Dear all,

I wish to report two issues (numbered 1. and 2.) with APBS plugin in Pymol. I 
use Xubuntu 14.04 (Xubuntu is a flavour of Ubuntu) and opensource Pymol 1.8.0.0.


  1.  First I tried to perform a couple of APBS calculations through the APBS 
plugin window and all went great. Then I did a batch pdb2pqr transformation on 
my local machine and then a batch apbs calculation also on my local machine. 
Both directly in terminal (no connection with Pymol). I more or less followed 
these instructions: http://jamiebaxter.com/blog/?p=890 . After the calculations 
I ended up with all the standard files (.in, .pqr and .dx). The issue was that 
I was not able to load them in Pymol. After loading .pqr and .dx the tab 
'Visualization' in APBS plugin windows kept saying to load a molecule and a 
map. And after clicking the button 'Update' nothing happened. There was no 
error reported. First I thought there has to be something wrong with the manual 
procedure of generating .pqr and .dx files. More or less by accident I figured 
out the problem is in the names of files. I generated them to be identical and 
the only difference was the extension (for example foo_1.pqr and foo_1.dx). If 
I changed one of the names (I just tried .dx for now) and added or deleted a 
single character everything went smoothly once loaded in Pymol. Is this a 
problem/bug only in my case since the APBS plugin also creates temporary files 
with identical names?
  2.  Another possible bug is present in the 'Visualization' tab of APBS 
plugin. If one uses the button 'Update' in the 'Maps and Molecules' field (the 
one marked in orange in this image: 
https://app.box.com/s/wztcwondd0fiqqczdyekhnd3ltfo0nxa) then one slowly loses 
the option to use the fields 'Positive Isosurface', 'Neg. Isosurface' and 
'Molecular Surface'. They keep on moving downwards until you loose the from the 
screen (see the image in the previous link to see this). 'Field lines' fields 
keep appearing after each click on the 'Update' button. Of course one can 
restrain from using the mentioned 'Update' button since it seems to me that it 
is not really necessary at all. But still it is a strange behaviour.
  3.  This is just a question not an issue really. Is there an easy way to 
visualise multiple aligned proteins with their electrostatic surfaces 
simultaneously? I tried 'set grid_mode' and it works but not if I do an 
alignment after loading the pqr structure and the APBS map. I suppose I 
could/should align them before doing the calculations but since I didn't it 
would be great if it is possible to do this during visualization.

Hopefully somebody can look into this or at least find this through googling 
and in this way save a couple of minutes or hours.

All the best,
Matic Kisovec

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