[ Basic Selections ]

All buttons relating to graphical selections are shaded green. These buttons are shown here and are located at the top of the graphical user interface and along the side.

The File/New window is a great place to start learning how to use ICM as it provides a quick and easy way to generate new peptides, compounds, DNA/RNA, sequences and graphical objects.

The examples in this section will take you through the basics of making selections in the graphical user interface using objects generated from File/new.

29.2.1 Making Basic Selections

• File/New - Select Peptide Tab and use the default peptide entries and select OK. A peptide as shown below will be displayed in ribbon format and the cysteine side-chains in xstick.

Now let us display the peptide in wire format and remove the ribbon and xstick representation

To do this:

• Select the whole object by double clicking on the name of the object "pep" in the ICM Workspace. When selected it will be highlighted in blue in the ICM Workspace and green crosses in the graphical display.

• Select the "Display Tab" and select the wire button to display wire representation. Select the ribbon button and xstick button to undisplay ribbon and xstick.

• Your peptide will still be selected. See below on how to remove selections.

Now we will display different parts of the peptide in different representations.

• Right click and drag over a region of the peptide you would like to change.

• Use the display panel to select the represenation you would like to display.

Other ways of making selections.