Dear Elaine and Eric, Thanks for the inputs. I started the chimera interface and tried to use the StructureMeasure module using the IDLE that is present in chimera but it shows me import Error. I dnt understand why. I am using chimera 1.5 alpha version 29904. Do i need to set some path to use the module.
from StructureMeasure import * Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in <module> from StructureMeasure import * ImportError: No module named StructureMeasure
Bala On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On May 5, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:
With Chimera commands, you can create a distance monitor and set its stick thickness, color, etc.: open 1zik alias pair1 #0:22.a@oe2:25@ne dist pair1 setattr p drawMode 1 pair1 setattr p radius .05 pair1 setattr p color hot pink pair1 setattr p label " " pair1
However, it sounds like python will be necessary to conditionally set radius or color depending on the value of the distance.
A little more info on this possibility. You can get the distance-monitor pseudobond group in Chimera with:
from StructureMeasure.DistMonitor import distanceMonitor
and run through the distance-monitor pseudobonds with:
for pb in distanceMonitor.pseudoBonds: ...do something that sets pb.radius based on pb.length()...
--Eric
Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab