RasMol – Quick Reference

Li Liu, 02/21/07

Keywords are case insensitive and may be entered in either upper or lower case letters. All whitespace characters are ignored except to separate keywords and their arguments.

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backbone background bond cartoon

centre clipboard colour connect

cpk cpknew define depth

dots echo english exit

french hbonds help italian

label load molecule monitor

pause print quit refresh

renumber reset restrict ribbons

rotate save script select

set show slab source

spacefill spanish ssbonds star

stereo strands structure surface

trace translate unbond wireframe

write zap zoom

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backbone off

backbone 250

background grey

background [125,125,255]

bond 7313 7314 +

bond 7313 7314 pick

bond rotate on

cartoon 500

center selected

color [120, 120, 120]

colour atoms [0,0,255]

colour atoms cpk

{alt|amino|chain|charge|cpk|group|model|shapely|structure|temperature|user}

colour backbone none

colour backbone [0,0,255]

{atoms|bonds|backbone|ribbons|labels|dots|hbonds|ssbonds}

define t_base selected

dots off

hbonds off

labels off

load pdb "gal4_dna.pdb"

pause

refresh

reset

restrict dna and backbone

restrict atomno>=22 and atomno <=31

rotate z -128

rotate y -15

rotate x 83

script clrleg.scr

select all

select (atomno>=1) and (atomno<=8)

select atomno=38 or atomno=7

select dna

select selected or (atomno>=36 and atomno <=37)

define tmp selected

select tmp and nitrogen

select tmp and oxygen

select tmp and carbon

select tmp and hydrogen

select tmp and phosphorus

set ambient 60

set axes off

set bondmode and

set bonds off

set boundingbox off

set fontsize 30

set specular off

set unitcell off

slab off

spacefill off

spacefill 0.45

ssbonds off

translate x 16

translate y 9

wireframe off

wireframe 80

zap

zoom 300