Hello Bob,
I’m sure we all love a serious challenge, looking forward to it ;-).
By some weird synchronicity, I came across your name today while searching Jmol mailing list archives from 2006 on the topic of handling ‘alt location’.
I have a problem aligning structures in JMol (based on sequence alignment, and alpha carbons), whenever the CA atoms appear in alternate locations.
Essentially I need a variant of the selection pattern e.g.
{1-40.*CA}
which would exclude any alternate locations (so I don’t match too many atoms).
My best effort so far is something like
{1.*CA[-1]|2.*CA[-1]|3.*CA[-1]…40.*CA[-1]}
which seems to work but is unwieldy.
Does anything spring to mind how to address this? Or should I do the right thing and address the JMol mailing list?
Thanks and regards,
Mungo
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Mungo Carstairs
Jalview Computational Scientist
The Barton Group
Division of Computational Biology
College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
www.jalview.org
www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk
From: jalview-dev-bounces@jalview.org jalview-dev-bounces@jalview.org on behalf of Robert Hanson hansonr@stolaf.edu
Sent: 02 June 2015 04:25
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Subject: [Jalview-dev] Hello from Jmol
Thanks for adding me to this list. I am very excited to see if we can use Java2Script along with the Swing business I am working on now to do this. I am optimistic, though I realize it is a serious challenge.
Bob Hanson
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Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
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