September 2020 - ChimeraX-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

best desk-top for Chimerax
by Homer Guy 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

What are the best desk-tops for Chimerax using Windows 10 64 bit? H. Robert Guy

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Registration of ChimeraX
by Raymond P. Cox 19 Sep '20

19 Sep '20

I would like to register ChimeraX but I cannot enter @ in the box for my email address. Instead, the @ appears on the command line. Best regards Raymond Cox University of Southern Denmark

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Hiding pivot in ChimeraX
by Mutum Yaikhomba 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hi Is there a way to hide the pivot in ChimeraX? The pivot automatically appeared when I started ISOLDE in ChimeraX. Screenshot of the pivot attached. I looked on how to hide this pivot up online - but could not find it. Thanks Yaikhomba

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Fwd: Unable to load --offscreen and --nogui options
by Sai Janani Ganesan 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Hello All, I am unable to save images from the command line, I get an OpenGL error. I get openGL errors on both Mac and Linux. Any suggestions? ChimeraX --offscreen --nogui test.cxc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", mod_spec) File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 895, in <module> exit_code = init(sys.argv) File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ChimeraX_main.py", line 453, in init sess = session.Session(app_name, debug=opts.debug, silent=opts.silent) File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/core/session.py", line 441, in __init__ self.logger = logger.Logger(self) File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/core/session.py", line 501, in __setattr__ if not name.startswith('_') and self.snapshot_methods(value, base_type=StateManager) is not None: File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/core/session.py", line 535, in snapshot_methods from chimerax import graphics as gr File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/graphics/__init__.py", line 34, in <module> from .opengl import Texture, Lighting, Material File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/chimerax/graphics/opengl.py", line 61, in <module> from OpenGL import GL File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.5-py3.7.egg/OpenGL/GL/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from OpenGL.GL.VERSION.GL_1_1 import * File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.5-py3.7.egg/OpenGL/GL/VERSION/GL_1_1.py", line 14, in <module> from OpenGL.raw.GL.VERSION.GL_1_1 import * File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.5-py3.7.egg/OpenGL/raw/GL/VERSION/GL_1_1.py", line 7, in <module> from OpenGL.raw.GL import _errors File "/opt/chimerax-1.0-1.fc32/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.1.5-py3.7.egg/OpenGL/raw/GL/_errors.py", line 4, in <module> _error_checker = _ErrorChecker( _p, _p.GL.glGetError ) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'glGetError'-- Thanks, Sai

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Loading OpenMM platform plugins
by Thomas Mulvaney 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Hi, I've been having fun developing a plugin for ChimeraX and want to firstly thank everyone involved for such a great platform to build upon. I'm starting to introduce a molecular dynamics component and was excited to see that ChimeraX ships with OpenMM support. Unfortunately, the OpenMM Platform plugins (which add CPU, CUDA, OpenCL etc) functionality, do not seem to be loaded by default at least in ChimeraX 1.1 on macOS. I couldn't see any documentation about how to load these plugins, but for anyone running into this issue, the following code got things working for me: ------ import chimerax openmm_plugins_dir = os.path.join(chimerax.app_lib_dir, 'plugins') Platform.loadPluginsFromDirectory(openmm_plugins_dir) ------ Kind regards, Tom

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headless chimerax is built in via --offscreen and --nogui
by Moth, Christopher W 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

For other longtime and unimaginative 🙂 legacy chimera users who might be googling/searching for 'headless chimerax', hopefully this note will be picked up by search engines The details you seek: http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2019-April/000472.html No need to reply.

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Choosing solvent exposed residues automatically
by Mutum Yaikhomba 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi I am working with a very big pdb model: pdb - 6g2j. I was wondering if there is a quick way to select all residues (surface residues) that are exposed to the solvent (including those facing the membrane)? This is instead of going over each residue one by one and selecting them. Additionally, say you have selected these solvent-exposed residues and now you want to filter them based on Hydrophobicity - is there a way to filter based on the standard Kyte-Doolittle Hydrophobicity index for these residues? If there is, it would be of great help and very much appreciated. Thanks Yaikhomba

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mousemode and ISOLDE
by Alexis Rohou 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Hi all, Not sure whether this is a ChimeraX question, or an ISOLDE question, or a bit of both. I am using ChimeraX 1.0 (2020-06-04) and ISOLDE version ChimeraX_ISOLDE-1.0.1-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl. When I start ChimeraX, I get the following left mouse bindings, which I believe are default: - ctrl-left click = select - shift-ctrl-left click = select add When I just start ISOLDE via the GUI menu (no further action), this seems to clear the mousemode. Or, at least, ctrl-click does not select anymore, and shift-ctrl-click also doesn't seem to do anything. To remedy this, I issue the following commands: mousemode control left select mousemode control shift left 'select add' This restores ctrl-left to 'select' as expected, but shift-ctrl-left also triggers 'select', not 'select add'. Couple of questions: (1) Is ISOLDE intentionally overriding mousemode when it is launched? I'm 99.9% this didn't use to be the case pre-1.0... (2) How do I restore shift-ctrl-left to 'select add'? I assume I am getting the syntax wrong, but I did read the doc and thought I was following it, so I guess I need some help understanding the syntax. Cheers, Alexis

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Fit Map Question/Articles
by Luis José Castillo Valverde 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hello, I am currently working on my thesis work (this is why they have received many questions from me these days), this is why I am collecting information on biomolecular structures, and I wanted to know if you know of any article that comments on the pros and cons of its "Fit Map in Map" algorithm? This because I have been searching on this topic and have not been able to find anything. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks in advance. Best regards, Luis -- Luis José Castillo Valverde Ingeniero en Computación, TEC Costa Rica Estudiante de maestría (MSc) académica en Computación, TEC Costa Rica Telegram: @LCastillo98 LinkedIn: luisjosecastillo98

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