On Aug 28, 2019, at 8:06 AM, Kevin Wang <kevinkw.wang@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

Hi Eric,

Thank you, code is working as intended now. However, I am using this code to analyze a trajectory so it takes a while to run it for each frame. Is there any way I can optimize it to run faster?

Best,

Kevin

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From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 6:30 PM
To: Kevin Wang <kevinkw.wang@mail.utoronto.ca>
Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Python Script to Find Contact Area Between 2 Proteins

 

Hi Kevin,

Those arguments are “surface pieces”.  Each molecular surface has only one “piece” (despite possibly looking like multiple disjoint pieces).  Once you run the “surface” command (generating two molecular surfaces) you can get the p1/p2 arguments with this code fragment:

p1, p2 = [s.surface_piece for s in openModels.list(modelTypes=[MSMSModel])]

Both openModels and MSMSModel are in the “chimera” module, but since your code does a “from chimera import *” you can get away with just the above.

—Eric

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Aug 27, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Kevin Wang <kevinkw.wang@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

Hi,

I am writing a python script to find the area between 2 proteins using the contact_area python command below.

def contact_area(p1, p2, d, color = None, offset = None, slab = None,

                 smooth = False, optimize = True):

Is there a specific object for p1 and p2 and if so how do I get it?

My current code is as follows:

import os

import chimera

from Measure import contactarea

from chimera import *

Path = "/Users/kevinwang/desktop/VEGFR_NO_LIGAND/results/clustering/pdbfit/split"

filelist = os.listdir(Path)

for x in filelist:

    #if x.startswith("trp.pdb."):

    if (x == "trp.pdb.00001"):

        print x

        opened = chimera.openModels.open(x, type ="PDB")

        runCommand('surface')

        y = contactarea.contact_area('0.1', '0.2', 2.5)

        text_file = open("buriedArea.txt", "w")

        text_file.write(y)

        text_file.close()

The error message I am getting is as follows:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'geometry'

  File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/Measure/contactarea.py", line 8, in contact_area

    v1, t1 = p1.geometry

How should I be passing in my arguments?

Best,

Kevin

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