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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2006 - 16:04:05 CDT

Hi,
  I was able to display your structure in ribbon representations, colored
by chain (yours has chains A, B, and X). Which version of VMD are you using?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ksuiuc.edu

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:07:27PM -0500, yzhou_at_chem.umn.edu wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I am a new learner. I have a question about VMD, but I am not sure whether
> this is the right email address that I should use to ask this kind of
> quesitons. If it is not the right email address, I am sorry for disturbing!
> Thanks!
>
> I want to displace a pdb file in the ribbon representation. The molecule is
> a dimer with segment A and segment B. VMD can displace both segments in the
> "Lines" drawing method, but it only shows half of segment B if I select the
> "ribbons" drawing method, i.e., Segment A can be shown in the ribbon
> representation fully, but half of segment B is invisible in the ribbon
> representation. Could you please tell me why this happens? Attached is the
> pdb file of the dimer, it may help you to answer my question. Thank you
> very much!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Yan 

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