X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=help%2Fhtml%2Ffeatures%2Fviewingpdbs.html;h=45d979f824e048a5046e49923797e220f182aedb;hb=bf97c293ad31f6ed5006a97d3a7d079c032652e8;hp=e62b2a78d9c274731156e6259f17473a57e3e165;hpb=ac4f3dfaa8d22b7b2eb164cceb354d029c07b0ad;p=jalview.git diff --git a/help/html/features/viewingpdbs.html b/help/html/features/viewingpdbs.html index e62b2a7..45d979f 100755 --- a/help/html/features/viewingpdbs.html +++ b/help/html/features/viewingpdbs.html @@ -46,38 +46,61 @@
  • Selecting Structures
    You can select - the structures to you want to open and view by selecting them with - the mouse and keyboard.
    By default, if structures were + the structures that you want to open and view by selecting them + with the mouse and keyboard.
    By default, if structures were discovered, then some will already be selected according to the criteria shown in the drop-down menu. The default criteria is 'highest resolution', simply choose another to pick structures in a different way.
  • +
  • To view selected structures, click the "View" + button. +
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  • -
  • To view selected structures, click the "View" - button. -
  • - - The - Jmol viewer has been included since Jalview - 2.3. Jalview 2.8.2 included support for - Chimera, provided it is installed and can - be launched by Jalview. The default viewer can be configured in the - Structure tab in the - Tools→Preferences dialog box. +

    + Structure Viewers in the Jalview Desktop
    The + Jmol viewer has been included since Jalview + 2.3. Jalview 2.8.2 included support for Chimera, + provided it is installed and can be launched by Jalview. The default + viewer can be configured in the Structure + tab in the Tools→Preferences dialog box.

    Structure data imported into Jalview can also be processed to display secondary structure and temperature factor annotation. See the Annotation from Structure page for more information.

    - +

    + After pressing the + 'View' button in the Structure Chooser
    The behaviour of + the 'View' button depends on the number of structures selected, and + whether structure views already exist for the selected structures or + aligned sequences. +

    +

    If multiple structures are selected, then Jalview will always + create a new structure view. The selected structures will be + imported into this view, and superposed with the matched positions + from the aligned sequences. A message in the structure viewer's + status bar will be shown if not enough aligned columns were + available to perform a superposition.

    If a single PDB structure is selected, one of the following will happen: @@ -89,8 +112,8 @@

  • If another structure is already shown for the current alignment, then you will be asked if you want to add and align this structure to the structure - in the existing view. (new feature in Jalview 2.6). + href="jmol.html#align"> to the structure in the existing view. + (new feature in Jalview 2.6).
  • If the structure is already shown, then you will be @@ -112,13 +135,12 @@ retrieved with this service are derived directly from the PDB 3D structure data, which can be viewed in the same way above. Secondary structure and temperature factor annotation can also be added.
    -

    -

    - Retrieving sequences from the PDB
    Jalview - will also read PDB files directly - either in PDB format, or mmCIF. Simply load in the file as you would - an alignment file. The sequences of any protein or nucleotide chains - will be extracted from the file and viewed in the alignment window. + +
    Jalview will also read PDB files directly - either in PDB + format, or mmCIF. Simply load in the file + as you would an alignment file. The sequences of any protein or + nucleotide chains will be extracted from the file and viewed in the + alignment window.

    @@ -151,7 +173,7 @@ Features" menu item and the Feature Settings dialog box.

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    Switching between mmCIF and PDB format for @@ -161,7 +183,7 @@ wwwPDB. If you prefer (for any reason) to download data as PDB files instead, then first close Jalview, and add the following line to your .jalview_properties file:
    - DEFAULT_STRUCTURE_FORMAT=PDB + PDB_DOWNLOAD_FORMAT=PDB
    When this setting is configured, Jalview will only request PDB format files from EMBL-EBI's PDBe.
    mmCIF format file support was added in Jalview 2.10.