Quick description of Graphic User Interface (GUI) functions available in ePMV v0.0.2a (Please note, this is an old table that we'll update in August 2011. Please see the ePMV GUI Detailed page for an up to date reference)
| GUI section | GUI Feature | Descriptive example | Data access | File System browser | Load a local PDB file | Fetch from web | Download to cache and then load a PDB file from the internet directly from the ePMV GUI without opening a web browser. | Database pointer | Specify to fetch from a variety of optional databases, e.g., Optimized Membrane Protein or Transmembrane Protein Data bases, or load CIF or PSQ versions of the data. | Selection | Current selection: | Choose a molecule or a previously saved custom selection set | Add selection set | Make a selection using PMV commands or dozens of provided keywords to make chemistry based selections | Save, rename, or delete selection sets | Save complicated selections for later access. Rename the defaults to easily track numerous and complex selections. Delete unwanted selection sets without affecting the actual atoms | Delete the atoms | Remove atoms defined by the current selection set (atoms are deleted from the host view as well as from the underlying model.) | Representation | Choose from preset Representations | A present representation will turn on and adjust parameters of the various appropriate standard representations | Atoms | Spacefilling or CPK representation with each atom represented as a sphere with van der Waals radii and a single radius scaling slider | Sticks | Atom and bond representation with a scaling option and an atom/bond radius ratio slider | Ribbons | Cartoon backbone representation | Loft | A smoothed cartoon backbone that uses host-based lofting technologies (morphing a smooth skin from one 2D cross-section shape to another) to create a single mesh. Users can access host tools to alter the transverse profiles of coils, helices and sheets independently or universally. Useful for animating transition states to avoid binary flickers in secondary structures while morphing between conformers. | Armature | A joint/bone technology ubiquitous in hosts allows molecular models to be animated with kinematics rigging techniques and tools. |
| Spline | A multipurpose 3D curve drawn between atoms can be used for animating joints and backbones or for creating a smooth worm model backbone or a linear CA trace for example. | Metaballs | A surfacing technology ubiquitous in hosts that skins clusters of points, splines, or spheres. It can make a smooth skin between disparate geometry types and can be used, for example, to maintain a smooth and continuous mesh surface over a dynamic molecule. | MSMSurf | Standard “solvent excluded” molecular surface representation with an adjustable probe radius | CoarseMolSurf | Standard Gaussian-based coarse molecular surface representation with adjustable isovalue and resolution sliders | Color scheme: | Color representations using a variety of color schemes, e.g., Color By: atom type, residue, secondary structure, temperature factor, etc. | Data Viewer | Disk Browser | Load a variety of data file types such as Molecular Dynamics files (trj, xtc) or Volumetric grid Maps (e.g., mrc, ccp4, map, etc.) | Apply Data | Select which loaded data file to apply to the current geometry | Data Player | Context sensitive numeric slider bar will set appropriate ranges and adjust the parameter accessible in the data file. Loading an NMR structure in the Data Access Panel will set the player to a range from 0 to the number of structures in the PDB file and the slider can be used to scroll through them Loading a .ccp4 file will set the data player to adjust the isocontour value. | Script manager | Open | Open a python script from library of premade scripts or from a custom file on the hard drive | Save (as) | Save a copy of a custom script or save a new version of a modified default script | Script window | Access the full functionality of PMV and other python applications by typing or pasting script text into this window. For users unfamiliar with PMV’s python syntax, every action performed in PMV has the corresponding command written to a log file, which can be copied and pasted into ePMV. |
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