[Jmol-users] dimer backbone

[Jan R. <jr...@im...>]

Hello,
while my opinion is that even a monomers could have traces, but that a 
backbone could only be drawn between two residues. I think that both 
residues had to be selected to draw a backbone, which would be 
compatible with RasMol2.7.2 or Chime
e.g. 1gos
http://www.imb-jena.de/cgi-bin/SCOPlnk.exe?JMOL=1gos
 restrict within(group,within(4.2,ILE496))
 center selected
 wireframe
 select ILE496
 backbone 50
 select ILE496.CA

while cartoon and trace are nearly as expected centered around the *.CA 
spanning from approximately *.N to *.C the backbone command shows the 
C-terminal {n}.CA-{n+1}.CA connection.
While I know someone, who would be happy about this (RasMol2.7.2) 
incompatible implementation of backbone, it should be discussed whether 
backbone should only show up if both *.CA are selected.
Regards, Jan