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Also road signs can be cleverly replaced
On 15/07/2010, at 16.40, Phoebe Rice wrote:
> What would be wrong with WORDS? They were such a clever
> invention. I can tell the difference between colors, but it
> takes a second step to figure out what they mean anyway. Why
> not just write "no info" over the gray ones? And a 1-word
> caption on all the little icons would help, IMHO.
> Phoebe
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:56:58 -0400
>> From: Mischa Machius <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Introducing PDBprints - salient,
> at-a-glance info about PDB entries
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> There are so many ways to address this issue.
>> Perhaps the simplest would be to use a combination
>> of dimming and thick, solid borders vs. dashed
>> borders to distinguish the two states of the icons.
>> Cheers! MM
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
>>
>> Better still, I can let you see them though my
>> eyes. Here's what the icons look like to me, and a
>> link to Vizcheck, the tool I used to generate
>> them:
>>
>> http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/colour/pdb/pdb.html
>>
>> http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php
>>
>> Running this in various modes you should be able
>> to pick colours which work for everyone, not just
>> for me.
>>
>> Flip Hoedemaeker wrote:
>>
>> Yep, its green-blue vs grey... Bad choice I
>> guess? Perhaps you can provide a set of examples
>> that work for you?
>>
>> Flip
>>
>> On 7/15/2010 13:20, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
>>
>> Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
>>
>> For a five-minute illustrated introduction
>> to PDBprints (including
>>
>> instructions on how to include them in your
>> own webpages) point your
>>
>> browser to:
>>
>> http://pdbe.org/pdbprints
>>
>> Good idea.
>>
>> But the icons for published/unpublished,
>> protein present/protein absent,
>>
>> nucleotide present/nucleotide absent and
>> ligand present/ligand absent
>>
>> look identical to me - I have to read the alt
>> text.
>>
>> Is there some colour thing going on here which
>> is invisible to protanopes?
>>
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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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