[gmx-users] Secondary structure not visible after converting from .gro to .pdb

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/28/14, 9:24 PM, bharat gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I energy minimized a protein consisting 10 chains using gromacs. When I
> converted the structure of the protein from gro format to pdb format to
> visualize in Pymol, it shows only one chain in ribbon form and rest of the
> chains are not shown ... How to rectify this error ??
>

Visualization programs guess what secondary structure should be based on the 
supplied geometry.  Sometimes they get it wrong.  If you're concerned about 
secondary structure changes, you should be using a quantitative method rather 
than visualization.

-Justin

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