[Chimera-users] Crystal contacts tool

[Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia]

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Hi Tom,

I agree that the first tool would be better. But I liked the spheres
representation for having a quick idea of the symmetry-related molecules
interacting. It's also extremely useful for pedagogical purposes. The
proportionality between the number of contacts and the radii of the
cylinders is such a clever idea! I will try to make a version where the
maximum radius will be assigned to the maximum number of contacts so the
differences are enhanced for crystals of proteins with a lot less
contacts than proteins in virus capsides.

I'll be waiting for that new tool, but I can understand it's not on the
top of the list ;-)

Thank you for your help!
Best regards,



Miguel


En/na Thomas Goddard ha escrit:
> Hi Miguel,
> 
>   I agree that the term non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS) can be
> confusing.  The crystal contacts Chimera tool was developed specifically
> for fixing the MTRIX records in virus entries in the PDB so the
> description uses terminology that makes sense for virus crystal structures.
> 
> 
>   I think the crystal contacts tool could be adapted so that the spheres
> represent individual PDB chains.  This would be similar to your earlier
> request for a tool that just displays contacting chains.  But I think
> the tool you described earlier would be better (only displays contacting
> chains from entire crystal, shows them as atomic models) and is just as
> easy to implement.  Not sure if I will have time to work on it in coming
> weeks or months -- I haven't yet scheduled it into my long list of
> projects.
> 
>     Tom
> 

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