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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 13:11:30 CDT

Hi,
  VMD (currently) expects all of the models to contain the same number
of atoms, and will only load the ones that meet this criteria. I intend
to revise the plugin interface to allow file containing a mix of models
to be loaded into multiple molecules in VMD, as this would also be a better
match for typical uses of mol2 files, for example. It won't happen for this
release, but perhaps in the next one.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:05:30PM -0700, Kevin Wu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to create a multimodel PDB file that contains multiple
> different PDB structures. Does VMD support this type of file? Or do the
> number of atoms have to be the same in a multimodel PDB file?
>
> Thanks!
> Kevin 

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