Unless I'm misunderstanding something, isn't it just: Select->Structure->side chain/base->without CA/C1' Actions->Atoms/Bonds->delete or, as a command: del without CA/C1' --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:

I have a session that someone has given me. It consists of 24 monomers in two states, each monomer colored differently. In the model panel I see only two IDs.

I need to do a morph showing just the ribbons.

Because the overall number of atoms is quite large, I want to strip off the side chains in order to reduce the computation.

Is there an easy way to do this? Or do I have to go back to individual monomers, strip off the side chains, recolor, and recombine them, before morphing?

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