Hi all, A student of mine wants to make a wire sculpture of a protein, and I'm thinking of ways Chimera could make the task easier. Ideally, I would create a script that would display any protein in wire-form, with residue positions clearly and unobtrusively labeled. I'd like to use the command line to display a backbone as a licorice ribbon with residue numbers and 1-letter codes at the alpha carbon of each residue. so starting out, I would use: ribscale licorice; ribbackbone; rlabel @ca; But instead of "ALA 24.B", I want "A 24". Though I can get what I want using the Actions menu, I can't find a way to create custom rlabels via the command line. Is there a way to do this? If possible, I would also like to position each label near the spot on the ribbon closest to the alpha carbon (the "primary atom"). I can see how to do this with the molecule attributes panel, but I'm having difficulty setting the placement through the command line. And while I'm at it...is there a way to color a spot on the ribbon closest to the alpha carbon a different color than the rest of the ribbon? Thanks for the help! Dan -- ____________________________ Daniel Gurnon, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Chemistry DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135 p: 765-658-6279 e: danielgurnon@depauw.edu
