Hi Sebastian, The write command has a "selected" option to write only the selected atoms, and a "displayed" option to write only the displayed atoms: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/write.html> There are analogous options on the GUI (File... Save PDB). <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/savemodel.html#pdb> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Kruggel wrote:

Hi all, is there a simple way to save incomplete models (eg the current selection)? The write command seems to work only with complete models and not with atomic specifications and the split command does only give me the possibility to split complete chains. Probabaly I just don't see something *very* easy... Thanks for help! Sebastian