Erratum: Of course I meant "solvent accessible", not "excluded".
On 05 Jan 2017, at 09:52, Thomas Holder <thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > Coloring the cartoon with a color ramp is not possible unfortunately. > Incentive PyMOL since version 1.8 can color ribbon by ramp, if that helps. > > However, electrostatic potential locally probed along the backbone will not > be very meaningful. Typically you would look at electrostatics beyond the > solvent excluded surface, which you'll get in PyMOL either with > surface_solvent=1 or with surface_ramp_above_mode=1, > seehttps://pymolwiki.org/index.php/surface_ramp_above_mode > > To visualize the distribution of charged or polar residues with cartoon, your > "flimsy" color scheme by residue type seems quite valid. > > Cheers, > Thomas > > On 04 Jan 2017, at 11:05, vincent Chaptal <vincent.chap...@ibcp.fr> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> is there a way to color by electrostatic potential but display the structure >> as cartoon? >> >> a workaround could be : >> color white, molecule >> color red, resn asp+glu+thr+ser etc.. >> color blue, resn arg+lys >> >> ... but this seems rather flimsy. >> >> Thank you and best wishes for the new year. >> Vincent >> >> >> -- >> Vincent Chaptal, PhD >> Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines >> Drug Resistance and Membrane Proteins Laboratory >> 7 passage du Vercors >> 69007 LYON >> FRANCE >> +33 4 37 65 29 01 >> http://www.ibcp.fr -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net