Thomas and Carsten:
Thanks for the help!
Using the "color" command works fine, as Thomas noted. Trying to change the
paired atom line color using the "C" menu on the GUI does not work. Of
course I had been using the GUI.
Also good to know that the two-color gradient is not a feature.
Cheers,
Tim
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Thomas Holder <
thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim and Carsten,
>
> I wonder what exactly you have tried so far to change the color of the
> alignment object. In fact, the "color" command should do the job.
>
> Example:
> fetch 1oky 1t46, async=0
> align 1oky, 1t46, object=aln
> color blue, aln
>
> I don't think that two-color gradients were ever intended, and I don't
> remember which version of PyMOL created them. That might have been a bug.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> On 11 Jan 2016, at 09:19, Schubert, Carsten [JRDUS] <cschu...@its.jnj.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I ran into the same issue a while back as well. I gets complicated very
> quickly when you dive deeper into the subject. Your are right the colors of
> the CGO lines seem to be hardcoded. A way to get around this is to extract
> the matching residues with cmd.get_raw_alignment(alignment_object). The
> result is a tuple of tuples of matching atoms as determined by the
> alignment algorithm. You could then take these atoms pairs and draw
> distance lines between them. These distance lines can be customized with
> color, linewidth, etc.
> >
> > It has been a while since I worked on this, but I believe that the
> assignment of pairs is a non-trivial issue and sometimes fraught with
> mismatches. So manual checking against a sequence alignment is always a
> good idea especially for rather unrelated proteins.
> >
> > I do have a script which can accomplish this, it is based on
> “colorbyrmsd.py”. However it is not ready for primetime, but I can share
> this with you if there is interest. Contact me offline to arrange something.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carsten
> >
> > From: Timothy Umland [mailto:uml...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 9:08 PM
> > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [PyMOL] OBJECT argument in ALIGN command - color
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am trying to use the Alignment Objects (i.e., lines between the paired
> aligned atoms) created by using the OBJECT argument of the ALIGN command to
> illustrate domain movement between the superimposed ligand-bound and
> unbound forms of an enzyme.
> >
> > I successfully made the basic aligned image, and now I want to tweak it.
> >
> > Is it possible to change the color of the Alignment Object lines between
> paired atoms? For me, they display only in yellow. From what I have read
> online these lines are CGO objects with the color hardwired in upon
> creation, and so it can’t be changed in PyMol latter on. However, I haven’t
> been able to find a way to assign a color upon creation. Is there a way to
> assign a specific color?
> >
> > Additionally, I have seen this type of image where the lines between the
> paired aligned atoms are two colors, with half of the line in one color
> (say blue) and the other half another color (say red) to better illustrate
> which protein is the origin of each end of the connecting line. I haven’t
> discovered a way to make these bi-colored lines in ALIGN. Any ideas?
> >
> > I have tried the open source version 1.8.0, plus several earlier
> versions from various origins (all on Macs) with similar results.
> >
> >
> > Thanks much for any ideas.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > Tim Umland, Ph.D.
> > Hauptman-Woodward Institute
>
> --
> Thomas Holder
> PyMOL Principal Developer
> Schrödinger, Inc.
>
>
>
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