Re: [PyMOL] D-ala

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Orla, * Orla O'Sullivan orla.osulli...@teagasc.ie [2006-04-28 11:37] wrote: Is there any way to change an L-alanine to a D-alanine in pymol Sure. In the build menu there is an entry: Invert (pk2)-(pk1)-(pk3) [Ctrl-E] pk1 is the atom whose configuration is to be inverted. pk2 and pk3

Re: [PyMOL] a scaling question

2006-04-20 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Fei, * Fei Xu f...@rutchem.rutgers.edu [2006-04-19 11:55] wrote: Hi!: I met a scaling problem. I created many pdb files along one trajectory of DNA movement. I loaded each pdb file in pymol to create a picture, that is, one frame of the trajectory. Pymol shows each molecule in an optimal

Re: [PyMOL] delete/create bonds in pymol

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Vanessa, * Vanessa Oklejas vokle...@stanford.edu [2006-02-10 11:18] wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how to delete bonds between atoms in PyMol? You can use the unbond command: PyMOLunbond ? Usage: unbond [ atom1 [, atom2 ]] You can pick the two atoms with the mouse (such that they

Re: [PyMOL] What residues have I selected?

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Aaron, * Aaron New aaron...@gmail.com [2006-02-09 09:36] wrote: I have selected atoms near an object of interest, and extended this via byres to a selection of the other atoms that are part of the same residue. Is there any way to output a file that would have the coordinates of the atoms

Re: [PyMOL] Re: New spectral color pallette

2006-01-05 Thread Robert Campbell
Alexander, * alexander.paut...@bc.boehringer-ingelheim.com wrote: I would like to color my protein according to B-factor with a self-defined spectral palette (In this case I have put sequence conservation into the Bfactor this column). I found that spectrum b, blue_white_red,

Re: [PyMOL] Listing secondary structure assignments

2005-11-24 Thread Robert Campbell
* J. Evan Sadler esad...@im.wustl.edu [2005-11-23 13:08] wrote: I need a list of the secondary structure assigned to each residue by dss in pymol. Is there a simple way to write this information to a file, or dump it to the screen? To dump it to the screen, try: iterate object name n. ca,

Re: [PyMOL] [colors frozen for rendering modes defined in .pymolrc]

2005-10-17 Thread Robert Campbell
Sebastien, * Sebastien Moretti sebastien.more...@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr [2005-10-17 08:41] wrote: Sebastien, I cannot change the color for rendering modes I defined. I do not understand what you mean by this. Cheers, Warren I mean that the color, for cartoon view, is unchangeable when

Re: [PyMOL] question on cctbx and pymol

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, * Jianghai Zhu z...@purdue.edu [2005-08-24 01:59] wrote: I could not get cctbx work under either MacPymol or PymolX11Hybrid in Mac OS X. Anywhere I can find some instructions to get cctbx work in OS X? There is a page on the cctbx with special instructions for using it on the Mac:

Re: [PyMOL] question on cctbx and pymol

2005-08-23 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Sabuj, * Sabuj Pattanayek sabuj.pattana...@vanderbilt.edu [2005-08-22 18:03] wrote: Hi, Thank you for replying. In fact this is what I did. Gentoo automatically compiles pymol (pymol ebuild) with all required dependencies against the system-wide python-2.4.1. I then manually

Re: [PyMOL] Creating PDB files from Primary Sequence

2005-08-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi folks, * Warren DeLano war...@delsci.com [2005-08-10 16:41] wrote: James, PyMol would allow one to enter a peptide sequence (generally short in length) to create a template structure that can then be used Just hold down ALT/OPTION and type in the peptide sequence. The numbering

Re: [PyMOL] Creating PDB files from Primary Sequence

2005-08-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, I just felt like making a correction to the language I used. It seems a few words went missing! * Robert Campbell r...@post.queensu.ca [2005-08-11 11:28] wrote: I had already written a script to do this, but making it easier to specify the exact phi/psi angles to use. I borrowed bits

Re: [PyMOL] Creating PDB files from Primary Sequence

2005-08-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Blanton, * Blanton Tolbert blanton_tolb...@urmc.rochester.edu [2005-08-11 11:53] wrote: Hi pymolers is it possible to generate a template nucleic acid structures from sequence in pymol? Not as far as I've found. There are other programs that can do this: B (aka Biomer)

