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From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Tue Dec 28 2004 - 11:16:46 CST

Hello,
Sounds to me like there is an atom in your pdb file that surf does not
recognize.

Have you tried MSMS?

Regards
Brian

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dieter blaas wrote:

> I have been trying hard to render the surface of a virus-receptor
> complex (1v9u.pdb) but always get the message "ERROR) Failed to
> create Surf atom radii input file". Since I believed that this is related to
> the large coordinate file I also tried to render a surface of a small
> molecule. However, in all cases I receive the same message. What is
> the reason?
> Thanx for help, Dieter
>

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