From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 13 2012 - 10:58:08 CST

Brian,
  I believe you should be able to do this. Have a look at this
VMD script that processes the PDB "BIOMT" records used for things like
viruses and the like, and reconstructs the full unit from the replicated
and transformed pieces:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/mono2poly/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:21:39AM -0800, Bennion, Brian wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Does the matrix transform command 'move' operate such that it could apply the symmetry transformations in pdb remark line 290?
> These operations are composed of a 3x3 rotation transform and a translation vector. They should also be applied so that the rotation is completed before the translation. Since the 'move' command uses a 4x4 matrix I was curious how it could be utilized in these types of operations.
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> Thank you
> Brian

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