Rolf Huehne wrote: > >In the case of PDB entry '4otb' there are 6 different biomolecules which > all look very similar. Each biomolecule consists of different sets of 2 >chains (out of 12) from the asymmetric unit plus 2 copies of these >chains generated by symmetry operations. So in the end you will have 6 >slightly different hexamers if you generate all biomolecules. > > > And would you want to generate them all at the same time? Where do these different hexamers come from?
>As far as Bob has described the filter options yet, I don't think that >it is currently possible to apply only a subset of the symmetry >operations of a specific biomolecule. So with the virus capsid you would >always get 60 copies of whatever you selected by the filter (e.g. only 1 >chain out of 3) into a single model/frame. And if you wanted to display >only only one half of the capsid you could use for example the following >command: > > > Right, but this could be extended to include only specific BIOMT records. > display symop<=30 > >How this half would really look like would of course depend on the order >of the symmetry operations (e.g.: a ball might look afterwards like a >ball with holes and not like one half of a ball). > >Regards, >Rolf > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference >Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. >Use priority code J8TL2D2. >http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
