Hi Julian,

It would seem that the first thing to do would be to get a list of the poses in order.  This gets a list of the currently open models:

import chimera

models = chimera.openModels.list()

To extract the poses in order, the crucial information to know is that each model has an id and subid attribute, so each pose will have and id of 1.  To get a list of them in order then is:

poses = sorted([m for m in models if m.id == 1], key=lambda m: m.subid)

Then the number of poses is obviously len(poses).  For most of the additional things you mentioned, the easiest thing to do is run the equivalent command, e.g.:

from chimera import runCommand as run

for pose in poses:

run("color red %s" % pose)

This may be all you need.  But the run() call doesn't return any values, so for instance if you need to do different things in the Python code depending on how many hydrogen bonds a pose forms, then you would have to call the underlying Python routine, which does return values.  That particular call is FindHBond.findHBonds(models).  I can expand on that if you need that kind of info.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On May 3, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Julian Tirado-Rives <julian.tirado-rives@yale.edu> wrote:

Dear Chimera (and ChimeraX) team:

   I need to find some python example or code snippet capable of
looping over all the molecules in a particular model and do some actions
separately in each one.

    In our research we use several different docking programs and other
ways of generating poses of protein-ligand complexes, and using several
different programs to analyze them gets quite complicated. Instead,
we've found that the easiest way is to generate from each code, or using
conversion utilities such as babel, a pdb file of the host and a sdf or
mol2 file containing all the ligand poses and read them into chimera.
An excellent program, by the way. We use it all the time.

   I would love to automate the process even further by doing all the
coloring, rendering, Hydrogen Bond and contact analysis, etc. in Python
rather than manually. I have been trying to do this, but have not found a way to do the following:

If we have, for instance, the host in model #0, and the ligand poses in model #1 (#1.1, #1.2, ..., #1.N):

- Get from chimera the number of molecules in model #1 (e.g what is N)
- loop from the first #1.1 to the last #1.N molecule
- do some cations there (e.g select, color, find HB's, etc)

  I think this should be a problem other people have encountered and
solved  before, but I have not been able to find an example in your
depository, the mailing lists, or even the book ... I would appreciate
your input.

Thanks for your help, and for an excellent program!

                                            - Julian -


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