[Chimera-users] Append PDB file to all individual PDB chains

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Carl,
I imagine you could just do it iteratively, that is: open the tetramer and the structure to be joined, join it to the first monomer.  Open another copy of the structure to be joined, join it to the second monomer.  Open another copy of the structure to be joined … etc.

Lather, rinse, repeat!  :-)  Maybe somewhat tedious, but I can’t think of another way.  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 Nov 4, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Carl Brown <carl.brown.ctr at nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> To Whom This May Concern: 
> 
> In previous discussions, you explained how you could append two PDB files through the "join models" function:
> Discussion: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2011-April/006245.html>
> Build Structure: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/editing/editing.html#join>
> 
> I would like attach a second PDB file to an initial one as well. However, my primary PDB file is a tetramer, made up of four identical chains. I would like to attach the second PDB to each of the four chains at the C-terminus. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about this? My concern is that using the "join models" function, it will only append the second PDB file once to the whole structure instead of to each individual chain.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl