[Chimera-users] Recursive structure matching and acquisition of descriptive numbers

Greg Couch gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu
Thu Sep 8 14:43:55 PDT 2016 

chimera --nogui can't access graphics.  Headless chimera has software 
OpenGL rendering, so it can be used to create images. Make sure to use 
the windowsize command to set the size of the framebuffer.  Don't know 
if pychimera cares.


     -- Greg


On 09/08/2016 11:53 AM, Healey, Joe wrote:
>
> Brilliant, that sounds like the most likely option. I had stumbled 
> across pychimera a couple of days ago while trying to find out if 
> chimera could simply be imported as a module. I initially steered away 
> from it as I don't have sudo rights for the server where I'm trying to 
> set all this up (couldnt run pip), but I've since sorted it with our 
> sysadmin.
>
>
> On a related point, is running chimera with --nogui equivalent to 
> running headless chimera? I'm just wondering if pychimera is happy 
> with either
>
>
>
> Joe Healey
>
>
> M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons)
> PhD Student
> MOAC CDT, Senate House
> University of Warwick
> Coventry
> CV47AL
> Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620  | Email: J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk
>
> Jointly working in:
> Waterfield Lab 
> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/tsm/microinfect/staff/waterfieldlab/> 
> (WMS Microbiology and Infection Unit)
> and the Gibson Lab 
> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/gibson/gibsongroup/> (Warwick 
> Chemistry)
>
> Twitter: @JRJHealey <https://twitter.com/JRJHealey>  | Website: MOAC 
> Page 
> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Greg Couch <gregc at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> *Sent:* 07 September 2016 19:49:19
> *To:* Healey, Joe; chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu BB
> *Subject:* Re: [Chimera-users] Recursive structure matching and 
> acquisition of descriptive numbers
>
> Yes, Chimera's Python code is only "warrantied" to work with its own 
> Python.  See question 3b of the Chimera Programming FAQ, 
> https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/faq.html#q3b, 
> for how to install other software into Chimera.  Other parts of the 
> FAQ may help you too.
>
>
> That said, Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra took my previous comments on this 
> subject, 
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2015-January/010647.html, 
> and came up with pychimera, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pychimera. I 
> haven't checked to see how it handles all of my caveats, and it can't 
> completely without using a modified Python, but I suspect that it 
> would be good enough for you.
>
>
>     HTH,
>
>
>     Greg
>
>
> On 09/07/2016 07:36 AM, Healey, Joe wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>>
>> That looks good thank you. I think I'm going about this slightly the 
>> wrong way after some investigation however.
>>
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that chimera can't be imported in to python 
>> inside a normal bash shell, and rather it must be done the other way 
>> round? So file manipulation and such must be done by calls to the 
>> system from within the chimera python shell, rather than a python 
>> interpreter calling chimera modules in?
>>
>>
>> It certainly makes the chimera steps I plan to do much easier, but I 
>> was going to include it in a pipeline with some other programs and it 
>> makes that a little more taxing (though not insurmountable!).
>>
>>
>> Additionally, I plan to invoke this inside a script on a headless 
>> linux box (hence why running it through a python script was ideal), 
>> so whatever solution I use will need to be 'command line friendly'.
>>
>>
>> In effect all I need is the actual algorithm for the matching process 
>> to be accessed somehow from a python script.
>>
>>
>> Do you have any advice about how best to proceed?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>> Joe Healey
>>
>>
>> M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons)
>> PhD Student
>> MOAC CDT, Senate House
>> University of Warwick
>> Coventry
>> CV47AL
>> Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620  | Email: J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk
>>
>> Jointly working in:
>> Waterfield Lab 
>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/tsm/microinfect/staff/waterfieldlab/> 
>> (WMS Microbiology and Infection Unit)
>> and the Gibson Lab 
>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/gibson/gibsongroup/> (Warwick 
>> Chemistry)
>>
>> Twitter: @JRJHealey <https://twitter.com/JRJHealey>  | Website: MOAC 
>> Page 
>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>
>> *Sent:* 31 August 2016 18:23
>> *To:* Healey, Joe
>> *Cc:* chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
>> *Subject:* Re: [Chimera-users] Recursive structure matching and 
>> acquisition of descriptive numbers
>> Hi Joe,
>> This old chimera-users post has a Python script attachment that 
>> demonstrates how to call the underlying MatchMaker function to get 
>> the RMSD value programmatically.  The mailing list gives the 
>> attachment a “.bin” extension but it’s really a .py file.  Just 
>> change the extension if you need to.  Let me know if you have any 
>> questions about how to adapt the script to your needs…
>>
>> http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-March/003610.html
>>
>> —Eric
>>
>> Eric Pettersen
>> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:02 AM, Healey, Joe <J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk 
>>> <mailto:J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have several hundred structure simulations that were performed on 
>>> our HPC resource. Each simulation has approximately 5 models 
>>> associated with it. I also have HMM model homologies for each of 
>>> these proteins.
>>>
>>> I would like to use chimera's matchmaker function to compare the 
>>> simulated structured to their nearest 'real' counterpart with a 
>>> resolved structure. In order to do this I plan to script chimera to 
>>> pull in the simulated models as well as the near homolog and then 
>>> run the matchmaker algorithm.
>>>
>>> My question is: can the RMSD value that is returned in the reply log 
>>> be 'accessed directly' such that for each match that is performed, I 
>>> can obtain the RMSD and thus a ranking for the best fitting 
>>> structures - or will it require parsing the reply log?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Joe Healey
>>>
>>>
>>> M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons)
>>> PhD Student
>>> MOAC CDT, Senate House
>>> University of Warwick
>>> Coventry
>>> CV47AL
>>> Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620  | Email:J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk 
>>> <mailto:J.R.J.Healey at warwick.ac.uk>
>>>
>>> Jointly working in:
>>> Waterfield Lab 
>>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/tsm/microinfect/staff/waterfieldlab/>(WMS 
>>> Microbiology and Infection Unit)
>>> and the Gibson Lab 
>>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/gibson/gibsongroup/> (Warwick 
>>> Chemistry)
>>>
>>> Twitter:@JRJHealey <https://twitter.com/JRJHealey> | Website:MOAC 
>>> Page 
>>> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/moac/people/students/2013/joseph_healey>
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