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Feature Request: Visual feedback on selecting menu items
by Cam McMenamie 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Hello! I'm just suggesting a UI feature that I think would be very helpful. Currently, there are several menu items that do not show any feedback if they are "selected" or not, for example, in the screenshot below (hard to tell which options have been selected / toggled). This is especially the case for mutually exclusive selections such as in the 'coloring' section in the "molecule display" tab. [cid:34830b00-bed7-4734-b191-dc4fd0fad018] Thanks in advance, Cam

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Filtering PAE Contacts–Interfaces
by David S. Fay 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Hi, Was attempting (unsuccessfully) to filter out lower scoring (red/yellow) PAE contacts when viewing interaction interfaces between two or more proteins. I normally use a command such as: alphafold contacts /A to /B distance 5 But then I’d like to limit what I see to regions with high pLDDT scores (blue lines). I tried playing with range, but keep getting errors. Thanks! David

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Animate RELION jobs
by James Hooker 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Hi all, Is there an easy way to generate animations of RELION classification jobs in ChimeraX? I came across https://github.com/Stefan-Zukin/relionReport, but haven’t been able to get it to work. Best, James James Hooker jhooker(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk PhD candidate Löwe group, Structural Studies division MRC Lab of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Re: [Chimera-users] ChimeraX_InfoRequest
by Elaine Meng 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Hello Dr. Altan Kara, Resolution is just the number of pixels width and height. To get higher resolution, specify larger numbers for the pixel width and height in the save image options (GUI or save command). Chimera has a separate setting for physical size (e.g. inches or cm) and then the pixels per physical size unit (dpi), but the result is still the total number of pixels. For example 2 inches wide with 600 pixels/inch is 1200 pixels wide. ChimeraX does not have separate settings for the physical size. For the same example, in ChimeraX you would just choose 1200 pixels wide. The result will not be marked with a physical size, however. You would have to use some other program like Photoshop if you want to mark it as 2 inches wide. If you know the physical size you want and the resolution at that size, just calculate the total pixel width and height and enter that when you save the image. For the future, if you want to ask a ChimeraX question it is better to use the ChimeraX email address: chimerax-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco > On Jun 7, 2024, at 5:17 AM, Altan KARA (MAM-GMBE) via Chimera-users <chimera-users(a)cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > How we can create high resolution images with ChimeraX? > No matter what I tried still the outputted images are not in high resolution.

