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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2011 - 20:27:25 CDT

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Irene Newhouse <einew_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! I just tried that & it doesn't work.

doesn't work in which way?

error message, or showing the wrong atoms?

axel.

> Irene
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:51:33 -0400
>> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Displaying residues on chain A within X of chain B
>> From: akohlmey_at_gmail.com
>> To: einew_at_hotmail.com
>> CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Irene Newhouse <einew_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to display the residues 'contacting' chain A on chain B of a
>> > protein [I'd be satisfied with setting a distance, as one does with
>> > 'within'] & I can't get the selection language to work in the graphical
>> > representations window. I've done some searching of the VMD-L archive,
>> > since
>> > people must want to do this, but I don't seem to have found the magic
>> > search
>> > terms. Using residue number isn't obvious, as the residues aren't
>> > numbered
>> > consecutively throughout the pdb file, but restart with each chain.
>>
>> irene,
>>
>> have you tried "same residue as (chain A exwithin ##.# of chain B)" ?
>>
>> cheers,
>> axel.
>>
>>
>> > Thanks!
>> > Irene Newhouse
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
>> akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
>>
>> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
>> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.