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From: Peter (peter.mawanga.lagos_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 28 2022 - 09:06:13 CDT

Thanks a lot!

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 11:47 AM Satyan Sharma <stynshrm_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Peter,
>
> Please look at the file "restypes.dat" (located in directory
> /Applications/VMD 1.9.4a51-arm64-Rev9.app/Contents/vmd/scripts/vmd/)
> where the residue types are defined. Also there is another file named
> "atomselmacros.dat" that also defines residue types (from RASMOL), but I
> think this gets overidden by restypes.dat. Changing restypes.dat would just
> be effective.
> And then the colors for each type are defined in colordefs.dat, in the
> same directory.
>
> Hope that helps.
> regards,
> Satyan Sharma
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:42 AM Peter <peter.mawanga.lagos_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In VMD, the amino acid residues can be colored based on the residue type,
>> such as acidic, basic, nonpolar and polar. However, I searched for which
>> amino acid residues are allotted to which particular residue type but could
>> not find any VMD tutorial or paper that lists the residues for each class.
>>
>> Could someone please help me with this? Thank you so much for your
>> assistance.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Peter
>>
> 

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Cheers
Peter