[chimerax-users] How to obtain size measures

[Andrea Dallapè]

Hi Elaine,

thank you, it was exactly what I was looking for!
I'm enjoying ChimeraX a lot, you're really doing a wonderful job!
Thank you for your attention and your help.
Have a good weekend,

Andrea

Il giorno sab 4 lug 2020 alle ore 18:23 Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> ha
scritto:

> Hi Andrea,
> I guess you mean measuring the size of an atomic structure, such as from
> the Protein Databank.  Given such a structure, you can do distance
> measurements between any two atoms.  Or,  with command "measure inertia"
> you can calculate an inertial ellipsoid for the protein, which reports the
> three axis lengths.
>
> See the "measurements" page and links therein for how to do many types of
> measurements in ChimeraX:
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/measurements.html>
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Jul 4, 2020, at 7:23 AM, Andrea Dallapè <andrea.dallape at unitn.it>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear UCSF Chimera and ChimeraX developers,
> > I would like to ask you if there's a method to obtain the size measures
> of a protein in order to compare with the heights and lengths obtained by
> AFM.
> > Could you please suggest me how could I obtain such measurements?
> > Thank you in advance for your help and support,
> > Andrea
>
>
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