[Chimera-users] SASA calculation per residue

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Andrew,
Your command attempt mystifies me, but I’ll go on the rest of what you said…

Just show a molecular surface (e.g. with command “surface”) and then save a file with the list of residue SASA values.  You would save that file using the Render by Attribute tool (in menu under Tools… Structure Analysis); in that dialog’s menu choose File… Save Attributes.  In the attribute-saving dialog you have to specify which attribute you want: “areaSAS” of “residues” (there is also the same attribute name for individual attoms)

Attribute-saving is described here, in the bottom section of the page:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/render/render.html#saving>

There is an option to restrict the save to the current selection, if you don’t want the list for all residues.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jun 22, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Andrew Macrae <amacrae at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Chimera developers, 
> 
> I'm trying to calculate sasa scores for a list of individual residues in chimera and cant quite get it. Ive tried commands and the define attribute menu. The command ive been using is 
> 
> 0.23:23/areaSAS
> 
> I've used similar things but I don't know what Im missing. Thanks for any help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew MacRae
> UCSC