[MMTK] Rotating parts of the side-chain of a residue

[Konrad Hinsen]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:41, Urban Hafner wrote:

> So just to be sure I understood it correctly: I create create a
> collection
> of atoms I want to rotate, call rotateAroundAxis on them and then they
> change their positions even in the whole protein. Is that right?

Those atoms change their positions, the others remain where they are. I 
suppose that's what you want. For more complex operations (e.g. rotating 
everything but a given set of atoms), other approaches are more convenient).

Konrad.
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