[Chimera-users] How to use a colour-valued attribute?

[Mungo Carstairs]

Hi,


This feels like a basic question but it has stumped me for a day now so here we go...


I'm exploring ways of programmatically setting colours to find the most efficient method.

This is for the 'custom coloured' case (residue-based colour schemes are not a problem).

The simple version is to send as many 'color' commands as there are colours in my (Jalview) sequence:


color #ffafaf #0:1.B|#0:5.B|#0:7-8.B|....;color #ffff00 #0:39.B|#0:44.B|#0:47.B|#0:77.B;


This works, but doesn't seem to scale up well for large/many structures - I start to see Chimera using 100% CPU for minutes at a time.


I'm trying instead to see whether setting a colour-value attribute is faster.

I can set the attributes ok with commands like

setattr r color green #0:1-84.B

etc

and confirm they are set with

list residues spec #0:1-84.B attribute color


but I can't figure out how to get Chimera to use the attribute value as the display colour.

'Render by Attribute' only seems to consider numeric (range-valued) attributes, not colour-valued.

I thought perhaps 'my' colour was just hidden in the colour hierarchy, but removing other colours doesn't seem to help.


What am I missing?


Thanks,


Mungo Carstairs


Division of Computational Biology
University of Dundee
http://www.jalview.org


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