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<title>PDB Viewing</title>
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-<p><strong>Viewing PDB Structures</strong></p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Viewing PDB Structures</strong>
+ </p>
+ Jalview can be used to view protein structures by following the steps below:
+ <ol>
+ <li>Select the <strong>"View Structure"</strong> option from a
+ sequence's <a href="../menus/popupMenu.html">pop-up menu</a> to invoke the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a> interface.
+ <ul>
+ <li>If one or more structures exists for the given sequence, the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a>
+ dialogue is opened with a list of the found structures meta-data.</li>
+ <li>However, if no structure was found, the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a> interface is opened with options for manual association of PDB structures.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Choose the structure to view from the discovered list. This can be done either manually by clicking directly
+ on the desired structure(s) in the list, or automatically by
+ using the drop-down menu on the interface to filter and auto-select the best structure based on certain
+ criteria like quality, resolution, etc.</li>
+ <li>When the desired structure(s) have been selected, they can be
+ viewed by clicking the <strong>"View"</strong> button below the summary list.
+ </li>
+
+ </ol>
+
+ The
+ <a href="jmol.html">Jmol viewer</a> has been included since Jalview
+ 2.3. Jalview 2.8.2 included support for <a href="chimera.html">Chimera</a>, provided it is
+ installed and can be launched by Jalview. The default viewer can be
+ configured in the
+ <a href="preferences.html#structure">Structure tab</a> in the
+ <strong>Tools→Preferences</strong> dialog box.
+ <p>
+ Structure data imported into Jalview can also be processed to display
+ secondary structure and temperature factor annotation. See the <a
+ href="xsspannotation.html">Annotation from Structure</a> page for
+ more information.
+ </p>
+ <!--
+ <p>The following menu entries are provided for viewing structure data
+ <ul>
+ <li>The <strong>"Structure→View
+ Structure→</strong> submenu allows a single PDB structure to be chosen
+ for display from the available structures for a sequence.
+ </li>
+ <li>The <strong>"Structure→View all <em>N</em>
+ structures
+ </strong> option will open a new window containing all structures associated
+ with the current selection, superposed according to the currently selected region of the alignment.<br/><em>This
+ capability was added in Jalview 2.7</em>
+ </li>
+ <li>The <strong>"Structure→View all <em>N</em>
+ representative structures
+ </strong> option will open a new window containing exactly one structure per
+ currently selected sequence.<br />
+ <em>The View representative structures option was introduced in
+ Jalview 2.8.1</em></li>
+ </ul>
+</p> -->
-<p>Jalview can view protein structures associated with a sequence
-via the <strong>"Structure→View PDB entry:"</strong> entries from a
-sequence's <a href="../menus/popupMenu.html">pop-up menu</a>. Once a pdb
+<p>If a <strong>single</strong> pdb
structure is selected, one of the following will happen:</p>
<ul>
<li>If no structures are open, then an interactive display of the
- structure will be opened in a new window</li>
+ structure will be opened in a new window.</li>
<li>If another structure is already shown for the current
alignment, then you will be asked if you want to add and <a
href="jmol.html#align">align this structure</a> to the structure in
- the existing view. (<em>new feature in Jalview 2.6</em>)</li>
+ the existing view. (<em>new feature in Jalview 2.6</em>).</li>
<li>If the structure is already shown, then you will be prompted
to associate the sequence with an existing view of the selected
- structure.</li>
+ structure. This is useful when working with multi-domain or multi-chain PDB files.</li>
<li style="list-style: none">See the <a href="jmol.html">Jmol
- PDB viewer</a> help page for more information about the display.</li>
+ </a> and <a href="chimera.html">Chimera</a> PDB viewer help pages for more information about the display.</li>
</ul>
-<p>To associate PDB files with a sequence, right click on a sequence
-ID and select "Structure<strong>→</strong> Associate Structure with
-Sequence", and one of the submenus:</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>From File - You can load a PDB file from the local machine or
- network and associate it with the selected sequence. PDB files
- associated in this way will also be saved in the <a
- href="jalarchive.html">Jalview Archive file</a>.<br>
- </li>
-
- <li>Enter PDB Id - Jalview will use WSDBFetch, provided by the
- EBI, to fetch the PDB file with the entered Id.<br>
- </li>
-
- <li>Discover PDB Ids - Jalview uses WSDBFetch, provided by the
- EBI, to discover PDB ids for all the sequences in the alignment which
- have valid Uniprot names / accession ids.</li>
-</ul>
-
<p><strong>Importing PDB Entries or files in PDB format</strong><br>
You can retrieve sequences from the PDB using the <a
href="seqfetch.html">Sequence Fetcher</a>. Any sequences retrieved with
you would an alignment file. The sequences of any peptide chains will be
extracted from the file and viewed in the alignment window.</p>
-<p><em>Note for jalview applet users:<br>
+<p>
+<strong>Associating a large number of PDB files to sequences
+in an alignment</strong><br /> It is often the case when working with
+structure alignments that you will have a directory of PDB files, and
+an alignment involving one or more of the structures. If you drag a
+number of PDB files onto an alignment in the Jalview desktop, Jalview
+will give you the option of associating PDB files with sequences that
+have the same filename. This means, for example, you can automatically
+associate PDB files with names like '1gaq.pdb' with sequences that
+have an ID like '1gaq'.
+<br/><em>Note: This feature was added in Jalview 2.7</em>
+</p>
+<p><em>Note for Jalview applet users:<br>
Due to the applet security constraints, PDB Files can currently only be
imported by cut and paste of the PDB file text into the text box opened
by the 'From File' entry of the structure menu.</em></p>
Settings dialog box</a>.</p>
<p><em><strong>Outstanding problem with cut'n'pasted
-files in Jalview 2.6</strong><br>
+files in Jalview 2.6 and Jalview 2.7</strong><br>
Structures imported via the cut'n'paste dialog box will not be correctly
highlighted or coloured when they are displayed in structure views,
especially if they contain more than one PDB structure. See the bug
-report at http://issues.jalview.org/JAL-623 for news on this problem.</em></p>
+report at http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-623 for news on this problem.</em></p>
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