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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 10:07:23 CST

Hi Lubos,
  What platform are you running VMD/Surf on? Surf does have some
bugs and though we didn't write it, I might be able to take a look
and see if there's anything I can do about it if you give me more
information. Do you have a structure that causes the problem
easily?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:00:38PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi!
>
> i'm probably asking on the wrong place, but maybe... i've got following
> problem: if i select some part of the protein (let's say 1 residue) and
> want to change the representation to Surf, it doesn't display anything
> except following output:
>
> Malloc of zero or illegal length!!
> length = 0
> Reading 0 atoms..done
> Probe radius = 1.400
> Constructing solvent-accessible surface ..
> Max edge length = 1.200
> Malloc of zero or illegal length!!
> length = 0
> Malloc of zero or illegal length!!
> length = 0
> Malloc of zero or illegal length!!
> length = 0
> Total Triangles 0 Total constraints 0
> Max Neighbors per atom 0 Average Neighbors per atom nan
> Surface construction + writing time 0.00 seconds
> done
>
> this repeats for fragments <14 residues (this number differs among
> different structures). what more it seems that the output for 14 - 25
> residues fragment remains all the time the same, it changes for fragment
> of 1 - 26 residues (the numbers vary again among different structures) -
> it reports
> reading xxx atoms
> done
>
> where xxx is same for fragments of (for example) 14 - 25 residues.
>
> could anyone tell me what i'm doing bad?
>
> tia,
> lubos
>
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