Thank you Tsjerk. What we do right now is just open VMD and use the membrane 
builder, then take that file back into PyMOL!

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Well, for putting it on the Pymol wiki, I'll at least have to wait and see 
> how far my students got with integrating the routine in a webservice. If they 
> already managed, it will be as easy as submitting the structure and saying 
> what membrane you want. Otherwise, it will require some downloads and 
> installs to get the proper programs in place, before it becomes as simple as 
> running a single command specifying the protein and membrane.
> 
> If you and your students would like to try it out, I can give some pointers 
> and provide my scripts to get it done. The wiki will have to wait a bit, but 
> it will come.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tsjerk
> 
> On Feb 2, 2016 5:33 PM, "H. Adam Steinberg" <h.adam.steinb...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:h.adam.steinb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Tsjerk,
> 
> Can you add an example of generating a “real” membrane around a protein to 
> the gallery of the PyMOLwiki?
> 
> My students would love to have easy access to that!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Adam
> 
>> On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:tsje...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Annemarie,
>> 
>> It's actually quite simple to generate a real membrane around your protein 
>> and, e.g., to show the head groups. Do you have a PDB ID for the protein, or 
>> are they in-house models?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Tsjerk
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Julian Heinrich <jul...@joules.de 
>> <mailto:jul...@joules.de>> wrote:
>> Hi Annemarie,
>> 
>> Have you tried the following?
>> cmd.translate([x,y,z], object='membrane')
>> 
>> replace x,y,z with your translation vector.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Julian
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Honegger Annemarie <honeg...@bioc.uzh.ch 
>> <mailto:honeg...@bioc.uzh.ch>> wrote:
>> I am trying to show some cell surface receptors and to indicate their 
>> position relative to the membrane.
>> 
>> I thought to indicate the plane of the membrane by a flat disk, a ago 
>> cylinder.
>> 
>> x1,y1,z1 = 0, -1, 0 # start point
>> r1,g1,b1 = 1, 1, 0 # color (yellow)
>> x2,y2,z2 = 0, -2, 0 # end point
>> r2,g2,b2 = 1, 1, 0 # color (yellow)
>> radius = 100
>> cmd.load_cgo( [ 9.0, x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, radius, r1, g1, b1, r2, g2, b2 
>> ], "membrane" )
>> 
>> When I try to move this cylinder into the correct position with 
>> cmd.transform_selection,
>> using the transformation parameters extracted from get_view (reordering them 
>> as needed)
>> I get the error message "Selector-Error: Invalid selection name “membrane” “
>> 
>> The same transform command works fine if I apply it to a pseudo atom 
>> originally generated with coordinates 0,0,0.
>> 
>> Any suggestion how else I could indicate the membrane, or how I could place 
>> my ego object parallel 
>> to the screen yz plane? I have to be able to do this in a reproducible 
>> fashion, as I have to  do this
>> for a large number of constructs that bend my receptors relative to the 
>> membrane in various ways. 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help
>>              Annemarie
>>      
>> _______________________________
>> 
>> Dr. Annemarie Honegger PhD
>> Department 
>> of Biochemistry
>> Zürich University
>> Winterthurerstrasse 190
>> CH-8057 Zürich
>> Switzerland
>> 
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