I don't quite understand this - you can use an editor to add any coordinates you like in the correct "atom" format to a pdb. (Don't think you can deposit them though!) Then a program like coot can be tricked into thinking the monomer CUB say is to be displayed in any style it supports.
Eleanor On 26 Oct 2012, at 02:25, Francois Berenger wrote: > Hello, > > For some new project, I'd like to be able to generate things > and store them in PDB format. > > For example, a triangle, a line segment, a square, > a cube, a sphere, an arrow, etc. > Being able to change the color and "line width" would be nice. > > Is there some official recommended way of doing this? > > Is there some software able to read and display such > graphical annotations of PDB files? > I'll also need the format description in that case. > > I want to be able to process a PDB file and store the result > of my processing in the same PDB file as some kind of annotation. > > My current way of doing this is to discretize my objects as H atoms > in some other output PDB file, but that's just a temporary workaround. > > My current search got me this: > http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/eccc1/ > So, maybe there is some support for what I am looking for into > Chimera. > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions, > Francois.
