Hi Raquel, Assuming you are viewing electron density (such as from EM) rather than atomic coordinates, you might want to look at the page of helpful hints for volume viewing in Chimera, especially the sections "slicing and capping" and "slab clipping": http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/volumetour/ volumetour.html#capping http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/volumetour/ volumetour.html#slab Also, the Chimera User's Guide (Help... User's Guide in the Chimera menu) includes manual pages for the tools mentioned in the volume viewing tips (Volume Viewer, Side View, Surface Capping, Per-Model Clipping, etc.). I hope this helps, Elaine On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Raquel Hernandez wrote:
Hello chimera e-mail,
I have received from a colleague data set from a virus reconstruction. I am a novice in the use of your program but have managed to make an image of my virus. I would like to add an image of a slice of the virus through the center perpendicular to the three fold axis. Can you please advise me on what I need to do to make a slice? I can get the tech people here to help if you tell me the tools, etc that I need to use. Thanks.
Raquel
Raquel Hernandez Research Associate Professor Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry 128 Polk Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 office:919-515-5765 lab: 919-515-5786 Fax: 919-515-2047
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