[chimerax-users] "Select Chains" display

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Antón,
I will make a bug report for this in a few minutes and include your e-mail address so that you will receive any notifications.

In the meanwhile, for selection, try command "log chains" to show a table in the Log (which is scrollable) to show the ID for each chain in the lefthand column -- in the table you can click each ID to select that chain.  If you specify multiple models it will show a table for each model. Then with the help of the chain table information, you can use the "matchmaker" command to specify the chains that you want.

log chains:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/log.html#metadata>

matchmaker command:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/matchmaker.html>

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


> On Dec 30, 2021, at 6:31 AM, Antón Vila-Sanjurjo via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Elaine,
> 
> I regularly have many ribosomal models opened at the same time, with hundreds of different chains. The "Select Chains" display does not help at all in chain selection because the chains don't fit in the screen and there is no way to scroll down to find chains in the "models" with high numbers. A similar problem occurs while selecting chains in the Matchmaker interface. The "Sequence viewer" displays chains in a much better fashion because there is an option to scroll down. Would it be possible to fix these issues?
> 
> best,
> 
> Antón
> 
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