[PyMOL] Cutaway surfaces

2006-08-02 Thread Robert Court
Hi. I want to make a figure showing a cutaway surface representation of a large complex showing a channel containing a peptide helix. If I show the surface and cartoon representations respectively and fiddle around with the clipping and slabing I can't get it so that the channel is 'open' without

[PyMOL] Stereo help!

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Court
Hi all. Help desperately needed. I need to make some stereo figures of electron denisty for first thing tomorrow morning. I have the images made and have ray-traced the stereo views using the commands: set antialias,1 ray 2000,2000,angle=-3 png image_left.png ray 2000,2000,angle=3 png image_right

[PyMOL] Nucleic acid selection

2004-05-18 Thread Robert Court
I have a double helix shown in blue and want to highlight certain bases in yellow. I have tried the selection in a similar way to amino acids but that doesn't seem to work... select junk, TRF1_dna ,chain X, resi 7-9 The object TRF1_dna contains both strands of DNA. The chains are labelled X and Y

[PyMOL] Colour help!

2004-05-08 Thread Robert Court
Afternoon all. I've been making images for publication of two structures. The one I've coloured in green looks great on screen but when printed out in documents there is no depth and all the helices merge into one. Is this a problem with green or do I have a setting wrong? The end of the pymol sc