Hi Arthur, Select your nucleotides and then you can either use the command line with : color byhet selected Or go to Actions > Color > by heteroatom. Cheers, Rebecca From: Chimera-users <chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu>> on behalf of Arthur Szabo <agszabo@outlook.com<mailto:agszabo@outlook.com>> Date: Monday, July 31, 2017 at 11:53 AM To: "chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> BB" <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Subject: [Chimera-users] QUESTION I am working with a stretch of dna oligos bound to proteins. I selected all the nucleotides on one strand, showed the atoms as sticks. Then I realized I had wiped out the original colors of the atoms, oxygen, red and nitrogen, blue. How can I restore the atom colors by selecting those nucleotides, and changing the atoms back to their typical colors – as a group. I know how to change the colors of the atoms by first showing them as balls and sticks and then selecting the atoms I want to color. But with 10 nucleotides that is a bit of a pain, selecting them on the screen image. I seem to recall that there is a way to do color all the same atoms at once, but forget how. If I hide the nucleotide side chains, then show them again, I get back to the view where the atoms are not selectively colored. Thanks Arthur G. Szabo This email message and any attachments are confidential and intended for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.