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Type Python Module
Download bbPlane.py
Author(s) Jason Vertrees, Blaine Bell and Thomas Holder
License MIT
This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo

This script will draw a CGO plane between the backbone atoms of two neighboring residues. This is to show the planarity of the atoms. The image style this is meant to represent can be found many places, like "Introduction to Protein Structure" by Branden and Tooze (2nd ed. pp. 8).

Examples

# download the source and save as bbPlane.py
run bbPlane.py
fetch 1cll
# make planes for residues 4-9
bbPlane i. 4-10