Every year I teach students PyMOL, and the look on their faces when they first 
open a pdb in PyMOL and get a cluster of green sticks… yikes!

YES!!! to the default being secondary structure, ligands as sticks, and metal 
ions as spheres! Add - nucleic acids as cartoon. 

> On Feb 8, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Kumar, Abhinav <aku...@intrexon.com> wrote:
> 
> Showing metal ions  (and FES clusters etc) as spheres would also be useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Abhinav
> 
> Abhinav Kumar, PhD
> Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics
> Intrexon, Inc.
> 329 Oyster Point Blvd., South San Francisco, CA 94080
> (650) 597-4072 | aku...@intrexon.com
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Thomas Holder [thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 8:51 AM
> To: Ivan Vulovic; Schubert, Carsten [JRDUS]
> Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] auto_show_cartoon or similar
> 
> Hi Ivan and Carsten,
> 
> I can take "auto_show_cartoon" as a feature request. It's trivial to 
> implement.
> 
> What also would be nice: automatically showing sticks for ligands. e.g. 
> corresponding to the "not polymer" or the "organic" selection. Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
>  Thomas
> 
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 09:07, Schubert, Carsten [JRDUS] <cschu...@its.jnj.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ivan,
>> 
>> you could either try to overload the “load” function in Pymol (not sure this 
>> is supported) or write your own custom load function under a different name, 
>> which loads the protein, assigns the name of the object, hides lines and 
>> shows the cartoon.
>> 
>> Sorry, this is a rather generic answer but should point you in the right 
>> direction.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>>                Carsten
>> 
>> From: Ivan Vulovic [mailto:i...@uw.edu]
>> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 8:18 PM
>> To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [PyMOL] auto_show_cartoon or similar
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Is there a way to make cartoon the default representation, something akin to 
>> "auto_show_lines", but for cartoon? There was some dicussion of this in 2010 
>> (link below) but I haven't found anything more recent that does what I'd 
>> like.
>> 
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg07734.html
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Ivan
> 
> --
> Thomas Holder
> PyMOL Principal Developer
> Schrödinger, Inc.
> 
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