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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  
>To: [log in to unmask]
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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
>
>   Unité d'Immunologie Structurale
>   CNRS URA 2185
>   Département de Biologie Structurale & Chimie
>   Institut Pasteur
>   25 rue du Dr. Roux
>   75724 Paris cedex 15
>   FRANCE
>   Tel: 33- (0)1 45 68 88 95
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>   email: [log in to unmask]
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