[chimerax-users] Displaying secondary structure elements

[Elaine Meng]

> On Jan 25, 2022, at 5:48 AM, Enrico Martinez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Sorry I forgot to mention the commands I have already tried:
> 
> dss # make prediction of the secondary structure
> hide coil # it hide partially some coils however some fragments are
> still visible
> 
> # select only helix and strands
> name ss protein & helix | strand
> # hide everything but not the ss >> the same as hide coil
> hide ~ss
> 
> вт, 25 янв. 2022 г. в 11:49, Enrico Martinez <jmsstarlight at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Dear ChimeraX users!
>> Could you suggest to me the command which will
>> 1) hide all loops from the selected object?

hide ~coil targ ar

... would hide all non-coil atoms and ribbons

>> 2) hide all loop regions which contain more than 10 residues (=hide long loops)?

sorry I don't know a command for that... would probably require some fairly complicated python code which is beyond my skill set.

>> Thank you in advance!
>> Enrico


Elaine