[modeller_usage] R: modelling discarding part of a template

[Thomas Evangelidis <>]

> You have to either keep the complete template sequence in the PDB file, 
> or modify the template PDB to remove the residues you don't want. An 
>
> alignment that achieves what you want without modifying the PDB is:
>
>       target: AAAAAAAAAAA-------AAAAAA
>   template 1: BBBB-------BBBBBBBBBBBBB
>   template 2: ZZZZZZZZZZZ-------ZZZZZZ
>
> 	Ben Webb, Modeller Caretaker

Is it algorithmically difficult to add a function that will select a range of residue in one template and Modeller will exclude them without touching the alignment? When having multiple templates and several unwanted regions this procedure becomes very tedious.