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job opening for ChimeraX developer
by Elaine Meng 06 May '21

06 May '21

Hello everybody, We're looking for somebody to join the ChimeraX development team! Please see this posting for details: <https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=6495&siteid=…> On behalf of the team, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

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DAE format
by Giorgio Luciano 06 May '21

06 May '21

Hello to all, I'm writing for a feature request. The old chimera had the option to export models (surfaces, ball and stickers etc) in DAE format which is the most "trustful" for importing the model in 3D software (blender for me now). Will it be possible to "revamp" it or include format as .abc ? (I don't know if .usd can be an idea also since I think its specifications are open). Thanks

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ChimeraX not starting up using win10
by Bernd M. Schmidt 05 May '21

05 May '21

Dear ChimeraX users and coders, Thanks for the hard work and for providing the community with such great program. I cannot run Chimera on my desktop PC. After clicking in win10, the cursor indicates something is happening for three seconds, then nothing happens and also no error message or anything appeares Before that, I ran Chimera 1.14rc successfully, since installation of ChimeraX and also with ChimeraX 1.2, this happens. I deinstalled everything and installed first the latest python release (3.9.5), then ChimeraX 1.2. But no change, nothing. Reading the newsgroup suggested running debug mode, finally giving some error message, as seen below. C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py:2: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses import imp, sys, os Windows fatal exception: access violation Current thread 0x000023f8 (most recent call first): File "C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\site-packages\chimerax\ui\gui.py", line 157 in __init__ File "C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\site-packages\ChimeraX_main.py", line 577 in init File "C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\site-packages\ChimeraX_main.py", line 1015 in <module> File "C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\runpy.py", line 87 in _run_code File "C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin\lib\runpy.py", line 194 in _run_module_as_main C:\Program Files\ChimeraX 1.2\bin> Happy for some help. Many greetings bernd

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Saving name attribute
by David Leeming 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi, I'm attempting to use a python script to save the names of each residue in a protein The code I have is as follows: import chimerax, sys from chimerax.core.commands import run cwd = (str(sys.argv[0][:-17])) prot = "/A" run(session, "open 3GDM") run(session, "save " + str(cwd) + "/script_content/sasa/name.defattr " + str(prot) + " & protein attrName r:name format defattr") The command being input into the command line of ChimeraX by the script is as follows: "save [file path]/name.defattr /A & protein attrName r:name format defattr" I've also tried using: "save [file path]/name.defattr attrName r:name format defattr models /A & protein" However, both commands give me a file with all the residues and all the names contained within the model rather than just the chain I'm interested in. Could you advise on how I can better use this command to save a file with the residue positions and corresponding amino acid for each residue from a single chain only? I've attached the resultant file to this email. Kind regards, David

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assigning 3.10 helices to a pdb
by Sheena Vasquez 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there's a way to reassign alpha-helices to 3.10 helices in chimeraX? I've been using the setattr /A:###-### res ss_type 1 command, but it seems as if there's only the option to assign alpha helices (ss_type 1). If I try ss_type 5 (5 is the assigned number for 3.10 helices in the pdb), the helix is lost. Any help with this is greatly appreciated! Take care, Sheena

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ChimeraX Cheat Sheet/List
by André Graça 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi everyone, There is no doubt that we have a very good documentation on the different functions of ChimeraX as well as for Chimera. Nevertheless, sometimes it is easy to have a summarized sheet with the most used functions and options. I plan to start doing a cheat sheet for me, and it would be great to make it open source. However I might not be aware of the existence of one already. Does anyone know/have one and would be willing to share with the community, or point me to one available online? Or has the ChimeraX team any plans to do one in the near future? Thank you, André

