Hello, I am using UCSF Chimera to generate figures of protein crystal structures. Some crystals, if open in Chimera, automatically show the side chains of some amino acids. I want to hide those side chains in my figures. I wonder if there's an easy way to do it. Thank you! Have a good one, Xiaoyan Zhu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University
Hello Xiaoyan Zhu, You can hide or show anything, basically. If you want to hide all atoms (keeping the ribbons), some ways are command: ~display - OR - menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide You can also specify particular atoms, for example, if you want to hide only the protein atoms without hiding other things that are already shown (solvent, ligands, metal ions): command: ~display protein - OR - menu: Select… Structure… protein menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide menu: Select… Clear Selection You may want to try one or more of the “Getting Started” tutorials to become familiar with Chimera. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/Outreach/Tutorials/GettingStarted.html> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/frametut.html> 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 Dec 12, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Zhu, Xiaoyan <xiaoyan.zhu@marquette.edu> wrote:
Hello, I am using UCSF Chimera to generate figures of protein crystal structures. Some crystals, if open in Chimera, automatically show the side chains of some amino acids. I want to hide those side chains in my figures. I wonder if there's an easy way to do it. Thank you!
Have a good one, Xiaoyan Zhu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University
Thank you for quick reply! "The command: ~display protein" works perfect for me
On Dec 12, 2016, at 3:52 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hello Xiaoyan Zhu, You can hide or show anything, basically. If you want to hide all atoms (keeping the ribbons), some ways are
command: ~display - OR - menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide
You can also specify particular atoms, for example, if you want to hide only the protein atoms without hiding other things that are already shown (solvent, ligands, metal ions):
command: ~display protein - OR - menu: Select… Structure… protein menu: Actions… Atoms/Bonds… hide menu: Select… Clear Selection
You may want to try one or more of the “Getting Started” tutorials to become familiar with Chimera. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_Outrea... > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rbvi.ucsf.edu_chimer... >
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 Dec 12, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Zhu, Xiaoyan <xiaoyan.zhu@marquette.edu> wrote:
Hello, I am using UCSF Chimera to generate figures of protein crystal structures. Some crystals, if open in Chimera, automatically show the side chains of some amino acids. I want to hide those side chains in my figures. I wonder if there's an easy way to do it. Thank you!
Have a good one, Xiaoyan Zhu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University
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