Thanks Elaine- My structures have more than 20 individual components (recent spliceosome cryo-EM models- example PDB 5GMK). They came as 1 model, which I split to have more control over for analysis. I can go through each component by hand and copy/paste the color for each model into a text file and then turn then this into a command file to color another structure with the same components in another conformation. (Thanks for turning me on to the “modelcolor” command. That will be helpful!) However, I was hoping there was a way to use something like grep to extract this information from the .py session file. Melissa ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Melissa S. Jurica, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Center for Molecular Biology of RNA University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Office: 450 Sinsheimer Labs Lab: 434 Sinsheimer Labs Office phone (831) 459-4427 Lab phone (831) 459-2463 Fax (831) 459-3139 http://www.mcd.ucsc.edu/faculty/jurica.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Melissa, At first I was going to suggest “mcopy” but from your description, it sounds like you have each chain as a separate model. “mcopy” is only for copying settings within one model to other models. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mcopy.html>
You can get the current atom-color RGB definitions or hex codes by Ctrl-click to select an atom (or ribbon segment to select the whole residue, if all of its atoms are the same color), showing the Selection Inspector, Inspect: atom, and then clicking the square color well to get the Color Editor. Then in the Color Editor you can see the hex code starting with # in the “Color name” field.
The square in the Model Panel shows the model-level color. Chimera has a coloring hierarchy, where if the atoms are individually assigned colors (such as with your color command), in the 3D display those colors mask the model-level color, which may be different. You can use the modelcolor command, for example “modelcolor #6168c8fb41bc #0.17” or click the color square in the Model Panel to make the Color Editor dialog appear, and then enter the hex code in the “Color name” field of the Color Editor: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/colortool.html> There is only one model-level color per model, as the name suggests, even though the atoms and per-residue ribbon segments might be all different colors.
More about color hierarchy: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/hierarchy.html>
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 Sep 2, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Melissa Jurica <mjurica@ucsc.edu> wrote:
I am analyzing a structure containing many individual chains that I have colored. I would like to transfer these colors to another structure of the same complex in a different conformation. Is there a way to extract the colors into a text file so that I can write a command file with the same color designations?
For example:
color #6168c8fb41bc #0.17
Also- How do I get that color to apply to the little square that shows up on the model panel?
Melissa