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From: Cesar Luis Avila (cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2008 - 11:17:58 CDT

Hi all,
I have a short peptide of 21 aminoacids for which I am trying to get a
New cartoon representation. Even though STRIDE seems to work without
problems, as seen from running the command on Tk console

[atomselect top "name CA"] get structure
C C C C C C E E E E E T T T E E E E E C C

Nevertheless when I try to use any of the drawing methods Ribbons,
NewRibbons, Cartoon or NewCartoon, I don't see anything rendered (empty
screen). Which might be the problem? I am using vmd 1.8.6 on linux with
Nvidia drivers.

In line with the above question, is it possible to use this drawing
representations with custom secondary structure information other than
STRIDE? (perhaps derived from other tools).

Thanks
Cesar Avila