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From: maria goranovic (mariagoranovic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 19 2011 - 07:53:52 CDT

Hi

I am wondering if this feature is already present in VMD?

In Pymol, it is possible to color an amino acid residue represented as
licorice in say, orange, and yet one can distinguish between different atoms
of the residue. For example, all bonds will become pink, but a nitrogen will
still appear blue and an oxygen red. If I try to color all carbons in VMD
pink, a C-N bond still appears in the cyan color, and the effect is not the
same.

Such a representation can be very useful in visualization. for example:

http://hwmaint.jbc.org/cgi/content/full/285/34/26245/F4 

-- 
Maria G.
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen