From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 17:00:06 CST

Hi Marcela,
  You can use atom selections to limit what the fit is
applied to. The scripting interface will give you a lot of
freedom to customize in this regard:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.7.1/ug/node185.html

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:16:38PM -0500, Marcela Madrid wrote:
> hi,
>
> I was wondering if the default alignmet and RMS fit
> includes the H atoms, and if so, if there is an easy
> way to specify only heavy atoms. ( I am using VMD 1.8 and
> I love it).
> Thanks, Marcela

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