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From: Paul Hubbard (phubbard_at_post.its.mcw.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 11:10:34 CDT

Hi,

I have found SWISS PDB VIEW better at handling GRASP files than VMD. I
have only used potentials so don't know if you'd have any problems with
what you're doing, but I've got no complaints.

ags

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Paul Hubbard
Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee
Wisconsin. 53226

Tel: 414-456-4305
Fax: 414-456-6510
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Andrew Hall wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:17:27 -0500
> From: Andrew Hall <hall_at_estradiol.cbr.tulane.edu>
> To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: GRASP files
>
> We are having some trouble getting the output of GRASP loaded into VMD.
>
> GRASP has a variety of outputs after it has generated a surface. It can
> create a
> surface as a series of points in PDB format, but this looks hideous and
> is fairly useless as
> the surface information has been lost.
>
> The VMD file dialogue has GRASP files listed , but it asks for a file
> pair and GRASP only generates single
> files (as far as I can tell.) I can get a GRASP surface file to display
> in VMD by selecting
> some arbitrary second file. The surface is displayed, but I am not sure
> about centering
> or other features (we are trying to stack several surface images and
> they need to be centered
> on the same point.) Also, VMD appears to treat the surfaces as objects
> and I am unable to get
> get each loaded surface to display in a different color.
>
> Any help in this would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> A.
>
>
> --
> Andrew Hall
> hall_at_estradiol.cbr.tulane.edu
> Center for Bioenvironmental Research
> Tulane University/Xavier University
>