Thomas J. Stout (stout at socrates.ucsf.edu) wrote:
: You could include the Calpha atom. It looks a little odd,
: but not as odd as those floating side chains...
: This is how I do it:
: ball-and-stick require in residue A85 and not either atom O, atom N or atom C;
: -Tom
:
Amongst the tricks Mike Saunders (M_Sauder at fccc.edu) posted a while ago was
the following
One last easy trick for displaying side-chains is to make the
alpha carbon radius tiny (thanks to Paul Laub for this trick):
set atomradius CA 0.1;
which makes it looks prettier
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Judith Murray-Rust
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg09j/home.html