Speaking of atom selection, I wonder how many pymol and phenix users would
benefit from a fully "standardized" selection syntax. Would this be a
worthwhile design goal?
Wolfram Tempel
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Holder <
thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote:
> We'd like to know your thoughts!
>
> How should we name the new selectors for protein and nucleic acid?
>
> Link to poll:
> https://goo.gl/forms/r0Ck03VTytZQxN4A2
>
> We will enhance the PyMOL selection language by adding a new selector for
> protein, and a new one for nucleic acid. They will be subsets of the
> already existing "polymer" selector.
>
> The obvious keyword choices seem to be "nucleic" and "protein". However,
> this would likely introduce conflicts with existing workflows where e.g.
> files are named "nucleic.pdb" or "protein.pdb", and PyMOL would load them
> as named objects of the same name.
>
> We are looking for new keywords that minimize the chance of such naming
> conflicts.
>
> For an overview of the current selection language, see
> https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Selection_Algebra
>
> --
> Thomas Holder
> PyMOL Principal Developer
> Schrödinger, Inc.
>
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