Michal, Unfortunately, beautiful backbones require N and C coordinates as well, because PYMOL uses AA geometry to determine orientation vectors. The best you can do with CA only is a tube.
Cheers, Warren -- mailto:war...@delanoscientific.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist DeLano Scientific LLC Voice (650)-346-1154 Fax (650)-593-4020 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michal Kurowski [mailto:mic...@genesilico.pl] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:19 PM > To: Warren L. DeLano > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: c-alpha traces > > Warren L. DeLano [war...@delanoscientific.com] wrote: > > Yes, > > > > PyMOL can visualize CA-only models, perform CA-based alignments on CA > > models, visualize all-atom models, perform CA-based alignments on all > > atom models, and perform all-atom alignments on all-atom models. > > Thats great ! > > To make sure we both speak of the same thing: > > I specifically meant visualization of pdb files with c-alpha > - only structure subsets from rcsb without *any* action on > already centered molecules. Moreover, showing beautiful > backbones ;-). > > Is it right ? > > Regards, > > -- > Michal Kurowski > <mic...@genesilico.pl> > >
