[Chimera-users] removing side chains

[Eric Pettersen]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, isn't it just:

Select->Structure->side chain/base->without CA/C1'
Actions->Atoms/Bonds->delete

or, as a command:

del without CA/C1'

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Dougherty wrote:

> I have a session that someone has given me.  It consists of 24
> monomers in two states, each monomer colored differently.
> In the model panel I see only two IDs.
>
> I need to do a morph showing just the ribbons.
>
> Because the overall number of atoms is quite large, I want to strip
> off the side chains in order to reduce the computation.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
> Or do I have to go back to individual monomers, strip off the side
> chains, recolor, and recombine them, before morphing?
>
> thanks, Matt
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