Phenomenal idea! I fully agee! :)
On Sep 27, 2014, at 2:22 AM, Seth Harris <set...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas et al,
>
> There was a recent question on the board about missing residues and the
> possibility of reading SEQRES headers and PyMOL being able to show the
> missing bits in the sequence view, perhaps with the amino acid letters grayed
> out to distinguish the gap. I know the reply was "PyMOL doesn't currently" do
> this, but it seemed to then end "full stop" rather than, "...but it's a
> fantastic idea". I'd like to second the idea as a great addition! When
> building structures or viewing and hitting gaps one always has to shuffle off
> to find the sequence or jump back to see how big the gap is and what type of
> residues are supposed to be in there. This would put it right there
> integrated at one's fingertips.
>
> This also reminds me of something I suggested to you, Thomas, that might fit
> in here of having a "cartoon dash" rendering (at least for loops if not
> helices and strands?) such that one could borrow a loop from a homologue or
> build in a placeholder to provide visual continuity in a model while still
> clearly indicating the disordered regions, but now in a 3D ray-traced dashed
> line that follows the cartoon trajectory rather than the usual penciled in
> job.
>
> I know in building a new structure I don't often have any SEQRES header in
> place, but if it offered advantages like this it would be easy enough to
> install such.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth
>
>
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