[BiO BB] Save protein structure image as an adobe SVG format file

Boris Steipe boris.steipe at utoronto.ca
Mon Nov 24 21:15:03 EST 2008


Meh.
Simple Z-sorting is not intersecting spheres.
If it's any non-trivial vector graphic representation you are trying  
to do, you might consider the following workflow:
3D-viewer -> View Matrix -> Molscript -> PS -> ps2svg


B.




On 24-Nov-08, at 7:23 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote:

>
> I guess the real question is, " what are you trying to do?" You could
> probably write a perl script to do this. The pdb is ascii, you just  
> need to project
> 3D onto 2D and get some atom colors and radii. SVG AFAIK is all ascii
> XML which is easy to generate from a script.
> If you take all the atoms, project, sort on Z ( distance from viewer),
> and generat XML that would probably give you what you need.
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
>
> the code to draw circles is pretty simple,
> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/shapes.html> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008  
> 07:36:35 +0800> From: shreyasee.pradhan at gmail.com> To:  
> bbb at bioinformatics.org> Subject: Re: [BiO BB] Save protein  
> structure image as an adobe SVG format file> > Hi,> > For viewing  
> PDB files you can use Swiss PDB viewer software. Its free !!!> > >  
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Xiaowei Jiang  
> <xiaowei.jiang at msn.com>wrote:> > > Hi fellows,> >> > Does anyone  
> know a PDB viewer software or a way, in which I can save image> >  
> directly as an adobe SVG format file?> >> > Thanks in advance!!> >>  
> > Cheers,> > Xiaowei> >> >> >> >> >  
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