On Jun 9, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Jochen,
This information is already imported, and when you mouse over the chain, it is shown in the “status message” area across the bottom of the Chimera window.  
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/chimerawindow.html>

I tested just now, and the information is retained and can be shown in the same way after “split” is used.  However, it is not automatically used as the model names.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Jun 9, 2016, at 4:05 AM, Jochen Baßler <jochen.bassler@bzh.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

Hi,

I´m frequently looking at pdb´s that contain multiple chains, like ribosomes or preribosomes (e.g. Pdb  3JCT).
Is there a way to import the information from the pdb database, which tells you the name of the chains?
Chain A = rpl2
Chain B = Rpl4 etc.
Cool would be to split the pdb into multiple models that have the name from the pdb database.
(It is quite annoying to have a pdb with nearly 60 different chains and you have to spend half a day to rename the chains or to create individual models, before analyzing the structure)

Thanks for suggestions and solutions

Best wishes

Jochen

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