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os x tiger
by Grant Geske 05 May '05

05 May '05

has anyone tried running chimera on the new mac os tiger?? i did and it did not work. does anyone have any suggestions?? grant ________________________________ Grant Geske Blackwell Group University of Wisconsin-Chemistry 1101 University Ave Madison, WI 53706 PH: 608-262-9043 email: chemg(a)mac.com

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circular permuation
by Bryan W. Lepore 04 May '05

04 May '05

i want to test my understanding about the "circular permuation" during matching: is this for proteins that result from gene duplication? -bryan

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Fwd: [Chimera-users] writing alignment
by Elaine Meng 04 May '05

04 May '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Date: Wed May 4, 2005 1:56:54 PM US/Pacific > To: "Bryan W. Lepore" <lepore(a)brandeis.edu> > Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] writing alignment > > > On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 01:41 PM, Bryan W. Lepore wrote: >> however i'd like to ask if mmaker is in fact not written to handle >> specific stretches of a model - e.g you can do #1:.a at the least? >> e.g., not something like #1:.a1-10,a15-20... to prune out areas to >> ignore. >> >> -bryan >> > > Hi Brian, > You can specify which chains (like in that example you included > in a previous mail) to construct an alignment with, but not > subparts of those chains. > > However, remember that the structure matching will only use > residues that are actually aligned in the initial sequence alignment. > So, it doesn't matter if the sequences have other parts > that are essentially unalignable. > Elaine >

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mmaker
by Bryan W. Lepore 03 May '05

03 May '05

i'm confused about the command "mmaker". `chimera --nogui mmaker` causes a "no such file or directory" error, so i tried `chimera --nogui --mmaker` which isnt' right either. also tried just `mmaker` even though its not in bin/ lib/. so do i make a heredoc script? i suspect i am missing a fundamental point (that i didn't find with `google: mmaker site:www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera`) i've tried both the latest official release and the lastest snapshot. -bryan

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by Ihms, Elihu C 02 May '05

02 May '05

I noted that Apple still has X11 availible for download, just that it's not publicized. http://a1408.g.akamai.net/7/1408/1388/20030317/akamai.info.apple.com/X11/us… Keep up the good work on Chimera! -- Elihu Ihms [ ihms(a)tamu.edu ]

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Chimera Surface Area/Volume
by Elaine Meng 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi Dieter, Just a few add-ons to Tom's reply: Another approach to getting the surface area of the receptor buried by the ligand is to run Surface Area/Volume (a) on the complex of ligand and receptor (must delete water and anything else first). Then use Attribute Calculator to sum the surface areas of the receptor atoms only. (b) after deleting ligand, run it again on the receptor. The total is all from the receptor, so it is not necessary to use Attribute Calculator. Subtract the value from (a) from this value. Tom gave a link to the development documentation, which is slightly ahead of the Chimera version you have. It is almost the same, except that the Tools menu has been reorganized. Probably in the version you have, both Attribute Calculator and Surface Area/Volume are in the Utilities submenu of the Tools menu. To get the documentation that goes with your version, use the Help buttons on those dialogs or open the User's Guide from the Help menu. If you have the latest snapshot (1.2105, March) there is an "Attributes" tutorial (Help... Tutorials). Part 2 has one example of using Surface Area/Volume and Attribute Calculator. Finally, if anything is confusing or hard to find in the documentation, please feel free to complain to me! 8-) Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

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buried surface area
by Thomas Goddard 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi Dieter, The surface area / volume tool (menu entry Tools -> Utilities -> Surface Area / Volume) could give buried surface areas if you ran it for the unbound receptor, unbound ligand, and then the complex, and then calculated { Area(receptor) + Area(ligand) - Area(receptor+ligand) } / 2 When you use this tool it reports the total area to the Reply Log (menu entry Favorites / Reply Log) and atoms are assigned an attribute saying how much area they contribute. It is a bit of a pain to run it 3 times and do the math yourself. The surface area is calculated by a web server as described in the Chimera User's Guide http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/surfvol/surfvol.ht… so you will need an internet connection to use it. The Chimera User's Guide is only available in HTML as far as I know. It is written in HTML. Tom > From: "Dieter Blaas" <dieter.blaas(a)meduniwien.ac.at> > To: Thomas Goddard <goddard(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:38:46 +0200 > Subject: buried surface area > > Hi Tom, > two quick questions: 1/ can Chimera calculate/display > the surface area buried by e.g. a ligand when bound on > a receptor? 2/ is there a documentation other than htlm > (e.g. pdf file)? > Thanx, Dieter >

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Resize a molecule
by Thomas Goddard 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Here is some code to scale a molecule size by a given factor. That is all atoms have their coordinates multiplied by a factor. Tom ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Goddard <goddard(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> Hi Jinghua, By "virus cage pdb file" I guess you mean you placed atoms at icosahedral positions, and want to show them connected up to show some icosahedral pattern. I think the easiest approach is to open your old session, run a command to change the diameter of the cage, then save a new session. Below is some Python code that provides a "scalemol" Chimera command. Make a directory chimera/share/scalemol in your Chimera distribution and put the code below in file chimera/share/scalemol/ChimeraExtension.py. Then start Chimera, open the cage PDB model, use menu entry Favorites/Command line, and type a command: scalemol 0 1.5 to make model number 0 bigger by a factor of 1.5. If you have more than one model open you can see the model numbers using Favorites / Model Panel, the model number is shown in the left hand column. Tom - ---- scalemol/ChimeraExtension.py code follows: # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # def scale_molecule(cmdname, args): from Midas.midas_text import error fields = args.split() try: model_num = int(fields[0]) factor = float(fields[1]) except: error('Syntax error: scalemol <model-number> <factor>') return import chimera mlist = chimera.openModels.list(id = model_num) if len(mlist) == 0: error('scalemol: No model number %d' % model_num) return for model in mlist: for a in model.atoms: x, y, z = a.coord().xyz.data() c = chimera.Coord() c.x, c.y, c.z = (factor*x, factor*y, factor*z) a.setCoord(c) # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # import Midas.midas_text Midas.midas_text.addCommand('scalemol', scale_molecule) ------- End of forwarded message -------

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get to lighting adjustment
by jinghua＠ucsd.edu 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

to whom it may concern, How could I get to the adcanced feature of lighting adjustment? Can I add more lights with different directions? Thanks! Jinghua <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>< Jinghua Tang, Ph.D. Phone: 858-534-5852(o) 4107 Natural Sciences Bldg, MC-0378 858-597-2056(h) Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Fax: 858-534-5846 University of California, San Diego E-mail: jinghua(a)ucsd.edu La Jolla, CA 92093-0378 http://jinghua.ucsd.edu <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><

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Writing the selection
by Charles Moad 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

How can I write the current selection to a file from a script? "write sel filename.pdb" does not work. Thanks, Charlie

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