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Re: [ccp4bb]: measure circumference



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Ok, my dimer is not a perfect sphere. Let's say I want to wrap a rope 
around my protein in a certain orientation. What word should I use for that 
distance instead of circumference? And which program can measure that 
distance?

Thanks

At 12:34 PM 8/30/2002, Gerard \"DVD\" Kleywegt wrote:

>how do you define '*the* circumference' ? only when your dimer
>is a perfect sphere does that make sense; in all other cases
>you need to specify first what it is you are trying to measure
>
>--dvd

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