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For those interested, I think I'll go for Chimera and its support for .bild files. And that will be the end of this not so much xtal-related topic. ;) Sorry for the noise. Regards, F. On 10/29/2012 09:47 AM, Francois Berenger wrote: > On 10/27/2012 05:32 AM, Pete Meyer wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, why use PDB format instead of converting PDB into >> a format readable by a more general 3d graphics program and combining >> with your cube/sphere/line segment there? > > I want to interact with the scene. > Rotate, view, zoom, change protein representation, etc. > So, if I go for some pymol-supported format, > I will do all my visual inspection in pymol. > >> Pete >> >> Francois Berenger wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> For some new project, I'd like to be able to generate things >>> and store them in PDB format. >>> >>> For example, a triangle, a line segment, a square, >>> a cube, a sphere, an arrow, etc. >>> Being able to change the color and "line width" would be nice. >>> >>> Is there some official recommended way of doing this? >>> >>> Is there some software able to read and display such >>> graphical annotations of PDB files? >>> I'll also need the format description in that case. >>> >>> I want to be able to process a PDB file and store the result >>> of my processing in the same PDB file as some kind of annotation. >>> >>> My current way of doing this is to discretize my objects as H atoms >>> in some other output PDB file, but that's just a temporary workaround. >>> >>> My current search got me this: >>> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/eccc1/ >>> So, maybe there is some support for what I am looking for into >>> Chimera. >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your suggestions, >>> Francois. >>