[Chimera-users] Chimera paper virus models

[Thomas Goddard]

Hi Ulrich,

  This week I made 5 paper virus models using the Chimera flatten icosahedron
tool.  You can have the images I created:

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/viper-gallery-jun2006/

The image files are named according to the Protein Data Bank (PDB) 4 letter
id code.  The page

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/goddard/temp/viper-gallery-jun2006/vipergallery.html

shows images of the approximately 200 known virus capsids taken from the
VIPER web site.

	http://viperdb.scripps.edu/

  I added some comments to the flatten icosahedron documentation a few days
ago describing "tiling" of the Chimera image to handle capsid proteins
that are cut in half -- so they appear on both sides of the cut.

	http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/flatten_icosahedron/flaticos.html

  I printed my images on standard photopaper.  The images above will need
to be scaled to fit on a piece of paper.  I just asked my web browser to
scale them to fit when I printed.

  One additional note about my images -- I turned on "silhouette edges" to
give the black outlines around the proteins.  This is done using Chimera
menu entry Tools / Viewing Controls / Effects.

	Tom