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From: Ryan McGreevy (ryanmcgreevy_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2014 - 12:45:44 CDT

You could try using phenix to create a .ccp4 map which can be read by VMD.
You can use the phenix.mtz2map function (
https://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/mtz2map.html) to do
this.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Gough <jonathan.d.gough_at_gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It seems that VMD can read several different types of volumetric
> data/density/potential map (
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/).
>
> the PDB has mmCIF and structure factor sf files. They also have a
> conversion tool (http://sf-tool.rcsb.org/) that will convert the files to
> XPLOR or CNS. However, VMD can't seem to read these files, even though they
> are supported.
>
> Does anyone know how to convert the cif (from the PDB) to a vmd readable
> file?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>