Hi Oliver, I agree it would be useful. I wouldn't be the one doing the implementation, so it depends on how developer time is triaged, but your request has been entered into our tracking database as report #12711. Your email address is already on the report for automatic notification of comments or changes related to the request. <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/ticket/12711> We're glad you like Chimera, and thanks for the suggestion! Best, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:13 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Elaine,
Apologies for the late response, and thank you very much for taking the time to reply.
Yes, I could do that with some effort, but I was thinking of this more as a routine tool for checking out problematic regions of a structure either while building my own structures, or when inspecting structures in the PDB that I want to interpret - there is no good way that I am aware of at the moment to globally display Ramachandran outliers on a structure, without doing the sort of scripting you describe.
Chimera is may favorite tool for visualizing protein structures and making figures, so it would be wonderful to have such functionality - it would also be useful when preparing validation figures, for example to show reviewers that the only geometric outliers in your structure lie in high b-factor, relatively mobile loops.
Thanks again, Oliver.