John

Here is the atom selection page

http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/atom_selections.html

and here is an example.
within(5, (nucleotide or peptide) backbone)


Contact me if you have any more trouble.

Cheers

Nigel

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Tanner, John J. <TannerJJ@missouri.edu> wrote:
Is there a way to select a sphere of residues in the phenix.superpose_pdbs command, analogous to the "around" syntax in cns?   I tried "within" and "around" in phenix.superpose_pdbs but got "Atom selection syntax error".  

Thanks.

Jack Tanner




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