Thomas, Very clever.
Chuck, you now have two options. Cheers, -- J On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Thomas Holder <spel...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi Chuck & Jason, > > escaping the hyphen also works for me: > > color red, resi \-50 > > Cheers, > Thomas > > Jason Vertrees wrote, On 04/05/12 14:37: > >> Hi Chuck, >> >> PyMOL assumes your residues identifiers will be non-negative. Bad >> assumption. PyMOL parses the string "-50" as the range "0-50". This >> should be filed as a bug on the open-source tracker. >> >> In the meantime, you will have to adjust all the identifiers in order >> to select. If -73 is the lowest number in the sequence in chain J then >> you can add 73 to add indices like this, >> >> # adjust the indices >> >> alter chain J, resi=str(int(resi)+73) >> >> # update the sequence >> >> sort >> >> Now, just add 73 when you select: >> >> select c. J and i. 0 >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Jason >> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:57 AM, chuck <chlang...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: >>> >>> In the 147bp nucleosome structure pdb1kx5 the DNA is a palindrome and >>> numbering of the resi(dues) starts a the center bp (74), so -73 to +73. The >>> central bp is numbered 0. >>> >>> Can someone tell me the command syntax to set the colors of the bps >>> before the central bp, e.g., >>> >>> -50. >>> >>> commands such as "color red, (resi -50)" changes all the bp unto +50 >>> (124). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Chuck > > > -- > Thomas Holder > MPI for Developmental Biology > Spemannstr. 35 > D-72076 Tübingen -- Jason Vertrees, PhD PyMOL Product Manager Schrödinger, LLC (e) jason.vertr...@schrodinger.com (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net