[Chimera-users] command line zone selection?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 10:09, you wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I'm putting together a demo for my students this next semester, and
> > was hoping to be able to do a zone selection about the ligand. Is
> > this possible with the command line?  I haven't been able to pull
> > out a reference for such, yet.
> >
> > Certainly I could pull together the list of residues myself, but
> > thought it'd be nice to have the command available.  Some students
> > might like to create a demo file for their reports, and this would
> > become a pivotal tool for a subset of those.
> >
> > If not directly available, then a wishlist addition, perhaps? 
> > Something like:
> >
> > zonesel [within|beyond] [+/- angstroms] [atom-spec]
> >
> > where the sign of the angstrom value denotes whether to include (+)
> > or exclude (-) the atoms in atom-spec.
>
> Take a look at the Atom Specification documentation in the subsection
> on Zones.  So:
>
>  	display ligand z<5
>
> Will display all of the residues that are less than 5 angstroms from
> the ligand.
>
>  	- Greg

Ah.  That was too easy!  I obviously didn't go deep enough into that 
section.  :(  Many thanks, Greg!


Kenward
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