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Dear Elaine,
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<div class="">I have an external file with a transformation matrix (orientation and translation) for a .pdb structure and I would like to apply the transformation in ChimeraX to a .pdb file. I’m aware that ChimeraX needs a matrix like [[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3],[x,y,z]],
where the first 3 columns are the orientation the last column the x,y,z translation positions. One can load a new orientation/translation into chimeraX with the „open“ command:</div>
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<div class="">in the command line of chimeraX I had to type in:</div>
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<div class="">open path-to-file/test.positions models #1 childModels true matchNames true </div>
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<div class="">my test.positions file is a .txt file containing the name of the .pdb structure and transformation matrix and I already loaded the .pdb structure before I applied the transformation matrix. Below you can find the input of the transformation matrix
file, called text.positions:</div>
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<div class="">6y2l.pdb,-0.6515591636522021,-0.6041757901381976,-0.45873987277293393,0.09148867345316551,-0.662890582358989,0.7431055769199559,-0.7530607405054541,0.44220774578318395,0.48718767500700594,30.0,20.0,30.0</div>
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<div class="">If I apply the open command in chimera somehow it leads to a distortion of the .pdb protein structure. If I check the transformation position of the model with „view matrix“, then I have the following output:</div>
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<div class="">view matrix</div>
<div class="">camera position: 0.94464,-0.25925,-0.20113,-578.87,-0.29451,-0.94014,-0.17144,1242.4,-0.14464,0.22118,-0.96445,-8143.8</div>
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<div class="">model positions: #1,-0.65156,-0.60418,-0.45874,0.091489,-0.66289,0.74311,-0.75306,0.44221,0.48719,30,20,30,#1.1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,#1.2,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0</div>
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<div class="">Somehow the transformation matrix is only applied to #1 but not to #1.1 and #1.2, do you have an idea what I have to change?</div>
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<div class="">If I save the transformation matrix of the distorted .pdb structure via the save command: </div>
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<div class="">save path-to-file/test_2.positions models #1 childModels true</div>
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<div class="">I have the following output:</div>
<div class="">6y2l.pdb,-0.651559163652,-0.604175790138,-0.458739872773,0.0914886734532,-0.662890582359,0.74310557692,-0.753060740505,0.442207745783,0.487187675007,30,20,30</div>
<div class="">metal coordination bonds,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0</div>
<div class="">missing structure,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0</div>
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<div class="">The goal in the future is to load several positions (1 … 100) of the same .pdb structures.</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
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<div class="">Lukas</div>
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<div>Lukas Frey</div>
<div>Visiting Postdoctoral Associate</div>
<div>UMASS Medical School Worcester<br class="">
Grigorieff Laboratory </div>
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