[Chimera-users] Bad number format Xplor file format

[Elaine Meng]

Hello Ishwor,
I don’t know what you mean by “convert” or “generated” or what you used to do that.  Chimera can directly read an xplor "unformatted ASCII density map”, see list of  known formats here:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html#volume>

… but maybe your map is not really in that format, so you are just getting errors that the format is wrong.  Without example data, this is only a guess.
Bests,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Aug 12, 2018, at 7:51 PM, ISHWOR POUDYAL <ishwor_p_19 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> I try to convert electron density obtained from iterative phasing in *.xplor file format to view in the chimera. Something went wrong which I could not figure out. The generated density reads as follows for the first few lines. 
> 
> ##########################################################
>   241    -120     120     241    -120     120     241    -120     120
> 
>  3.26000E+02 3.26000E+02 3.26000E+02 9.00000E+01 9.00000E+01 9.00000E+01
> 
> ZYX
> 
>        0
> 
>  2.21928E-166 0.00000E+00 1.59337E-167 0.00000E+00 1.14399E-168 0.00000E+00
> 
>  8.21346E-170 0.00000E+00 5.89700E-171 0.00000E+00 4.23386E-172 0.00000E+00
> 
> #############################################################
> 
> While I try to view the electron density in chimera it says
> "SyntaxError:Bad number format in line  2.21928E-166 0.00000E+00 1.59337E-167 0.00000E+00 1.14399E-168 0.00000E+00"
> 
> WOuld you please help me out
> Many thanks