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ChimeraX segfaults when left on loop to make movies/images
by Artie Kushner 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hi, I hope the summer is starting off really well for you. tldr: I leave ChimeraX running movie/image generating commands from a python script in a tmux session and it segfaults on multiple machines. I was wondering if someone has encountered this before or can lend advice as to why this happens. I'd like to produce some movies (or at least pictures) in bulk (around 2000 individual molecules). I preprocess each one (load locally or open, add some representation, and either start recording a movie or "save XXXX.png"). After about 8-10 successful movies or images are produced I get a ChimeraX segfault and the process dies. This is quite perplexing to me because - I tried it on multiple machines: Ubuntu 22.04, installed from the .deb <https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html> and Arch, installed from aur distribution. - both with `--offscreen` and `--nogui` flags and without them ( in fact, following up some threads in the mailing list it seems like it's not possible to produce movies with --nogui, just pngs) - there seems to be *no* excessive memory or page cache issues, although i haven't profiled it. Only one core is occupied when rendering both mp4/png's. Below I'm attaching a crash log from one of the machines (Ubuntu 22.04) and the description of my setup, which is a little awkward, but I don't think it's the cause since it produces some samples successfully before crashing. I hope i'm wrong. Best regards and any tips are really appreciated! I was really looking forward to having some crisp images. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I start the process by calling a python script at the command line: ` chimerax --script "/home/student/dev/riboxyz/chimerax/ribrepr.py" --nogui --offscreen` when i tried generated images. This was after I gave up on getting the movies, which i did by just opening a ChimeraX gui on our workstation and calling a "loop.py" after a load the commands from "ribrepr.py" file from the gui command line. I do both in a tmux session. ```loop.py import os from chimerax.core.commands import run from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor *DEST_DIR* = "/home/rtviii/dev/riboxyz/chimerax/movies" # This expands to ~1800 PDB ids: rcsb_id:= {4UG0, 7K00 and so on} for rcsb_id in os.listdir('/home/rtviii/dev/RIBETL_DATA'): movie_dir = os.path.join(DEST_DIR, "{}.mp4".format(rcsb_id)) print("Attempting to write ", movie_dir) if "{}.mp4".format(rcsb_id) in os.listdir(DEST_DIR): print("Skipping {}. Exists".format(rcsb_id)) continue else: run(session,"ribmovie {}".format(rcsb_id)) # <---- ribmovie command corresponds to the `*produce_and_save_movie*` in ribrepr.py below ``` The contents of the `ribrepr.py` are just to register a command for custom visualization of a given molecule + loop over molecules for image generation. ``` ribrepr.py import enum import json import os import sys from chimerax.core.commands import register, CmdDesc from chimerax.atomic import ResiduesArg, Chains, ChainArg, StructureArg from chimerax.atomic import Structure, AtomicStructure, Chain from chimerax.core.commands import run, runscript from chimerax.core.commands import CmdDesc, register, StringArg # https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/… # just a data folder, it exists. *RIBETL_DATA* = os.environ.get("RIBETL_DATA", "/home/rtviii/dev/RIBETL_DATA") class *PolymerClass*(str, enum.Enum): tRNA = "tRNA" bS1m = "bS1m" # ... another ~200 enum members, redacted for brevity CHIMERAX_COLORS = [ ["tan", "#d2b48c"], ["sienna", "#a0522d"], #... more colors redacted for brevity ] # helper function to map colors def *get_polymer_color*(polymer_class:str): polyix = list(map(lambda x: x.value, (PolymerClass))) class_index = polyix.index(polymer_class) % len(polyix) if polymer_class == None: return "gray" return CHIMERAX_COLORS[(class_index % len(CHIMERAX_COLORS))][1] def *ribosome_representation*(session, structure: AtomicStructure): for _ in list(PolymerClass): print(_.name) from chimerax.core.commands import run from chimerax.core.colors import hex_color from chimerax.atomic import Residue, Atom, Chain # i get the PDB ID from the StructureArg rcsb_id = str(structure.name).upper().split('.')[0] # <-- the structure gets opened with the basename ex "(5AFI.cif)" run(session, "set bgColor white") run(session, "sym #1 assembly 1") # take only one assembly if multiple are available run(session, "hide #2") with open(os.path.join(RIBETL_DATA, rcsb_id, "{}.json".format(rcsb_id)), "r") as f: profile = json.load(f) # load my annotations, just a json file #--------------------------------------------[ This whole bit just colors by chain annotation basically] polymers = {} polymer_chains = [ *profile["proteins"], *profile["rnas"], *profile["other_polymers"], ] [ polymers.update(x) for x in [{chain["auth_asym_id"]: chain} for chain in polymer_chains] ] c: Chain for c in structure.chains: aaid = c.chain_id polyclass = None if len(polymers[aaid]["nomenclature"]) < 1: continue else: polyclass = polymers[aaid]["nomenclature"][0] if polymers[aaid]["entity_poly_polymer_type"] == "RNA": run(session, "surf /{}".format(aaid)) run(session, "transp /{} 100".format(aaid)) run(session, "color /{} gray".format(aaid)) else: run(session, "show /{} cartoon".format(aaid, get_polymer_color(polyclass))) run(session, "color /{} {}".format(aaid, get_polymer_color(polyclass))) #--------------------------------------------[ This whole bit just colors by chain annotation basically] run(session, "graphics silhouettes true width 1") run(session, "light soft") # # ! Didn't work out for now. This is how i tried to make movies. (Loop over every structure (loop.py above) and call this command). Chimerax segfaults when looped on this. # def *produce_and_save_movie*(session, target:str): # print("GOT TARGET", target) # RCSB_ID = target # run(session, "open /home/rtviii/dev/RIBETL_DATA/{}/{}.cif".format(RCSB_ID, RCSB_ID)) # run(session, "sym #1 assembly 1") # take only one assembly if multiple are available # run(session, "ribrep #2") # run(session, "movie record") # run(session, "turn y 2 180") # run(session, "wait 180") # run(session, "movie encode /home/rtviii/dev/riboxyz/chimerax/movies/{}.mp4".format(RCSB_ID)) # run(session, "close all") # # ! This is just to not download the mmcif files i have locally. def *register_ribetl_command*(logger): def ribetl(session, rcsb_id:str): rcsb_id = rcsb_id.upper() run(session, "open /home/rtviii/dev/RIBETL_DATA/{}/{}.cif".format(rcsb_id, rcsb_id)) desc = CmdDesc( required= [("rcsb_id", StringArg)], ) register("ribetl", desc, ribetl, logger=logger) # # ! Register the above repr sequence as a command. def *register_ribrepr_command*(logger): from chimerax.core.commands import CmdDesc, register from chimerax.atomic import AtomicStructureArg, Chain, Residue, Atom desc = CmdDesc( required = [("structure", AtomicStructureArg)], required_arguments = ["structure"], synopsis = "representation ", ) register("ribrep", desc, ribosome_representation, logger=logger) *register_ribrepr_command*(session.logger) *register_ribetl_command*(session.logger) # This loop expands into a list of ~1800 PDB : 5AFI, 4UG0 and so on. for rcsb_id in os.listdir(RIBETL_DATA): run(session,"open {}".format(rcsb_id)) run(session,"ribrep #1") run(session,"save /home/student/dev/riboxyz/chimerax/{}.png width 800 height 800 transparentBackgroun d true".format(rcsb_id)) run(session,"close all") ``` Let me know if i can elucidate this situation further with hardware specs or whatnot. I'm quite at loss as to how to proceed with this.

