On 7 Sep 2005 at 13:50, Miguel wrote: > I believe that saying 'select 19-17' should be work in the .pdb file where > you manually reversed the residue numbers. (and select 17-19 should not > work in the previous case with the reversed file).
I don't agree; I understand "17-19" means "17, 18 or 19" --and think any casual user would see it the same way--; you can know scripts and use them on the console without looking at the innards of the pdb file. Of course, in this approach "select 19-17" doesn't make much sense -I doubt anybody would use it-, but what happens if the file is unordered (19-18-17), the user doesn't know it, and tries to select residues 17 through 19? (s)he gets nothing! In summary, I see that residue numbers are a way to refer to the residues by their identity (biochemical meaning), not how they are written in the coordinates file. As they say, my other 2 cents... ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
