Thanks, Jonathan for your suggestions. In the meanwhile, however, maybe one of these PDB-editing web servers will come in handy: http://www.igs.cnrs-mrs.fr/Caspr2/magicPDB.cgi http://dicsoft2.physics.iisc.ernet.in/pdbgoodies/inputpage.html Both make you choose the file before you can see the options, but can do several things, including changing chain ID and renumbering. 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 Jan 28, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Sheehan wrote:
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
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