If you mean generation of pdb coordinates of specific symmetry chains (not just viewing) then you can do this with the symexp command in pymol. Select the desired symmetry partners and save as pdb. You may want to edit duplicate chain id labels in coot or a text editor.
Roger Rowlett On May 22, 2015 8:25 AM, "Mark J van Raaij" <mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es> 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 > 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 >
