[chimerax-users] All-numeric residue names

[Tristan Croll]

Cool!

Admittedly an extremely rare situation - but the sort of thing that could be really frustrating when it does come up. Great to know there's a solution!
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From: Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: 16 August 2021 17:45
To: Tristan Croll <tic20 at cam.ac.uk>
Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <ChimeraX-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] All-numeric residue names

Hi Tristan,
To specify a residue by all-numeric residue name, you can use the "name" attribute, e.g. in this label command:

label ::name="287" height 2

Attribute specification:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/atomspec.html#attributes>

I didn't include "name" in the User Guide list of residue attributes, thinking people wouldn't need to use it in the command line, but then again maybe I should list it for situations like this...
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/attributes.html#residue>

Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Aug 16, 2021, at 7:12 AM, Tristan Croll via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Was just looking at 2rg6, which happens to have a ligand with an all-numeric 3-character ID (287)... clearly not much thinking went into allowing that. Anyway, does the residue selection syntax have a way to disambiguate residue *number* 287 from residue *name* 287?
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