Hi Jonathan, I added renaming chains and renumbering residues to the Chimera feature requests list. http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/requests I also have needed this on many ocassions. Tom
Hi-
Following up on this, I'd like to offer a feature request regarding structure editing.
Two of the most common tasks I need to do when constructing a model are: renaming the chains in the structure, and renumbering stretches of residues. I can imagine two menu items similar to "Actions->Atoms/Bonds->Delete" named "Set chain ID..." and "Renumber residues from..." that could operate on the current selection.
I suspect these menu options (or something similar, maybe under "structure editing"?) would be helpful to many folks. It could be a lot faster / easier than generating the right awk line or venturing into Emacs' PDB-mode. :-)
Would this be difficult to implement?
Thanks for considering it, -Jonathan