Re: [PyMOL] Movie to Powerpoint

2006-07-06 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
The problem with animated gif is the color limitation to 254 + one transparent colors, whereas PyMOL generated png's have millions of colors + alpha channel... -Original Message- From: Karsten Seidel [mailto:k...@nmr.mpibpc.mpg.de] Sent: jeudi, 6. juillet 2006 18:15 To: pymol-users@lists

Re: [PyMOL] Movie to Powerpoint

2006-07-06 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
For this purpose I've been using mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) which is open source and gives access to a wide range of codecs (mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4 (divx), realmedia, mov, avi, asf, flash etc). Here is the batch file I used to encode a video in two-pass divx encoding (the frames were in the

Re: [PyMOL] transparency and cgo

2006-07-06 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Terry, You can also embed the transparency (ALPHA) value into your cgo file like this: from pymol.cgo import * obj = [ BEGIN, LINES, LINEWIDTH, 15, ALPHA, 0.6, VERTEX, 0.56, -0.88, 5.75, VERTEX, -1.18, -0.99, -6.88, END ] Cheers, Greg

Re: [PyMOL] spheres representation and atomic / ionic radii

2006-07-03 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
even add these "new" definitions in your pymolrc file. Hope it helped! Cheers, Greg -Original Message- From: Michael Weber [mailto:web...@mailer.uni-marburg.de] Sent: samedi, 1. juillet 2006 20:02 To: Grégori Gerebtzoff Subject: Re: [PyMOL] spheres representation and atomic /

Re: [PyMOL] spheres representation and atomic / ionic radii

2006-07-01 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Dear Michael, I do not agree with you; I never observed any variation between sphere representation and experimental data. But to test the accuracy of the sphere size, I did the following sequence: 1) I created a molecule composed of one hydrogen and one oxygen, with a "fake" distance of 1.52 A

RE: [PyMOL] drawing walls

2006-04-05 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Dear Liu Shiyong, Please have a look to the nice page of Gareth Stockwell, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~gareth/, you will find under the section -pymol- some nice pymol scripts, and in particular wall.py The script is commented so have a look inside to find how you shall use it... You might also change t

RE: [PyMOL] Multiple origins possible?

2006-02-20 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Jon, I don't know if this is possible, but Warren posted some weeks ago two scripts you can run on two PyMOL sessions, in order to synchronize the view on both visualization windows. Have a look at these two links: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14392630 and http://source

RE: [PyMOL] thick c-alpha trace?

2006-02-17 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Try the set ribbon_width, 4.0 command… Cherrs, Greg -Original Message- From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jose Borreguero Sent: jeudi, 16. février 2006 15:47 To: pymol mailing list Subject: [PyMOL] thic

RE: [PyMOL] viewing multi-sdf files

2006-02-16 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Joel, Have you tried the frame control commands at the lower right corner of your main PyMOL window? Cheers, Greg -Original Message- From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joel Tyndall Sent: jeudi, 16. février 2006

RE: [PyMOL] moving molecules

2005-12-03 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Dear Milton, This question has been answered several times; please search the archives of the PyMOL mailing list (http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?type_of_search=mlists&group_id=4546 &forum_id=60) or have a look at pymolwiki (http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Category:FAQ) Regards, Grégo

RE: [PyMOL] Viewing cavities?

2005-11-01 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Have you tried to simply use your mouse wheel? This will change the clipping view.

RE: [PyMOL] Selection of DNA backbone or base pairs

2005-10-31 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Jim, I am not aware of such functionality, but I posted some time ago a script to generate cgo objects to render DNA molecules; maybe you can adapt this script for your needs... Have a look here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12611100 Regards, Greg -Original Mes

RE: [PyMOL] Macros...

