[Chimera-users] Generating symmetry-related molecule

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Virginia,
To generate BIOMT-described copies, you would just use the same model  
as the molecule model and the reference model.  For example:

open 2o1i
sym 0 0

This is mentioned on the "sym" man page, but perhaps it is  
insufficiently prominent:

"A secondary use of sym is to generate BIOMT-described copies of a  
molecule model, where that model is specified as both molmodel and  
refmodel."

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/sym.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html



On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Virginia Pett wrote:

> I am trying to display PDB file 2O1I, which is a DNA structure.  I
> would like to generate the biological macromolecule with 2 strands of
> DNA, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do this.  The PDB
> file has BIOMT records in it and I thought I could use the sym command
> to generate the other strand of DNA.  What do I use for the refmol?
> Is there a tutorial on this topic?
> Virginia
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