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<span class="elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">Hi Tom,</span>
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<div class="elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">Thanks.  Found it on the desktop.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">A follow-up Chimerax question (hopefully it shouldn't be a different thread).  Is it possible to list the atoms that are in close contact in the output
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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">And a general newbie question.  You choose a distance of 3 as the default cutoff.  In the computational protein-protein modeling world, is this considered
 good evidence of contact between two proteins.  The reason I ask is that I have discovered wild type and mutant alleles of a MYB protein which were modeled with Alphafold  multimer along with its functional beta helix-loop-helix protein partner.  If I see
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 4, 2022 11:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> McClean, Phillip <phillip.mcclean@ndsu.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [chimerax-users] alphafold contacts output file</font>
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<div class=""><font size="3" class="">  If you start ChimeraX by clicking an icon then it puts files on your desktop.  If you start it from a shell (for example on Linux) it will put the files in the directory you started in.  To find the directory ChimeraX
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures:normal; orphans:2; widows:2"><font size="3" class="">Current working directory is: /Users/goddard/Desktop</font></span></div>
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<div><font size="3" class="">To change the directory ChimeraX is currently in use the cd command</font></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures:normal; orphans:2; widows:2"><font size="3" class="">Current working directory is: /Users/goddard/Documents</font></span></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font size="3" class="">Lastly you can give a full path to the output file in your command</font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font size="3" class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>alphafold contacts /B to /C output /Users/goddard/contact_pae.txt</font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font size="3" class="">where "~" means your user account home directory.</font></div>
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<div class="">On Oct 4, 2022, at 9:21 AM, McClean, Phillip via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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I used the following command to obtain a file with the contacts between two chains:</div>
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<pre class="x_ContentPasted0">alphafold contacts /B to /C output contact_pae.txt</pre>
I cannot seem to find where the output file is located.</div>
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Thanks for any help.</div>
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