[Chimera-users] Display of qpack color output

[Eric Dawson]

In the older UCSF MidasPlus incarnation of your software, there was a
feature that allowed an interface with Gregort & Cohen's QPACK software
for coloring according to molecular packing density using a sphere growth
method. Per residue packing scores were applied with a color range after
running qpack with the special option, '-m'.

http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/cohen/software/pages/qpack.html

In the primary literature report of QPACK, it was suggested by the authors
that they would work to make this feature available in UCSF MidasPlus and
'its successors'. Since this is a very fast and convenient way to evaluate
the quality of models, I would like to recommend/request that this feature
be enabled (or added) to Chimera. In MidasPlus, it was a command line
option. The user simply entered qpack; there was a .midasrc file that
contained the explicit local path to the qpack binary as well as a command
line script to launch the package with the '-m' option.

Thanks for your consideration of this suggestion.  

Best regards,

Eric
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Eric S. Dawson, Ph.D.
CSB Computation, Education & Outreach
Research Instructor, Biochemistry
Center for Structural Biology (CSB)
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