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From: Jack Bulat (jack.bulat_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2013 - 18:34:37 CDT

Hi Juan,

Have you tried adjusting the Aspect Ratio or Thickness in the Graphical Representations menu box? Sometimes those default to the minimum, which makes the protein look coiled without showing ribbons.

Hope that works,
Jack Bulat
Grad student,
UC Berkeley

On Mar 21, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay <raygozag_at_psu.edu> wrote:

> Hi, i'm using VMD 1.9.1 on mac os and whenever I load any pdb with protein in it, it won't show the secondary structure of the protein in new cartoon, it only shows the proteins as coils, i already installed stride and restarted vmd but keeps showing me the same result.
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