[chimerax-users] Generating map from structure

[Azad, Roksana]

Hi Elaine,

I am not sure what you meant, sorry for my ignorance. I attached a screenshot.
So, my model number is “0” on chimera when I opened the pdb model, I typed the command “molmap #0” and it says “Missing required argument (s): resolution” (please see the screenshot). I read from the link you sent earlier that I can use “onGrid” options to fix that, but I am a bit confused on how to do that!
Many thanks again for your help with this, I appreciate your time.

Sincerely,
Roksana
[cid:3E7BF75B-40F6-4228-A530-FB96DEB8B3B1 at home]
On May 11, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote:

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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

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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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