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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I see. So the pixel size should not matter as long as they are normalized to the same voxel size? About the offset, do you mean the origin of the map? Like origin coordinates?<br>Best,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Yangqi</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu">Elaine Meng</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, November 18, 2018 12:56 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:yangqi.gu@yale.edu">BuddySphinx</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">chimera</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Chimera-users] Difference map</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Yangqi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>The grid is where the points with values are in space. If the points are spaced differently (different voxel size.), then the grids are different. They are also different if the spacing is the same but the location or offset is different.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Elaine</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> On Nov 17, 2018, at 2:40 PM, BuddySphinx <yangqi.gu@yale.edu> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi Elaine,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thank you for your response! I tried using the command and I have been trying two maps which looks very similar, but with different resolution (3.6 A (yellow) vs 3.2 A (grey)) and with different pixel size (1.05 vs 0.822). Will this affect the gridding? (I am not very familiar with what you mean by the same grid).</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Best,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Yangqi</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> From: Elaine Meng</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2018 7:45 PM</p><p class=MsoNormal>> To: Yangqi Gu</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Cc: chimera-users</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Difference map</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi Yangqi,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Yes, see command “vop subtract”:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/vop.html#subtract></p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Keep in mind that if the two aren’t on the same grid, there may be small differences due to the need to sample them at the same points to do the subtractions.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> I hope this helps,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Elaine</p><p class=MsoNormal>> -----</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. </p><p class=MsoNormal>> UCSF Chimera(X) team</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry</p><p class=MsoNormal>> University of California, San Francisco</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> > On Nov 16, 2018, at 4:39 PM, Yangqi Gu <yangqi.gu@yale.edu> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Dear Chimera users,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > I am trying to examine two cryo-EM maps and want to know if there is a subtle change between these two. I want to calculate the difference map, is it doable in Chimera?</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Best,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> > Yangqi</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> _______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>