Hi list, I'm trying to use PyMOL to construct an image of the total contiguous contact surface that starts at a particular place on the surface of a protein, without all the visual distraction and clutter that comes from other regions of the protein surface (not to mention internal cavities).
I started by rendering up the whole protein as "Contact surface" with "Cavities and pockets only" shown. Unfortunately, this displays a large number of bubbles, some of which, despite being far away in space from the region of interest, manage to effectively obscure bits and pieces of it. So my next thought was to try removing the extraneous bits, however, I can't seem to select atoms in surface view; I have to display everything as lines or similar. Removing things that way gets very unwieldy, not least because of all the atoms that don't contribute anything to the surface but appear in front of, behind, or otherwise near to the atoms that do so. A third option I tried was to build the surface up, starting from the known points of interest, but this too is painstaking because of the need to guess where I should next expand the selection to in order to fill in the gaps. A remaining method of getting only the cavity of interest would, I guess, be to create a selection consisting only of those atoms that contribute something to the currently rendered surface (in this case, cavities and voids). I could then render those as spheres or something and hide unwanted contributors. Is there a way of specifying such a selection? Alternatively, is there some other smart way to achieve what I want (and by smart, I mean a way that isn't time- consuming and unusually error-prone)? I've already tried Googling, to no avail; I got, mostly, instructions about how to display surfaces in general. I should mention that I'm using a recent version of MacPyMol, on Mac OS X 10.6.7. Any tips are welcome. Thanks! Best regards, Ben -- For greater security, I support S/MIME encryption.
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