Hi,
If you have the latest version of pymol and ANISOU in your pdb file, you
just have to type:
show ellipsoids,
http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Ellipsoids
Mathieu
> These kind of problems with r3d can usually be traced back to the
> header. In fact, the rastep page has the following snippet:
>
> Describe the same ellipsoids colored by Biso, and create an input
> module with no header records for inclusion in a composite image:
>
> rastep -h -Bcolor 10. 30. < infile.pdb > ellipsoids.r3d
> cat header.r3d ellipsoids.r3d otherstuff.r3d | render -tiff
> picture.tiff
>
> If fancy0 (default) yields a proper header, you can probably extract
> that, name it "header.r3d" and emulate the above commands.
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Joseph Ho wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to display thermal ellipsoids in pymol. What I did was
>> using rastep to make a r3d file and open it in pymol.
>>
>> If I generate the r3d file with no extra options: rastep < infile.pdb
>> > outfile.r3d, pymol can open it.
>> But if I generate the file with rastep -auto -fancy1 < infile.pdb >
>> outfile.r3d, pymol cannot open it.
>>
>> I know I can use render to make a picture, but I would like to be
>> able to view the picture in 3-D in pymol, so I need to make a r3d
>> file (with the -auto -fancy1 options in rastep) that pymol can read.
>>
>> Is it possible? Any suggestions for other ways of doing the same thing?
>> Joe
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