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Alpha fold not responding
by Cao,JingJing 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hello, I was using the program to run Alphafold prediction, it’s keep giving me error messages (502): The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know. How to solve this problem? Thanks, JingJing The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged, confidential, and/or protected from disclosure. This e-mail message may contain protected health information (PHI); dissemination of PHI should comply with applicable federal and state laws. If you are not the intended recipient, or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, any further review, disclosure, use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message or any attachment (or the information contained therein) is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete all references to it and its contents from your systems.

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Modifying the transparency of a specific region within a single map
by 张楠 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Dear developers, How can I change the transparency of a specific region within a single map, similar to what is shown in the attached image? Is this possible to do in ChimeraX?" Looking forward to your answer, thank you！ Best regards, Nan zhangnan(a)nankai.edu.cn

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Renaming of "Non-standard residues" upon file opening
by Mikkel Dahl Andreasen 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hello I have a question regarding ChimeraX renaming residues upon loading pdb files. I am specifically referring to a pdb file containing the following lines: TITLE PLACEHOLDER_TITLE REMARK PLACEHOLDER_REMARK CRYST1 100.000 100.000 100.000 90.00 90.00 90.00 P 1 1 MODEL 1 ATOM 1 NC3 DOPCA 1 93.725 50.146 69.265 1.00 0.00 ATOM 2 PO4 DOPCA 1 93.471 50.284 66.361 1.00 0.00 ATOM 3 GL1 DOPCA 1 93.591 50.038 63.469 1.00 0.00 ATOM 4 GL2 DOPCA 1 94.818 50.396 63.498 1.00 0.00 ATOM 5 C1A DOPCA 1 93.669 50.374 60.367 1.00 0.00 ATOM 6 D2A DOPCA 1 93.738 49.939 57.365 1.00 0.00 ATOM 7 C3A DOPCA 1 93.390 49.936 54.359 1.00 0.00 ATOM 8 C4A DOPCA 1 93.358 50.194 51.480 1.00 0.00 ATOM 9 C1B DOPCA 1 96.261 50.393 60.395 1.00 0.00 ATOM 10 D2B DOPCA 1 96.060 50.114 57.261 1.00 0.00 ATOM 11 C3B DOPCA 1 96.224 50.032 54.669 1.00 0.00 ATOM 12 C4B DOPCA 1 95.844 50.135 51.528 1.00 0.00 TER END When I load this file into ChimeraX using "open file.pdb" it renames the residue name "DOPC" to "DOP". A table appears in the Log regarding "Non-standard residues in file.pdb" wherein it lists "DOP - (DOP)" without mentioning "DOPC". However, when I open another file which contains many different types of molecules, then it does not rename "DOPC" to "DOP", even though the "Non-standard residues in file.pdb" table also appears, though this time with an entry containing "DOPC - (DOPC)". I have also previously experienced that ChimeraX renames some (not all) of my cholesterol molecules to "CHO" (instead of using the actual residue name which is "CHOL"). I had a look through the documentation for the "open" command, but I couldn't find anything useful about it. I was wondering why this is happening and if there is a way to prevent it. And just so i am clear, by prevent I don't mean revert (e.g. rename them back to "DOPC" after loading), but actually preventing the initial renaming done by ChimeraX. Kind regards, Mikkel Dahl Andreasen

