[Chimera-users] help on virus visualization

[jh]

Thank you for useful suggestions.

2010/10/26 Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net>:
> Hi C.J.,
>
>  In addition to what Elaine suggested, you can also mask to an icosahedral
> surface, or a radial interpolation between a flat face icosahedron and a
> sphere.  You would use the Icosahedron Surface dialog (menu Tools /
> Higher-Order Structure) or the "shape" command to make this surface and the
> "mask" command to make a new density map containing only the density within
> the surface.
>
>  All of the Chimera masking techniques just set the density map values to
> zero outside the surface.  This produces a pretty jagged edge between
> density inside and density outside.
>
>    Tom
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I want to mask area outside certain surface and to visualize the inner
>> capsid of a virus by Chimera.
>> Anyone would be kind to help me with that?
>>
>> C.J.
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