Hi everyone,

As explain in the Chimera user guide, I used the command such like distance  #0.2:246@N#0.5:131@N to measure the distance between two atoms of interest.

To be more explicit regarding my first email, it was necessary to re-edit the pdb file and to assign a model number to each chain. In the example above, the chain B is named model 2 (then model 0.2 in Chimera) and the chain D is named model 5 (then model 0.5 in Chimera).

It works fine but I suppose that there is a simpler and more direct way to specify the chain in the command?

Many thanks

Damien

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Sujet: distance between 2 residues
Date : Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:09:11 +0100
De : Damien Larivière <damien.lariviere@fourmentinguilbert.org>
Pour : chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu


Dear all,

I would like to know the (mean or approximative) distance between two 
residues within a protein (let's say Res 5 of chain A and Res 246 of 
chain C).

I suppose that I have to select one atom in each of the residues and use 
the Distance tool. I confess I have trouble to do so, either by picking 
in the viewport or by using the atom identifier. May you tell me a 
simple way to achieve such a distance?

Many thanks for your help

Damien