Hi all,<br><div>A student of mine wants to make a wire sculpture of a protein, and I&#39;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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;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.</div><div>so starting out, I would use:</div>
<div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">ribscale
licorice; ribbackbone; rlabel @ca;</span></div><div><br><div>But instead of &quot;ALA 24.B&quot;, I want &quot;A 24&quot;. Though I can get what I want using the Actions menu, I can&#39;t find a way to create custom rlabels via the command line. Is there a way to do this? </div>
<div><br></div><div>If possible, I would also like to position each label near the spot on the ribbon closest to the alpha carbon (the &quot;primary atom&quot;). I can see how to do this with the molecule attributes panel, but I&#39;m having difficulty setting the placement through the command line.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And while I&#39;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?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the help!</div>
<div>Dan<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>____________________________<br><br>Daniel Gurnon, Ph. D.<br>Associate Professor of Chemistry<br>DePauw University<br>Greencastle, IN 46135<br><br>p: 765-658-6279<br>e: <a href="mailto:danielgurnon@depauw.edu">danielgurnon@depauw.edu</a><br>

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