[Chimera-users] electron scattering factors

Elaine Meng meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
Tue Oct 29 08:14:16 PDT 2019


Hi Thomas,
Sorry no, there is no option to use electron scattering factors.  The molmap command does treat different elements differently, however:

Each atom is described as a 3D Gaussian distribution of width proportional to the resolution and amplitude proportional to the atomic number.

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/molmap.html>

There is a also a molmap command in ChimeraX, and it works the same way as in Chimera.
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 Oct 29, 2019, at 3:27 AM, Thomas Bick <tbick at uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to create a density map based on a pdb using electron scattering factors rather then a sole gaussian distribution? The molmap command apparently doesn`t have a argument to include scattering factors? Are there maybe different possibilities do that in Chimera?
> Thanks for the help in advance!
> Best
> Thomas Bick




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