8.7 Selection Tool
With this dialog box, you can select atoms, distances,
angles, torsions and angles between two planes to perform a calculation. In the Selection
Tool, you can compile the atom list using the atom name, residue name, residue
number format or the simple atom number.
As first step, choose the selection type (Distance, Angle, Torsion,
Plane Angle, Multiple). The Multiple selection is needed if you
want select one or more atoms without a geometric relation and it will be useful in the
next VEGA ZZ releases.
At this point, press Add and automatically a default name will be shown. If you want rename it, just type in Name field.
Select the first atom clicking on it in the main window.
To add the next atoms, repeat the atom selection.
To remove an atom, click on the atom in the list and
press Remove in the right box. To change the order of atoms in the list, use the Up and Down
buttons. To remove an entire selection, press Remove in the left box (Selections
box) and to remove all selections at once, click the New button.
The Open and Save buttons can be used to load and save the
selections into a .sel file. For more information about this file format,
click here.
The context menu allows to add automatically all torsions (Add all torsions),
all flexible torsions (Add all flexible torsions), open a selection file
(Open), save all selections (Save As...) and remove all selections
(Remove all). In the Protein torsions submenu, it's possible to
add all Omega, Phi and Psi protein torsions. The same functions are replicated in the menu bar (File
and Edit menus). The capability to add all flexible torsions is very
useful to perform a conformational search.
When the selection is finish, you must click the Done button or select
the File -> Close menu item to close the dialog window.