[Chimera-users] rename a residue?

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Julian,
	It's pretty easy.  This command will do it:

setattr r type new-residue-name residue-spec

e.g.:

setattr r type CYX :121.a

--Eric

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

On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Julian Tirado-Rives <julian.tirado-rives at yale.edu> wrote:

> 
> Dear Chimera team,
> 
>    thanks for all the work you put in into a very, very, useful
> program.  I just have a question that I am hoping is just my inability
> to find the proper command ... is there a way to rename a residue
> before writing a PDB?
> 
>    I often use chimera as pre-preparation step before getting into
> some particular calculation packages, which often require different
> names for residues to indicate tautomers, protonation, etc. and it
> would be nice to do it from chimera rather than take the PDB's through
> a rather annoying set of scripts, sed's, or even text editors!
> 
>   Thanks in advance,
> 
>                                     - Julian -
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