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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Chimerax developers and users, </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering if chimerax is able to do match/matchmaker multiple segments of two protein sequences, something like:</p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">match #1:3-13, 23-70, 72-81, 86-101 to #2:7-17, 18-66, 67-76, 77-92 cutoffDistance 3 showAlignment true<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe it can but I did not put the command in correct format. Please help.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A related question would be that the default alignment algorithm in chimerax (Needleman-Wunsch or Smith-Waterman) did not do a good job when the two proteins share high structural similarities with low sequence identity. I would like to
do the manual sequence alignment, save the alignment as .aln file and use that for matchmaker, iterate with cutoff and get final rmsd of aligned atoms. Is it possible to execute such procedures in chimerax?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks in advance for any helpful suggestion and discussion!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zhen</p>
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