Molscript-multicoloured beta-strands

[Betty Shen]

Dear Steffen,

In your Molscript input file, try putting all strands belong to a single
beta-sheet together as a block under one colour setting before proceeding
to the next beta-sheet ...

!colour first beta-sheet red

     set planecolour  hsb 0.0 1.0 1.0 ;
     set plane2colour hsb 0.0 0.9 0.6 ;
     set linecolour   hsb 0.0 1.0 0.3 ;
 	
	 strand from M2176 to M2182;
	 strand from M2218 to M2225;
         strand from M2247 to M2253;
 	 .
	 .

!colour 2nd beta-sheet green

     set planecolour  hsb 0.4 1.0 1.0 ;
     set plane2colour hsb 0.4 1.0 0.6 ;
     set linecolour   hsb 0.4 1.0 0.3 ;

	  strand from M2196 to M2198;
	  strand from M2189 to M2193;
	  strand from M2229 to M2234;
	  strand from M2258 to M2265;

!colour 3rd b-sheet 
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Have fun!

Betty

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Betty W. Shen			bshen at fred.fhcrc.org       
Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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On 8 Oct 1999, Steffen Graether wrote:

> In article <939372879snz at pdchem.demon.co.uk> you wrote:
> > In your Molscript input file, you might try something like this:-
> 
> >   set colourparts on;
> >   set residuecolour residue 354 green;
> 
> That partly works. The problem with colourparts on is that the colour of 
> the strand extends into neighbouring coil regions, rather than starting 
> at the strand. If I make the coil region a little longer then the colour 
> of the coil extends into the helix. Either way, the structure looks bad 
> with these 'strange' transitions. I've tried mixing colourparts on and 
> off, but then the coils are no longer continuous.
> 
> Steffen
> 
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