Hello Xiaoyan Zhu, You can hide or show anything, basically. If you want to hide all atoms (keeping the ribbons), some ways are command: ~display - OR - menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide You can also specify particular atoms, for example, if you want to hide only the protein atoms without hiding other things that are already shown (solvent, ligands, metal ions): command: ~display protein - OR - menu: Select… Structure… protein menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide menu: Select… Clear Selection You may want to try one or more of the “Getting Started” tutorials to become familiar with Chimera. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/Outreach/Tutorials/GettingStarted.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/frametut.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Dec 12, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Zhu, Xiaoyan <xiaoyan.zhu@marquette.edu> wrote:
Hello, I am using UCSF Chimera to generate figures of protein crystal structures. Some crystals, if open in Chimera, automatically show the side chains of some amino acids. I want to hide those side chains in my figures. I wonder if there's an easy way to do it. Thank you!
Have a good one, Xiaoyan Zhu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University