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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2011 - 16:42:43 CST

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:43 -0500, Manish Agarwal wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> Is it possible to see the secondary structure of polymers like those
> seen via the newcartoon in a typical protein? I would like to see the
> helix formed in polypropylene for example, which crystallizes into a
> 3/1 helix. Is there something like STRIDE for polymers?

no.

if it is only about visualization, you can assign
secondary structure codes to "backbone" atoms
manually via Tcl scripting.

axel.

>
> Thanks!
> Manish Agarwal
> <zmanish_at_gmail.com>
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.