Help:Copying FirstGlance Scenes into Proteopedia

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Revision as of 19:36, 6 February 2010

1. Obtain the desired scene in FirstGlance in Jmol. Turn off spinning (even if you want it to spin in Proteopedia), and orient and zoom the molecule as you want it to appear initially.

2. Open Jmol's Console: Click on the word Jmol at the lower right corner below the molecule. On the menu that opens, click Console. A new small white window will appear. It is the Jmol Console.

3. Display the state script: Click the console buttons Clear Output, then State. A long Jmol command script will appear in the top box of the Console. This script describes the current state or scene in Jmol. (If you are using this as a guide to help copy scenes from other Jmol-based sources, you should note that for later versions of Jmol, such as 11.8.9, you show the state by selecting Show and then Current state from the Jmol menu that comes up under the Jmol frank. Counter-intuitively (and counter earlier versions), hittting the State button in the console presently does not show the state script.)

4. Copy the state script: Click in the top box of the Console, then Ctrl-A (Windows) or Cmd-A (Apple) to select the long script. Ctrl-C (Windows) or Cmd-C (Apple) to copy the script to the clipboard.

5. Edit the page in Proteopedia where you want to install the scene from FirstGlance in Jmol. Show the Scene Authoring Tool.

6. Load your molecule: Use the load molecule tab to load your PDB code into the Jmol in the Scene Authoring Tool.

7. Click the select all button below Jmol.

8. Open the representations tab and click the hide selection button. This hides the molecule -- there will be nothing in Jmol.

9. Click Jmol at the lower right of Jmol, to open Jmol's menu. Click Console to open the console.

10. Paste your state script (from the clipboard) into the bottom box of Jmol's Console, and click the Execute button. Your FirstGlance scene should appear in the Scene Authoring Tool's Jmol. On Mac OS X, you may be unable to paste into the Console. In that case, drag the blocked script and drop it into the bottom box of the Console, the click Execute.

11. Use the save scene tab to save the copied scene. Follow the instructions there to insert a green link into the page to show your scene.

Tweaking the Scene from FirstGlance

1gpk was displayed in FirstGlance in Jmol. were visualized in FirstGlance in Jmol using the Contacts.. and Hide.. dialogs, simply by clicking on controls. The scene was transferred into Proteopedia using the above procedure. Then, in the SAT, the by clicking select all, then in the labels dialog, reducing the size to 12, and changing the offsets to 1 and 0 (without entering any label text or clicking the set label button). (OK, I did have to open the console and issue the command "font label 12 sansserif bold" to make the labels bold. I'll ask that this be added to the SAT.) Finally, .

See the similar procedure How to Insert a ConSurf Result Into a Proteopedia Green Link.