[Chimera-users] Combine atom-spec non-alphanumeric no-nunderscore character error

[Ahmad Khalifa]

Thanks, I will try that, but quickly, I often use commas with selection and
it works fine, what's the difference between the commas and the colons?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 4:03 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Ahmad,
> The specification is wrong for two reasons:
> (1) need colon instead of comma, for example #1:.k:.e
> (2) you would need to either remove the space between the two models or
> put quotes around the whole thing like "#1:.k:.e #2:.k:.e"
>
> However, more important is that “combine” will include all the atoms in
> the whole models even if you only specify some chains. It says this in the
> second paragraph:
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/combine.html>
>
> So what you really wanted to do is to delete all the other atoms before
> you combine the two models, something like
>
> select #1:.k:.e #2:.k:.e
> delete ~sel
> combine #1,2
>
> (also make sure you really have models #1 and #2, since the first model is
> #0 and you might need to use #0 and #1 instead… check in the Model Panel,
> opened from Favorites menu)
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Jan 30, 2019, at 11:23 AM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to combine a few chains from different models. I'm using:
> combine #1:.k,.e #2:.k,.e. I'm getting the above error, and I'm not sure
> why my selection isn't working!
> >
> > Regards.
>
>
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