Protein viewer Pymol

is a widely applied protein structure viewer by Warren Delano.

Residue selections: Dragging the mouse over a part of the amino acid sequence in the STRAP alignment creates a residue selection in Pymol. The alignment cursor position refers to another Pymol selection named "cursor". Users can refer to these selections in Pymol. Using the [S]show or hide [H]hide menus in the side panel of Pymol the representations of the selected atoms can be specified like sphere, cartoon or stick.

Menu The generic 3D-menu for the Pymol view is opened by clicking the Pymol button which will appear in a separate small panel which also acts as a drop target for further 3D-structures.

Related links: http://www.rubor.de/bioinf/   http://www.rubor.de/anlagen/PyMOL_Tutorial.pdf

Bugs: Pymol does not treat negative pdb residue numbers correctly. Pymol selection is unspecific if the chain identifier is a space character ' ';