Displaying the chirality of amino acids

Hi, I'd like to have the option of showing the chirality of amino acids automatically in MarvinSketch and changing the chirality from L to D forms. For example, see this structure of bacitracin A which I found in Goodman & Gilman 12th edition. I'd like to be able to do something like this in MarvinSketch. I know a way of doing so, by inserting amino acids and using the label editor to display the chirality manually (by adding D- and L- labels), but I was wondering if more efficient ways exist. 

Hi,

unfortunately there is no built-in solution for this.

If you wish to sketch a number of peptides containing D amino acids you can add D amino acids to your template.

For mor information see https://docs.chemaxon.com/display/marvinsketch/Template+Library+Manager

 

Best regards,

Nikolett Mihala

Hi,

it was not mentioned, but there is a .mrv file attached to my previous reply with Bacitracin A depicted using S-groups.

 

Best regards,

Nikolett Mihala

Thanks. By S groups you mean https://docs.chemaxon.com/display/marvinsketch/S-groups? What do you do with the code shown in order to get it into a MarvinSketch document? 

Btw, is there any XML editor that is able to properly show the hierarchy within MRV files? Like automatically indent tags so as to make it easier to read? Like I know of Sublime Text and other text editors with syntax highlighting for XML but in order to get the indents I'd like in these text editors I'd have to do them manually every time I load these files. 

 

NVM I found a Sublime Text package for this. 

Ah, I'm sorry if I caused some confusion but I didn't mean NVM for everything I was asking about, the NVM was just for the XML editor for MRV files. 

Hi,

there is not any specific XML editors developed by us to edit the MRV files with syntax highlight and such convenience things.

You can copy the formatted XML source of the MRV files from MarvinSketch if you select Edit > Source menu.

Regards,
Istvan