[Chimera-users] change chain id

[Yunierkis Perez Castillo]

Thanks Erick, it work fine and it's easy to do.

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 13:51 -0700, Eric Pettersen wrote:

> There is kind of a "cheaty" way to do it if you are using the 1.2255
> snapshot by saving a session file and editing it.  You need to use an
> editor that can handle long lines, like TextEdit.app on a Mac or
> WordPad on Windows.  Search for the string 'chain' (including the
> quotes).  You'll see some text that looks something like:
> 
> 
> 
> 'chain': (29, 'A', {})
> 
> 
> change the A to B so it looks like:
> 
> 
> 'chain': (29, 'B', {})
> 
> 
> save the edited session and open it in Chimera and the chain ID will
> have changed.
> 
> 
> --Eric
> 
> 
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:
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> 
> > Hi Yunierkis,
> > 
> > Sorry, there is no way to change the chain ID in Chimera.  You would
> > need to text-edit A to B in the PDB file before opening it.  (Or, if
> > you're fetching the structure from the PDB, write it out in PDB
> > format, edit the file, and read it back in.)
> > 
> > 
> > Depending on what you are trying to do, there may be some way of
> > doing it without changing chain ID.
> > Best,
> > Elaine
> > 
> > 
> > On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Yunierkis Perez Castillo wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I need to change the chain ID for a protein, that is, change the
> > > chain A to chain B.
> > > Can I do that with chimera?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Yunierkis
> > > 
> > > 
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