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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 10:13:30 CST

Dear Nick,
  One way you could accomplish this despite the limited number
of primary colors in VMD is to assign at resid to the "beta" field
in the atoms, and then use the color by "beta" method with one of the
color scales. Here are some of the relevant docs on this:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.8/ug/node188.html

Also, see the "betacolor distance" script at the bottom of this page:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.8/ug/node180.html

You could just rewrite that script to set the beta field with
the resid, or any other number, instead.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 03:23:28AM +1000, Dr Nick wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm having trouble coloring by Resname. I would like to
> color each amino acid a different color (20), but there
> are only 17 in the Resname color category. Ideally I'd
> like to use say the RWB color scale to give each amino
> acid a color based on an number in the range [0..1].
> This seems like such an obvious thing to want to do, I guess
> I must have missed something in the manual (newby!).
> Thanks,
> Nick Hamilton
>
> Advanced Computational Modelling Centre
> University of Queensland
> 

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