Hi Spencer, multi-letter chain IDs of arbitrary length will be available in the next PyMOL version. It's in fact already available with the latest updates in our open-source SVN repository on sourceforge.
Cheers, Thomas On 17 Sep 2014, at 06:36, Spencer Bliven <sbli...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > Are there plans to support 4-letter chain IDs, as defined by the current > xPDB/mmCIF specification? > > -Spencer > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Thomas Holder > <thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote: > Hi Folmer and Yeping, > > to support upper and lower case letters, set this setting: > > PyMOL> set ignore_case, off > > Cheers, > Thomas > > On 16 Sep 2014, at 02:44, Folmer Fredslund <folm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Yeping Sun, > > > > Did you solve your problem? > > > > According to http://www.wwpdb.org/procedure.html#toc_4 > > " > > What is the maximum number of chain IDs in a file? > > > > Up to 62 chains can be included in the PDB entry. Upper case letters and > > numbers (0-9) should be used first for chain IDs. Lower case letters should > > be used only after all upper letters and numbers have been used. Symbols > > should never be used for chain IDs." > > > > you can use numbers and also small letters in the PDB file format. > > > > > > > > I don't know if PyMOL will let you do this, though. > > > > Regards, > > > > Folmer > > > > > > 2014-09-02 10:41 GMT+02:00 sunyeping <sunyep...@aliyun.com>: > > I have a protein which contains 32 chains. By using A-Z can only name 26 > > chains. Can I use expression containing two character such as A1, AB, etc. > > to as chain id? Will this change the format of the pdb files? > > > > Yeping Sun > > > > Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences > > > > -- > > Folmer Fredslund > > -- > Thomas Holder > PyMOL Developer > Schrödinger, Inc. -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Developer Schrödinger, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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
