From: Eduard Schreiner (eduard.schreiner_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2010 - 15:09:14 CDT

you can specify the frame you're selecting in the atomselect command;
someting like:

set a [atomselect top "YOURSELECTION" frame YOURFRAME]
$a writeppdb filename.pdb
$a delete

You may want to check the manual on this one:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node118.html

eddi

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Katherine Parra <kparra_at_mail.usf.edu> wrote:
> Dear VMD users.
>
> I would like to know:
> how to write in separated pdb files selected frames of one trajectory, after
> loading dcd and psf files.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> KP
>

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