[chimerax-users] The ChimeraX-Modeller interface

[Elaine Meng]

To clarify, the "alphafold match" command would get already-made single-chain models from the freely available AlphaFold Database.  It does not run a new AlphaFold calculation.  It just superimposes the single-chain predictions onto the multimer structure that was already open, which is not the same as using it to predict a multimer.  However, in practice the result is often quite reasonable, if there are already experimentally known structures with the same type of multimerization.

I also meant to include more help links in the previous reply...

matchmaker
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/matchmaker.html>

combine
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/combine.html>

Model Loops
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/modelloops.html>

Best,
Elaine