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420	Human readable atom specifiers	tic20@…	Tom Goddard	"Tristan suggests allowing human-readable atom specifiers.

The user friendly syntax for specifying atoms might be pretty simple, for example “model 1.1 and chain A B and resid 1 5 10 to 20 and atom CA” would translate to #1.1/A,B:1,5,10-20@CA which amounts to just replacing “model” with “#”, “chain"" with “/“, “to” with “-“, “atom” with “@“ dropping the word “and” and adding some commas, a pretty direct translation.

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From: Tristan Croll
Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] Crystallographic symmetry
Date: September 8, 2016 at 5:32:18 AM PDT
To: Tom Goddard

Hi Tom,

...

Also, have you considered implementing a ""human-readable"" selection syntax (e.g. ""model 1.1 and chain A B and resid 1 5 10 to 20 and name CA"")? It's a small thing, but it ends up making many scripts *so* much easier to read!

Best regards,

Tristan
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