[Chimera-users] want to converge 20 pdb files of a trimer

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Ashok,
Not sure exactly what you mean by "converge" ...

(A) If you mean to superimpose (to put on top of each other), you would probably want to use either MatchMaker or the command "match."  The different methods for superimposing structures are described in this page and its links:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/superposition.html>

With the "match" command you specify exactly which residues/atoms to use in the match. You would have to use it 19 times with the same single structure as reference (e.g. to superimpose 0.1 and 0.2, then 0.1 and 0.3, ...)
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/match.html>
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/atom_spec.html#basic>

Matchmaker only uses CA atoms and doesn't require specifying which residues to use, but optionally you can restrict it to use only a certain section with the "Further restrict matching to current selection" option.  You can choose one structure as reference and the other 19 as structures to match.
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchmaker/matchmaker.html>

(B) If you mean to calculate an average, you can do that with the MD Movie tool, after opening the NMR file as a trajectory:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/movie/framemovie.html>

1. download the NMR structure PDB file to some location on your computer that you will be able to find later
2. start MD Movie (in menu under Tools... MD/Ensemble Analysis)
3. choose to open "PDB, single file" and browse to open the NMR structure file
4. from the MD Movie menu, choose "Analysis... Average Structure"

Be aware this is a simple Cartesian coordinate average and the result may be distorted. I don't think you can average just some part. Just average the whole thing and then you can delete the parts you don't want later.

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:38 PM, ashok rout wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have a nmr structure of a protein which is a trimer. I want to converge 20 pdb files of the trimer, by Chimera. And also want to converge a specific region of the 20 pdb files of the trimer.
> Can you please assist me how to do this??
> Thanks,
> Ashok