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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 11:43:43 CDT

Hi,
  If you want to see just the atoms that have alternate locations,
you can use a selection like one of these:
  not altloc ""
  protein and (not altloc "")

The 'altloc ""' refers to the atoms that do not have an alternate
conformation identifier set.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:49:07PM -0700, Lan Hua wrote:
[...]
> I want to locate all the protein atoms with alternate locations for
> protein with pdbid 3d1p. The pdb file for this protein downloaded from pdb
[...]
> locations are not chosen. Is there a good day to choose all the protein
> atoms with different alternate locations?
>
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Lan 

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