June 2022 - ChimeraX-users - RBVI Mailing Lists

Error when joining two pdbs
by Praveen Ranganath Prabhakar 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Hi all, I am Praveen, a graduate student at UC Irvine. Hope you are doing well. I am using Chimera X. In my project, I have to join a protein to a peptide sequence via a peptide bond. I have loaded the PDB files of both the protein and the peptide sequence & I have identified where (between which atoms) the peptide bond has to be. After loading the PDBs, I use the following in the command line "*select #1:12.A@C#2:1.A@N*" (basically identifying the residue/atoms where the peptide bond has to be formed) to join but I get the error "*Expected an objects specifier or a keyword*" . I am sorry if this is a common error and I have missed something, I am new to Chimera. Also it would be great if someone could tell me if there is a way to save the final pdb after joining them? Thank you so much for your time, Best, Praveen

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Marking movies in ChimeraX
by Eric Pettersen 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

> Begin forwarded message: > > > Hi, Eric, > > Since you are here answering my question, I would like to make use of this > opportunity to ask you a question about making movie, I want to make a > movie with five different density maps from cryo-EM with different ligands > binding in two different conformation, there is no animation interface in > ChimeraX as the same in Chimera, right? It is easier for me to use > animation in Chimera to make the movie, but I have all my sessions with > colored density map in Chimera, I know I could use commands to make such > kind of movie in ChimeraX, but I found it difficult for me. Can you give > me some suggestions what should I do? I am sorry that if this bothers you. > > Have a nice day! > > Best, > Lu

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Trajectory computation slowing down overtime
by Shubham Devesh Ramgoolam 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Hi all, I hope you are doing well. I have a Python script for analyzing specific residue pairs for every frame in a trajectory. It does so, by using 2 for loops: For frame in list_frames: Set current frame to frame For pair in specific_residue_pairs: Do computation The computation involves defining geometric objects(centroids, axes, planes) and performing calculations with them(distance, angles). The issue here is that as we move further in list_frames, the computation takes longer and longer. There is a somewhat linear increase in computation time, as illustrated below: [cid:image003.png@01D87E37.C872FDF0] Is there a way to maintain the same computation time for every frame in the trajectory? Regards, Shubham Ramgoolam Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows

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using variables in command files
by Pranav Shah 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Hi Team, Is it possible for one to declare a variable in a command file that can then be passed to via the chimeraX command line interface. A minimal example of something I would like to do is - command.cxc open $file color radial palette rainbow save $outfile.png height 512 width 512 transparentBackground True In the chimeraX command line window I would then like to run open command.cxc infile.mrc outfile.png 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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Pymol view
by Rechiche, Othman 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Hi everyone, Is there a way to import/open “views” set with PyMol and open them in Chimera or ChimeraX? Best Regards, Othman

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How to gradually crop a volume with perframe command
by Edoardo D Imprima 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Hi all, I would like to make a movie showing a volume gradually cropped along one axis .e.g. volume #1 region 0,0,0,410,375,336 (start) volume #3 region 0,0,0,410,375,31 (end). Could you please tell me how to provide the range in “perframe” command to perform this operation? Ie as trying something like this perframe "volume #1 region $1" 0,0,0,410,375,200 0,0,0,410,375,336 frames 10 without success though. Many thanks in advance, Edoardo ------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Edoardo D'Imprima Postdoctoral fellow Structural and Computational Biology Unit EMBL Heidelberg - Mahamid Group Meyerhofstraße 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany Phone: +49 6221 387-8531

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user inputs for python scripts
by Pranav Shah 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Hi Team, Is there a way to provide user input to python script files? I tried using sys.argv but I keep getting an out of list error message when I call the script from the ipython shell (accessed from within the chimeraX window) 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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Version 1.4 for CentOS 7?
by Ricardo Righetto 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Hi, First, apologies if this has already been announced elsewhere. I see on the download webpage that there is no production release for CentOS 7 and the latest daily release for this platform was built on 2022-05-06. Any chance we could get a production release of 1.4 and/or a newer daily build for CentOS 7? Thank you very much! Best wishes, -- Ricardo Diogo Righetto

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How to show fib-sem tomography data as solid volume
by Edoardo D Imprima 23 Jun '22

23 Jun '22

Hello, Could you please tell me how to display fib-sem tomography data as a compact volume that can be navigated by sliding planes? The data consists of a series of frames that I can convert as .mrc volume or .mrcs stack. I attach a snapshot taken from a review that illustrates (middle panel) the visualisation I would like to obtain. The medical-image panel in ChimeraX is very handy however, the “full” option shows the volume while I need to display the planes of each side to slice through them. Looking forward to your feedback, Best wishes, Edoardo ------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Edoardo D'Imprima Postdoctoral fellow Structural and Computational Biology Unit EMBL Heidelberg - Mahamid Group Meyerhofstraße 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany Phone: +49 6221 387-8531

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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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