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From: Irene Newhouse (einew_at_hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2011 - 19:54:51 CDT

Thanks! I just tried that & it doesn't work.Irene
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:51:33 -0400
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Displaying residues on chain A within X of chain B
> From: akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> To: einew_at_hotmail.com
> CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Irene Newhouse <einew_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to display the residues 'contacting' chain A on chain B of a
> > protein [I'd be satisfied with setting a distance, as one does with
> > 'within'] & I can't get the selection language to work in the graphical
> > representations window. I've done some searching of the VMD-L archive, since
> > people must want to do this, but I don't seem to have found the magic search
> > terms. Using residue number isn't obvious, as the residues aren't numbered
> > consecutively throughout the pdb file, but restart with each chain.
>
> irene,
>
> have you tried "same residue as (chain A exwithin ##.# of chain B)" ?
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
>
> > Thanks!
> > Irene Newhouse
> >
>
>
>
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>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.