Help:Color Keys

Color KeysColor Keys

A molecular scene usually communicates best when a color key is provided. It is planned that a future version of Proteopedia will provide a mechanism to place a color key in the legend or caption beneath the molecular scene in Jmol (see Proteopedia:Wishlist), but this is not yet available. At present, you can put colored text or an image in the wikitext of your page.

ExamplesExamples

• The amino to carboxy color key is used in NMR_Ensembles_of_Models#Display_of_NMR_Models_by_Proteopedia.

• The ConSurf color key is used in Avian_Influenza_Neuraminidase,_Tamiflu_and_Relenza#Influenza_Virus_Neuraminidase

Color Key TemplatesColor Key Templates

Templates are available to make it easy to insert a color key for some of the standard color schemes that are available on buttons under the Colors tab in the Scene Authoring Tool. How to insert a color key template into wikitext is is explained on the page about the DRuMS Standard Color Schemes, where you will also see examples of color keys as colored wikitext. Also, you can view the source of this page to see how it is done.

The following templates for color keys are currently available:

CompositionComposition

• Composition color key (See DRuMS for how to use Templates).

Protein DNA RNA Ligand Solvent

ElementsElements

See DRuMS for how to insert the Templates for these color keys.

C H O N

Hydrophobic/PolarHydrophobic/Polar

See DRuMS for how to insert the Templates for these color keys.

Hydrophobic, Polar

ChargeCharge

See DRuMS for how to insert the Templates for these color keys.

Anionic (-) / Cationic (+)

Secondary StructureSecondary Structure

See DRuMS for how to insert the Templates for these color keys.

Alpha Helices,  Beta Strands , Turns.

Rainbows: N to C, 5' to 3'Rainbows: N to C, 5' to 3'

See DRuMS for how to insert the Templates for these color keys.

• Amino to Carboxy Rainbow (N->C Rainbow) color key for protein chains

N

C

Amino Terminus

Carboxy Terminus

• 5' to 3' Rainbow for nucleic acid chains

5'

3'

• Amino to Carboxy Rainbow together with 5' to 3'

N, 5'

C, 3'

ConSurfConSurf

• ConSurf color key (see Evolutionary Conservation)

Only when your ConSurf-colored model has no yellow residues (residues with insufficient data in the multiple sequence alignment), it is OK to use this color key:

Other Color Schemes?Other Color Schemes?

If you would like help setting up a Template in Proteopedia for a color key not yet available, please contact .

Coloring TextColoring Text

If one of the templates above does not provide what you need, you can color text using HTML. For example, to produce

Red and Green

enter the following in the wikitext box:
<center><big><b><font color='red'>Red</font> and <font color='green'>Green</font></b></big></center>

The above example uses color names red and green. For more exotic colors, you can use Red-Green-Blue hexadecimal codes instead of color names. An extensive list of such codes is on the Jmol Colors page. For example,

Lithium and Copper

can be produced with
<center><big><b><font color='#cc80ff'>Lithium</font> and <font color='#c88033'>Copper</font></b></big></center>

See AlsoSee Also

• DRuMS including how to use color key templates.
• Help:Editing