[chimerax-users] stretching protein?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Heather,
Sorry, there isn't a feature like that. You could imagine expanding all the atomic XYZ coordinates radially from the protomer center but in my opinion it would make the structure ridiculous (unphysical bond lengths etc.)... and even if you wanted to do that, as far as I know you would have to write your own code to do it.  The picture suggests there is already a structure of the bigger one, however.
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Nov 9, 2022, at 6:19 PM, Noriega, Heather via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I hope this email finds everyone well. I was wondering if ChimeraX had a function specific to "stretching" the protein. I am going to attach a picture, for reference. Is it possible to stretch the monomer to build a larger capsid? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Heather Noriega
> PhD-Pharmaceutical Science student 
> Howard University
> heather.noriega at bison.howard.edu
> 520-203-1883
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