[Chimera-users] Updating coordinates without having to regenerate the depiction of an atomic model

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Mike,
Take a look at the "mcopy" command -- I think that's what you want.  It doesn't handle all attributes, but you could copy depiction/colors from one model to another, or (opposite direction) the atomic coordinates.

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mcopy.html>

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 Jan 6, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Mike Lawrence <lawrence at wehi.EDU.AU> wrote:

> Hi,
> Within Chimera is there any way in which the underlying coordinates of an atomic model can be updated in order to yield the same depiction but based on the new coordinates, or (equivalently) can the attributes of one model be transferred to another, assuming of course that they have the same underlying protein sequence, etc.
> thanks
> 
> Mike Lawrence
> Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
> Parkville
> Australia