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Thank you so much for your help. That helps me understand what was causing the problem greatly! <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately this is just one filament of a large microtubule complex which we
will have >100 chains (the reason we tried to move to mmcif). </span></div>
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I wrote something to make it ATOM-ee so I could refine it in coot/phenix. I will probably continue with that pipeline (dock in chimerax, change to ATOM w/ python, refine in coot/phenix, wash and repeat). Perhaps if I figure out the mmcif issue it will be more
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Thank you again for adding me to that thread!</div>
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<div class=""><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>I can’t answer your first question (Greg Couch, our “mmCIF guy”, is the expert there), but I can help with the second. In the PDB standard there are 3 columns allocated to the residue
name, followed by a blank column and then one column for the chain ID. Some programs steal that blank column for a 4-character residue name (Amber) and some steal it for a 2-character chain ID. ChimeraX’s PDB code is based on code from Chimera, and Chimera
interfaced extensively with Amber programs and therefore interprets that column as as the 4th character of the residue name. So, when that file is read in you get single-character chain IDs (which is fine in your case since you only had ~10 chains that only
differed in the second character) and residue names like SERL and ALAL. Obviously, those names are non-standard and therefore ChimeraX writes them out in HETATM records.</div>
<div class=""><span class="x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>The good news is that your problem is pretty easy to fix, at least in this particular case: just throw away the fourth character of the residue name. I have attached a simple Python
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As an addendum, in coot, I saved OK mmcif file as a PDB (in zip as coot-mmcifTOpdb.pdb). Reviewing the file, it looks OK. It also opens and docks OK in ChimeraX with proper connectivity. However, upon saving the pdb with its updated coordinates after using
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Might this be a bug? or possibly a product of saving a cif file in coot to pdb? It was reproduced upon a second try.</div>
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Maybe to consolidate the problems:</div>
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1) mmcif not connected in chimerax, but OK in coot</div>
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2) A fit to map PDB, when saved with chimerax, has all atoms changed to HETATM</div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, June 13, 2020 1:48 PM<br class="">
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I am touching base with a problem I am having after migrating from a pdb --> mmcif format.<span class="" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">For context, I am running ChimeraX on Ubuntu 20.04 using a fresh deb install this
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To be explicit, my problem is entirely reproducible. Specifically, I have a file (attached) that when opened in ccpem's Coot v0.9-pre, has all the connectivity present. However, when I switch to ChimeraX, the connectivity of some chains are lost. A good example
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I tried reading through the<span class="x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chimerax_docs_devel_bundles_mmcif_src_mmcif-5Fguidelines.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=WAfw3qrUG1ShU2YpwE9tWl1TX9X2iVUkDLLxcqiRjEo&m=Vg4JgEdu2yfdqjQKWHvvz4CoIUTuDldwAMK6apyPSrA&s=iNw8sd1v4Q1zVr_9fm2k4XezIAR-Wec218Jy-ONABQY&e=" title="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/bundles/mmcif/src/mmcif_guidelines.html" class="">ChimeraX
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If you might have any insight on how to overcome this problem in chimerax, and allow all the chains to remain their connectivity, I would very much appreciate your thoughts/wisdom on the topic.</div>
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