[Chimera-users] Chimera Surface Calculation

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:34:54 -0700
Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> 
>    Unfortunately the MSMS molecular surface calculation code has bugs 
> and so it fails to compute surfaces for most large (>10,000 atom) PDB 
> models.  The surface calculation has essentially no chance of working 
> with a model of 110,000 atoms such as your half-virus.  That said I
> used the 64-bit Mac Chimera and split the model by chains and it
> surfaced fine -- see attached image.  The Windows Chimera versions
> have the most surface calculation failures especially 64-bit Windows
> Chimera, and Mac and Linux are substantially better.
> 
>    So I made the image bmv.jpg with "split #0; surf; rainbow model".  
...

I swear this looks like a piece of broccoli seen from above (and
through blue--or ??--colored glasses ;-) ...


Kenward
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