[Chimera-users] writing translation/rotation

[Eric Pettersen]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> (1) Currently to transform one structure relative to another, they
> need to be in separate files, so first put chain A in one PDB file,
> chain B in another.

Another alternative is to simply open two copies of the file, in  
which case you would have to use the specific-chain-to-specific-chain  
pairing method in MatchMaker.  Elaine's method does have the  
advantage of making it easy to inspect the quality of the match  
without having to undisplay/delete other chains.

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu