[Chimera-users] structure

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Mireya,
There are several ways to control chain display individually.   Here are some simple ways:

In the menu you can use Select... Chain to select some chain,  then choose something in the Actions menu to act on it, for example Actions... Ribbon... hide, Actions... Atoms/Bonds hide.

In the command line (show with menu: Favorites... Command Line), there is a syntax to specify model, chain, residue, atom, ...
For example, commands:
~ribbon :.e
(hides ribbon for chain E)
~display ~:.e
(hides atoms for all chains that are NOT chain E)

You might want to take a look at some of the tutorials for learning Chimera, like Getting Started:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/Tutorials/GettingStarted.html>
.... and more, see Chimera menu: Help... Tutorials.

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Mar 14, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Gonzalez, Mireya wrote:

> To whom it should concern
> I am using your chimera on a specific protein that has/display 8 chains (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) with the same sequence.
> I would like to know how to hide the chains so I can work with one chain at a time in order to see where exactly my compound is binding so I can get the amino acid domain.
> Any help with this matter will be greatly appreciated.