[Chimera-users] changing diameter of the cylinders in bs representation

Jean Didier Pie Marechal JeanDidier.Marechal at uab.cat
Fri May 8 01:34:51 PDT 2009


Dear all,

I know how to change the size of the balls using the vdwdefine, but I don't see the command/option to change the diameter of the cylinder in bs representation. Can I do this?

best
JD

Dr. Jean-Didier Maréchal
Lecturer
Computational Biotechnological Chemistry @ Transmet
Unitat de Química Física
Departament de Química
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici C.n.
08193 Cerdanyola (Barcelona)
Tel: +34.935814936
e-mail: JeanDidier.Marechal at uab.es

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>   1. Re: chimera performance (Greg Couch)
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>   3. Re: volume filtering (Tom Goddard)
>   4. Re: any aid for dock3.5 score? (Elaine Meng)
>   5. Re: chimera performance (Bala subramanian)
>   6. Re: chimera performance (Greg Couch)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 12:23:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] chimera performance
> To: Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
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> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Bala subramanian wrote:
> 
> > Friends,
> >
> > Is there any way to check the performance of chimera. I have been 
> using> chimera without any problems but now it is very slow, in 
> opening even a
> > small dna molecule and manipulating. Is there any way that i can 
> check the
> > root of the problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bala
> 
> So it was formerly fast on the same computer?  This could happen on 
> a 
> Linux computer if you updated the kernel and forgot to reinstall 
> the 
> graphics driver (from ATI or NVidia, the open source 3D drivers 
> still need 
> work, but are improving).  Another possibility, on all operatings 
> sytems, 
> is that there is a background process that is using a lot of CPU or 
> memory, so chimera doesn't have the resources it used to.
> 
> If you just want to check the graphics performance, then you can 
> use the 
> Benchmark tool in Tool / Utilities to guage the current 
> performance.  And 
> then you can compare to the reported scores to see if your graphics 
> performance is reasonable (the Show button in the Benchmark tool 
> brings up 
> the web page).
> 
> 	- Greg
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 22:34:45 +0200
> From: "Thomas C. Marlovits" <marlovits at imp.ac.at>
> Subject: [Chimera-users] volume filtering
> To: <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Message-ID: <019F22EC-BFF8-4612-A1B9-BE4DDA9471E3 at imp.ac.at>
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> 
> HI,
> 
> I am trying to look for the various filtering options as descibed 
> on  
> the Chimera webpage (guide to volume data display).  Indicated are  
> Gaussian filtering, Fourier filter, Hide dust, etc ... 
> unfortunately,  
> I can only find the Gaussian filter option under TOOLS/VOLUME DATA  
> 
> but cannot find the others ... can you point me to these other  
> options, in particular the Fourier filter ?  (am using version 1.3 !)
> Tx.
> -Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Thomas C. Marlovits, PhD, M.A.S.
> Research Group Leader
> 
> IMP-IMBA Research Center
> 	- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
> 	- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of 
> Sciences  
> (IMBA)
> 
> Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3
> Room IMBA/6.02
> A-1030 Vienna
> Austria, Europe
> 
> fone:	(++43-1) 79044-4630
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:24:13 -0700
> From: Tom Goddard <goddard at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] volume filtering
> To: "Thomas C. Marlovits" <marlovits at imp.ac.at>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
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> Hi Thomas,
> 
>  You are looking at the Chimera 1.4 documentation on our web site. 
> 
> Chimera 1.3 is the production release (and also has documentation 
> on our 
> web site).  To use Chimera 1.4 you need to get a daily build:
> 
>    http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/alpha-downloads.html
> 
>  Tom
> 
> 
> Thomas C. Marlovits wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > I am trying to look for the various filtering options as descibed 
> on 
> > the Chimera webpage (guide to volume data display).  Indicated 
> are 
> > Gaussian filtering, Fourier filter, Hide dust, etc ... 
> unfortunately, 
> > I can only find the Gaussian filter option under TOOLS/VOLUME 
> DATA 
> >  but cannot find the others ... can you point me to these other 
> > options, in particular the Fourier filter ?  (am using version 
> 1.3 !)
> > Tx.
> > -Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> >
> > Thomas C. Marlovits, PhD, M.A.S.
> > Research Group Leader
> >
> > IMP-IMBA Research Center
> > - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
> > - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of 
> Sciences 
> > (IMBA)
> >
> > Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3
> > Room IMBA/6.02
> > A-1030 Vienna
> > Austria, Europe
> >
> > fone: (++43-1) 79044-4630
> > fax: (++43-1) 79044-4401
> > email: marlovits at imp.univie.ac.at <marlovits at imp.univie.ac.at>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:20:26 -0700
> From: Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] any aid for dock3.5 score?
