[Chimera-users] Hide all ribbons not in specific chain

[Thomas Hrabe]

That worked for me. 
Thanks

On Aug 16, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu>
 wrote:

> ~ribbon ~:.a
> 
> --Eric
> 
> On Aug 16, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Thomas Hrabe wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I want to display one chain from a structure, only.
>> However, I do not understand how to achieve that.
>> 
>> After my PDB file opens, I can do
>> 
>> select :*.A 
>> #select all residues in chain A that I want to have
>> 
>> select invert
>> #select everything else not in chain A
>> 
>> ~ribbon
>> 
>> hides everything. How can I tell ~ribbon to hide everything not in chain A.
>> Or, how can I select everything not in chain A?
>> 
>> I am calling chimera through the socket and do not want to parse out every chain.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Thomas
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