Re: [PyMOL] settings of ribbons and cartoons

2002-11-25 Thread Jules Jacobsen
Hi Kristl The problem is that the secondary structure of your protein hasn't been defined in the PDB file. This is why the cartoon looks ike a tube. What you need to do is type util.ss into the command line and this will calculate some sort of secondary structure for you although it's not that acc

Re: [PyMOL] settings of ribbons and cartoons

2002-11-25 Thread Kadmon
Have you set your sheet and helix part in your pdb? For my personal case, things you experienced happened when this part wasn't built. I guess that PyMOL cannot find the secondary structures as softwares like Rasmol can. Try to determine your secondary structures with DSSP for example and to paste