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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am trying to use Chimera to predict the structure of a nucleotide sequence that does not have a PDB ID. This is an unstudied protein, and I’m hoping to get some structure information
and to visualize it using the software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I tried using the tutorials, but the best I can tell it appears to work off of already available PDB IDs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Is there a way I can enter the nucleotide sequences as a starting point? If so I’d really appreciate a few step/steps on how to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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