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On 15/07/2010, at 16.40, Phoebe Rice wrote: > What would be wrong with WORDS? They were such a clever > invention. I can tell the difference between colors, but it > takes a second step to figure out what they mean anyway. Why > not just write "no info" over the gray ones? And a 1-word > caption on all the little icons would help, IMHO. > Phoebe > > ---- Original message ---- >> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:56:58 -0400 >> From: Mischa Machius <mach...@med.unc.edu> >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient, > at-a-glance info about PDB entries >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> >> There are so many ways to address this issue. >> Perhaps the simplest would be to use a combination >> of dimming and thick, solid borders vs. dashed >> borders to distinguish the two states of the icons. >> Cheers! MM >> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote: >> >> Better still, I can let you see them though my >> eyes. Here's what the icons look like to me, and a >> link to Vizcheck, the tool I used to generate >> them: >> >> http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/colour/pdb/pdb.html >> >> http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php >> >> Running this in various modes you should be able >> to pick colours which work for everyone, not just >> for me. >> >> Flip Hoedemaeker wrote: >> >> Yep, its green-blue vs grey... Bad choice I >> guess? Perhaps you can provide a set of examples >> that work for you? >> >> Flip >> >> On 7/15/2010 13:20, Kevin Cowtan wrote: >> >> Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: >> >> For a five-minute illustrated introduction >> to PDBprints (including >> >> instructions on how to include them in your >> own webpages) point your >> >> browser to: >> >> http://pdbe.org/pdbprints >> >> Good idea. >> >> But the icons for published/unpublished, >> protein present/protein absent, >> >> nucleotide present/nucleotide absent and >> ligand present/ligand absent >> >> look identical to me - I have to read the alt >> text. >> >> Is there some colour thing going on here which >> is invisible to protanopes? >> >> -- >> EMAIL DISCLAIMER >> http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mischa Machius, PhD >> Director, Center for Structural Biology >> Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology >> Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center >> University of North Carolina >> 4079 Genetic Medicine >> CB#7365 >> 120 Mason Farm Road >> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7365, U.S.A. >> tel: +1-919-843-4485 >> fax: +1-919-966-5640 >> email: mach...@med.unc.edu > Phoebe A. Rice > Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > The University of Chicago > phone 773 834 1723 > http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123 > > RNA is really nifty > DNA is over fifty > We have put them > both in one book > Please do take a > really good look > http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp
