At 8/2/05, you wrote:
I have a feeling that this involves some hidden dictionary. I've never been clear which HETATOMs they regard as ligands. Seems arbitrarily wierd, but perhaps I'm missing something obvious.

Dear David,

1. I suggest that you send inquiries about rasmol/chime to molvis-list, in addition to or instead of to jmol-users. http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list

2. A comprehensive list of manuals and tutorials for rasmol/chime is at molviz.org under 'about chime' http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/abtchime.htm

3. In rasmol/chime, "ligand" means all HETATM's that are not "solvent". Solvent includes water and ions. "Ions" are defined as sulfate and phosphate ions. There is a nice Venn diagram, and definitions of all these terms in the RasMol manual under "predefined sets".
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/distrib/rasman.htm#predefinedsets

4. The requirement to use square brackets on group names containing numerals is easy to miss ;-) but is documented in "Select commands in chime and rasmol"
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/seleccmd.htm

Again, items 3 and 4 above are linked under About Chime at molviz.org.


----
Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz



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