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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 11:45:35 CDT

Hi,
  There's no built-in rep to do what you describe presently, but it's
conceivable that I could add something along these lines if there's
enough interest. In the short term, you might be able to hack your
structure as you're suggesting and trick VMD into drawing a ribbon/cartoon
for it.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:22:51AM +0200, nsapay_at_ibcp.fr wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
> I am working with a system made of water, peptides and membrane bilayers. I can
> use tube, cylinder or cartoon representation for the peptide... But is there a
> trick to represent lipid molecules in a fancier representation than CPK or VDW?
> For example, if I rename carbon atoms of a POPC molecule in the same way than a
> protein backbone, would it be possible to use the tube representation? In fact,
> I am looking for a representation that "smoothes" the lipid hydrophobic tails
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolas
>
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