[Chimera-users] dsv to Chimera format

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Simin,
I don’t know anything about the BIOVIA software, sorry.  They may not be similar. All I can say is that Chimera is not itself a docking program, but it is very popular for superposition, and for viewing/analysis of docking results output from other programs. 

Chimera superposition methods:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/superposition.html>

Chimera ViewDock tool for looking at docking outputs from other programs:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/viewdock/framevd.html>
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/vdtut.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Nov 26, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Tavangari, Simin <tavangari.simin at courrier.uqam.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear Elaine,
> I understand. Thanks. 
> For basic student usage ( like superimposing, docking , etc), is Chimera as efficient as BIOVIA virtual discovery studio? 
> I have MacBook and discovery is not compatible with Mac. So I’m looking for a pretty similar alternative. 
> Your support is highly appreciated.
> Best regards,
> Simin 
> From: Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Sent: November 26, 2018 4:11:11 PM
> To: Tavangari, Simin
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] dsv to Chimera format
>  
> Hi Simin,
> Sorry, Chimera does not read dsv files (“DSV” can stand for different things, but Chimera doesn’t read any of them.) This page lists the kinds of files Chimera reads:
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html> 
> 
> Best,
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> > On Nov 26, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Tavangari, Simin <tavangari.simin at courrier.uqam.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I do not know how to open a discovery studio visualizer (.dsv) file in Chimera.
> > Can you please help me with that? Thank you.
> > Best regards,
> > Simin