[chimerax-users] Apply user-defined coloring to structure

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Ramy,
I tried to change the subject line to a useful description so that others would be able to find it later in our archive.

If you mean one specific molecule, you could save a session file.  Every time you restore the session it will have the coloring etc. from when you saved it.
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#session>

If you mean it is a color scheme you might want to apply to various different structures when you open them, you may want to define a custom preset as explained here:

<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/preferences.html#startup>

Basically you would put the commands in a file and then use the Startup section of the Preferences to specify it as a custom preset.  Details in the link above.

I hope this helps,
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 20, 2020, at 5:26 AM, Kazan Ramy (M.) <ramy.kazan at polytechnique.edu> wrote:
> 
> Greetings to all, 
> 
> When opening a new molecule, ChimeraX automatically apply a color to my molecule.
> I know how to modify the colors, which is very fun especailly using the command line but also very time consuming for multi-chain molecules.
> 
> I would like to impose a coloring scheme for a model by default, that way everytime I open the model the coloring is the same for the my molecule.
> 
> I guess one way is to use the function key but this would be limited to a mixumum of twelve molecules and is atom-spec dependent so not very practical.
> 
> Is there a way to permently save the information, maybe in the pdb file header/footer, or somewhere else?
> 
> Ramy Kazan
> PhD Student