Burk wrote:
> I am loving this render-er, and am directing my undergrads to it. But
> there is one serious inconvenience- the lack of a convenient way to
> select individual chains. Selecting chains is a major way of
> highlighting items of interest, and is easy on rasmol

I am not familiar with other molecular visualization packages, although I
do have access to rasmol.

I am somewhat surprised that you though it was easy on rasmol ...

Q: How is it easier on rasmol than on Jmol?

> an other
> platforms. When I press control on the window, I get an extensive set
> of select options, such as for amino acids, heteros, or chemistries,
> which are very useful. I guess that you might not want to
> un-standardize the Select interface, to insert chains, but currently
> other accession-specific statistics are loaded in the top of the
> control menu. I also realize that you must have had this conversation
> before, but as a new user, this is glaring.

We probably have had this conversation before ... but we can have it again
:-)

Other people have asked about selecting entire groups at one time.

Q: When you say 'I press control on the window' are you referring to the
popup (contextual) menu?

Q: Are you asking for some type of 'selection mode' that allows one to
choose atoms, groups, or chains?


Miguel



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