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problems with animation recording
by Alice Pawlowski 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello, I want to produce a little animation of my structure model in mp4 format. I followed the instrcution in the you tube movie ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ephu9EpgRQg ) part 1 and part 2 that were very well explained. I recorded my animation but no movie was created. There is only an empty screen when playing the mp4 file. Right after recording a windows opens with a command line instead of the produced movie as it should happen according to the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgbDXbEBvw) I am just a user without any experience in programming. I would appreciate any good advice how to solve the problem. It would be great to have an animation for powerpoint presentations etc Looking forward to hearing from you Kind regards Alice ----------------------- Alice Pawlowski Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Institut für Synthetische Mikrobiologie Gebäude 22.07, Postbox 005 Raum 00.063 Universitätsstr. 1 40225 Düsseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 81-10362 alice.pawlowski(a)hhu.de

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How to save a dragged pdb
by 李雄俊 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello: I  dragged a partial thread pdb to dock a volume map with UCSF-Chemira, but when I saved the pdb, and open the new pdb and the mrc file, they are still uncouple. Please point out the mistakes in my method, thank you very much. fig 1. Yellow chain is the partial thread pdb, pink one is native pdb, grey one is the volume data. fig 2. After dragging, docked pdb and volume data   Fig 3. options of 'save pdb' After these actions, pdb and mrc are still uncouple when I reopen them in another Chemira.   

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Regarding saving a file
by Yash Bahl 11 May '20

11 May '20

Hi, I did a docking experiment from autodock and downloaded the file in chimerax format, when I open it works great and I select the model with highest delta G and visaulise it, but when I save the model as PDB, and open it in pymol only ligand is visible when I open the protein file in the same, although the ligand sits perfectly. I am not able to get a PDB file of the docked structure for ligplot analysis. Any help would be appreciated. Take care Sincerely, Yash Bahl

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Question about minimizing molecule with non-standard amino acids
by Sheng Zhang 11 May '20

11 May '20

Dear UCSF Chimera team, Good morning! I am Sheng Zhang, a graduate student from UC Irvine. First I would like to thank you for developing this useful tool, UCSF Chimera. I have a question regarding minimizing molecule with non-standard amino acids. I modified a linear peptide ligand so it's now a ring containing non-standard amino acids. When I was trying to minimize the ligand while fixing its protein partner, I kept getting error messages like "failure running ANTECHAMBER for residue UNK+THR". The unknown and threonine residues happen to be the residues that I built and modified. Now they are no longer standard/intact amino acid residues and I guess that is why Chimera doesn't like them when trying to minimize the structure. I wonder is there a way to minimize ligand with non-standard amino acid groups? Thank you so much for your time and help! Best wishes, Sheng

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measure rotation
by Jesse M. Hansen 11 May '20

11 May '20

hi I repeatedly have this issue and no idea how to fix it. I send the same files to colleague and they cannot reproduce it. We cannot figure out whether it's some minor detail I am doing, or it's my version of chimera. When I try "measure rotation #1 #2" the axis ends up either pretty off center or WAY far away (like 20 protein widths away). have tried: * centering volume and resaving, fitting models into map and resaving. Opening and all looks correct. * tried opening pdb first then maps, or maps first then pdb. Both seem to give different results but neither are precisely down the actual axis of my helical protein despite having centered it. * adding "coordinateSystem #" to the command has no effect. The axis that appears is now as long as my box, but it's still not centered thanks Jesse

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Re: [Chimera-users] How to save a pdb which moved by mouse
by Elaine Meng 11 May '20

11 May '20

On May 11, 2020, at 8:55 AM, 李雄俊 <lixiongjun(a)mail.sysu.edu.cn> wrote: > > Hello Dr Meng: > > I tried to dock a partial thread pdb file to a mrc file with UCSF-Chimera,as the tutorial recommanded，I clicked "Favorites ——> Model Panel",and inactivated mrc, and then dragged the pdb to dock the volume data. But I found that I cannot save this moved pdb, I mean, even though I save the pdb in a new file, when I open this file in Chemira, it shows that the pdb still be the original position, didn't move anywhere. If I want to change it's position, I need use "Tools/Movement/Transform Coodinates" to get a really moved pdb, but I cannot get precise displacement parameters, Could you please help me to solve this problem: How to save a dragged pdb's coordinates? Thank you very much. Hello, You can of course save a dragged PDB in its new location. Just make sure that when you save it, you save it "relative to" the map model. There is a choice for that in the File... Save PDB dialog. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/savemodel.html#pdb> The chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu address (CC'd here) is recommended for asking questions, to ensure you get an answer. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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problems opening multiple pdb files
by Domenico Raimondo 08 May '20

08 May '20

Hi, I am using chimera on a Mac (10.15.4 verison). My problem is that every time I open a pdb file with a double click it opens it in a new window of chiemera. In this way I cannot have multiple pdb structures in a single chimera window using the double click method to open the files. Thanks. Domenico Raimondo. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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ChimeraX on Twitter
by Tom Goddard 08 May '20

08 May '20

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Question about vop maximum
by Reyhan Muhammad 08 May '20

08 May '20

Dear Chimera Users, I am new to Chimera and cryoEM. For my project, I would like to create a single map (which will be used as a mask) for six 3D classes. To achieve that, I have aligned all my six maps using Chimera 'Fit in Map' and used vop maximum (vop maximum #0,#1,#2,#3,#4,#5) to generate a new map that is supposed to 'cover' all the other maps. My question is, when I look at the vop output map (green map in the file attachment), why do we still see some densities from input maps (salmon color) outside the vop output map? I have also adjusted the contour level of all map to 0.04 (volume all step 1 level 0.04). I hope someone could help me to clarify my understanding of vop maximum. Thank you for your help. Best wishes, Reyhan <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Conformation Search in Chimera
by Maj Krumberger 07 May '20

07 May '20

Hello, We are currently developing an educational exercise in Chimera for building different inhibitors in different proteases, using Chimera and then using AutoDock Vina for finding potential docking sites. I was wondering if there is a function in Chimera for doing a conformational search that we could do to find the lowest energy conformer before running AutoDock Vina? Thank you, Maj Krumberger Graduate Student - Nowick Group Department of Chemistry maj.krumberger(a)uci.edu University of California, Irvine 4302 Natural Sciences I Irvine, CA 92697-2025

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