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Re: [chimerax-users] ChimeraX-Deeplearning plugin
by Yongcheng MU 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hello Tom, Hope you are doing well. I am creating a GUI, and I have some problems. At the right bottom DL Struct window, I want to click the browse button and select a file, but it holds this error. I wonder if you know what's the problem? (My goal is let users find or input the path of a file, and use this path to submit jobs) Best regards, Yongcheng [image: Screen Shot 2021-04-29 at 1.24.02 PM.png] On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 7:20 PM Yongcheng MU <ymu004(a)odu.edu> wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Thank you for the information. I will check these documents you have > provided. > > Best regards, > Yongcheng > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 7:01 PM Tom Goddard <goddard(a)sonic.net> wrote: > >> Hi Jing, Yongcheng, >> >> ChimeraX requires all different code from Chimera so I suggest not >> looking at a Chimera example, that will only confuse you as none of it is >> right for ChimeraX. There are simple examples of Python scripts for >> ChimeraX at the ChimeraX recipes site >> >> https://rbvi.github.io/chimerax-recipes/ >> >> For packaging up a plugin there are examples in the ChimeraX programming >> manual >> >> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/index.html >> >> And it can also the packaging for plugins using a bundle_info.xml is used >> by each of the tools in ChimeraX and you can look at any of those as >> examples at the ChimeraX GitHub code repository >> >> https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX/tree/develop/src/bundles >> >> Let me know if you run into trouble. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2021, at 2:53 PM, He, Jing <jhe(a)cs.odu.edu> wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> Yongcheng has been setting up the bundle of a PyTorch-based deep learning >> method to detect secondary structures from medium-resolution density maps. >> He is able to install the bundle on Mac and PC and it looks like working. >> He started to create a GUI. I passed him our previous code for a Chimera >> plugin. Below he shows a few snapshots for that code. We are wondering if >> ChimeraX has similar functions to be called. Previously our code uses >> Chimera's functions to do input, output, and any display of some calculated >> results. How do we do this in ChimeraX? >> >> Jing >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Yongcheng MU <ymu004(a)odu.edu> >> *Sent:* Friday, April 23, 2021 2:04 PM >> *To:* He, Jing <jhe(a)cs.odu.edu> >> *Subject:* ChimeraX-Deeplearning plugin >> >> Dear Dr. He, >> >> I am trying to create a GUI for the bundle. When I check the previous >> work, I find some codes were called such as chimera.extension. I wonder if >> ChimeraX needs this kind of code or package as well, and where I can search >> and find this useful information. >> >> Best regards, >> Yongcheng >> >> [image: Screen Shot 2021-04-23 at 1.55.24 PM.png] >> [image: Screen Shot 2021-04-23 at 1.55.40 PM.png] >> [image: Screen Shot 2021-04-23 at 1.56.01 PM.png] >> >> >>

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Display chain annotations w/o having to reopen files
by Alexander Julian 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Good afternoon, I was wondering if there was any built-in functionality to show the chain annotations that are shown when the file is first open? When I save a session (.cxs) and reopen it later, this information is missing. Best, Alexander -- *Alexander T. Julian* PhD Student, Department of Biology, Microbiology Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Tissue Specialization 2021 Master of Advanced Study, Chemical Engineering 2021 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 *Phone (727)-735-7104*

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Hide dashed lines (chain breaks)
by Gabriele Cerutti 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hello, I am displaying a protein molecule in cartoon representation and chimeraX automatically shows dashed lines for chain breaks (see attached). Is there a way to hide these dashed lines? Best, Gabriele [image: Screen Shot 2021-04-28 at 9.50.54 AM.png]

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Scale bar in ChimeraX
by Sen, Anindito 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Dear All, How to put a scale bar in a ChimeraX session depicting a density map ( as in Chimera Tools - High-Order structure -Scale Bar). Stay safe & Regards Anindito Sen. Ph.D Microscopy and Imaging Center Texas A&M University 301 Old Main Dr College Station, TX 77843-2257 Office: ILSB Room 1133 <http://microscopy.tamu.edu/>Tel. 979-458-9881 fax: 979-847-8933 http://microscopy.tamu.edu<http://microscopy.tamu.edu/>

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