Re: [PyMOL] Name length in names panel

2005-08-02 Thread Robert Campbell
Hellow Sebastien, * Sebastien Moretti sebastien.more...@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr [2005-08-01 08:48] wrote: Hello Sebastien, Hello, Is there a way to expand the names panel to be able to read object and selection names larger than 16 characters ? At the bottom left corner of the panel, just to

Re: [PyMOL] Problem with intra_fit

2005-07-29 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Ramon, * Ramon Crehuet rcs...@iiqab.csic.es [2005-07-29 12:55] wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with intra_fit. After reading two (or more) pdb into the same molecule, it does not recognise atoms for other states. I always get the message (this is for a short example): PyMOLintra_fit

Re: [PyMOL] Name length in names panel

2005-07-28 Thread Robert Campbell
Hello Sebastien, * Sebastien Moretti sebastien.more...@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr [2005-07-28 08:47] wrote: Hello, Is there a way to expand the names panel to be able to read object and selection names larger than 16 characters ? At the bottom left corner of the panel, just to the left of the VCR

Re: [PyMOL] list residues in a selection

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, * Michael George Lerner mler...@umich.edu [2005-07-06 09:28] wrote: with my editing to put the original e-mail in the correct location On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sebastien Gerega wrote: Is there a way to list the residues that are in a selection? For example if I use the command select near,

Re: Subject: Re: [PyMOL] fit command

2005-06-21 Thread Robert Campbell
Andre, * tree javer...@utmb.edu [2005-06-20 23:31] wrote: The Wiki (http://www.pymolwiki.org/) has some information about this. It also shows you how to change some properties to make things easier to fit. Intra_Rms (http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Intra_Rms), and Fit

Re: [PyMOL] creating r3d files

2005-04-27 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Paula, * Paula Salgado pa...@strubi.ox.ac.uk [2005-04-27 10:44] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to save an r3d file in pymol for exporting into other render programs like povray? I would like to test rendering in other programs... I use the following script to save an input file for povray:

Re: [PyMOL] sticks with different radii

2005-04-13 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Shohei, * Shohei Koide sko...@uchicago.edu [2005-04-12 15:39] wrote: Hi, I would like to use different stick radii for the backbone and side chains (e.g. thicker sticks for BB and thinner ones for SC). The command set stick_radius=X seems to set the global stick radius, so I cannot use

Re: [PyMOL] Fitting/alignment of non-identical sequences -- UPDATE

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear Folks, * I r...@post.queensu.ca [2005-03-29 16:27] wrote: After playing around with this I finally got tired of doing it manually, so of course I wrote a python script to do this. It uses the alter command (so it isn't fast!) to modify the alt, name, resn, resi, chain, and segi values

[PyMOL] Fitting/alignment of non-identical sequences

2005-03-29 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear Folks, I know a number of people have stumbled over the difficulty of calculating RMSD values for structures of non-identical sequences. While teaching a class that introduced students to the use of PyMOL to look at protein structures and to the study of certain structurally homologous

Re: [PyMOL] How to generate a DNA structure with given sequence?

2005-03-24 Thread Robert Campbell
To add to what Cameron said: * Cameron Mura cm...@ucsd.edu [2005-03-24 09:44] wrote: Hi Hyun-Chul, It's easy to use PyMOL to build protein fragments in standard geometries (Build menu in the Tcl/Tk GUI window), but I'm not sure about DNA. Three non-PyMOL methods that I'm aware of are:

Re: [PyMOL] combine distance objects

2005-03-08 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, Daniel Farrell [Monday, March 07, 2005 1:23 PM] wrote: I want to create a lot of distance objects (in the hundreds) between particular atomic pairs. Obviously I can make a script like the following, inserting the exact atomic selections that I want: distance distobj12 =

Re: [PyMOL] secondary structures, spheres and plugins

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Einat, * Einat Sitbon einat_sit...@hotmail.com [2005-03-03 14:27] wrote: 1) Secondary structure can be viewed as cartoons, or as colors. The problem is the boundaries are not the same. If I color a strand by secondary structure, it seems that the following loop is a strand as well. I?m

Re: [PyMOL] selecting side chains

2005-01-28 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, * Lisa Craig licr...@sfu.ca [2005-01-27 20:43] wrote: How do I select side chains without selecting the backbone atoms? Add ! n. n+ca+c+o or in long form and not name n+ca+c+o to your selection. So to colour all arginine and lysine side chains blue: color blue, r. arg+lys ! n.

