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From: Leonardo Trabuco (ltrabuco_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 15:35:27 CDT

Dear Insight II:

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:09:17PM -0400, Insight II wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> I have a question on the unit for the color scale data range, i am
> drawing electrostatic potential surface in VMD using RWB colors, and
> found that "A good initial range for APBS potential data is -10 to
> 10. If you prefer more intense colors, you can set the range lower, to
> something like -4 to 4." i am wondering what unit is it for the color
> scale range when applied to elecstatic potential.

The unit is kT/e, with T=298.15.

> and what range do most papers select?

That largely depends of the system you are working on.

Best,
Leo 

-- 
Leonardo Trabuco, Ph.D. student
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign