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From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 11:23:33 CST

I have downloaded the file and opened it with vmd just fine.

command...
vmd -pdb 1sva.pdb1

perhaps you needed the -pdb switch?

PS
The molecule looks pretty cool, almost like a lunar lander....

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Sanjeev B.S. wrote:

> Hello,
> I was trying to visualise the following PDB:
> ftp://ftp.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/data/biounit/coordinates/divided/sv/1sva.pdb1.gz
>
> I find that neither in my linux box (500MB RAM + 1.5GB swap) or in my SGI
> I could open. It shows only a monomer. As per VMD specs I should have been
> able to load it effortlessly, as I could in rasmol. Is that the problem
> with my computer architecture or there is somethingelse that's missing? I
> am using v1.8.2.
>
> TIA,
> -Sanjeev
>

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