<div dir="ltr">Thank you so much! Your instructions were extremely helpful and I was able to successfully make the colors in the way I was hoping for :)<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_14ec830a6ac0449a" alt="Inline image 1" width="472" height="252"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Elaine Meng <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Belle,<br>
At least according to my experiments, the ladder color is completely slaved to the ribbon color, and so (unfortunately) they always match.<br>
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There is a workaround, but it is rather tedious:<br>
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(1) open your structure, create your ribbon/ladder display in the color you want for the ladder rungs<br>
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(2) open another copy of the same structure, undisplay all of its atoms, and show only ribbons for that copy, in the color you want for the ribbons<br>
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(3) you will still see only the color of the first structure, must shrink the ribbons of the first copy so that they are inside the ribbons of the second copy<br>
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Example commands, other actions explained in brackets:<br>
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[start Chimera]<br>
open 1bna<br>
open 1bna<br>
~disp<br>
select #0<br>
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[start Nucleotides, e.g. menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… nucleotide objects… settings, then apply the desired ladder settings. They will only apply to the first copy since #0 is selected and the “Restrict OK/Apply” option should be turned on.]<br>
[start Ribbon Style Editor, e.g. menu: Tools… Depiction… Ribbon Style Editor. Change Nucleic width and height values to something small like 0.05, apply. Again, should only apply to first copy since #0 is selected and the “Restrict” option should be turned on]<br>
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[clear the selection if you don’t need it any more]<br>
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Now the two things will be in two different colors. You can still change the colors, e.g. commands:<br>
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color hot pink #0<br>
color yellow #1<br>
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Sorry it’s so tedious, there should be a simpler way. I hope this helps,<br>
Elaine<br>
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.<br>
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab<br>
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br>
University of California, San Francisco<br>
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> On Jul 24, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Belle Lin <<a href="mailto:belle.lin@rcsb.org">belle.lin@rcsb.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Dear Chimera users/developers,<br>
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> Is there a way to make the DNA ladders a different color than the backbone? I am able to do so when the side (sugar/base) is shown in the "tube/slab" mode, but when I change it to the "ladder" mode I am unable to change the color of the rungs. I have included photos below which hopefully make my question more clear. Thank you in advance for your help!!<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Belle Lin<br>
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</span>> Able to create:<br>
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> <image.png><br>
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> Trying to create:<br>
> <image.png><br>
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