Hi Thomas, The command to name a selection is "namesel": <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/namesel.html> You might also want to take a look at "alias" which I find to be more powerful and flexible: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/alias.html> One reason to use named selections instead, however, is to have their names appear in the Select menu. If that is not important, I recommend using "alias." Best, Elaine On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- From: Thomas C. Marlovits To: Tom Goddard Date: 9/22/09 2:04 AM
HI Tom,
I was wondering, whether one can "group" a few models in chimera. At the moment, I have more than 40 models open simultaneously, some of which I would like to group in order to make coloring, selection, etc ... more easily. It might be that the feature is present, but couldn't spot it so far. The other thing that I would appreciate, if there is a simple way to assign the model nr manually (at the moment it is done automatically, and it appears that the order is somewhat random ...) Best, Tx, -T.
Hi Thomas,
You can used "named selections" to give a short name to several models or to any combination of selected items. Use menu entry
Select / Name Selection...
You can use the names in Chimera commands or use the "Select / Named Selection / name" menu entry. I don't know of a command to name a selection. Is there such a command (other Chimera developers)?
You can set the model number if you open your models with a command, for example,
open 5 twisty.pdb
to open a model as model number 5. After the model number has been assigned it unfortunately cannot be changed.
Tom