
Dear all, I was wondering, is there an option to just show a Ca trace in ChimeraX? If yes, can one modify the width of it? Thanks a lot in advance, Valeria

Hi Valeria, If you mean straight lines between CA atoms, sorry no, there is no CA trace display in ChimeraX yet. It is #694 in our ticket database. You can show a spaghetti-type ribbon that goes through the exact CA positions but is curved in between, e.g. cartoon cartoon style arrows f xsect oval width 1 thick 1 as shown for the purple protein in rightmost image here: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cartoon.html#s...> In that case you could use different width and thickness values. If you want to additionally show CA balls, maybe something like: cartoon suppressBackbone false cartoon style arrows f xsect oval width .5 thick .5 show @ca style @ca ball … as shown in attached image. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Sep 18, 2018, at 9:09 PM, v.kalienkova@bioc.uzh.ch wrote:
Dear all, I was wondering, is there an option to just show a Ca trace in ChimeraX? If yes, can one modify the width of it? Thanks a lot in advance, Valeria

thanks! -----"Elaine Meng" <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> schrieb: ----- An: v.kalienkova@bioc.uzh.ch Von: "Elaine Meng" <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Datum: 19.09.2018 19:11 Kopie: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Betreff: Re: [chimerax-users] Ca trace Hi Valeria, If you mean straight lines between CA atoms, sorry no, there is no CA trace display in ChimeraX yet. It is #694 in our ticket database. You can show a spaghetti-type ribbon that goes through the exact CA positions but is curved in between, e.g. cartoon cartoon style arrows f xsect oval width 1 thick 1 as shown for the purple protein in rightmost image here: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cartoon.html#s...> In that case you could use different width and thickness values. If you want to additionally show CA balls, maybe something like: cartoon suppressBackbone false cartoon style arrows f xsect oval width .5 thick .5 show @ca style @ca ball … as shown in attached image. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Sep 18, 2018, at 9:09 PM, v.kalienkova@bioc.uzh.ch wrote: Dear all, I was wondering, is there an option to just show a Ca trace in ChimeraX? If yes, can one modify the width of it? Thanks a lot in advance, Valeria
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