[chimerax-users] Generating map from structure

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Roksana,
No, it only needs an atomic model.  You have to open the atomic model first.  You don't use molmap with a filename, but instead specify atoms that are already open in ChimeraX.  You can use any atom specifier, not necessarily "protein" as in my example.  Could be model number, residue numbers, helix, strand, etc.  

You probably just specified the atoms incorrectly.   I could give you a more useful answer if when you ask the question, you included the exact command(s) you tried... then I could see if something was wrong with it.
Elaine

> On May 11, 2021, at 9:26 AM, Azad, Roksana <razad at gc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Elaine,
> 
> I have tried the molmap command in the past, but it shows this error "Missing or invalid "atoms" argument: invalid atoms specifier”. Just to clarify, my protein structure is a model generated from I-tasser, it doesn’t have a resolution. I was thinking that I am getting this error because there are no resolution coordinates in the file?!
> 
> Thank you again for your help – very much apppreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Roksana
> 
>> On May 11, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Roksana,
>> The command "molmap" creates a map model from an atomic model, for example
>> 
>> open 1zik
>> molmap protein 8
>> 
>> See the "molmap" help for explanation of the resolution value and other command options:
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rbvi.ucsf.edu_chimerax_docs_user_commands_molmap.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=8v77JlHZOYsReeOxyYXDU39VUUzHxyfBUh7fw_ZfBDA&r=4fgdOL7OXxMXFPlc49cdsOT7iuQE5SvhH0LAQDXOb9M&m=tXJgrS_OZdPoyyXoPaLVbb6UKf6cQUPKIAwelDy0XNM&s=HmPmgqtvamvWWfsyZ0GGpBcgTEPKiy624-qd8Y2pwGo&e= >
>> 
>> I hope this helps,
>> Elaine
>> -----
>> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
>> UCSF Chimera(X) team
>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
>> University of California, San Francisco
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> From: "Azad, Roksana" <razad at gc.cuny.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [ChimeraX] #4622: save dialog: 'SaveModelOptionWidget' object has no attribute '_name'
>>> Date: May 11, 2021 at 9:00:00 AM PDT
>>> To: "ChimeraX-bugs at cgl.ucsf.edu" <ChimeraX-bugs at cgl.ucsf.edu>
>>> 
>>> Dear Eric,
>>> Thank you so much for your reply.
>>> 
>>> I have a model of my protein in pdb format, which I am trying to save as .mrc or any sort of volume file on chimera. However, since its a model and do not have any coordinate in the file like xtal or NMR structure, it won’t save it as .mrc or volume file and was giving me the error.
>>> 
>>> I want to create a volume file from the model to load on cryoSPARC or relion and create 2D projections to help me pick better 2D classes from my raw data. Do you think there is an option to do something like this on chimera? 
>>> 
>>> Thank you again for your time and help in advance – very much appreciated.
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Roksana
>> 
>> 
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