User:Wayne Decatur/Moving Components or Parts of Structures

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This describes how to do this in Pymol and assumes you initate a session with the menubar window.

Using Pymol commands to do this in commands is described at the Modeling and Editing Structures page at the Pymol Wiki.

Manually:

To translate and/or rotate a separate chain within a solved structure relative other chains: Lock chains to remain in place using side menu?????

Under the 'Mouse' menu select, 'three button editing'.

Use the ???? to move.

To translate and/or rotate part of a chain in a structure relative the rest without :

If you want to move parts of chains relative the rest no longer maintaining the original structural constraints, see my page on using Pymol to generate unfolded structures.