On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Hrabe <thrabe@sanfordburnham.org> wrote:

Hi everyone,

is there a way to select a residue by it’s array index, starting at 0 -> sequence length rather than using the residue id?

Hi Thomas,
I think the answer is no, using only normal Chimera commands.  However a simple Python script can do it, and such a script can be executed with the "runscript" command.  I have attached a script that takes a model number and a residue index as arguments and selects the corresponding residue.  If you put the script in your home directory then "runscript ~/selres.py 0 12" would select the 13th residue (input order) in model 0.

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen

                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

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