[Chimera-users] Drawing a set of spheres describing a pocket in a protein

Elaine Meng meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
Thu May 26 14:16:53 PDT 2022


> On May 26, 2022, at 12:48 PM, Elaine Meng via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
>  [...] make a PDB file where the spheres are fake atoms [...]
> 
> However, this would not include your radius values, which would need to be set separately, e.g. with "setattr": 
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/setattr.html>

Correction: a better/easier way than "setattr" to change atomic VDW radii in Chimera is with the "vdwdefine" command:

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/vdwdefine.html>

Best,
Elaine


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