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From: Jian Zou (zouj01_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 08:19:33 CDT

Hi all,

I have some questions about the usage of mol, animate.

first:
Is there some difference between the following 3 sets of commands?
Which should be more efficient or recommended to use for loading structure &
trajectory files?
A.
mol new alanin.pdb
mol addfile alanin.dcd waitfor all molid top
B.
mol new
animate read pdb alanin.pdb top
animate read dcd alanin.dcd waitfor all top
C.
mol load pdb alanin.pdb dcd alanin.dcd

second:
animate [read|write] <file type> <filename>
       [|beg <num>] [|end <num>] [|skip <num>] [|waitfor <num/all>]
       [|sel <atom selection>] [|<molecule id>]
I tried "animate read ..." with some selection but failed.
Can anyone show me an example on how to "read" with "selection"?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Regards,

Jian Zou