June 2022 - ChimeraX-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

where can I find the mesh option in chimeraX?
by 王超 23 Jun '22

23 Jun '22

Dear All,I want to setting the mesh option in ChimeraX like "Chimera way".Like "open Volume Viewer of a map, and click features-data display option".but I cannot find toolbar of Volume Viewer, I am puzzle where to find it?

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Chimera question
by Daniel VillanuevaAvalos 23 Jun '22

23 Jun '22

Hello, I am trying to create a spirosome, and I am entering *sym #1 h,56.5,164.4,12* but the radius of the helix is wrong. How can I change it? What I am trying to do is move my obj closer to origin but I cannot find a way to do that. I can only move the pivot to center with *cofr 0,0,0*. Thank you, Daniel.

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quality of life imporovement suggestion for view matrix output
by Pranav Shah 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

Hi Team, I use the view matrix command regularly to save orientation of the maps/models in a command file. As it currently stands, the output needs to be formatted appropriately so that the command can be run. As a one off, it is trivial to format the output from the log window into an appropriate format but, when it has to be done repeatedly as is my case it becomes quite annoying. Therefore, I was wondering if you would agree to format the output so that it can be directly copy pasted in a ready to use format? Best, Pranav -- Pranav Shah Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK

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alphafold in Google colab
by Roberto Marabini 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

Hi, Starting today, when I try to execute AlphaFold calculations using Google Colab, I get the message: ====== ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts. kapre 0.3.7 requires tensorflow>=2.0.0, which is not installed. xarray-einstats 0.2.2 requires numpy>=1.21, but you have numpy 1.19.5 which is incompatible. datascience 0.10.6 requires folium==0.2.1, but you have folium 0.8.3 which is incompatible. albumentations 0.1.12 requires imgaug<0.2.7,>=0.2.5, but you have imgaug 0.2.9 which is incompatible. Successfully installed absl-py-0.13.0 biopython-1.79 chex-0.0.7 dm-haiku-0.0.4 dm-tree-0.1.6 docker-5.0.0 flatbuffers-1.12 gast-0.4.0 grpcio-1.34.1 immutabledict-2.0.0 jax-0.2.14 keras-nightly-2.5.0.dev2021032900 ml-collections-0.1.0 numpy-1.19.5 pandas-1.3.4 scipy-1.7.0 tensorflow-cpu-2.5.0 tensorflow-estimator-2.5.0 typing-extensions-3.7.4.3 websocket-client-1.3.3 wrapt-1.12.1 + pip3 install --upgrade jaxlib==0.3.2+cuda11.cudnn82 -f https://storage.googleapis.com/jax-releases/jax_releases.html Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://us-python.pkg.dev/colab-wheels/public/simple/ Looking in links: https://storage.googleapis.com/jax-releases/jax_releases.html ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement jaxlib==0.3.2+cuda11.cudnn82 (from versions: 0.1.23, 0.1.29, 0.1.32, 0.1.40, 0.1.41, 0.1.42, 0.1.43, 0.1.44, 0.1.46, 0.1.50, 0.1.51, 0.1.52, 0.1.55, 0.1.56, 0.1.57, 0.1.58, 0.1.59, 0.1.60, 0.1.61, 0.1.62, 0.1.63, 0.1.64, 0.1.65, 0.1.66, 0.1.67, 0.1.68, 0.1.69, 0.1.70, 0.1.71, 0.1.72, 0.1.73, 0.1.74, 0.1.75, 0.1.76, 0.3.0, 0.3.2, 0.3.5, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.3.10) ERROR: No matching distribution found for jaxlib==0.3.2+cuda11.cudnn82 ======= The error seems to be obvious but, can someone point me towards a solution? Thanks Roberto

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Research associate / Group leader position at the University of Luebeck (Northern Germany)
by Guido Hansen 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

The Institute of Biochemistry (Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Krey) at the University of Luebeck has an opening for a position as a *Research associate / Group leader (m/w/d)* in full-time (currently 38.7 hours per week) for an initial period of 4 years. Within the position, the opportunity for further qualification (habilitation) is given. *Main areas of activity:* * Own research (incl. acquisition of third-party funding) on topics in structural infectiology * Supervision of technical assistants, bachelor, master and doctoral theses * Co-responsibility for the cryo-electron microscope planned at the site * Organisation and implementation of teaching (in English) in biochemistry for the Molecular Life Sciences programme (lectures, practicals, seminars, performance review and booking, preparation of certificates) * Participation in teaching (in German) in biochemistry for medical students (lectures, practicals, seminars and their performance review and booking) *Requirements:* * Completed university degree in a natural science or medical programme, e.g. biochemistry, molecular life sciences, chemistry or biology. * Completed or nearly completed PhD thesis in natural sciences (defense in 2022), preferably in the field of structural infectiology * Proven research focus in the field of structural infectiology * Experience in the field of cryo-electron microscopy * Experience in teaching natural sciences and/or human medicine (in German and English) More information can be found here https://www.biochem.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/pdf/Ausschreibung1043-22… Please contact Prof. Dr. Thomas Krey (krey(a)biochemie.uni-luebeck.de) for any further questions, and send your written application with the usual documents (cover letter with research interests, curriculum vitae, references) summarised in a single PDF document by July 4^th , 2022 (*date of receipt*) at the latest to*bewerbung(a)uni-luebeck.de*, quoting the reference number*1043/22*. Best wishes Thomas *Prof. Dr. Thomas Krey* University of Luebeck *University of Lübeck Institute of Biochemistry* phone: +49-451-3101-3100 fax: +49-451-3101-3104 e-mail: krey(a)biochem.uni-luebeck.de <mailto:krey@biochem.uni-luebeck.de> www.biochem.uni-luebeck.de <http://www.biochem.uni-luebeck.de> Ratzeburger Allee 160 23562 Lübeck Germany -- Re: email signature

