Selection of molecule parts

This section demonstrates the handling of visual sequence-based structures in BioEddie.

Highlight

Hovering over a canvas element will highlight it and provide feedback on what will be selected with a left mouse button click.

The highlight reflects which level/detail you are about to interact with. Possible levels: monomer, bond, component/molecule.

Highlighted monomer:

Highlighted bond:

Highlighted component/molecule:

Select

Select a monomer or a component with a left mouse button click. Hold Control (Windows) or Shift (Mac) and click on other elements to select multiple monomers or components.

Click on and d rag a rectangle over a certain area of the Canvas view to select all molecule components with this area.

Buttons for deleting , expanding , collapsing and deselecting will appear at the top of the Canvas/Primary view if a monomer or a component is selected.

If the Secondary View is displayed, information related to the selection is shown there.

Click on then on an empty area of the canvas or click on button at the top of the canvas to deselect all molecule components on the canvas.

Selected monomer:

Selected bond:

Rectangle selection:

Selected component/molecule: