Re: [PyMOL] coordination bonds

2010-05-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Maia Cherney wrote: > Thank you for your help. However, I have 4 Mg ions in the au, so all Mg > ions (and all coordinated ligands) got connected. I need only coordination > for one Mg. > Then you need to qualify the selection with the residue number, and repeat

Re: [PyMOL] coordination bonds

2010-05-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Maia Cherney 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 longer length to ca

Re: [PyMOL] for evaluation only

2010-04-29 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:03 PM, victor kenyon 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 chimera to ge

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 d

[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 foc

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 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 > select r 22 ,

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 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. Callbacks that we can bi

Re: [PyMOL] color by element

2010-02-09 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Ariel Talavera 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 color red, elem o

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/bu

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 cre

Re: [PyMOL] Electron density grid

2009-12-18 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jason C Porta 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 points > so that t

Re: [PyMOL] Alignment Objects

2009-09-11 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Maia Cherney 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] about secondary structure assignement: help

2009-07-21 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Paola Beassoni wrote: > Dear Pymol Users, > i am working with some pdb files with no secondary structures assignments > embedded on it. Then when i try to see my molecules on cartoon diagrams, i > see the secondary structure different to another programs, VMD for

Re: [PyMOL] Homology Modeling in Pymol

2009-06-30 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Buz Barstow 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 through pymol,

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 wrote: > 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 MacPyMol 1.1r1 from > ht

Re: [PyMOL] Roving detail and Roving density

2009-04-23 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Craig Smith wrote: > I was looking at the demos in pymol (wizard --> demo) and saw > interesting features called roving detail and roving density. I > looked in the manual on how to do this feature but couldn't find it. > Could anyone point me in the right direct

[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] Ray Tracing A Protein Gallery

2008-12-15 Thread Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Buz Barstow wrote: > I'm making a gallery of protein molecules for my PhD thesis. I'd like > to find an automatic way to ensure that all of the ray traced images > have the same scale. Is there an easy way to do this? > Translate every model so that the center i

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. wrote: > 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 > doesn't "show

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" wrote: > Hi all, could someone advise me on the simplest way to display anisotropy > ellipsoids in PyMOL

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 y

Re: [PyMOL] Mac OS X install, general PyMOL function - badly need overview

2002-09-01 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> I have downloaded the version (0.79.dmg.gz) of the PyMol package > suggested by Luca Jovine, but don't know how to get a working version of > Python installed. The only links I can find are to Python .exe files > for versions 2.1 and 1.5.2, and I have no idea which of the other > downloads

Re: [PyMOL] Secondary structure assignments

2002-08-20 Thread Nathaniel Echols
> The best way to avoid "derivative work" concern is to code in a "clean room" > fashion, without reference to someone else's code. In principle, this could > be done working from the original paper(s) that describe an algorithm. I assume this is what authors of other packages have done in the pa

[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 at

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 thi

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

2002-07-28 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 t

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.

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] 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

[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 o