Thanks a lot, Elaine. I'll try it your way before I got other suggestions. Best, Zongli ________________________________________ From: Elaine Meng [meng@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:30 PM To: Li, Zongli Cc: Chimera BB Subject: Re: Display a spider volume data in a specific orientation Hi Zongli, This is not my area of expertise (our expert is currently out of town) -- at first I thought you could use "Transform Molecule Coordinates" (under Tools... Movement), but now I see that it works only on atomic structures rather than maps: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/transform/transform...
It only works on molecular structures because it actually changes the atomic coordinates, without changing the model transformation. I've figured out one workaround, but it is both crazy and slightly tedious: (1) open your map (say as model 0). (2) open any atomic-resolution structure, it doesn't matter what, and open it twice -- now you have three models. Don't move them separately from the map (yet). Let's say the atomic structures are models 1 and 2. (3) use "Transform Molecule Coordinates" with desired Euler angles and shift on one copy of the atomic structure (say model 1). (4) use the match command to superimpose the other copy of the atomic structure on the one that was transformed: match #2 #1 (the command can use the whole models since they should have exactly the same atoms) (5) use the matrixcopy command to apply the transformation matrix of the second copy of the atomic structure to the map: matrixcopy 2 0 You might think "why do I need two copies of the atomic structure? can't I just transform one copy and then use matrixcopy?" ... in fact that's what I tried first, but after it didn't work, I realized it was because the Transform tool works by changing the coordinate values and not the stored matrix of the model. It is necessary to match the second copy to generate a corresponding matrix, and then matrixcopy can be used. I'm CC-ing the chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu list in case other Chimera users have suggestions. Our expert Tom G should be back next week and he might also have ideas. In general, it's better to send Chimera questions to that mailing list instead of just me, because I could be away from work or (like now) lacking a good answer! I hope this helps, 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 Apr 7, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Li, Zongli wrote:
Hi Elaine, I have a spider volume data (or mrc density map) from which I got a serious 2D projections. I have the Euler angles for each projection. Is there a way in Chimera that I can use those Euler angles to display the 3D spider volume data (or mrc density map) in a specific orientation that corresponding to that 2D projection? Thank you very much in advance. Best, Zongli
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