On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Nigel Moriarty <nwmoriarty@lbl.gov> wrote:
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)

That won't work in phenix.superpose_pdbs (or the atom selection tool in the GUI) because the "within" syntax depends on the full geometry restraints setup (which is slower and therefore not used in these contexts).   This has been annoying me for a while, so I will look into changing it.

-Nat