[chimerax-users] ChimeraX does not write DMS

[Diego Fernando Leon Vargas]

Dear Elaine,

Thank you so much for your support.

I want to ask you something more, If I use Chimera in Windows I could be
able to try the Workaround #2? I believe that this approach requests  other
systems.




El jue., 5 nov. 2020 a las 12:42, Elaine Meng (<meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>)
escribió:

> Greetings,
> I changed the subject line to something descriptive.
>
> Sorry, ChimeraX does not write DMS files.
>
> Unfortunately, as you saw, Chimera molecular surface calculations fail on
> some structures.  If you can't get the calculation to work in Chimera (e.g.
> with workaround #2 in this page):
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html>
>
> ...then my only other suggestion is to get the separate open-source
> program "dms"... this is an older program in C:
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Overview/software.html#dms>
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
>
> > On Nov 5, 2020, at 8:58 AM, Diego Fernando Leon Vargas <
> difleonva at unal.edu.co> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Hope that you're doing well.
> >
> > Currently, I'm using dock6 to develop some experiments  as you
> understand this software needs Chimera as visualizator, however, I was
> tried to create a surface for a specific protein and this software
> generated an issue because my protein exceed the size, so I read the
> possible solutions and one of them is using ChimeraX, nevertheless, I
> downloaded ChimeraX and I was able to create the surface, however, I didn't
> find an option to save this surface and I didn't find and option to create
> a DMS file. Then I have already read your user guide to ChimeraX but I
> didn't find information about how to create the DMS file, or how to save
> the surface information in any format that Chimera would be able to open,
> because I found a lot of differences between "Structure editing" option in
> Chimera and ChimeraX, then I'm requesting your help to create the DMS file
> using ChimeraX or indicanting me a way to save the surface information to
> use it later using Chimera.
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > B.Sc Diego Fernando León Vargas, Ph.D (c)
>
>

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Cordialmente,


*Q.F Diego Fernando León Vargas*
Estudiante - Doctorado en ciencias farmacéuticas
Grupo de estudios en síntesis y aplicaciones de compuestos heterocíclicos -
(GESACH)
Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Sede Bogotá

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