Hi Manon, Not directly. Command-line specifications can distinguish by model number, chain ID, and/or residue numbers. I'm a little confused by your question because usually "entity" means molecules that are different sequences or chemical types than each other. Are you saying entities 1 and 2 are the same protein as each other (same sequence)? If they are the same protein: If they are different chains, then you can select or otherwise refer to them by chain ID. If you have multiple different chain IDs for each entity, for example entity 1 is A,C,E, ... and entity 2 is B,D,F, ... you would need to specify all the chain IDs, for example: color /A,C,E,G,I,K hot pink target r If they are different proteins (chains with different sequences from each other) and you just want them to be colored differently from each other in some automatic way, try "color bypolymer", for example: open 4hhb color bypolymer target r I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 15, 2023, at 8:06 AM, Manon Demulder via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi I have a model that consists of a sheet made out of repeats of a dimer. Currently I have a .mmcif file with the monomers in each dimer being labelled either 1 or 2. I would like to give monomer 1 and 2 a different color in my sheet. Is it possible in ChimeraX to recolour the different monomers by their entity 'name'? Thanks in advance! Best Manon