Hi Mark,
If the structure has been deposited in the PDB you can download the
"biological assembly" - even works for viruses, cheers, Matt.
On 22/05/2015 14:24, Mark J van Raaij wrote:
> Just wondering if there is an easy way to generate symmetry-related chains, necessary for instance to join protein chains into the biologically relevant multimers.
> What I do now is look up the correct symmetry and translation operator in COOT or PYMOL and input that in PDBSET, but there may be easier ways.
>
> in the CCP4bb archive I found the following tip for COOT:
>
> Extensions -> Modelling -> Symm Shift Reference Chain Here.
>
> but that does not appear to be available in COOT, or not anymore.
>
> Mark J van Raaij
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