On Friday, May 31, 2013 01:34:51 pm Phoebe A. Rice wrote:
> I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a
> pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved telling
> me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed).
> Is there a handy by-atom coloring scheme I can recommend that works for the
> red-green color blind?
Phoebe:
Here is the "podo" color palette recommended as being distinguishable
by both protanopic and deuteranopic color-blind viewers. The down side is
that this is is a more stringent restriction than accommodating red/green
color defects alone, and makes the colors less distinct for normal-vision
viewers
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# This file is distributed as part of gnuplot.
# Palette of colors selected to be easily distinguishable by
# color-blind individuals with either protanopia or deuteranopia
# Bang Wong [2011] Nature Methods 8, 441.
set linetype 1 lc rgb "black"
set linetype 2 lc rgb "#e69f00"
set linetype 3 lc rgb "#56b4e9"
set linetype 4 lc rgb "#009e73"
set linetype 5 lc rgb "#f0e442"
set linetype 6 lc rgb "#0072b2"
set linetype 7 lc rgb "#d55e00"
set linetype 8 lc rgb "#cc79a7"
set linetype cycle 8
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Translating these colors to atom types is another question, however.
Ethan
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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
