label/unlabel amino acid

Introduction:
Under the Edit pulldown, VHMPT has an editing funciton that allows labeling/unlabeling of a specific amino acid or a gourp of amino acids.

Description:
To label a specific amino acid, you can directly double click on the residue to open a labeling dialog box (Fig. 15). Select "Label this residue" and choose OK.

Fig. 15

Note that you can also change the font size (or weight, underline, font, etc.) of the labeled residue by clicking on the "Set font ..." button. To unlabel a specific residue, just double click on the labeled residue and select "Unlabel this residue" in the dialog box then choose OK.

To label a group of amino acids, you can pull down a dialog box from Edit/Labeling residues (Fig. 16).

Fig. 16

Some simple rules to specify a group of amino acids are illustrated by examples. Use comma or space to distinguish each specification. Fig. 17 is an example showing how to label all GLY residues in a protein (the results are shown in Fig. 18).

Fig. 17

Fig. 18

Note that to unlabel a gourp of residues, the same dialog box can be used. For example, "*" can be used to unlabel all residue labelings (see Fig. 19).

Fig. 19

Tips: A residue and its sequence number can be moved around by dragging with the leftmost mouse key (when their color change to yellow or blue).