Re: [ccp4bb]: Ligplot/Molscript/Breaking Bonds

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Thanks for the reply. I had thought of that, but how do you change the
setting within a residue, so as to keep some bonds formed and others
broken?

> It should be possible to "break" the bonds by selecting the
> appropriate atoms and setting the bonddistance parameter to something
> really small (0.1?).  The selection rule may be somewhat complicated...
>
> Darrell Hurt
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 phubbard@post.its.mcw.edu wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> Has anyone tried taking the flattened PDB from Ligplot and using it in
>> Molscript? The highly distorted output I get means some atoms are
>> close to eachother in the ligplot.pdb file, and so are bonded when
>> they shouldn't be.
>>
>> Is it possible to "break" bonds in molscript? I've RTFM and still have
>> NFI.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> AGS
>>
>>
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