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modeller fails in chimerax RC-1.8
by Roberto Marabini 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Hi, I just installed chimerax RC-1.8 and tried to use "modeller" (tools->sequence->modeller comparative). The resulting error message is attached to this email. If I use chimerax 1.7 with the very same data modeller works. Am I doing something wrong or did I find a bug? cheers Roberto Follows the complete log: === modeller comparative aligned_1.fasta:2 numModels 5 fast false multichain false hetPreserve true hydrogens false waterPreserve falseWebservices job id: GN1G33GHX39IPCAE Modeller job (ID GN1G33GHX39IPCAE) finished Modeller error output Traceback (most recent call last): File "ModellerModelling.py", line 74, in <module> a.make() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/modeller/automodel/automodel.py", line 141, in make self.homcsr(exit_stage) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/modeller/automodel/automodel.py", line 624, in homcsr self.check_alignment(aln) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/modeller/automodel/automodel.py", line 577, in check_alignment aln.check() File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/modeller/alignment.py", line 213, in check self.check_structure_structure(io=io) File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/modeller/alignment.py", line 222, in check_structure_structure return f(self.modpt, io.modpt, self.env.libs.modpt, eqvdst) _modeller.SequenceMismatchError: read_te_291E> Sequence difference between alignment and pdb : Modeller run output MODELLER 10.5, 2024/01/19, r12711 PROTEIN STRUCTURE MODELLING BY SATISFACTION OF SPATIAL RESTRAINTS Copyright(c) 1989-2024 Andrej Sali All Rights Reserved Written by A. Sali with help from B. Webb, M.S. Madhusudhan, M-Y. Shen, G.Q. Dong, M.A. Marti-Renom, N. Eswar, F. Alber, M. Topf, B. Oliva, A. Fiser, R. Sanchez, B. Yerkovich, A. Badretdinov, F. Melo, J.P. Overington, E. Feyfant University of California, San Francisco, USA Rockefeller University, New York, USA Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK Kind, OS, HostName, Kernel, Processor: 4, Linux wilkins.cgl.ucsf.edu 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8_9.x86_64 x86_64 Date and time of compilation : 2024/01/20 00:40:16 MODELLER executable type : x86_64-intel8 Job starting time (YY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS): 2024/06/06 03:33:20 environ____W> The class 'environ' is deprecated; use 'Environ' instead openf___224_> Open $(LIB)/restyp.lib openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/resgrp.lib rdresgr_266_> Number of residue groups: 2 openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/sstruc.lib Dynamically allocated memory at amaxlibraries [B,KiB,MiB]: 191566 187.076 0.183 Dynamically allocated memory at amaxlibraries [B,KiB,MiB]: 192094 187.592 0.183 openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/resdih.lib Dynamically allocated memory at amaxlibraries [B,KiB,MiB]: 240694 235.053 0.230 rdrdih__263_> Number of dihedral angle types : 9 Maximal number of dihedral angle optima: 3 Dihedral angle names : Alph Phi Psi Omeg chi1 chi2 chi3 chi4 chi5 openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/radii.lib Dynamically allocated memory at amaxlibraries [B,KiB,MiB]: 253994 248.041 0.242 openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/af_mnchdef.lib rdwilmo_274_> Mainchain residue conformation classes: APBLE openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/mnch.lib rdclass_257_> Number of classes: 5 openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/mnch1.lib openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/mnch2.lib openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/mnch3.lib openf___224_> Open ${MODINSTALL10v5}/modlib/xs4.mat rdrrwgh_268_> Number of residue types: 21 automodel__W> The class 'automodel' is deprecated; use 'AutoModel' instead openf___224_> Open alignment.ali Dynamically allocated memory at amaxalignment [B,KiB,MiB]: 282425 275.806 0.269 Dynamically allocated memory at amaxalignment [B,KiB,MiB]: 297517 290.544 0.284 Dynamically allocated memory at amaxalignment [B,KiB,MiB]: 312917 305.583 0.298 Dynamically allocated memory at amaxalignment [B,KiB,MiB]: 343717 335.661 0.328 Dynamically allocated memory at amaxsequence [B,KiB,MiB]: 344285 336.216 0.328 read_te_291E> Sequence difference between alignment and pdb : x (mismatch at alignment position 1) Alignment XSLSDKDKAAVRALWSKIGKSADAIGNDALSRMIVVYPQTKTYFSHWPDVTPGSP PDB SLSDKDKAAVRALWSKIGKSADAIGNDALSRMIVVYPQTKTYFSHWPDVTPGSPH Match * * Alignment residue type 24 (X, UNK) does not match pdb residue type 16 (S, SER), for align code 1pbx.cif_2/A (atom file 1pbx.cif_2), pdb residue number " 1", chain "A" Please check your alignment file header to be sure you correctly specified the starting and ending residue numbers and chains. The alignment sequence must match that from the atom file exactly. Another possibility is that some residues in the atom file are missing, perhaps because they could not be resolved experimentally. (Note that Modeller reads only the ATOM and HETATM records in PDB, NOT the SEQRES records.) In this case, simply replace the section of your alignment corresponding to these missing residues with gaps. read_te_288W> Protein not accepted: 1 1pbx.cif_2/A No output models from Modeller; see log for Modeller text output.

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Converting a carbonyl group to carboxylic acid group
by Prathvi Singh 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Hi Elaine, I have a SER residue which is in the middle of a polypeptide chain. Is there a way in chimera/chimeraX to specifically extract this residue such that the carbonyl group bonded to its N-terminal NH group also gets extracted but is converted to carboxylic acid group (-COOH group) before extracting? Thanks in advance, Prathvi Singh, Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016

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