[Chimera-users] Electric field lines?

[Francois¡¡Charles Matthieu¡¡Berenger]

There is an APBS plugin in pymol,
you can see the field lines once the calculation
is finished (if it managed to run APBS, sometimes it crashes
depending on the input PDB).

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:46:38 -0500
"Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <darrellh at niaid.nih.gov> wrote:

> Hi Elaine!
> 
> OK. I see what you've done with this picture and I think I can reproduce it. I think it will work for my purposes.
> 
> What I was hoping for is illustrated in various ways on the following pages. Maybe it is something to be included in future Chimera releases...
> 
> http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/apbs/examples/visualization/apbs-electrostatics-in-vmd
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.8.6/images/fieldlines.jpg
> http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Displaying_Biochemical_Properties#Electric_Field_Lines
> 
> Thanks for your awesome work and endless creativity!
> Darrell
> 
> Darrell Hurt, Ph.D.
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> From: Elaine Meng [mailto:meng at cgl.ucsf.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 03:33 PM
> To: Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu List <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Electric field lines?
> 
> Hi Darrell!
> You could show isosurfaces at multiple levels but for only a single plane of the data... essentially contour lines.  There is a very brief mention of that in the "Planes" section of the Volume Viewer page:
> 
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/volumeviewer.html#planes>
> 
> It is somewhat labor-intensive if you want to show a lot of levels, I admit.
> 
> Example image below.  I had also displayed the molecular surface and per-model-clipped it in almost the same plane as the contour lines, but that is an independent part of the setup.  I can send the session to you if that would help.
> Best,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
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> On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chimera team,
> >
> > Is it possible to visualize electric field lines in Chimera from, for example, an APBS run? If so, how do I do it? I've scanned through the documentation, but didn't find anything…
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Darrell
> >
> >
> > Darrell Hurt, Ph.D.
> > Section Head, Computational Biology
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