Contact map visualizer

Introduction

It is a fast and easy way of mapping contact maps to the residues in PyMOL.

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How to get it

• You can download it from the git repository https://github.com/VenkyKrishnamani/Contact-Map-Visualizer

git clone git://github.com/VenkyKrishnamani/Contact-Map-Visualizer.git

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Required Dependencies on Linux and Mac OS X

• Tkinter
• PIL (Python Imaging Library) and
• pygame

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Installing on Linux

• Follow the steps below

git clone git://github.com/VenkyKrishnamani/Contact-Map-Visualizer.git
cd Contact-Map-Visualizer

• Run 'pymol' as an administrator from the command line
• Navigate to plugins > install
• Choose Contact-Map-Visualizer.py from the dialogbox and 'OK'
• Quit and Restart 'pymol' (not required to be administator mode)

Installing on Mac OS X

Coming soon…

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Usage

• Launch PyMOL
• Navigate to Plugins > Contact Map Visualizer in PyMOL
• When the first dialog box pops up, select the contact map image (only .png and .gif are supported currently) and select 'OK'
• In the second dialog box, select the pdb file which was used to generate the above contact map OR first/any single frame of a trajectory in pdb/mol format.
• Once the visualizer launches, click on the location you want to visualize on the contact map, this will be reflected as selected residues in the PyMOL window.
• Everytime a location to be visualized is selected, an image is saved in the working directory (1 file is generated for every run)

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Copyright

# Copyright Notice
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# The PyMOL Plugin source code in this file is copyrighted, but you are
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# This PyMOL Plugin Contact Maps Visualizer is
# Copyright (C) 2012 by Venkatramanan Krishnamani <venks@andrew.cmu.edu>
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