Hi,

  

   my intention is to make a figure that  maps the degree of sequence conservation of surrounding residues onto a surface drawn over the said inhibitor. I know I can color surfaces by distances and other parameters but I could not find out how to color a surface by properties of neighboring residues or atoms.

Is there perhaps a way to convert an atom attribute like conservation into a map that then could be used to color a surface? Alternatively, I thought I could write out the calculated sequence conservation as a pdb file with say the b-factor column representing the sequence conservation. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case. Can you write atom attributes in any other way? - perhaps I missed that.

If I had access to the sequence conservation values, I could copy them to the b-factor column of the inhibitor and color its surface by bfactor. 

Thanks for any advice.

Lothar

NIH