Protein Models

In 1975 I constructed a wire model, an alpha carbon trace, of carp muscle calcium binding protein using Byron's bender. A Thing-O-Matic, I thought, would allow me to build the same model much more easily. I began with a program from the University of Illinois, VMD, which displays protein structures in various ways and outputs STL files. While I was successful in making models with VMD's "tube" representation I was not able to print the alpha carbon "trace" representation.

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