pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 04/03/2006 09:49:51 AM: > Hi Pymol users, > > I'm experiencing some trouble with the selection of atom type using the > "*". Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... > I used for example: > color red, object////o* > 'color red, name o*' give the same result. > Any idea why it's happening and more interesting what should I do to fix it. > Thank you very much. > > Fred >
Hi Fred - I don't have the answer to your question, but I did want to point out that "*" is a perfectly valid part of the atom name in some PDB files - the PDB expects you to use it for atoms in the ribose ring of nucleotides. For example, this is from a structure I did a while ago: HETATM 8021 O5* TTP 1 0.035 48.396 15.975 1.00 50.15 O HETATM 8022 C5* TTP 1 -0.048 49.462 14.957 1.00 40.93 C HETATM 8023 C4* TTP 1 0.565 50.743 15.416 1.00 38.78 C HETATM 8024 O4* TTP 1 -0.194 51.219 16.565 1.00 36.44 O HETATM 8025 C3* TTP 1 1.977 50.628 15.948 1.00 38.12 C HETATM 8026 O3* TTP 1 2.988 50.525 14.996 1.00 44.69 O HETATM 8027 C2* TTP 1 2.084 51.848 16.841 1.00 33.48 C HETATM 8028 C1* TTP 1 0.693 51.871 17.477 1.00 33.26 C So watch out! Warren - is there a way of escaping the "*" if you want to use it for selection? Let's say I wanted atom C5* but not C5M. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Franklin phone:(917)606-4116 Senior Scientist, ImClone Systems fax:(212)645-2054 180 Varick Street, 6th floor New York, NY 10014 Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, and any attachment to it, contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named on the e-mail. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that reading it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
