microsat wrote:
>Hello!
>
>RasMol can show a cartoon style of a pdb file. Can PovRay do this?
>I know PovRay can show spacefill style of a pdb file.
>
>Thank you.
>
Povray can, of course, show just about anything, but whether there's a way
to
simply take a pdb file (or pdb file and rotation), and get a cartoon style
rendering, I don't know (actually, I'm not sure what a cartoon style
rendering
would entail, even though I've seen a number of pdb files rendered in a
number
of ways... )

My first suggestion is search google for 'povray pdb', and you'll hit a
number
of different discussions, mostly involving swiss pdb viewer's povray export
function.

My second suggestion, is if you have any coding ability at all, Povray's
scene
description language is certainly robust enough to read and display a pdb
file in any way whatsoever (though this involves understanding -all- the
details
of the chosen display method, and IIRC, some methods, like classic 'ball and
stick' are nearly impossible to do from a PDB file (because the atoms are
only
recorded by location, not by binding, certainly in the case of
experimentally
scanned proteins and probably in the case of artificially generated pdb
files.))

Well, good luck.



--Chris

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