[chimera-dev] writing multiple PDBs

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Geoff,
If the main reason you want to write multiple PDBs to a file is to
preserve their relative orientations, you can essentially do that with
"write PDB" successive times on different models but always relative to
the same model.  I concede that could be tedious, however.

Pdbrun cat is a little dicey since you need to make sure all the atoms you
care about are displayed, since only those will be included.  Also, with
multiple models, I think it puts an END record in between, which needs
to be removed if you are going to reopen the file and display the models.
As you probably noticed, a lot of USER records get included in the file
unless you use the keyword nouser.

Hope this helps,
Elaine
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Babbitt Lab and Computer Graphics Lab
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