Hi Jason, Good to know. Could we then add this a feature request? I know Pymol is more a 'consumer' and not a 'producer' but in certain instances this would be a nice feature to have.
Cheers, Carsten > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Vertrees [mailto:jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com] > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 11:57 AM > To: Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Retention of ANISO Records was How to merge > molecules in Pymol? > > Hi Carsten, > > PyMOL doesn't write non-coordinate records to disk. You'll need to > write a script to prepend those records. > > Cheers, > > -- Jason > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] > <cschu...@its.jnj.com> wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied, 'create' did the trick of combining > multiple objects/molecules into one object quite painless. I was not > thinking out of the box, been using create too long to slice and dice > my molecules. > > > > But it turns out that I have TLS-ANISO records in my original file > I'd like to retain, the save command does not carry them over into the > combined file, neither are CRYST/SCALE records retained. Any flags I > need to set? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Carsten > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jason Vertrees [mailto:jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:14 PM > >> To: Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] > >> Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] How to merge molecules in Pymol? > >> > >> Hi Carsten, > >> > >> > Is there an (un)documented way of merging multiple molecular > objects > >> in > >> > Pymol into one molecule, which then can be written in a nicely > >> formatted PDB > >> > file? I cobbled something cludgy together with 'multisave' and a > >> couple > >> > read-sort-save cycles, but this is ugly and probably quite > fragile. > >> An API > >> > function might be much more robust. Is there a provision like this > in > >> > ChemPy? I've already taken care of adjusting each molecule to be > >> unique with > >> > respect to chain IDs and IDs, so that would not be an issue. > >> > >> It's documented: > >> * help create > >> * http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Create > >> > >> Create can be used to create a single single-state object or a > single > >> multi-state object. The former will just 'do what you say' but may > >> create biologically unrealistic molecules (it just combines the > >> objects). The latter is better as it saves to biologically > realistic > >> multi-state pdbs. Try these examples: > >> > >> # method 1 > >> # create a single state (possibly biologically infeasible) molecule > >> # from two objects > >> frag ala > >> frag cys > >> save test.pdb, ala or cys > >> > >> Now load "test.pdb". > >> > >> # method 2 > >> # create a single multi-state object from two molecules > >> > >> frag ala > >> frag cys > >> create test, ala, 1, 1 > >> create test, cys, 1, 2 > >> save test.pdb, test, state=0 > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> -- Jason > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] > >> <cschu...@its.jnj.com> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Is there an (un)documented way of merging multiple molecular > objects > >> in > >> > Pymol into one molecule, which then can be written in a nicely > >> formatted PDB > >> > file? I cobbled something cludgy together with 'multisave' and a > >> couple > >> > read-sort-save cycles, but this is ugly and probably quite > fragile. > >> An API > >> > function might be much more robust. Is there a provision like this > in > >> > ChemPy? I've already taken care of adjusting each molecule to be > >> unique with > >> > respect to chain IDs and IDs, so that would not be an issue. > >> > > >> > Any pointers would be appreciated. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > > >> > Carsten > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > >> --------- > >> > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced > content > >> > authoring tool. 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