2010/5/21 Angel Herráez <[email protected]>

> I am seeing this as a nice, recent addition in the "new.htm"
> document:
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> 122. select within(BASEPAIR)
> # Jmol 12.0.RC5 adds the capability to select atoms based on RNA or
> DNA base pairing. Thank you, Neena Grover! load 2qnh.pdb.gz;zoom
> 300;wireframe -0.4;display rna;select *.P;label %n%r;select rna;set
> rangeSelected;
> # color property polymer;set picking center;slab on;depth 40;slab 60
> # display within(BASEPAIR,"GC") # just the GC pairs
> # display within(BASEPAIR,"AU") # just the AU pairs
>
> There already were (RasMol-inherited) predefined sets "CG" and "AT".
>

I don't think so.  There may have been CG in RasMol, but there was never any
capability that I know of in Jmol to detect hydrogen-bonded base pairs like
that.




> It would be important to emphasize comparison of these with the new
> functionality (I will add that in the Wiki once I'm sure).
> For example, does "within" select only paired bases while the sets
> select individual bases, as I suspect?
>
> Also, this is very disturbing:
>
> select within(BASEPAIR,"GC")  # 15176 atoms selected
> select within(BASEPAIR,"CG")  # 2066 atoms selected
>
>
good test. I should have thought of that. Will check.


> select within(BASEPAIR,"AU")  # 2979 atoms selected
> select within(BASEPAIR,"UA") # 291 atoms selected
>
> select within(BASEPAIR,"AT") # 0 atoms selected
> select within(BASEPAIR,"TA") # 3 270 atoms selected
>
> (using 2qnh.pdb.gz at http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-
> 11/new.htm <http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-%0A11/new.htm>)
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