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From: Dallas Warren (dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 21:28:26 CDT

John,

> I assume that by 'contours' you are referring to isosurfaces of
>volumetric data such as electron density maps, electron orbitals,
>potential maps, etc? If that's what you are referring to, then yes,

Yes, that is correct.

>VMD can load and display such data sets. The new version of VMD includes
>readers for 4 differenet electron density map formats, and a reader for
>Gaussian 'cube' files. You can also load volumetric data via Tcl scripting
>if you have some other data format that we don't have a reader for yet.

I am still trying to find out exactly what the file format is. I think it
is a *.plt, but not 100% sure. Anyway, with gOpenMol if you go via the
menus "Plot" then "Contour" you can "Import File" without having to do
anything to the file.

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Research Fellow
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
+61 3 9903 9083
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