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Helping

If you feel like helping out, please login and get to work.  :-) For design/layout purposes you must be logged in to edit pages. We now need people to assist with

• A wiki edit/user policy is needed.
• Wiki schema/design/organization: Below you'll find the current layout design
• Graphic design and CSS layout: We need logos, BG images and CSS layout
• Importing the email list content: We have (lots) of email to sift through, extract data from and import into the Wiki
• Etc...

Editors Needed

If you feel you have the time to help import data into the PyMol wiki, please email Tree.

We need your help. So join today & happy editing!

Tree

Section Layout

Please do not ADD any content to the site yet. Just Organize the following list as logically as possible. Here's my first go at it.

Please see Discussion for more thoughts on the site organizaiton.

Layout Schema

1. News
   1. Discussion
   2. PyMol Beta
2. Technical Issues
   1. Installation
      1. OS Dependent
         1. Linux
         2. MAC
         3. Windows
3. Launching PyMOL
   1. Command Line Options
   2. Launching From a Script
4. Using the GUI
   1. Mouse Controls
   2. Objects and Selections
      1. Working with Objects
      2. Working with Selections
      3. Selector Quick Reference
         1. Single-word Selectors
         2. Property Selectors
         3. Selection Algebra
         4. Selection Macros
      4. Representations
         1. Lines
         2. Sticks
         3. Cartoon
         4. Surface
         5. Mesh
         6. Spheres
         7. Dots
      5. Color
      6. Displaying biochemical properties
   3. Display Settings
   4. Stereo 3D Display
      1. Hardware Options
      2. Linux XFree86 Configuration
   5. Scenes
   6. Mouse Settings
   7. Wizards
   8. Plugins
   9. Ray-tracing
   10. Settings Reference (all settings and what they do)
   11. Movies and Animations
   12. Structure Alignment
   13. Structure Alignment Editor
5. Command Language
   1. PyMOL Command Script
   2. PyMOL Python API
6. Advanced Issues
   1. Modeling and editing structures
      1. Editing atoms|Editing Atoms
      2. Molecular sculpting
      3. Homology modeling
   2. Image Manipulation
      1. labels
      2. Photoshop/GIMP
      3. Stereo Figures
      4. Publication-quality images
7. Scripting
   1. Example Scripts
   2. Script Library
8. Plugins
   1. How to do electrostatics and energy minimization.
      1. APBS Plugin
   2. rtools
   3. Tutorial on writing plugins
   4. Others
9. High-Level Applications (Crystallography, NMR)
   1. Crystallography Applications
      1. Symmetry
      2. Electron Density
   2. NMR Applications
      1. Working with Structure Families
      2. Superimposition and RMSD
      3. NMR Restraints and Analysis
10. Third Party Software
    1. Movies
    2. Codecs
11. Python Integration
12. Unintended Uses (OpenGL Object Renderer)
    1. Arbitrary Graphics Objects
13. Uncategorized For new pages, misplaced pages, etc.

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Tree 02:09, 16 Feb 2005 (CST)

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