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483	Smart display should use different colors for chains	Tom Goddard	Eric Pettersen	Opening 4hhb (and other molecules with < 5) chains causes all the chains to be given the same color.  When there are 5 or more chains (e.g. 2bbv) the smart display code colors each chain with a different color.  I think using different colors for chains for models with less than 5 chains is a much more useful initial use of color.  This of course depends on the intended use -- if a second model is open for comparison it can be useful to have each mode have a single color.  But I think it is more common that a single model is open and not compared to a second model so we should optimize the most common case.  If a second model is open we might change its smart display chain colors to be lighter variants of the first model colors.	defect	accepted	major		Depiction				meng@…				all	ChimeraX