[Chimera-users] PDB with C alpha carbons only

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Sujata,
Sorry, you can't build all-atom models from alpha-carbon models using Chimera.  Some Web servers can do it, for example, Maxsprout:

<http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/maxsprout/index.html>

There are probably several others... that's just one I've used in the past.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Nov 23, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Sujata wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a PDB file with C-alpha carbons only. I want to know if Chimera can add backbone atoms and sidechains (the PDB has the names of the residues).
> Thanks,
> Sujata
>