Re: [PyMOL] nice DNA pdb and ring options

2009-02-24 Thread Warren DeLano
2. When showing a cartoon of DNA the ribose ring in the backbone is always there no matter which setting you choose. How can I make the phosphates and the ribose rings show as a backbone cartoon "tube" and keep just the bases as filled sticks with rinngs? load nuc_acid.pdb as cartoon set

Re: [PyMOL] nice DNA pdb and ring options

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Colasanti
Hello You can look into 3DNA out of Rutgers (http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~xiangjun/3DNA/). To make the image you describe you will also need to use Raster3D. 3DNA has some basic scripts for this but you will need to write your own to get the image you describe. Andrew On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at

[PyMOL] nice DNA pdb and ring options

2009-02-23 Thread H. Adam Steinberg
I have three questions I'm hoping someone can help with. 1. Does anyone have, or can anyone point me to a program that will generate a nice pdb file that contains 50 or so base pairs of random sequence B form DNA with hydrogen bonds between the bases or no H bonds? I need to be able to scultp