Hi Julio, The secondary structure calculation requires all peptide backbone atoms. In the Chimera docs it notes: "Ksdssp uses the coordinates of the backbone atoms (N, CA, C, O, and optionally H) of a protein to determine which residues are in alpha helices and beta strands." There is no way in Chimera to determine secondary structure from just CA positions. The error message you sent for pdb2mrc is a bug in the AIRS package which is developed and maintained by Matt Baker (mbaker@bcm.tmc.edu) at Baylor College of Medicine, not our group. It is a problem in file C:\Programme\EMAN\chimeraext\Airs\airsIO.py It occurs because you have a model open in Chimera which is neither a density map surface nor a PDB model (maybe a molecular surface or a solid volume rendering?). The airsIO.py code does not handle that correctly. You could try running it with only the PDB model open in Chimera to avoid this problem. Alternatively you could edit the airsIO.py file with a text editor changing near line 32 from: if str(model.__class__)=="VolumeViewer.surface.Surface_Model": path=str(volume_data_set(model).data.path) elif str(model.__class__)=="chimera.Molecule": modelfile=model.openedAs path=str(modelfile[0]) if filecheck.strip()==path: path=os.path.abspath(model.name) to if str(model.__class__)=="VolumeViewer.surface.Surface_Model": path=str(volume_data_set(model).data.path) elif str(model.__class__)=="chimera.Molecule": modelfile=model.openedAs path=str(modelfile[0]) else: path = "" if filecheck.strip()==path: path=os.path.abspath(model.name) Just two lines are added the "else:" and the "path = ""'. Make sure to use this indentation if you make the change since that is important in Python code. I'll send the error message to Matt Baker. Tom

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:58:48 +0200 From: "Dr .Julio Ortiz" <ortiz@biochem.mpg.de> To: Thomas Goddard <goddard@cgl.ucsf.edu> Cc: meng@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: Chimera and secondary structure annotations

Dear Thomas and Elaine: Thank you very much for your answers, I checked the ksdssp command and it works for some pdbs, but not for those that I mentioned with the ribosomes. I think that the problem is that some pdbs from ribosomes (like 1GIX and 1GIY) do not have complete residues (just CAs). In the case of your images, you have use 1PNS and 1PNU, and only those proteins in the 30S are complete. I guess I need to contact some of the authors of the structures to see if the complete coordinates are available.

Another question: I installed the new version of Chimera and when using pdb2mrc I received an error message: ------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Programme\Chimera\share\__main__.py", line 59, in ? value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv) File "C:\Programme\Chimera\share\chimeraInit.py", line 308, in init tkgui.eventLoop() File "C:\Programme\Chimera\share\chimera\tkgui.py", line 2725, in eventLoop app.mainloop() File "C:\Programme\Chimera\bin\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 965, in mainloop self.tk.mainloop(n) File "C:\Programme\Chimera\bin\Lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1751, in __call__ _reporterror(self.func, args) File "C:\Programme\Chimera\bin\Lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1814, in _reporterror displayerror(msg) File "C:\Programme\Chimera\bin\Lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1377, in displayerror _errorReportFile.write(text + '\n') File "C:\Programme\Chimera\bin\Lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1747, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) File "C:\Programme\Chimera\share\chimera\baseDialog.py", line 229, in <lambda> self.__buttonFuncName(txt))() File "C:\Programme\EMAN\chimeraext\Airs\pdb2mrc.py", line 73, in Apply targetPath=airsIO.getPath(target) File "C:\Programme\EMAN\chimeraext\Airs\airsIO.py", line 32, in getPath if filecheck.strip()==path: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'path' referenced before assignment

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I have already added the path of the EMAN in the tool menu. Could you tell me what I am missing?

Thanks you very much, Julio

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