didn't know about the trick to move the pointer (and for some reason it doesn't work on my computer at home but does at work).
and yes, editing pdb files by hand has to be done carefully - however, I find that editing the pdb file (before refinement), is sometimes the quickest way for me, and the only way to be sure all is exactly as I want it. Examples are including exactly the atoms I want in alternative conformations, justifying atom names, elements correctly. And careful inspection of the pdb file in Textedit often shows me things I would probably not have noticed otherwise unless I was specifically looking for them (for example an occupancy of a water at 0.7 instead of 0.5 due to a typo in Coot, B-factors that refine too low or too high).
Mark J van Raaij
Lab 20B
Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
c/Darwin 3
E-28049 Madrid, Spain
tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
On 19 Mar 2014, at 03:03, Nat Echols wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Remie Fawaz-Touma <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> how do you place the pointer if there is no bond there? (just density) I am trying to connect 2 sugars creating 2 bonds to one oxygen that I have to add (oxygen does not exist now).
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> On my Mac, I can change the pointer position by holding down the Control key and left-dragging the mouse. I would be surprised if this didn't work on Linux too - not sure about Windows.
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> Editing the PDB file by hand is very risky and far too much work for what you want to accomplish.
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> -Nat
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