Dear Felix, under "Draw" you can find the option "NCS Ghost Control ...". You can change the master chain there.
Good luck! Karsten > > I have a very large complex of proteins and I would like > to use COOT to apply NCS edits in the case where the > "master copy" is not chain A of my complex but any given > chain. > The script that I currently use (example only, actual > number of molecules is much larger) > > (copy-residue-range-from-ncs-master-to-chains 0 "A" 1 500 (list "B" > "C" "D" "E")) > > works only for A but for this I need to temporarily rename > molecules, making any molecule I wish to be "master" > also to be "A". > It is O.K. to do this renaming once or twice, but not > convenient if the extensive rebuilding of the complex is > considered. > > Q1. Is there currently a possibility to use a different > chain as the master for the NCS edits in COOT? > Q2. If so, could someone please let me know how? > Q3. If not, would it be possible to program this into > Coot for the future for complicated cases? > Q4. Is there another option, not COOT? > > > > > > > > > > > Dr Felix Frolow > Professor of Structural Biology andBiotechnology, > Department of MolecularMicrobiology and Biotechnology > Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel > > Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor > > e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il > Tel: ++972-3640-8723 > Fax: ++972-3640-9407 > Cellular: 0547 459 608 > > ------------------------------- Karsten Niefind, PhD University of Cologne Department of Chemistry Institute of Biochemistry Otto-Fischer-Str. 12-14 D-50674 Cologne Tel.: +49 221 470 6444 Fax: +49 221 470 3244
