[chimerax-users] All-numeric residue names

[Eric Pettersen]

Also, clicking "287" in the non-standard residue table for 2rg6, or using Select→Residues→287 resorts to using this exotic syntax in order to issue the appropriate "select" command.

--Eric

> On Aug 16, 2021, at 9:56 AM, Tristan Croll via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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!
> From: Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>>
> Sent: 16 August 2021 17:45
> To: Tristan Croll <tic20 at cam.ac.uk <mailto:tic20 at cam.ac.uk>>
> Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <ChimeraX-users at cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto: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 <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 <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/attributes.html#residue>>
> 
> Elaine
> -----
> 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 <mailto: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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