On May 9, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Kenneth A. Satyshur wrote:
YO!
I am making thermal ellipsoid plots of a highly flexibile region of a
chromophore using rastep and render from the raster3D package of
Merritt el al.
But I cannot control the orientation. It obscures the rest of the
atoms in the
plane of the molecule. Does anyone know a way to orientate molecules
AND
get a publication quality png file? ccp4mg only produces vague traces.
Hey, you can use Chimera to orient the molecule as you like and then
use Chimera's Thermal Ellipsoids tool to draw the ellipsoids. That
tool lacks rastep's "cut-away quadrant" depiction but has all the
other depictions. More info about Thermal Ellipsoids here:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/thermal/thermal.html
about Chimera itself here:
www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera
--Eric
Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
