March 2021 - ChimeraX-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Focus in ChimeraX
by Luca Pellegrini 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hi, What is the ChimeraX equivalent to the Focus command in Chimera? I have selected a portion of a structure, and would like to bring it into focus without dragging it into view. Also Focus would automatically set the selection as the pivot point. Best wishes, Luca Luca Pellegrini, PhD Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1GA lp212(a)cam.ac.uk

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Surface dust command in the .cxc script
by 李泽 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Hi all: I'm trying to use the .cxc script to run the software, I found that the "surface dust" command has never been executed in it. Have anyone met the same problem? Any suggestions. Thank you all. Best, Ze

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Get color code of a custom color
by Ahmad Khalifa 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

I created a custom color that I want to use in a different session. is there a way to do that besides trying to match colors by eye? Regards.

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Double and Triple Bond Stick Style
by Smith, Chase 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Dear ChimeraX, I was just wondering why there is no way to represent a double or triple bond in either the ligands or the protein amino acids when viewing as a Stick or Ball-and-Stick representation? I sometimes use Chimera or ChimeraX to make visuals for my lectures, and the students often have difficulty in understanding due to the absence of the multiple bonds. I would love to have the ability to represent the double or triple bonds with multiple lines between the atoms. Thank you, Chase Smith ... ChaseSmith, PhD Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry School of Pharmacy MCPHS University 19 Foster Street | WorcesterMA01608 T 508.373.5717F 508.890.5618C 978.855.7203 chase.smith(a)mcphs.edu www.mcphs.edu MCPHS University Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, and any attachment to it, is intended to be confidential and might be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that reading, copying, disseminating or distributing this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.

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Quest 2 Support?
by Blaine Hewitt 27 Dec '24

27 Dec '24

Hello, my name is Blaine Hewitt. Now I know that you have stated previously that you have no intention of bringing support to the Oculus Quest. Which is completely understandable since I know that not only would you have to develop around a completely new Operating System but another CPU architecture and much much more I assume. But with the soon release of the Oculus Quest 2 and it's new XR 2 chip-set makes a pretty good argument for it. As this would allow for much easier use in education (as is what I am attempting to do with it). I think it will be even easier now to push updates with SideQuest <https://sidequestvr.com/> being relatively simple to setup. I know that another (Naome <https://blog.matryx.ai/nanome-on-quest-public-beta-is-now-available-b546321…>) program is already available on the platform. But I do like your program a lot more since it is able to be used for free unlike Nanome Pricing <https://nanome.ai/pricing/> which is... as to say unappealing to public schools (such as mine). I was was also thinking (sorry if I am becoming annoying at this point) that if you do make a version of the Quest that you could make that GitHub branch available to the public. As for example while I may not be great at understanding complex protein structures I can help to make the whole experience more user friendly. Anyways if you read this far thank you for taking time from your day to read this. If you want to know who I am, my name is Blaine I am in my senior year of High School (Waynecsd <https://wh.waynecsd.org/>). I have to do a project by the end of the year where I have to present an area of study I want to pursue and I decided to research the effects of VR on the human's ability to learn and retain information. Budget..... None

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Apple silicon (M1 chip) native version?
by Jeffrey D. Hartgerink 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

Are there any plans for an Apple Silicon (M1 chip) native version of ChimeraX? While things work ok via the Rosetta emulator, it would be great to have the performance from a native app. -------------------------------------- Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Ph.D. Prof. of Chemistry and Bioengineering Rice University, MS 602 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005 jdh(a)rice.edu / 713-348-4142 hartgerink.rice.edu

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How to Align Chromosome Models with Different Number of Atoms?
by Cardiff Jiang 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Dear ChimeraX User List, How can I compare two chromosome 3D models (PDB files) that have different numbers of "atoms"? Matchmaker tool reports, "Reference and/or match model contains no nucleic or amino acid chains. Use the command-line 'align' command to superimpose small molecules/ligands." align #1 toAtoms #2 reports, "Unequal number of atoms to pair, 49 and 63." align #1 toAtoms #2 matchNumbering true reports, "Pairing dropped 49 atoms and 63 reference atoms. No atoms paired for alignment." align #1:1-40 to #2:1-40 reports, "No atoms paired for alignment." How should I compare two chromosome 3D models below? Thank you. [image: image.png] Best regards, Zichen "Cardiff" Jiang

