Re: [PyMOL] coordination bonds

2010-05-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Maia Cherney ch...@ualberta.ca wrote: I would like to show coordination bonds between Mg ion and its ligands (oxygens) as broken lines, the distance of Mg-O bond is between 1.9-2.2 A. dist elem mg, (all within 2.2 of elem mg) Might need to try a slightly

Re: [PyMOL] for evaluation only

2010-04-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:03 PM, victor kenyon vicken...@gmail.com wrote: i am an academic using pymol and the new build places a for evaluation only graphic on top of the rendered structure. not very helpful for presentations, publications and the like. how do i circumvent this without using

Re: [PyMOL] Continously check the file of a molecule, and do action when it gets modified

2010-03-28 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Werner Schroedinger werner.schroedin...@googlemail.com wrote: For making this procedure faster and more automaticm I wonder if somehow can I tell pymol to pay atention to some external file, or for the ligand being visualized now, to its copy on the hard disk,

[PyMOL] recentering and zooming on xyz coordinates

2010-03-25 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Is there a way to do this in such a way that the rest of the view matrix changes appropriately, including clipping planes, etc.? There is a handy pair of functions in Coot that do this: set_rotation_centre(x, y, z) set_zoom(30) which has the advantage of adjusting the perspective and

Re: [PyMOL] getting Residue environment distances and residue-residue distances programatically

2010-03-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:48 PM, hari jayaram hari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I want to write a python/pymol script that will give me residue -residue distances within a pdb file programmatically I know that within pymol I can get a distance object using select r55 , chain A and resi 55

Re: [PyMOL] PyMOL-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 5

2010-02-15 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM, David Hall li...@cowsandmilk.net wrote: I don't think DynoPlot can't do this. Are there even callbacks to watch for things like changing state in the Pymol GUI? Maybe that should be a feature request as it would allow for a lot more powerful plugins.

Re: [PyMOL] color by element

2010-02-09 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ariel Talavera talav...@cim.sld.cu wrote: How can I use the color by element (HNOS) function present in the GUI, in a script? I don't think there's a single command that does this; I've always done something like this: color grey80, elem c color white, elem h

Re: [PyMOL] New Feature Ideas

2010-01-21 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] cschu...@its.jnj.com wrote: 4) A better density wizard, let's just copy coot and be done with it. Ability to dynamically bind density levels or some other properties to the scroll-wheel for that matter. +1 6) Integration/bundling

Re: [PyMOL] Preserving sec. structure in states for animation

2010-01-12 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] cschu...@its.jnj.com wrote: I am trying to make a movie form a set of morphed pdb files. Currently the individual files are loaded into the same object with increasing states, all pdb files contain the SHEET and HELIX record created

Re: [PyMOL] Electron density grid

2009-12-18 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jason C Porta jpo...@unmc.edu wrote: I have been trying to modify the grid spacing on 2Fo-Fc map that was loaded into PyMol directly from phenix.refine. The mesh object is generated from the isomesh command. Basically, I would like there to be fewer grid

Re: [PyMOL] Alignment Objects

2009-09-11 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Maia Cherney ch...@ualberta.ca wrote: Is it posible in pymol to select all residues of a certain type automatically, like all arginines or all lysines + arginines in a chain? select resnam arg select chain A and (resnam lys or resnam arg)

Re: [PyMOL] Homology Modeling in Pymol

2009-06-30 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Buz Barstow b...@mac.com wrote: I have a very large library (almost 1000) of similar genetic sequences, for which I would like to generate homology models. Does anyone know of a way to automate requests to a homology modeling server, such as SWISS-Model

Re: [PyMOL] Newbie attempting to python script: ImportError: No module named _cmd

2009-05-01 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Luke Goodsell luke.goods...@gmail.comwrote: I'm trying to set up my machine to be able to run python scripts using the PyMol API, but whenever I try to import the pymol module, I get the following output: . . . I am running Mac OS X 10.5.6. I downloaded

