Dear Eric, Many thanks for your mail. Elaine gave me some tips regarding metal fixing and thus I am trying it out. I will be taking some more of your time if the problem is not solved. Thank you for your time. With kind regards, Amit Jaiswal, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Also, if you use the current daily build you can start the atom at a particular xyz position.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

Dear Amit, You could select the metal ion (Ctrl-click on it) and then use Movement Mouse Mode (in menu under Tools... Movement). In that tool, you would change mode to "Move selection" if you want to use the mouse to move the metal only. To go back to moving the whole structure, change back to "Normal."

This will not necessarily make a reasonable structure... it will just leave the metal wherever you put it.

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 Oct 23, 2012, at 1:26 AM, Amit Jaiswal wrote:

Dear Sir /Mam,

I am new to Chimera and thus facing problems in inserting Metal in my protein. I am using the Build structure command in Chimera but I am unable to move the metal from one place to the other. Please guide me out in fixing the metal.

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