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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 16:49:01 CST

Ross,
  What does a selection like this leave you with?:
backbone and not (sidechain or name "O.*")

Not knowing what your structure is, its hard for me to guess
if there you have any unusual side groups that VMD wouldn't
recognize with this simple selection. That selection works
fine for PDB code '1e79' for example.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:31:39PM -0500, Ross J. Toedte wrote:
> I have a polymer with groups hung along its length via an oxygen
> bond. How can I customize the representation to show just the
> backbone and remove the side groups? I have tried setting the
> selected atoms to "backbone not name "O.*"", but that still leaves
> fragments of side groups.
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
>
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