We've closed the poll. Thanks to everyone who participated! The result wasn't quite what I was hoping for ;-) The clear winners are "protein" and "nucleic". But I also got direct feedback that adding "protein" as a keyword would introduce backwards incompatibility with exiting workflows, where "protein" is used as an object or selection name.
So this is what's we'll do: 1) add "polymer.protein" and "polymer.nucleic" as the new keywords (place #2 in the poll) 2) let PyMOL print a deprecation warning if "protein" or "nucleic" are used as names, we may want to add them as keywords in the future The new keywords are available in SVN rev 4185 and in the latest alpha build (https://pymol.org/alpha ). The PyMOLWiki selection algebra page has been updated. Cheers, Thomas > On Dec 18, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Thomas Holder <thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> > wrote: > > We'd like to know your thoughts! > > How should we name the new selectors for protein and nucleic acid? > > Link to poll: > https://goo.gl/forms/r0Ck03VTytZQxN4A2 > > We will enhance the PyMOL selection language by adding a new selector for > protein, and a new one for nucleic acid. They will be subsets of the already > existing "polymer" selector. > > The obvious keyword choices seem to be "nucleic" and "protein". However, this > would likely introduce conflicts with existing workflows where e.g. files are > named "nucleic.pdb" or "protein.pdb", and PyMOL would load them as named > objects of the same name. > > We are looking for new keywords that minimize the chance of such naming > conflicts. > > For an overview of the current selection language, see > https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Selection_Algebra -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
