I'm talking about the oxygen connected to the non-α–carbon backbone carbon of every amino acid.  If it is missing, dssp will not compute secondary structure.

--Eric

On Jan 18, 2023, at 1:10 AM, Enrico Martinez <jmsstarlight@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Eric,
actually I am using a backbone subset defined by Gromacs during the computing. Are you talking about backbone or main-chain sub-space?
I am using the latest version of ChimeraX but also I do have a ChimeraX daily installed on the same machine..
Cheers,
Enrico

Il giorno mar 17 gen 2023 alle ore 19:19 Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> ha scritto:
Hi Enrico,
        Do you have all the backbone atoms, including the backbone oxygen?  What version of ChimeraX are you using?

--Eric

        Eric Pettersen
        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


> On Jan 17, 2023, at 7:26 AM, Enrico Martinez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Chimera-X users!
> I am working on the visualization of a trajectory containing only back-bone atoms of the protein obtained from the PCA. When I load this multi-pdb ensemble to Chimera-X I can see only back-bone traces without any secondary structure information. I've tried to use dssp command to re-assign the secondary structure but it did not change the visualization state. Would it be possible to do it in some automatic fashion via some built-in command?
> Many thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Enrico
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