[chimerax-users] Surfaces & color by attribute

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Hernando,
As mentioned in a recent post and also in the “Missing Features” on the download page, ChimeraX does not yet have coloring by attribute value, sorry.

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html>
<http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2018-February/000212.html>

In Chimera you could try making a molmap surface, coloring the atoms under that surface by attribute, and then using Color Zone to color the surface to match the nearby atoms.  See #3 in the surface workarounds page:

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html>

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 Mar 6, 2018, at 6:10 AM, Hernando J Sosa <hernando.sosa at einstein.yu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear ChimeraX
> Is it possible to color a surface by  atom/residue attribute (hydrohobicity, charge)?  I know it is possible to do it in ucsf-chimera but unfortunately  surface calculation does not work in chimera  for the files I am working on. 
> Thanks
> Hernando