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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have often come across detailed answers from chimera group for a variety of modelling problems on pdb-l or bioinformatics mailing lists.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My problem should relatively easy to solve except that I havn't been able to figure it out myslef on chimera.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just need to make a covalent bond between a sugar molecule and an aminoacid (aa-COOH + sugar-OH --> H2O + aa-sugar).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there an easy way of doing this manipulation in Chimera ?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please advice ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks a lot for your time and effort.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-Manisha Goel</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Post-doc associate</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bioinformatics Lab</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Stowers Institute for Medical Research</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kansas city-66210</FONT>
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