[chimerax-users] surface colouring by selected residues

[Oleksiy Kovtun]

spot on, thank you! I got it, surface polygones are not asssigned to the specific atoms. 

Best. 
O

> On 27 Jul 2020, at 15:31, Tristan Croll <tic20 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I think what you want is the “color zone” command: 
> 
> color zone #10 near sel distance 3
> 
> ... will cause each triangle on the surface to be coloured according to the colour of the nearest atom in the selection within a 3Å cutoff distance.
> 
> On 27 Jul 2020, at 14:48, Oleksiy Kovtun <okovtun at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk <mailto:okovtun at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>> Dear ChimeraX community, 
>> 
>> I need to colour the surface by selected side chains to highlight an intermolecular contact.
>> 
>> The command sequence:
>> #select atoms on the buried surface. The selection works correctly: 
>> measure buriedarea #10/C:449-end withAtoms2 #9/A:449-end select true
>> 
>> #make a surface. A new surface #10.1 is generated:
>> surface #10/C resolution 7 
>> 
>> #color surface yellow at selected residues.
>> color #10 & sel yellow target s
>> 
>> The last command does not result in surface colouring although reports "colored 1 surfaces" upon its execution. 
>> 
>> Where is a mistake in the colouring approach?
>> I run chimeraX version 1.0 (2020-06-04) on Ubuntu 18.04.
>> 
>> Thank you and best regards. 
>> Oleksiy
>> 
>> Dr Oleksiy Kovtun
>> Research Fellow
>> Briggs group
>> MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
>> Francis Crick Avenue
>> Cambridge
>> CB2 0QH
>> UK
>> 
>> Tel: + 44 1223 267551
>> Email: okovtun at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk <mailto:okovtun at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ChimeraX-users mailing list
>> ChimeraX-users at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:ChimeraX-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
>> Manage subscription:
>> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users>

Dr Oleksiy Kovtun
Research Fellow
Briggs group
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Francis Crick Avenue
Cambridge
CB2 0QH
UK

Tel: + 44 1223 267551
Email: okovtun at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/attachments/20200727/ed16c7dc/attachment.html>