If you load a structure determined by X-ray crystallography,
there are often stretches of residues that were not visible in the electron density map,
the structure has a gap. Because there is no way to distinguish between a true gap and an unintentional gap created during modeling,
YASARA ignores gaps unless they are explicitly marked as true gaps. This can be helpful,
as you get for example a continuous ribbon display that bridges gaps, but sometimes it is not what you want. In these cases,
just
delete all peptide bonds that are longer than
3 Angstroms: Go to Edit > Delete > Bond, click on atom name 'C' in the first window,
'N' in the second window and input 3 A as the minimum bond length required for deletion.
If after deleting the bonds, you save the structure as a PDB file and load it again,
all bonds will reappear, because PDB files do not store information about deleted bonds. In such a case,
you might consider
adding a split point
(an explicit chain break) at the position of the gap: Go to Edit > Split > Residue and select the residue after the gap. Split points appear as
'TER' entries in the PDB file and as vertical lines in the sequence selector at the bottom.