[Chimera-users] Script for positioning particles according the coordinates.

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Alexander,
	If you just want spheres for your particles, if you reformat your  
file into "XYZ" format then Chimera can read that:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/xyz.html

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
>   By "particle" do you mean an atomic molecular model (e.g. PDB  
> file)?  Do you already know the desired rotation and translation for  
> each particle?  Or do you want to calculate those fits?  What you  
> want is probably possible but I need more details to give specific  
> advice.  Chimera is not memory efficient with its molecular models,  
> so if your particles are proteins with several thousand atoms and  
> you want to load 300 of them, you will need a lot of memory (~2  
> Kbytes / atom).
>
>     Tom
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I would like to fit about 300 particles inside of the map according  
>> to it coordinates (X,Y,Z) what I have found before.  Is it possible  
>> to make this procedure automatically, such that program would load  
>> one particle, shift it according to its coordinates (change pixel  
>> size if necessary) and so on?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>
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