Re: [PyMOL] importing multiple states using a script to avoid typing load file0.pdb, file1.pdb, etc.

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, * Jeffrey N. Agar a...@chem.uga.edu [2005-01-18 14:07] wrote: also, typing the following example from the users manual gives invalid syntax with an arrow pointing to the m in file_list =glob(mov*.pdb): 2) The following is a Python program (with a .py or .pym extension) which uses a

Re: [PyMOL] Help/suggestions for illustrating lattice arrangement

2004-10-07 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Roger, * Roger Dodd rb...@cam.ac.uk [2004-10-07 16:33] wrote: I am trying to prepare a figure illustrating a fairly complex packing arrangement in a large H32 (R32) unit cell, where the packing may actually have some biological relevance. To try and show the packing I've been

Re: [PyMOL] surface/grid questions

2004-08-27 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear Marcelo, * castilho casti...@if.sc.usp.br [2004-08-23 17:02] wrote: My name is Marcelo and I am a basic-level pymol user. I work with docking programs and I am trying to make pymol our default program for analysing docking results...this brings me to some questions: Is it possible to

[PyMOL] New (repaired!) draw_symops scripts

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear PyMOLers, A couple of users of my scripts had contacted me about problems with my draw_symops_cctbx.py and all_axes_new.py scripts. I've (I think) solved those problems and added a new functionality requested by one of them. The main problem was getting anything using cctbx to run properly

Re: [PyMOL] Selections

2004-04-15 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Jason, * Jason Vertrees javer...@utmb.edu [2004-04-14 22:55] wrote: Master Users, I'm a bit new to PyMol and still trying to master selections. I've read the documentation and played with quite a few macromolecules now and still have some problems with selections. For example, I

[PyMOL] Bugs squashed in my scripts

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear PyMOLers, It was brought to my attention yesterday that 2 of my scripts had problems with their selection routines, so I've put repaired versions up on my web site. They are: color_by_attype.py seq_select.py The problems arose if you had more than one object up with multiple chains and

[PyMOL] Yet another new script in my PyMOL script archive

2004-03-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi PyMOLers, I've added a new script to my PyMOL script archive. Have you ever wanted to highlight in the display a particular sequence and couldn't be bothered to look up the residue numbers? Me, too. So I wrote a little script called seq_select.py that creates a named selection of an object

Re: [PyMOL] New color_b.py and data2bfactor.py scripts

2004-03-05 Thread Robert Campbell
* Robert Campbell r...@post.queensu.ca [2004-03-04 16:24] wrote: To the PyMOLers out there. This isn't particularly exciting news, but if you use my color_b.py and data2bfactor.py scripts, you may be interested in the update versions that I've just put on my web site. Ops

[PyMOL] New color_b.py and data2bfactor.py scripts

2004-03-04 Thread Robert Campbell
To the PyMOLers out there. This isn't particularly exciting news, but if you use my color_b.py and data2bfactor.py scripts, you may be interested in the update versions that I've just put on my web site. There is now a function in data2bfactor.py that loads data into the occupancy column,

Re: [PyMOL] restoring default surface coloring

2004-03-02 Thread Robert Campbell
* Lieven Buts lie...@ultr.vub.ac.be [2004-03-02 09:03] wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 07:56, Matt Franklin wrote: [...snip...] I then realized that I had absolutely no idea how to restore the default surface coloring! (Except by quitting and restarting...) set surface_color, default

Re: [PyMOL] Ray Tracing Bug in Pymol 0.93 on SuSE Linux 8.2

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Campbell
Michael, * Michael Banck mba...@gmx.net [2004-02-19 12:24] wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:22:14AM +0100, Thomas Siegmund wrote: For me PyMol on SuSE 8.2 crashed always when raytracing a line element. That seems to be identical to Debian Bug #229080 (http://bugs.debian.org/229080)

Re: [PyMOL] Povray

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Campbell
* Tsjerk Wassenaar t.a.wassen...@chem.rug.nl [2004-02-19 04:30] wrote: Hi Guys, I seem to have some trouble rendering with povray. The render starts and finishes fine, and the image is created, but Pymol crashes with a segmentation fault as soon as the rendering is done. The image is not

Re: [PyMOL] get_dihedral multiple objects

2004-02-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Leigh, * le...@rsvs.ulaval.ca le...@rsvs.ulaval.ca [2004-02-11 15:18] wrote: I am trying to use the get_dihedral routine. If I've got just one object it works as expected. For example: PyMOLget_dihedral 9/C, 10/N, 10/CA, 10/C (I type in) cmd.get_dihedral: -49.721 degrees. (pymol

Re: [PyMOL] assign secondary structure?

