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 ---------- 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