Hi Allen, You could have just tried opening them! Yes, ChimeraX reads mmCIF format. Here is a big list of the formats it knows: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#formats> You can also open the PAE data for that model from Alphafold 3 *if* you download a new daily build of ChimeraX ... older versions like the ChimeraX 1.7 release will only read PAE data from earlier versions of Alphafold. For example, ChimeraX commands: open test_7bbv_model_4.cif alphafold pae #1 file test_7bbv_full_data_4.json 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 May 15, 2024, at 6:44 AM, Allen Place via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I just ran Alphafold3 predictions on our dinoflagellate pks proteins. Will chimerax read the models which are .cif files? I want to highlight the various domains in the 3D models. I am running on OSx. Al