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"CPK" stands for Corey-Pauling-Koltun. It commonly refers to | "CPK" stands for Corey-Pauling-Koltun. It commonly refers to spacefilling physical molecular models developed by Corey, Pauling and Koltun<ref>Corey, RB and Pauling L (1953), Molecular models of amino acids, peptides and proteins. Rev. Sci. Instr. 24: 621-627.</ref><ref>PMID: 4158989</ref> in the 1950's and 1960's. ''CPK'' also refers to the color scheme for the elements that they adopted. | ||
==CPK Color Scheme for the Elements== | |||
In this color scheme, carbon is gray or black, <font color="red">'''oxygen is red'''</font>, <font color="blue">'''nitrogen is blue'''</font>, and hydrogen is white. The command "color cpk" applies this color scheme in popular molecular visualization programs such as [[RasMol]], [[Chime]], and [[Jmol]]. The complete set of element colors used by Jmol is available at [http://jmol.sourceforge.net/jscolors/ Jmol Colors], where the colors used by RasMol are compared with those used by Jmol. | |||
A color key such as the one below can be inserted into Proteopedia using existing templates (see [[Help:Color Keys]]): | A color key such as the one below can be inserted into Proteopedia using existing templates (see [[Help:Color Keys]]): | ||