Hello Elain,

Thanks for your explanation. I am able to create the movie now. I then have two new questions:

1.Following the morph command, I found an arginine residue rotate in a direction that caused clashes with a neighbouring residue in the movement, before moving to the final unclashed position. So is there any way to control the movement direction of the side chain to avoid possible clashes?

2. Now I have the morph trajectory, I also want to have the camera rotate as the structure moves at the same time. Is it possible?

Thank you,

Best,

Jiang

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 8:22 AM Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Jiang Xuf,
ChimeraX has a "morph" command (not a tool dialog), see:

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimferax/docs/user/commands/morph.html>

Example:

open 2gbp
open 2fw0
matchmaker #2 to #1
morph #1,2

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Dec 11, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Jiang Xu via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
> I am new to ChimeraX and just trying to adapt from Pymol to ChimeraX. I am using a macbook pro (15-inch early 2018) running macOS Big Sur. I was trying to use the morph method of ChimeraX to record some clips for my publication. But I couldn't find the structure comparison tab from the tools dropdown list. I've tried the 1.5 and daily build version and I couldn't find this tab in both. Any suggestions?
> Thank you,
> Best,
> Jiang Xu