I see, so that's something like using the Van der Waals radius, etc? I guess
this kind of stuff does need chemistry background (tried researching on
that).

Cheers

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:13 AM, DeLano Scientific <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Yose,
>
> By default, PyMOL guesses connectivity based on proximity, based on the
> empirical observation that two atoms of a given radius will not be
> generally closer than a certain distance unless they are bonded.
>
> Cheers,
> Warren
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Yose Widjaja
> *Sent:* Friday, September 12, 2008 7:33 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [PyMOL] ATOM and CONECT..
>
>  Hello,
>
> I was going through the PDB file specification.. there are some PDB files
> that doesn't have CONECT records, but pymol still manages to draw them
> connected together (just from the ATOM records). How is this done?
>
> I tried searching on this, but since I don't really come from bio/chemistry
> background, it's a bit hard to get them..
>
> Thanks
>

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