[Chimera-users] Name selection

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Eduardo,
We intend to add a command to name the selection, but this has not  
yet been done.  In the meanwhile, the "alias" command might do what  
you need. For example, instead of first selecting

command> select ions z<5 & :/kdHydrophobicity>1 & ~ :trp

(residues within 5 Angstroms of ions, with Kyte-Doolittle  
hydrophobicity greater than 1, but not tryptophans) and then naming  
the selection, you could alias the expression and reuse it:

command> alias mystuff ions z<5 & :/kdHydrophobicity>1 & ~ :trp
command> col byatom mystuff
command> repr stick mystuff
   (etc.)

or even
command> sel mystuff

if you needed the atoms to be selected for some other purpose.

Man page for "alias":
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/alias.html

Man page for command-line specifications:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/ 
frameatom_spec.html

I hope this helps,
Elaine

On Apr 6, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Eduardo Sanz Garcia wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Is there any way to give a name to a selection from the command line?
> Same as: Select... Name Selection... but from the command line.
>
> Thank you.

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UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
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