Re: [PyMOL] plug-ins on Mac OSX - X11?

2007-03-06 Thread DeLano Scientific
Frieda, Bill Scott has posted some additional information on X11 for Mac OS X that might be useful: >> I've put links to the various older X11 installs on this >> page, right- hand side: >> >> http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal/x11.html >> >> If a user needs to clean stuff up, deletion of /usr/X11R

Re: [PyMOL] protein cartoon/floating sidechains/ligands

2007-03-06 Thread Andreas Forster
Hey Gary, in order to have sidechains be attached to your cartoon representation, the cartoons must not be smoothened. set cartoon_flat_sheets, off will do that. Be warned that your sheets will look like the ocean beyond the reef of Tunnels beach. To get just a sidechain, type show sticks, sele

[PyMOL] protein cartoon/floating sidechains/ligands

2007-03-06 Thread Gary Laco
Hi, I have read the manual on how to have a cartoon representation of a protein and have one or more sidechains visible "and" connected to the ribbon (versus floating in space, see pg 39 manual). But I can not get that to happen following the instructions (using GUI or command line). Also, how d

Re: [PyMOL] plug-ins on Mac OSX - X11?

2007-03-06 Thread Frieda Reichsman
Thanks, this sounds do-able at some point. It will take me a few days to get to this. In the meantime, if someone knows of another solution, I'm all ears... BTW, if I can access a Windows machine, is this an easier process? On the "Obtain" web page, there seems to be only one Win (complied)

Re: [PyMOL] plug-ins on Mac OSX - X11?

2007-03-06 Thread S. Shanmuga Sundara Raj
Hi Frieda, You need to install both X11User and X11SDK packages. more over you need to start X11 before opening any X11 applications. Hope this helps Raj --- DeLano Scientific wrote: > Frieda, > > We too have experienced problems ourselves > attempting to install X11 on > Macintosh computers

Re: [PyMOL] Electrostatic surface visualization

2007-03-06 Thread Gerebtzoff, Gregori
Marco, Maybe you could replace (alter) the B-factor of your protein with the electrostatic values, and color it accordingly; some googling should give you more hints about how you could solve this issue, like http://pldserver1.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc/work/pymol/data2bfactor.py and http://pldserver