From: Jacob Durrant (jacobdurrant_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2014 - 13:30:56 CST

Thanks John! Yeah, you can't imagine how much I use QuickSurf now. :) It's
amazing how quickly it renders. ~Jacob

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:33 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Jacob,
> Sorry for the slow reply, I was out of the office traveling for the last
> several days. I was the one you probably remember meeting with
> when you visited. I recall briefly showing you how to use QuickSurf for
> your
> virus structure while you were here.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 01:19:12AM -0700, Jacob Durrant wrote:
> > Thanks, guys! This is exactly what I was trying to remember. ~Jacob
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Josh Vermaas <vermaas2_at_illinois.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jacob,
> >
> > Any of the fields that VMD stores as an integer are good candidates
> for
> > using the modulo operation on when constructing an atom selection.
> >
> > residue % 3 == 0 would give you every third residue
> > index % 2 == 0 would give you every other atom (by index).
> >
> > You might be interested in more atomselection math functions to
> limit
> > the amount of volume that is shown at once.
> > See http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/ug/node19.htmlfor a
> > simple example.
> >
> > -Josh Vermaas
> >
> > On 02/12/2014 02:37 PM, Jacob Durrant wrote:
> >
> > A few months ago I was visiting Klaus Schulten's group, and one
> of the
> > VMD developers there showed me a very convenient atom selection
> for
> > selecting every other atom, or every third atom, etc. It made
> viewing
> > large structures much faster and easier. I've searched the
> internet
> > and can't find that command anywhere. Can anyone here point me in
> the
> > right direction?
> > Thanks,
> > Jacob
> >
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> > Rommie E. Amaro Research Group
> > University of California, San Diego
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> > jacobdurrant_at_gmail.com
> > jdurrant_at_ucsd.edu
>
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Rommie E. Amaro Research Group <https://amarolab.ucsd.edu/>
University of California, San Diego
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