Make resfit command work with nucleic acids

[winston@…]

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From: Wen-Jin Winston Wu via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@…>
Subject: [chimerax-users] resfit command for nuclei acid
Date: July 27, 2021 at 6:17:23 AM PDT
To: "'Tom Goddard'" <goddard@…>, <chimerax-users@…>
Reply-To: Wen-Jin Winston Wu <>

Hi Tom,

I have just tried to use the "resfit" command ChimeraX
Does the nice command of "resfit" in ChimeraX support inspection on nuclei acid? It seems that it only support protein residues as with the command " resfit #1/D:DT map #3", it returned with the message that "None of the 9 specified residues have backbone atoms N, CA and C".

I have not checked out the daily build version yet, but thought that I can ask first.

Thanks,

Best wishes,

Winston

[Tom Goddard]

Elaine, could you update the resfit documentation to say it only works on proteins and requires the N,CA,C backbone atoms to be able to act on a residue?

[Elaine Meng]

Will do today!  I looked at the documentation when the question was asked and was surprised it didn't say anything about that (yet).