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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 28 2007 - 15:50:41 CDT

Julie,
  If you can send me a copy of the structure file, I'll be happy
to look at it. I've been slowly working on improving the handling
of non-standard residues in VMD as they show up a lot these days
and I want VMD to do a better job of doing the right thing by default.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:15:31PM -0400, Stern, Julie wrote:
> Hello,
> I've built a non-standard residue and I'm having troubling viewing it with vmd. It won't show
> up as connected to the standard residues at all. The tube representation doesn't show anything.
> The sequence viewer doesn't show that the residue is there. In fact, I can only view it by asking
> for it by residue number the CPK view, but its also not connected to the neighboring residue.
> So, I'm wondering if I didn't make the standard residue correctly, OR does anyone know how
> vmd typically handles these?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Julie 

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