Quick start for Complex animation
a) Set
3CRO in the "enter a PDB Id" field. The pdb code is related to a protein-dna complex.
b) In the Default Representation part:
- Title: DNA-Protein complex
- Display: keep all values to default
- Scene: keep all values to default
- Picture: change only the image format to gif
c) animation
- Scenarii: change to "Complex Merge"
- Camera: change to "ultra-wide"
- Render: megapov
- Frames: 20, step 1, delay 20
- Orientation panel: we will now define the scenario. The 3*3 panel represents the different possible positions and movements for each chain. In 3CRO there is 4 chains:
A,B for the DNA and L,R for the bounded protein. Our idea is to create a animation showing the protein while binding to the DNA (merge). In order to position the bounded form at the center of the scene, we kept the "chains" field to "All", which corresponds to the bounded form (ADN+Protein), in the central cell of the 3*3 panel. But we reoriented it to get a better view (check in the JMol previewer, accessible using the "Preview orientations" button below the panel) by changing the rotation to : Xrot -81, Yrot 69 and Zrot 19.
We want the L and R chains to move from the right to the center of the scene, therefore we set "L" and "R" in the "chains" field of the bottom and upper right cells respectively. To simplify the animation we didn't change the orientations of
chains L and R.
d) Process : launch the procedure to create the animated gif
Here is what you should get:
