Movit

Hi everyone !

I wanted to see roughly if one protein could dock on another one, and could not find any mouse setting allowing to do that. Here is a script that does just that. Key bindings are:

q : translation +x a : translation -x w : translation +y s : translation -y w : translation +z s : translation -z r : rotation along x f : rotation along x (the other way) t : rotation along x g : rotation along x (the other way) y : rotation along x h : rotation along x (the other way)

Use : run movit.py during startup. Then, 'movit selection'.

It is not very practical, does anybody know how to do that with the mouse instead of just one step at a time like here ?

<pymol> from pymol import cmd

def movit(selection="all"):

   """USAGE : movit <selection>
              The selection can now be translated/rotated
              with the following keyboard shortcuts:

              q,a : x translation
              w,s : y translation
              e,d : z translation

              r,f : x rotation
              t,g : y rotation
              y,h : z rotation
   """

   line="translate [1,0,0],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('q',line)
   line="translate [0,1,0],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('w',line)
   line="translate [0,0,1],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('e',line)

   line="translate [-1,0,0],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('a',line)
   line="translate [0,-1,0],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('s',line)
   line="translate [0,0,-1],"+selection
   cmd.alias ('d',line)

   line="rotate x,5,"+selection
   cmd.alias ('r',line)
   line="rotate y,5,"+selection    
   cmd.alias ('t',line)
   line="rotate z,5,"+selection
   cmd.alias ('y',line)

   line="rotate x,-5,"+selection
   cmd.alias ('f',line)
   line="rotate y,-5,"+selection
   cmd.alias ('g',line)
   line="rotate z,-5,"+selection
   cmd.alias ('h',line)

cmd.extend ("movit",movit)

</pymol>