[chimerax-users] downloading pdb files from another webserver

Eric Pettersen pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
Tue Jan 24 09:16:56 PST 2023


Hi Amith,
	If you still want to do your script thing despite the res_numbering attribute trick, you would use the "runscript" command (https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/runscript.html <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/runscript.html>) rather than "open".  "Open" has no ability to pass non-keyword arguments to the function opening the file.  The arguments you give to runscript will be available in the script via sys.argv.

--Eric

	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


> On Jan 24, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello Amith,
> This does not answer your specific question, but did you know that you can switch between uniprot residue numbering and the default residue numbering for structures from the PDB?  It is done by changing the atomic-model attribute named res_numbering, such as with the "setattr" command.
> 
> Atomic-model attributes:
> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/attributes.html#model>
> 
> "setattr" command:
> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/setattr.html>
> 
> For example, to switch from author numbering (initial default) to uniprot numbering:
> 
> open 2gbp
> setattr #1 structures res_numbering uniprot
> 
> To go back to author numbering:
> 
> setattr #1 structures res_numbering author
> 
> In this example structure (2gbp) I can see by hovering the mouse that the residue numbers are different.  For example, one of the glutamate residues that is binding the Ca++ ion is 205 in author numbering but 228 in uniprot numbering.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Rangarajan, Amith via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> 
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>> hi,
>> 
>> i mostly resort to using the resource from dunbrack's lab to download structures renumbered as per uniprot numbering.
>> i currently do it using a simple .py script:
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> i want to make this as a chimerax script that i can call from command line with 
>> open {scriptname.py} { pdbid} 
>> wondering if some one has tried to do similar things and some tips regarding which modules to use might be helpful.
>> thanks a lot ,
>> best
>> amith
> 
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