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Slide Number 1

Title Slide

Welcome to this tutorial on Writing Commands in Chimera.
Slide Number 2

Learning Objectives

In this tutorial, we will type commands to,
  • Change the display to atoms.
  • Show and hide ribbons.
  • Change the color of the amino acid residues.
  • Label individual residues.
Slide Number 3

Learning Objectives

  • Remove solvent molecules.
  • And save the image in different file formats.
Slide Number 4

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial you should have knowledge of,

Undergraduate Biochemistry

Must be familiar with, Structural Biology

and Chimera interface.

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System Requirement

To record this tutorial, I am using

Ubuntu OS version. 14.04

Chimera version 1.10.2

Mozilla firefox browser 42.0

And a working Internet connection.

Click on the Chimera icon. Double-click on the Chimera icon to open the Chimera window.
Click on the lightning bolt icon. Click on the lightning bolt icon to open the graphics window.
Cursor on the panel.


Click on Favorites menu, scroll down.

Click on Command line option.

In this tutorial,

I will demonstrate how to use commands to manipulate the structure.

Open the Command Line using Favorites menu.

Point to the command


Cursor on the Command line.

A command text box appears at the bottom of the Chimera window.


Tasks, performed with menus can be carried out using commands.

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Chimera Commands

About Chimera Commands.

Chimera commands are entered at the Command line.

Multiple commands can be combined into one line with semicolon separators.

Press Enter key to execute the command.

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Chimera Commands

Previous commands can be accessed from command History.

More information about commands is given at the link shown.

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/framecore.html

Cursor on the command line. Back to the Chimera window.


Let us open a model of leucine zipper by typing a command.

On the command line text box type open 1zik. The command starts with a command word.


On the command line text box type,

open space 1zik.


You need a working Internet connection for this step.

Press enter. Press enter to execute the command.

The structure appears on the screen.

Type:

display

Press enter.

To change the ribbons display to atoms,

In the command line text box type:

The Command word display

Press enter.

Cursor on the panel. We now have the structure of the protein in atoms display.

The structure is partially represented as ribbons.

Type:

~ ribbon


Press enter.

To hide the ribbons,

Type, the wave symbol, also known as tilda followed by the command word ribbon.

A command with a tilda indicates the reverse function.

Here, tilda symbol followed by ribbon keyword hides the ribbons.

press enter.

Cursor on the panel. We can use color command to set colors to atoms, bonds, surfaces etc.
Type:


color yellow :leu


For example to change the color of all leucines

Type:

Color space yellow space colon :

followed by the three letter abreviation for the amino acid.

For leucine, I will type leu

Here color is command word with argument as yellow and target is all leucines in the structure.


Cursor on the command line. If you do not specify a target the entire structure will be colored in yellow.

Press enter

Observe the panel. All the leucines are now colored yellow

Cursor on the command line.

Type

color red :18.A

Press enter

We can specifically color an amino acid present at a particular location.

For example to change the color of histidine present at position 18 on chain B:

Type

color space red space colon18.B

Press enter

Cursor on the panel. Observe the panel, histidine is now colored in red.
Type

rep sphere

Press enter

To change the display of the entire structure to CPK spacefill,

Type,

rep (rep is the truncated version for the keyword represent )

rep space sphere

Press enter.

Observe the panel.

Type,

rep stick

press enter.

To bring back the structure to stick display.

Again type,

rep space stick

Press enter

Type

del solvent

Press enter

To hide the solvent molecules from the structure,

Type

del for delete space solvent

Press enter.

Type,

Select :18.A

Press enter


Type,

select :28.B


To activate residues for selection, use select command word.

On the command line text box type,

Select space colon followed by the number and chain of the residue.

For example to activate the lysine present at the position 28, on chain B


Type,

select space colon followed by 28 dot B

Press enter

Type

rlabel sel


Press enter

Now to show the label for the residue selected,

Type

rlabel space sel

Press enter

Cursor on the panel. Observe the panel the residue label for the selected residue is displayed.
press up arrow key to get the select command(select :28.B)

Type,

~select :28.B

To deselect the residue which we have selected earlier:

Press up arrow key to get the select command.

Type the tilda symbol at the beginning of the command.

Press enter.

Scroll down the commands index page. A list of keywords and command index is available in the Help menu.

Click on the Help menu, scroll down and click on Commands index.

A web-page opens with the list of keywords to write commands.

Type:

background solid blue

Press enter.

Back to the Chimera window.

If you want to change the background color from black to blue.

Type:

background space solid space blue

Press enter.

Cursor on the panel. The panel is now in blue color.
Click on the black triangle present at the right side of the Command line. To view the Command History:


Click on the black triangle present at the right side of the Command line.


Cursor on the Command history.


Click on any command.

The Command History lists previously used commands.


Commands can be re-executed by clicking on the command.

Click on Hide command line option. To hide the command line click on Hide command line option in the drop down.
Click on File menu. Scroll down. There are many options to save the structure you have created.


Open the File menu.

Scroll down the File menu. You can:

Restore a Session

Save a Session

Save the image in JPEG or PNG formats

Save the image as PDB or Mol2 files.

Export the scene etc.

Click on Save Image option. For demonstration let me save the image in JPEG format.
Double click on “Desktop”.


Type the file name as 1zik.

File type as JPEG.

Click on Save image option.

Save image dialog box opens.

Select the file location as Desktop.

Type the File name as 1zik.

Choose the File type as JPEG.

Type,

800 as image width and 600 as height.


Click on save button.

Fix the image size according to your requirement.


For demonstration, I will type 800 as width and 600 as height.

Click on save button.

The image is saved as 1zik.jpg on the desktop.

Cursor on the panel. Let's summarize what we have learnt.
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Summary

In this tutorial we typed commands to,
  • Change the display to atoms.
  • Show and hide ribbons.
  • Change the color of the amino acid residues.
  • Label individual residues.


Slide Number 9

Summary

  • Remove solvent molecules.
  • Save the image in different file formats.


Slide Number 10

Assignment

Now for the Assignment

Type commands to,

  • Load the structure of Human oxy-hemoglobin (PDB code: 2dn1)
  • Change the display to atoms and hide ribbons.
  • Color all histidine residues in green.
  • Remove the solvent molecules.
  • Save the image in JPEG format.

Your completed assignmet should look as follows.

Slide Number 11

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