[PyMOL] Retrieving the contents of named selections from a saved PyMOL session

[Ben R. <be...@ro...>]

Hi list,

I'm wondering if anyone could advise me on this question.

Basically, I have three separate saved PyMOL sessions (*.pse files). Each of these has a bunch of named selections, which it took me several hours to define properly. I would like to superimpose the proteins in the different sessions with each other, and I guess that means they have to be in the same session. But exporting the coordinates from one session and re-importing them - or just going back to the original PDB files - will necessarily not include the named selections.

So, is there a way to export named selections from one session and import them into another? Or, failing that, at least a way to spit out a list of the atoms comprising any given selection in one session, and then use that list to define a corresponding selection in another session?

Regards,
Ben
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