[Chimera-users] About Morph Conformations

Conrad Huang conrad at cgl.ucsf.edu
Mon May 13 09:28:06 PDT 2013


Chimera morphing is limited to fairly similar models.  The first thing 
it tries to do is identify the equivalent atoms from both models.  When 
there are unequal number of chains in the models, it is not smart enough 
to figure out which is the extra chain.  A workaround might be to create 
a copy of 3VBS, delete the chain from 3BVS, and morph between the copy 
and 3VBU.  The shortened copy of 3VBS must be an open model, but it does 
not need to be displayed.

Conrad

On 5/12/2013 2:24 AM, 吕柯 wrote:
> Dear Sir./Madam,
>
> I am a graduate student in Chinese Academy of Sciences.
>
> I have two PDB files: one for virus(4 chains, PDB:3VBS), the other for
> empty particle(3 chains, PDB:3VBU).
>
> I would like to use Morph Conformations to make movie for that. However,
> it turns out "Can not interpolate models: models have different number
> of chains".
>
> Could you please show me what should I do next?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Yours,
> Lyu Ke
>
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