Hello David, In CCP4mg you can display any arbitrary vector in a variety of display styles - there is an example in the the online documentation:
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~ccp4mg/ccp4mg_help/vector.html Liz On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:00, David Briggs wrote: > Good morning ccp4bb-ers! > > I have two protein-protein complex structures, and the orientation of one > of the components shifts slightly with respect to the other component > between the two structures. > > If I run superimpose on the shifting component I get this: > > CROWTHER ALPHA BETA GAMMA 12.41607 -9.09294 -9.64895 > SPHERICAL POLARS OMEGA PHI CHI 73.10930 -78.96756 9.50379 > DIRECTION COSINES OF ROTATION AXIS 0.18311 -0.93918 0.29055 > > Angle between rotation axis and Centroid vector 93.14726 > > ***** Note: Since this angle between rotation axis and Centroid vector is > near to 90.0 this may represent a pure rotation *** > > This is fine - Its what I expected. However. I would like to know how I can > graphically represent this axis in Coot/Pymol/CCP4MG? > > This has probably been asked before, but a quick google of the archives > reveals nowt. > > Can anybody help? > > Cheers, > > Dave
