the question seems backwards because maybe you could figure out the axis AFTER matching. However, if the purpose of finding the axis is just to compare the monomers, I would just superimpose them and forget about the axis. If you had dimer A-B you could either “split” (command) and match A to B, or you could open A-B twice and match A1 to B2 (and/or B1 to A2). This page discusses the ways to superimpose structures in Chimera; probably Matchmaker (GUI or command) would be the easiest. >>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/superposition.html> >>> >>> After two models are superimposed, you can get the axis and rotation amount with command “measure rotation” >>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/measure.html#rotation> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> P.S. seemed like a user question so I put it on the chimera-users list … chimera-dev is more for programming issues >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chimera-dev mailing list >>> Chimera-dev(a)cgl.ucsf.edu >>> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-dev >> > > > > <step1.png><step3.png><step4.png><Step2.png>

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Get side-view model? Or, height of clipping planes?
by Abba E Leffler 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Dear All: I'm making a figure showing a ligand bound deeply in a cryptic pocket of a protein. To show it best, I've oriented the complex so that I am looking down directly on to it. Then, I adjust the hither and yon clipping planes to bracket the ligand so you get a cross-section through the protein containing the ligand and binding site. Is there a way to get the heights of the clipping planes, and then draw planes representing them? Better yet, can the image in the side view planning somehow be saved to high resolution with the yellow clipping planes indicated, but perhaps without the red field of view lines? Basically, for the figure I need some way of showing the viewer where the clipping planes are on the protein. This is critical because viewers need to know in a broad sense where the ligand is located. Thank you for your help

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