> To: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret at gmail.com>
> Cc: chimera <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Message-ID: <B816D602-3DB4-4888-B553-53A9BEC3F2D7 at cgl.ucsf.edu>
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> 
> Hi Francesco,
> If by "the grid" you mean the potential map from DelPhi:
> 
> If you have the academic version of DelPhi from the Honig Lab, you  
> can run it with the Chimera tool DelPhiController (under Tools...  
> Surface/Binding Analysis):
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/ 
> delphicontroller/delphicontroller.html>
> 
> This allows entering all the DelPhi run parameters and input/output 
> 
> filenames into a GUI instead of the text files needed to run DelPhi 
> 
> "manually."  However, it does not help you make sure parameters are 
> 
> correctly assigned; you are still responsible for figuring out 
> which  
> DelPhi charge and radius files (also from the Honig lab) to use and 
> 
> making sure the atoms in your structure are named correctly to 
> match  
> with the parameters in these files.
> 
> Also, DelPhiController is one of our older tools and may not be 
> very  
> easy to use.
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>                       http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html
> 
> On May 6, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > I am considering to use dock3.5 score in DOCK6.2, which makes use of
> > Delphi. Is any aid in chimera for builing the grid?
> > thanks
> > francesco
> >
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:08:34 +0200
> From: Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] chimera performance
> To: Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
> Message-ID:
> 	<288df32a0905070308l46c44c71gded385a930a83df2 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Dear Greg,
> You are right. Previously it was normal but now it is slow. I 
> havent updated
> the kernel. I checked and noticed that i dnt have any memory intensive
> background jobs also.
> 
> I did benchmarks with two chimera versions 1.3 (attached file 
> chim_test) and
> chimera 1.4 (attached chim_test1).
> My graphics card is nVIDIA GETFORCE 9300MG, VRAM: 256 MB. I dnt 
> know how to
> compare and judge what is going wrong. I wud appreciate your help 
> on the
> same.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bala
> 
> So it was formerly fast on the same computer?  This could happen on 
> a Linux
> > computer if you updated the kernel and forgot to reinstall the 
> graphics> driver (from ATI or NVidia, the open source 3D drivers 
> still need work, but
> > are improving).  Another possibility, on all operatings sytems, 
> is that
> > there is a background process that is using a lot of CPU or 
> memory, so
> > chimera doesn't have the resources it used to.
> >
> > If you just want to check the graphics performance, then you can 
> use the
> > Benchmark tool in Tool / Utilities to guage the current 
> performance.  And
> > then you can compare to the reported scores to see if your graphics
> > performance is reasonable (the Show button in the Benchmark tool 
> brings up
> > the web page).
> >
> >        - Greg
> >
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:44:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] chimera performance
> To: Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
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> Looking at your chimera benchmark scores and at the scores on the 
> web 
> page, http://socrates2.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/benchmarks, 
> it looks 
> like you don't have the NVidia graphics driver installed.  And that 
> would 
> make a *huge* difference.  To double-check, run the glxinfo command 
> and 
> look at the "OpenGL renderer string:" line, it should have NVIDIA 
> in it 
> instead of Mesa.  To get the NVidia drivers, go to 
> <http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx>.
> 
>          - Greg
> 
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Bala subramanian wrote:
> 
> > Dear Greg,
> > You are right. Previously it was normal but now it is slow. I 
> havent updated
> > the kernel. I checked and noticed that i dnt have any memory 
> intensive> background jobs also.
> >
> > I did benchmarks with two chimera versions 1.3 (attached file 
> chim_test) and
> > chimera 1.4 (attached chim_test1).
> > My graphics card is nVIDIA GETFORCE 9300MG, VRAM: 256 MB. I dnt 
> know how to
> > compare and judge what is going wrong. I wud appreciate your help 
> on the
> > same.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bala
> >
> > So it was formerly fast on the same computer?  This could happen 
> on a Linux
> >> computer if you updated the kernel and forgot to reinstall the 
> graphics>> driver (from ATI or NVidia, the open source 3D drivers 
> still need work, but
> >> are improving).  Another possibility, on all operatings sytems, 
> is that
> >> there is a background process that is using a lot of CPU or 
> memory, so
> >> chimera doesn't have the resources it used to.
> >>
> >> If you just want to check the graphics performance, then you can 
> use the
> >> Benchmark tool in Tool / Utilities to guage the current 
> performance.  And
> >> then you can compare to the reported scores to see if your graphics
> >> performance is reasonable (the Show button in the Benchmark tool 
> brings up
> >> the web page).
> >>
> >>        - Greg
> >>
> >
> 
> 
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