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Re: [chimerax-users] Displaying silhouette around specific visual elements
by Tom Goddard 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi Gustavo, Glad you noticed the smoothness of the surface. I made it smoother than the default. The surface came from the molmap command which computes a density map from the atomic model. That command uses a density map grid spacing of 1/3 the requested resolution by default, but I specified an extra option that used a grid spacing 1/8 of the resolution: open 2gbp molmap #1 8 gridSpacing 1 Also if you are doing this with a big molecule (100,000 atoms) the density map created may be very large and may be shown subsampled so the surface looks coarser. Make sure to set the "step" to 1 in the Volume Viewer panel so that it uses the full resolution of the computed map instead of step 2 which would use only every other grid point. One more pro tip about that image composition example. It only worked nicely because the atomic structure was completely behind the surface, so I could layer the surface on top. If part of the atomic model was behind and part in front (for example with a cryoEM map surface), then the layering would not work well -- the composite image would have the surface in front everywhere. Elaine's selection highlight approach can handle that situation with correct occlusions but the edging is not as nice as silhouettes. Tom > On Mar 31, 2021, at 1:00 PM, de Miranda Seabra, Gustavo <seabra(a)cop.ufl.edu> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > This looks beautiful! Just one tangential question: How do you get such a smooth surface? Can you share the exact commands you gave? > > Thanks! > > -- > Gustavo Seabra > Assistant Scientist > Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3) > Department of Medicinal Chemistry > College of Pharmacy > University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA > From: ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users-bounces(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimerax-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu>> on behalf of Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net <mailto:goddard@sonic.net>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 8:55 PM > To: Andre LB Ambrosio <andre(a)ifsc.usp.br <mailto:andre@ifsc.usp.br>> > Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>> > Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Displaying silhouette around specific visual elements > > [External Email] > Hi Andre, > > If you are willing to go to a little trouble you can get silhouettes on an atomic model beneath a transparent surface that has no silhouettes. You first save an image of the atomic model with silhouettes with no surface, then save an image of the transparent surface with no atomic model and no silhouettes, then overlay the second image on the first in a photo editor like Gimp. Below is Elaine's example done this way. The command to save the surface image with transparency for overlaying is "save transpsurf.png transparentBackground true". > > Tom > > Overlay of two images. > > > Atomic model image > > > Transparent surface image > > >> On Mar 30, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Andre LB Ambrosio <andre(a)ifsc.usp.br <mailto:andre@ifsc.usp.br>> wrote: >> >> Dear Elaine, that is excellent! It is the visual effect I was looking for indeed. >> Thank you very much for this and thank you Tom for the very detailed response and for the feature request ticket. >> Andre. >> >> Em ter., 30 de mar. de 2021 às 15:59, Elaine Meng <meng(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>> escreveu: >> Hi Andre, >> Sometimes you can approximately "fake" this effect by using the selection outline. It is not the same, however, as silhouettes; it will only go around the outside perimeter of the selected item(s). For example, if I have a molecule inside a map surface, I can make the surface transparent, select the atomic structure, and make the selection outline color black etc. as in these commands, resulting in the appearance in the attached image. >> >> open 2gbp >> molmap protein 8 >> trans 70 >> view >> set bgColor white >> select @* >> graphics selection color black >> >> I hope this helps, >> Elaine >> ----- >> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. >> UCSF Chimera(X) team >> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry >> University of California, San Francisco >> >> >> >> >>> On Mar 25, 2021, at 8:23 PM, Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net <mailto:goddard@sonic.net>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Andre, >>> >>> It is not currently possible to display silhouettes on some models and not others. >>> >>> Several people have wanted this but I think it is complex to achieve. The silhouettes show boundaries where the depth in the entire scene changes abruptly. In order to have per-model silhouettes the ChimeraX GPU shader programs would need to compute an additional depth buffer separately for each model. Also the silhouette edges are not currently drawn at a specific depth. If per-model silhouettes were supported a stick model with silhouettes beneath a transparent surface needs to draw the silhouettes under the transparent surface so knowing the depth of the silhouette edge becomes important. When not using silhouettes the shader programs need to not compute the extra per-model depth buffers otherwise it would slow down rendering even when not being used. Adding these additional complexities to already complex graphics rendering shader programs have so far made this feature out of reach for our one graphics rendering developer (me). >>> >>> I made a feature request for per-model silhouette edges and perhaps in the future we will find a simpler way to implement it that makes it feasible. >>> >>> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/4420 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_trac…> >>> >>> Tom >>> >>>> On Mar 25, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Andre LB Ambrosio <andre(a)ifsc.usp.br <mailto:andre@ifsc.usp.br>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I wonder if it's possible to display silhouettes selectively in the same figure; for instance, displaying silhouettes only on structure representation (around sticks, spheres, cartoons and so on), but not around the maps or volumes that surround them. >>>> Many thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> Andre >>>> _ >> >> >> -- >> Andre LB Ambrosio >> Associate Professor, IFSC/USP - Brazil >> www.ifsc.usp.br/alba <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ifsc.usp.br_alba&d=…> >> _______________________________________________ >> ChimeraX-users mailing list >> ChimeraX-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> >> Manage subscription: >> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__plato.cgl.ucsf.edu_mai…>

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Displaying silhouette around specific visual elements
by Andre LB Ambrosio 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Dear all, I wonder if it's possible to display silhouettes selectively in the same figure; for instance, displaying silhouettes only on structure representation (around sticks, spheres, cartoons and so on), but not around the maps or volumes that surround them. Many thanks in advance, Andre

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Re: [chimerax-users] [Chimera-users] Debug
by 안예림 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

As soon as I start Chimera, the error message appears. I don't know how to report a bug to you. help me -----Original Message----- From: "Eric Pettersen"<pett(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> To: "안예림"<cp7617(a)naver.com>; Cc: <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu>; Sent: 2021-03-30 (화) 03:36:23 (GMT+09:00) Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Debug You should start Chimera and immediately use Help→Report A Bug to send a bug report to us, with a short description of the problem like you provided here. That will automatically provide us with many details about the machine you are using and the version of Chimera you are running. We can carry on from there, since I imagine this problem is only affecting you and therefore other people on this mailing list wouldn't want to get mail about all the details of this problem. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Mar 28, 2021, at 10:28 PM, 안예림 <cp7617(a)naver.com> wrote: Hi I have tried to make a movie of MD simulation by Chimera. I could be done one time, then for other MD’s it exits abnormally with the code -1073741819. Even I have decreased the size of .xtc file, it exits abnormally yet. Please check my capture picture. I have reinstalled chimera, but the problem did not resolve.What should I have to do ? I need your assistant. Thanksbe <20210329_142325.png>_______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users

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