Thanks Joseph and Thomas for your replies. When I use the "as cartoon"
commands, all my molecule disappear. My *pdb file could be the problem as it
is a *cif crystal structure file (converted with mercury) from the cambridge
crystal data.

Cheers,
Baptiste

2011/8/16 Thomas Holder <spel...@users.sourceforge.net>

> Hi Baptiste,
>
>
>  I have a small helical pseudopeptide with mixed alpha and beta
>> amino-acids. How can I make a cartoon representation of this helix with
>> Pymol? For the moment, I have selected the peptide backbone atoms and tried
>> the "alter" command to force pymol to recognize the helix but it do not
>> work.
>>
>
> are you sure? What happens if you try this:
>
> alter all, ss='H'
> as cartoon
> rebuild
>
> Cheers,
>  Thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Holder
> MPI for Developmental Biology
> Spemannstr. 35
> D-72076 Tübingen
>
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