[PyMOL] Roving density

2008-12-31 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Hi-- Can the roving mesh be used without changing the model appearance? I'd prefer to just show the entire structure as lines only, but it looks like the roving_detail setting controls both model and mesh. thanks, Nat

Re: [PyMOL] remove cartesian coordinate from w/in transparent metal ions

2008-10-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Thomas S. Leyh, Ph. D. l...@aecom.yu.eduwrote: Every once in a while, I try to show a metal ion as a tranparent sphere and inevetiably get stuck trying to make the tiny cartesian coordinate system that appears at the center of the sphere disappear so it

Re: [PyMOL] displaying anisotropy ellipsoids in PyMOL v0.99rc6 running on Windows XP

2008-09-22 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Tim Fenn wrote something to do this a few years ago, but I don't think you can ray-trace them: http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/pdb_aniso.py On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Javier M. González gonza...@ibr.gov.arwrote: Hi all, could someone advise me on the simplest way to display anisotropy

Re: [PyMOL] export 2 molecules to one pdb file?

2008-08-13 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Just use the (PyMOL) command line: save complex.pdb will save all objects. You'll need to figure out what directory you're in first - by default, this is probably /Applications, but cd ~ will get you home. (Hey Warren, could this be changed so cd alone works, like in a Unix shell?) (Or if you

[PyMOL] clipping planes

2002-08-06 Thread Nathaniel Echols
I don't understand how these work at all. Is there any straightforward way, given a structure's position and dimensions and the desired camera position, to calculate the ideal position for the plane? How does PyMOL decide where to put the planes? Right now I'm missing by a small amount and

Re: [PyMOL] Secondary structure assignments

2002-07-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Yes, please. There are some structures that have to be generated by using symmetry operations defined in the REMARK 350 lines in the pdb file (example: 1jjy.pdb). The only way (I know of, if you know a better one, please tell me) to do this is going to http://pqs.ebi.ac.uk where the

Re: [PyMOL] Secondary structure assignments

2002-07-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Ideally util.ss could become a shell that would know (from the environment?) if dssp or similar was installed, then either run dssp and parse the output to assign the ss, or else run the ss asignment code in the current util.ss if no other options were available. I've basically done this,

Re: [PyMOL] Secondary structure assignments

2002-07-28 Thread Nathaniel Echols
programs. So I am in search of a solution. Can one manually create a secondary structure assignment matrix to insert into the PDB file? I must admit that as a novice I do not understand the formatting of the secondary structure matrices that I have seen embedded in some PDB files. Is

Re: [PyMOL] Suppress some output

2002-07-25 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Is there a way to keep my program 'quiet', or I can customize the output message myself? Depending on your OS and shell, something like this may work: denethor:~ /usr/local/pymol/pymol.com /dev/null 2/dev/null This works under Bash in any modern Linux distribution, from what I've seen. I

[PyMOL] pymol without GL

2002-07-16 Thread Nathaniel Echols
quick question: I'm trying to do batch jobs on a server. Obviously, there's no X or OpenGL installed. Is there any way to build PyMOL without any graphical frontend, and just use it as a raytracer? I don't want to go through the trouble of adding in these libraries... thanks, Nat

Re: [PyMOL] pymol without GL

2002-07-16 Thread Nathaniel Echols
pymol.com -c scriptname But you have to get your view first somehow. I can't do this until I compile it; if I try running a pre-existing build I get errors because one of the GL libraries isn't found. I've ended up just installing GL on my system, but the crack technical wizards at SuSE have

[PyMOL] view area

2002-07-07 Thread Nathaniel Echols
Hi-- I'm trying to render a large number of images of a trajectory automatically. I have two problems: 1. There doesn't seem to be any way to manually speciify the view area. Thus, if I want all images to be in the same frame of reference, I need to load them all as different states of the same