[Chimera-users] how to tranfer a .mrc file to .mtz file

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Haiping,
Can you open the .mrc file in Coot?  I'm not a Coot user, but as far as I understand, it can read map files directly, whereas opening an .mtz file does some additional calculations to create a new map.

Chimera MRC output may be accepted as CCP4 format:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/volumeviewer.html#mrcout>

Coot manual "From a CCP4 map use File -> Read Map"
<http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/personal/pemsley/coot/web/docs/coot.html#Create-a-Map>

You might trying renaming the .mrc as .map to make this work, if it doesn't already.  I haven't tried the process, it is just a guess from reading the manuals.
Best regards,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:11 AM, #ZHANG HAIPING# wrote:

> Dear chimera user:
> I have a .mrc file generated by chimera,  now I want to convert it to .mtz formate, so I can load to coot, and examine the structure in details. Can anyone tell me how to convert .mrc to .mtz?
> Best regards,
> Haiping