Dear pymolers, Yesterday I asked the question about selection. After studying python manual I figure out what I should do.
> I can select some residues in my protein in the command prompt > by saying for example > select prot = (////VAL or ////PRO or ////GLY) > but now I have trouble translating this into python script. > I tried many varieties including something like > cmd.select( prot, (////VAL or ////PRO or ////GLY) ) I wrote cmd.select( "prot", "(////VAL or ////PRO or ////GLY)" ) and I got what I want. Now here comes another question. I prepared a long movie by running the script I wrote. I use a very good desktop to generate the movie and the speed of rendering is fast. But if I want to demonstrate the same movie with pymol on a notebook, there are only 2 things that I can do (as far as I know). First, I can copy the pdb files as well as the script I wrote to the notebook. But when I shall demonstrate the movie, I have to render all of the frames again. That is slower in the notebook we have in the conference roon. Also everything has to be rendered again if I restart pymol. To avoid rendering again and again, I can copy the png files generated, and use some other program to view the movie. By far I did not find a good free software giving control on how the movie be played as easy as pymol. Perhaps ACDSee can play the movie better but it is not free. Besides, I can modify the view point, rotation, etc, during the demonstration if I usr pymol. Is there any suggestion on the best way to play the movie? Thanks and best regards, K.K.Liang
