[Chimera-users] Question about equivalent command in Chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Thu,
Chimera "vop cover"  is basically the same as ChimeraX "volume cover":

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/vop.html#cover>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#cover>

However, ChimeraX is the newer program, faster on big data, with fancier display options (among many other advantages), so we generally recommend it over Chimera when both have the feature(s) you need.

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/advantages.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jul 28, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Thu Nguyen via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon,
> I want to ask if we have any command in Chimera that is similar to the command "volume cover" in ChimaraX. My goal is to create a map and pdb file of individual chains from the whole structure. For example: 
> > open 12554 from emdb                                  
> > open 7ns0                                                      
> > volume cover #1 atomBox #2/A1 pad 1.0     
> > save 12554_A1.mrc models #3    
> Could you tell me how I can do this using Chimera commands? 
> Thank you very much.
> Best regards,
> Thu