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I’ve recently started using ChimeraX to produce rendered 3D models of DNA nanostructures. I do this through the following process:</div>
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<li class="">Prepare nanostructure as a PDB file.</li><li class="">Import this into ChimeraX.</li><li class="">Arrange visualization settings such as nucleotide representation shape, width etc.</li><li class="">Export .x3d file into Blender for downstream processing.</li></ul>
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<div class="">However, there is one issue - the 3D models exported by ChimeraX aren’t grouped into individual objects per nucleotide, so I am not able to easily select nucleotides and colour them in according to their type (A, T, G or C). With the older version
of Chimera, these nucleotides are exported as individual objects, but then are given identical names with randomized IDs. This means that setting the nucleotide types is a long manual process of clicking on each resulting nucleotide and naming them individually.</div>
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<div class="">Does anyone know of a way to export a 3D model of a DNA structure which also exports the IDs of each nucleotide? This would greatly speed up the process for me to produce and render a DNA structure.</div>
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<div class="">Many thanks for your help!</div>
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