2005-09-20 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Simon, Before I start I have to say that I never ever used neither cctbx nor draw_cell.py. I installed Python 2.4.1 and cctbx 2005_08_18_0201 on my WinXP machine. I then had a look to the Roger Dodd's Solution and found out that I cannot work properly since the file c:\cctbx_source\libtbx\libt

RE: [PyMOL] multi distance object to single distance objects

2005-08-10 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Daniel, This problem has been tackled several times, maybe have a look at the following URLs, it might help you getting started: http://www.rubor.de/bioinf/tips_python.html#msdist http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2914266 And also don’t forget the ‘search’ feature o

RE: [PyMOL] Before the release of PyMol 0.99: Nucleotides and CGO

2005-08-09 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Same script, but with hydrogen bonds between nucleotides. Load the pdb file 127D, run the script and type ‘DrawNT’ in PyMol command line… I have a question, maybe Warren you can answer: I wanted to use the set_color command to define a new color for the Hydrogen bonds (MyRGBColor = [x,y,z]

[PyMOL] Before the release of PyMol 0.99: Nucleotides and CGO

2005-08-08 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hello List, Maybe useful, maybe not… Here is a small py script for filling nucleotides with colored CGO objects. I just tried it on the pdb file 127D. Of course not as efficient as Nuccyl!!! But I couldn’t find out how to run perl scripts on my Windows-running PC, and this is exactly (and only

RE: [PyMOL] Problem with Installation of PyMOL 0.98 on WinXP Pro SP2

2005-07-15 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Brian, I had exactly the same problem while installing this version of Pymol on WinXP SP2; I could fix this problem by replacing this file from the folder c:\windows\repair to the folder c:\windows\system32. However if it doesn't work (or if the file is absent from this repair folder), you shou

RE: [PyMOL] Video iChat / PyMOL Discussion

2005-06-22 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi, I'm on WinXP and I use Skype for a long time, and the sound quality is amazing; I just discovered vSkype, a video plugin for Skype. It can handle up to 200 users simultaneously, and you can also share your desktop or just a part of your desktop (i.e. a window). Skype is available for multiple

RE: [PyMOL] "draw" command

2005-06-07 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Warren! I tried the new features of PyMOL, my OS is WinXP Pro SP2 and my graphic card an ATI Radeon 9700. The "draw" command runs without any problem, of course I tried to go above 4096 pixels :-) and PyMOL rescale the values to fit 4096. It's really fast and I love the white frame around the s

RE: [PyMOL] transparency surface

2005-05-30 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Simply type show surface set transparency=0.5, my_object This syntax is true for most Pymol commands... Greg

[PyMOL] Questions & comments about CGO objects

2005-05-30 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
color of your object within Pymol! Many thanks for your answer(s)! Grégori Gerebtzoff Division of Biophysical Chemistry Biozentrum, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 70 CH-4056 Basel / Switzerland Tel: +41 61 267 21 92 Fax: +41 61 267 21 89 e-mail: gregori.gerebtz

RE: [PyMOL] distance between aromatic residues

2005-05-24 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Sara, I don't think this is directly possible, since the centers of the aromatic rings are not declared per se. But I see another way to obtain the result you want, maybe this can be written as a small Python script (sorry I never wrote any Python scripts, so I can't translate my idea!!). The i

RE: [PyMOL] movie question

2005-05-19 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Dave, Try the “move” command; move x, value and move y, value for the translation move z, value for zoom in and zoom out Greg

RE: [PyMOL] surface representation showing mutations

2005-04-04 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Have you tried the "select resi" function? This allows you to specify the identification numbers of the amino-acids you want to select (and color). Have a look here for the complete description: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/newman/user/S0220commands.html Regards, Grégori Gerebtzoff D

RE: [PyMOL] Problem with pml script and png command

2005-03-31 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
**PROBLEM FIXED** I found yesterday a way to avoid the problem. First I launch PyMol, then I change the viewport to the one I have in my script; and finally I run the pml script. This gives full, uncutted png images. Btw, does anybody know if there is a python command to wait until a proc

RE: [PyMOL] Problem with pml script and png command

2005-03-30 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Kristoffer, Your suggestion is interesting, but is not in accordance with the various size of the black part that I get when changing the resolution (viewport), as the progress bar of PyMol has always the same size, regardless of the resolution (i.e. 240x60 pixels).

RE: [PyMOL] Problem with pml script and png command

2005-03-30 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
Hi Jacob, Many thanks for your answer. Here is the follow-up: I tried to exclude the "load" commands from my script, to pre-load the structures, display them, be sure that no other windows were overlapping the PyMol display window (I even placed the PyMol window on another location on my screen!),

[PyMOL] Problem with pml script and png command

2005-03-29 Thread Grégori Gerebtzoff
black lines). Many thanks for your help! Of course I can send script and files if one wants to try it out… Regards, Grégori Gerebtzoff Division of Biophysical Chemistry Biozentrum, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 70 CH-4056 Basel / Switzerland