For mac, a screen saver (structure) is already available. moreover it's free and displays couple of structural information exactly the way Jayashankar wants.
http://www.sourcecod.com/structure/
I hope their is something like this for Linux/Windows also.
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From: Jürgen Bosch <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 2:44:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB protein strucutrues as screen saver
Get a Mac, render some images in Pymol and run a slideshow with Ken burns effect if you want.
Jürgen
On 16 Feb 2009, at 13:22, Jayashankar wrote:
> Dear Scientists,
>
> It may be too much...
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> But as a biophysics student I would like to appreciate and feel happy to have pdb
> structures as my computers screen savers than to have some funny and fancy stuffs.
> And it may help me as a motivator to solve my own structures in future....
>
> I want to ask is there any existing script that grep strucutres one by one with one line definition of that structure.
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> S.Jayashankar
> Research Student
> Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
> Hannover Medical School
> Germany.
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