2003-12-17 Thread Robert Campbell
* Michael Bovee mbo...@uvm.edu [2003-12-16 14:27] wrote: Hmm. When I try this I get a syntax error: __ PyMOLload EcHRSade.pdb Executive: object EcHRSade created. PyMOLhide PyMOLshow cartoon PyMOLdss EcHRSade Traceback (most recent call

Re: [PyMOL] Fog and ray-tracing

2003-12-05 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Loic, * Loic BERTRAND l...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk [2003-12-03 18:42] wrote: I want to generate a ray-traced image with a white background and a very strong fog effect. I tried to play around with the ray_trace_fog, ray_trace_fog_start and fog parameters but could not manage to do it.

Re: [PyMOL] custom pymol scripts

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Campbell
Jack, * Jack Howarth howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu [2003-11-11 11:17] wrote: What exactly is the recommended approach for installing and maintaining custom pymol python scripts? While I have seen messages describing custom pymol scripts, their installation isn't described. Should I put them

[PyMOL] Drawing symmetry operators

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear PyMOLers, It was brought to my attention recently that the draw_cell.py and draw_symops_cctbx.py scripts on my web site were broken due to changes in the cctbx interface. It had been a while since I used the scripts myself, and I hadn't kept abreast of Ralf's changes ... Then Warren kindly

[PyMOL] CGO drawing bug (was Re: Drawing symmetry operators)

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Campbell
* Robert Campbell r...@post.queensu.ca [2003-10-10 13:04] wrote: snip all that stuff about the new scripts P.S. Warren, there is still a problem with drawing CGO cylinders and sausages along the (1,-1,1) direction -- they don't appear unless you ray trace the image: As an example: load

Re: [PyMOL] Creating hydrophobic surfaces

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Jason, * jkyano jky...@scripps.edu [2003-10-01 11:51] wrote: I am looking for a free program or script that can spit out sidechain hydrophobicity in the B factor column so that I can color a surface by hydrophobicity using the color_b.py script. I have a data2bfactor.py script that will

Re: [PyMOL] A couple of movie questions

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Stephen, * Stephen Graham steph...@mail.usyd.edu.au [2003-09-18 21:02] wrote: First up: Is there any way to tell PyMol *not* to change its view when loading a PDB file? For viewing in general, and for movies w/ morphs (etc.) in particular it would be nice to not have to re-set the view

Re: [PyMOL] alternative method for loading coordinates

2003-09-11 Thread Robert Campbell
Warren, * Warren L. DeLano war...@delanoscientific.com [2003-09-09 17:42] wrote: If you're willing to switch into Python, there is an undocumented read_pdbstr function which can take a PDB file as a string variable. See modules/pymol/importing.py for the code. Temporary files are

Re: [PyMOL] nonbonded

2003-06-19 Thread Robert Campbell
* Stefan Reinelt stefan.rein...@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de [2003-06-19 15:19] wrote: Hey there, I try to get a nonbonded as a simple ball without any sticks out of it. Any ideas ? Try: hide nonbonded, selection if desired show nb_spheres, selection if desired Cheers, Robert -- Robert L.

[PyMOL] New PyMOL-related scripts

2003-05-23 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Folks, Some of you may have been using my color_b.py script for colouring by the value of the B-factor. Thanks to the stimulus of one user, I've updated it to have a variety of colouring gradients. You can now select from the following options: Gradients: 'bwr' blue-white-red (like

Re: [PyMOL] ligand rendering

2003-05-13 Thread Robert Campbell
* Nat Echols n...@bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu [2003-05-13 15:38] wrote: I'm new with Pymol and I would like your help in the following problem: I have a receptor image that I want to emphasize the ligand in its interior. I'm a big fan of transparent surfaces for this, e.g.:

Re: [PyMOL] color by ss

2003-04-29 Thread Robert Campbell
Hello, * cami...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk cami...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk [2003-04-29 14:08] wrote: Hello Pymol community, I'm experiencing a problem when colouring a pdb by secondary structure. The colour bleeds from the ends of helices and sheets into loop. for example, if I were to

