Re: [PyMOL] Fwd: What is the difference between Atom ID and Index

2010-10-31 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Martin, So it seems I was right :D ID is an atomic property, read from the PDB file, whereas index is an 'internal' identifier. Following Jasons comments, ID is not changed upon additions/deletions, whereas index does. For your purpose, you probably want to make sure that the IDs are identica

Re: [PyMOL] Fwd: What is the difference between Atom ID and Index

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Hediger
Hey, Thanks for your earlier response on the issue. Its quite important to me right now, since I am trying to interpolate between two states of the same structure and therefore (let me call it 'physical') atom numbering has to be perfectly identical. I looked into it but i cant quite get my follo