<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Unless I'm misunderstanding something, isn't it just:<div><br></div><div>Select->Structure->side chain/base->without CA/C1'</div><div>Actions->Atoms/Bonds->delete</div><div><br></div><div>or, as a command:</div><div><br></div><div>del without CA/C1'</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I have a session that someone has given me. It consists of 24 <br>monomers in two states, each monomer colored differently.<br>In the model panel I see only two IDs.<br><br>I need to do a morph showing just the ribbons.<br><br>Because the overall number of atoms is quite large, I want to strip <br>off the side chains in order to reduce the computation.<br><br>Is there an easy way to do this?<br>Or do I have to go back to individual monomers, strip off the side <br>chains, recolor, and recombine them, before morphing?<br><br>thanks, Matt<br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>