Re: [PyMOL] how to change all carbon atoms to yellow

2003-04-21 Thread Robert Campbell
* yibin xu yibin...@jcu.edu.au [2003-04-21 13:30] wrote: A little question. I want to color all carbons of my ligand to yellow and keep oxygen-red and nitrogen-blue. How to do that? Thanks in advance. color yellow , (ligand and e;c) where ligand is some method of selecting your ligand. It

Re: [PyMOL] POVRay output

2003-04-15 Thread Robert Campbell
* Armand Tepper wjwtep...@yahoo.com [2003-04-15 04:09] wrote: Dear all, 1) In a future version of Pymol, would it be possible to parametrize the POVray output such that all textures, finishes etc. are declared once as variables (e.g. something like #declare carbon_texture = texture) ?

Re: [PyMOL] coloring surfaces

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Campbell
Rajarshi and Gareth, * Gareth Stockwell gar...@ebi.ac.uk [2003-04-02 08:40] wrote: Rajarshi, With a bit of work you could add such a feature to the script, by using compiled graphics objects (CGOs). The PyMOL documentation explains how to use them. Gareth On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:42,

Re: [PyMOL] color by B-factor?

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi Cameron On 2003-02-28 12:48 you wrote: If possible, how does one color a PDB representation in PyMOL by the B-factor field?? Yes, have a look at my color_b.py script in the PyMOL part of my web site: http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/rlc/work/pymol You need to do a run color_b.py first,

Re: [PyMOL] helix width

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Campbell
* cheom-gil cheong cheomgilche...@hotmail.com [2003-02-27 12:37] wrote: I want to reduce the width of helices and the strands and the thickness of the strand to make better-looking figures. Does anyone did that before? It must be some setting parameters but I cannot find it in my manual.

Re: [PyMOL] PovRay file export

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, On 2003-02-26 14:54 Andreas wrote: how to write the PovRay file out? (I do not want to embed PoyRay as the renderer.) I also don't use povray directly as I like to edit the povray input file. I use the following script: # make_pov.py

Re: [PyMOL] coloring stick and atoms

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, On 2003-02-26 11:36 Mathews wrote: I am looking for a way to change the stick color by maintaining the atom color. Extra info: Using the set color_sphere command to change the colors of the spheres, changes the colors of the atoms to one specific color. I would like to have

Re: [PyMOL] how to show the map in wall-side stereo way

2002-12-17 Thread Robert Campbell
Hi, * xiaofeng qian xiaofengq...@hotmail.com [2002-12-16 20:47] wrote: Does anybody know how to display the electrondensity map in the wall-side stereo way(not cross-eye way)? You can switch to wall-eyed, by changing the sign of the stereo angle. You will need to alter the stereo_shift as

Re: [PyMOL] Reading CCP4 maps

2002-09-05 Thread Robert Campbell
Quyen, * Quyen Hoang hoa...@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca [2002-09-05 15:32] wrote: I would like to read CCP4 electron-density maps into PyMol, but I don't know how (explore maps loaded fine). Would someone please give me a quick summary of the procedure. Thank you! simply doing: load

Re: [PyMOL] g: cgo label orientation

2002-08-20 Thread Robert Campbell
* dee...@iastate.edu dee...@iastate.edu [2002-08-20 07:03] wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:23:46PM +0200, Bartholomeus Kuettner wrote: Hello there! I followed mailing list instructions to create cgo based labels via a python script. Unfortunately, the labels are not in plane but more

[PyMOL] Bug in CGO cylinder drawing code?

2002-07-17 Thread Robert Campbell
Warren, I have found a CGO-drawing problem for which I cannot find a solution. I've been trying to perfect my script for drawing symmetry axes of crystal structures. I noticed that the script wasn't drawing all of the axes that it should have (i.e. not all of those that were listed by the

[PyMOL] Coloring by B-factors

2002-05-31 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear PyMOLers, I've revised the B-factor colouring script that I published on this list back on May 24th. The function now allows you to choose the style of colour ramp (blue-magenta-red or rainbow), the way in which the B-value ranges are chosen (histogram or smooth ramp) plus the number of

Re: [PyMOL] b-factors?

2002-05-24 Thread Robert Campbell
Dear PyMOLers, Nat Echols n...@mail.csb.yale.edu [2002-05-23 10:25] wrote: Can PyMOL do coloring by B-factors? I didn't see anything about this in the manual. If not, I'll go ahead and write a new function, unless someone else is working on this. * DeLano, Warren

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