I have play some puzzles, and most difficult is not understand how fold some parts but actually do that. I cant move or rotate some part properly, hm i cant rotate at all, or move whole part not one piece of it. Or may be it for more difficult while playing??
Try freeze segment surrounding area you want to move. Otherwise you will drag entire protein.
Also switch to new interface, is more user friendly.
W1zzard,
When you try to use rotate (tweak), there are a few things you must keep in mind.
1) Only helices and sheets may be rotated. Loops may be changed into sheets or helicies to allow them to be rotated, but they will not do so naturally. That's an area ripe for improvement imo.
2) A sheet or helix being rotated must have at least one (1) connected, unfrozen loop on each side.
3) A clash of significant value will stop many rotations. Sometimes the structure will simply push its way through another structure and continue the rotation, but often, when you need it to most, it will simply stop and the clash will grow until your score collapses. I'm not sure why that happens, or conversely why it sometimes simply pushes its way through, bt it does.
The same rules apply to the other "Tweak" functions, both Translate (the straight arrows) and Optimize (the balls that sit outside each rotate function)
And yes, competition-mode puzzles are often far more difficult than the tutorial levels.
Don't forget that you can always ask questions in general chat. There are often well-versed veteran players there who will provide helpful hints, although it's by no means guaranteed.
One last thing to note. Rotate works on a fixed set of index values, so one end is 0 and the other the "nth" sidechain in the structure. The reverse rotation does not reverse those values, so it will always act from one side of the structure first. (for instance, a helix will often optimize one side before the other and will repeatedly act that way no matter what you do outside tediously segregating each subsection and working it very slowly. It can be done, but sometimes things aren't "perfect".
Hopefully this clarifies some of the confusion.
best wishes
btw, a subtle solution to the problem inherent in the tweak tool is to reverse, temporarily, the indices of the entire protein chain during a reverse rotation operation. It would add a temporary complication to subscore assignments, but intrinsically, it should not introduce any error and result in an improved Tweak, since one end would not always be concentrating the beneficial aspects and the other hanging "loose", hoping for some change to come its way eventually….
for instance, suppose a right hand rotation used the default residue index values, then the reverse operation, ie, a left hand rotation, would/could auto reassign the index values in reverse order, maintaining the score function properly throughout the protein and tweak operation. Once the rotation/translation/optimize was completed, it would/could resubmit those subscores and indices to their "proper" locations in the protein string. (all that would really change is the index sequencing of the protein, ie, either 0 to N or N to 0. the scores would not change, simply the order of operation)
As I said, it's not without complication, since the value swapping would be required to maintain integrity of the valuation (obviously) but it doesn't seem an impossibility by any measure, and it might improve the functionality of the Tweak tool considerably.
…Yes, a bank of rubber bands blah blah blah and superscript GizmoThingy-4 for seven hours…I get it kids. Been there a long long time ago and got really bored. Bands have inherent problems of their own, due to their somewhat quadratic force nature, (presuming the math behind bands is as bands/springs actually work in nature) and for me at least, positioning bands in open space is a total pain.
Intuition remember?
Right, xiando, positioning bands into open space is very hard, especially, if the spatial "depth" they should be applied does matter.
Sometimes after a major manipulation, only parts of some sheets are twisted by large angles (> 180 degrees) while the rest of it has significant appeal. Other than a rebuild (which can give you a radically different random structure) or some nasty combination of "freeze + band in mid air+ pull-in-a-circle" how else can you untwist those sheets? If I freeze the good parts, I can't rotate the bad parts without seriously messing with my major structures. Sometimes, that's good. Other times, I just want to flex a sheet segment back into position and bands and pulls are not cutting it.
What I would like is a way to wring a sheet (as you might water from a rag) by fixing two rotational positions on the chain then rotating one of them. The non-selected rotator will act like a freeze by not allowing its segment to rotate, the active rotator (the one you are clicking) will attempt to rotate the partial sheet in the direction I want to rotate it.
Both sides could be active rotational sites but since they are mouse-powered, only one of them can be used at a time.
You can untwist a sheet in the new interface.
Double-click a sheet, then it should turn blue and a purple cross of arrows should appear, including a knob.
untwisting a sheet
Pushing and holding the knob should flatten the sheet.
Do you mean a torsion instead of a rotation?
to tell you the truth, it's not a spacial thing, it's the tendency of bands to auto adhere to the first object they encounter in a 2-D world. if they cross anything in paperspace, they connect. that's the pain (for me)
That's, what I meant, too.
If you want to pull a sidechain just inside the protein, into free space, but there is a visible object behind this space, the band does connect to this object (which is more far away in depth), and not to space, where you want it to have.