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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2010 - 22:35:10 CST

Hi,
  Why not merge the two structures into a single PDB file?

I would suggest that you try using this script for starters:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/mergepdbs/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:38:33PM -0500, Neeraj Jagdish Agrawal wrote:
> I need to find all the residues or protein-1 that are within some distance cutoff from protein-2. However, the protein-1 and protein-2 are in different pdb files. I can use
> atomselect top all "within 4 of ---" however this seems to work only when both the proteins are within the same pdb file. Any suggestions would be helpful.
>
> thanks
> neeraj
> 

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