You might also be interested in the supercell <http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Supercell> pymol script, which generates all chains in the unit cell as opposed to within some radius of the asymmetric unit.
-Spencer On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Roger Rowlett <[email protected]> wrote: > If you mean generation of pdb coordinates of specific symmetry chains (not > just viewing) then you can do this with the symexp command in pymol. Select > the desired symmetry partners and save as pdb. You may want to edit > duplicate chain id labels in coot or a text editor. > > Roger Rowlett > On May 22, 2015 8:25 AM, "Mark J van Raaij" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just wondering if there is an easy way to generate symmetry-related >> chains, necessary for instance to join protein chains into the biologically >> relevant multimers. >> What I do now is look up the correct symmetry and translation operator in >> COOT or PYMOL and input that in PDBSET, but there may be easier ways. >> >> in the CCP4bb archive I found the following tip for COOT: >> >> Extensions -> Modelling -> Symm Shift Reference Chain Here. >> >> but that does not appear to be available in COOT, or not anymore. >> >> Mark J van Raaij >> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas >> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC >> c/Darwin 3 >> E-28049 Madrid, Spain >> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 >> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij >> >
