Hi all, I would like to make a movie from a trajectory of 50 frames with varying sec structure. Following Warren's advice in a previous thread (see below) I load every pdb file into a different object *and* state using file_list1 = glob("*_first.pdb") for file in file_list1: cmd.load(file,file,file[:1])
{ files are named 1_first.pdb, 2_first.pdb ...} However, the object loaded to the first frame also appears in the following ones. dssp calculation with rtools just gives the sec structure of the object in the first frame. As a workaround I tried to start loading into the 2nd frame and not to load anything into the first one. But then the command "dssp (2_first.pdb)" gives an error "no atoms selected" instead of any calculation. Any suggestions? Frauke -------- RE: [PyMOL] secondary structure * From: "DeLano, Warren" <war...@removethissunesis.com> * Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:43:10 -0800 * List-archive: <http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=pymol-users> * List-id: PyMOL Users Group <pymol-users.lists.sourceforge.net> * List-post: <mailto:pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net> * Thread-index: AcG0WofecTamzeK5QwiLfKAn/1zEHgAe2fOQ * Thread-topic: [PyMOL] secondary structure > How does this affect movies involving conformation changes? Secondary > structure info from the first frame appears to carry over > into the others- > whereas in reality some helixes or sheets change to varying > degrees. This > leads to warping in something like calmodulin. Would I need to render > frames separately and run 'alter'? Secondary structure in PyMOL is currently an atomic not a coordinate property. This is probably a design flaw, which will need to be fixed later on. Same goes for occupancy and B-factors (anything else?). Anyway, if you want it to change secondary structure during a trajectory, the easiest thing to do is split the trajectory over two objects with non-overlapping states (ie. use the 'state' option to load), and then assign the secondary structure independently... state 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 object1 X X X X object2 X X X X