<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 31, 2010, at 4:34 PM, <a href="mailto:sherden@caltech.edu">sherden@caltech.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> So to get thermal ellipsoids to display from a .cif file (as opposed to<br>a .pdb) it looks like I need version 1.50 or greater of Chimera, but it<br>looks like versions of Chimera above 1.4x don't seem to run on my Mac (I<br>have system 10.4.11). What OSX system version do I need so that I can<br>run a version of chimera that I can get thermal ellipsoids to display<br>from a .cif file? Or, conversely is there a way I can get one of the<br>more recent daily builds to run on OSX system 10.4.11?</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Nat,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As you just encountered, the Chimera 1.4 series of releases are the last to support OS X 10.4. So you can't run Chimera 1.5+ without upgrading your OS X. Nonetheless, the changes made to support thermal ellipsoids in CIF files were all in the Python layer, so you should be able to drop a Python file with the changes into your 1.4 distribution and I think it should just work. I've attached the relevant file (__init__.py). You need to put it <i>inside</i> your 1.4 version of Chimera. Do this by right-clicking on the Chimera app in your Finder and choosing "Show Package Contents" from the popup menu. This will bring up a new Finder window. Navigate to Contents/Resources/share/mmCIF. Replace the __init__.py file in there with the attached __init__.py. Restart Chimera and cross your fingers.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Despite this possibly working I recommend upgrading to the 1.5 release whenever feasible since there are some nice improvements in the Thermal Ellipsoids tool that you will otherwise be missing.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div></body></html>