From: Jonathan Gough (jonathan.d.gough_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2014 - 12:52:51 CDT

is the cif file in the MTZ format?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ryan McGreevy <ryanmcgreevy_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
wrote:

> You could try using phenix to create a .ccp4 map which can be read by
> VMD. You can use the phenix.mtz2map function (
> https://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reference/mtz2map.html) to do
> this.
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Gough <
> jonathan.d.gough_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> It seems that VMD can read several different types of volumetric
>> data/density/potential map (
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/).
>>
>> the PDB has mmCIF and structure factor sf files. They also have a
>> conversion tool (http://sf-tool.rcsb.org/) that will convert the files
>> to XPLOR or CNS. However, VMD can't seem to read these files, even though
>> they are supported.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to convert the cif (from the PDB) to a vmd readable
>> file?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>
>