From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2010 - 16:42:22 CDT

Hi,
  I'm out of town for another day, so I'm behind on emails.
Have you tried coloring by "element"? (or are you loading from
file formats that don't specify atomic element?)

Cheers,
  John

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Jennifer Williams wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a structure and need to change the colours of certain atoms. In
> my .pdb file I have SI and S. Both are automatically recognized as S
> in VMD and given the same colour. I am unable to change this using the
> colour control in the graphical interface.
>
> I know that I could easily do find and replace in my .pdb file but I
> also have trajectory files which I cannot format.
>
> Is there someone around this -perhaps using some script command. Any
> help greatly appreciated,
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
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