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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear Chimera developers and sophisticated users,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have trouble to show the surfaces of serveral crystal structures, including 1rzk and 2b4c. Whenever I select: Action/Surface/Show, I would get pop-up error window and the following message in my Reply Log:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\Program Files\Chimera\bin\mscalc.exe 1.400000 2.000000 0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Surface calculation failed, mscalc returned code 5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C:\Program Files\Chimera\bin\mscalc.exe 1.400000 2.000000 0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Surface calculation failed, mscalc returned code 5</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Since I don't have problem with other pdb files, such as 3dnn, I wonder if this problem is simply associated with some particular pdb files? If anyone out there knows a few tricks to overcome this, I'd really appreciate it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Many thanks in advance,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sean</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sean Du, Ph.D.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Senior Scientist, Project Leader</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Maxygen, Inc.</FONT>
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