Hi Elaine and Tom, Thanks for your answers. I appreciate this. It seems that I need to do this by other software or do it manually. Thanks, Hongtao -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Meng [mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 2:29 PM To: Hongtao Zhu <zhho@ohsu.edu> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] flatten a cryoEM map Hi Hongtao, ChimeraX doesn't have a tool to do this, but you can use the "Flatten Icosahedron" tool in Chimera to make this kind of image for icosahedral viral capsids: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/flatten/flatten.ht...> It works on the low-resolution chain surfaces generated by the Chimera tool "Multiscale Models" from the atomic structure of the asymmetric unit -- not the EM map surface, as far as I know, and only for a specific orientation of icosahedral symmetry. I have seen flattened images of map surfaces in papers, but suspect that they were made with some other program (not Chimera or ChimeraX). Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Hongtao Zhu <zhho@ohsu.edu> wrote:
Hi there, Could you show me how to flatten a cryoEM map in chimera just like the attachment? My map has several subunits but with C1 symmetry. Thanks, Hongtao <Image.png>