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The ChimeraX Toolshed is temporarily down
by Greg Couch 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Due to database corruption. Hope to have it back up soon. -- Greg

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ChimeraX: chashes in no-gui execution
by Enrico Martinez 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Dear ChimeraX users! I noticed that sometimes ChimeraX crashes while being executed in batch mode using bash script. Here is an example of my script that calculates hbonds and contacts between protein and ligand open mypdb.pdb #calculate h-bonds and contacts in each frame hbonds #1.1-24&protein restrict #1.1-24&ligand coordsets false interModel false makePseudobonds false log true distSlop 0.5 angleSlop 20 intraRes false saveFile hbondsALL_rep1.log clashes #1.1-24&protein& :41,49 restrict #1.1-24&ligand overlapCutoff 0.3 interModel false makePseudobonds false log true intraRes false saveFile contactsALL_rep1.log wait wait exit as you may see I added two times wait in the end of the script that could reduce the frequency of crashes. May you specify what is the default value for each wait (in seconds??) and how I could use just one wait command to set up the pause in the proper way? Many thanks in advance! Cheers Enrico

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Centos7 version of ChimeraX version 1.4 possible?
by Martin Moche 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Dear ChimeraX developers, Thanks for an outstanding piece of software! Is it possible to have a CentOS7 variant of version 1.4 of ChimeraX? Best regards, Martin Head of Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography<https://ki.se/en/mbb/psf-mx> | Protein Science Facility<https://ki.se/en/mbb/protein-science-facility> Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics<https://ki.se/en/mbb/department-of-medical-biochemistry-and-biophysics> 171 65 Solna | Solnavägen 9 +46 8 524 868 43 | +46 73 322 93 27 martin.moche(a)ki.se<mailto:martin.moche@ki.se> | ki.se<https://ki.se/> ______________________________________ Karolinska Institutet - a medical university När du skickar e-post till Karolinska Institutet (KI) innebär detta att KI kommer att behandla dina personuppgifter. Här finns information om hur KI behandlar personuppgifter<https://ki.se/medarbetare/integritetsskyddspolicy>. Sending email to Karolinska Institutet (KI) will result in KI processing your personal data. You can read more about KI's processing of personal data here<https://ki.se/en/staff/data-protection-policy>.

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ChimeraX 1.4
by Eric Pettersen 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

UCSF ChimeraX version 1.4 has been released! ChimeraX includes user documentation and is free for noncommercial use. Download for Windows, Linux, and MacOS from: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/ This will be the last release to support macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Also, ChimeraX 1.4 is not available for CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 because the Qt 6 window toolkit does not support those older Linux distributions. Updates since version 1.3 (Dec 2021) include: - search/retrieve from EBI AlphaFold DB 3rd release, ~1 million structures - display AlphaFold predicted aligned error (PAE) plots - can BLAST UniRef100,90,50 (+ previous choices AlphaFold, PDB, NR) - AlphaFold prediction of multimers (of limited size) on Google Colab - independent centers of rotation available as mouse mode - join models with Build Structure tool or command - define axes for display and/or use in measurements - increase/decrease VDW radii relative to their current values - switch PDB residue numbering scheme (author/canonical/uniprot) - align sequences with Clustal Omega or MUSCLE - calculate % identity in sequence alignments - window toolkit updated to Qt 6.2.3 from 5.15.2 For details, please see the ChimeraX change log: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog

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Saving PDB file as a string
by Sophie Liu 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Hi, My organization has some extra information at the end of a PDB file that I would like to be printed onto the Log Console of ChimeraX. I am currently writing a bundle to do so by adding a command (however if this is best implemented by overriding the open command for PDB files then I would switch to that). I am wondering how I can have the bundle work like so: 1. the user types a command call it, "showdata" 2. the bundle would read all Models (that are pdb files) that are being displayed 3. for each model it would read the PDB text file, and say go to indices 200-251 of the string and display that in the Log console I hope this makes sense. I am mainly struggling on how to access the original PDB text of the model. Best, Sophie

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