Re: [PyMOL] DNA measurement help require by sculptor

2013-01-08 Thread Thomas Holder
Hi Briony, this sounds like a very cool project! Regarding question 1: If your PDB DNA model is long enough, you can use "cafit_orientation" from the "psico" module (a PyMOL extension) to draw the axis. It determines the axis by least-square linear fit on the backbone atoms. This requires a recen

[PyMOL] DNA measurement help require by sculptor

2013-01-07 Thread Briony Marshall (Personal)
Apologies - Slightly off topic request for collaboration from a sculptor, but it does relate to how Pymol works Dear all, I am a sculptor working on an ambitious bronze sculpture of DNA and I am looking to find out some more detailed measurements of ideal B-DNA which I am having difficulty gettin