I'd use MAMA to make an extremely simplified mask (either
based on a couple of nicely-positioned spheres, or excessively
smoothed) and they display it with its symmetry mates.
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>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:48:57 +0200
>From: Anita Lewit-Bentley <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [ccp4bb] packing diagrammes
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> Dear all,
> does anyone know of a programme that would allow the
> graphical representation of the packing of protein
> molecules in a crystal? Ideally one would like to
> represent the protein as an elipsoid (or similar
> relatively simple shape) corresponding to its
> volume, over a few unit cells so as to visualise the
> continuity of solvent channels etc.
> Thanks for any leads!
> Anita
>
> Anita Lewit-Bentley
>
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Phoebe A. Rice
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Chicago
phone 773 834 1723
http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123
RNA is really nifty
DNA is over fifty
We have put them
both in one book
Please do take a
really good look
http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp
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