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The Info menu gives you a synopsis of properties for
the atom that you are holding the mouse over. In particular, information
about the following fields is identified:
- Name - the name of the atom as it appeared in the coordinate file
- Type - the type of the atom, as determined by an internal VMD match-up
of the given name to a likely atom type associated with that name
- Index - the internal VMD index used to identify the atom; this is
useful for specifying selection syntax to generate different
representation styles for particular atoms. For PDB files Index corresponds
to the atom number listed in the file minus 1 (so that the index starts with
0).
- Resname - the type of the amino or nucleic acid to which this atom
belongs
- ResId - the internal VMD ID number of the entire residue to which
the particular atom belongs. E.g., ResId for an atom of a protein is the
same as the residue number of that atom as listed in its PDB file.
- Chain - if the coordinate file contained data in the ``Chain'' field
for this atom, then that data is given here.
- Segname - the name of the segment to which this atom belongs
- X, Y, Z - the position of the atom in 3D space
In addition, there is an option ``Print'' in the Info submenu which
simply prints the information into the console window, in case you would
like to cut and paste the data somewhere else.
Sergei Izrailev
Fri Jul 25 17:07:27 CDT 1997