[kde-edu]: Needed some clarifications in Kalzium

[Linus Östberg]

I'm not in any way related to Kalzium, but involved in biomedical research.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Orestes Mas <orestes at tsc.upc.edu> wrote:
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> I've some doubts regarding the translation of some english words / expressions in Kalzium, and need further clarification by the developers:
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> 1) What exactly do you mean with "Shapely Colors"? (i.e. the meaning of adverb "shapely" applied to colors)

I believe it's named that way since that's how it's named in rasmol.
In my opinion it should be kept that way in order to keep consistency
with other applications with equal functionality.

"The RasMol shapely color scheme color codes residues by amino acid
property. This scheme is based upon Bob Fletterick's "Shapely Models".
Each amino acid and nucleic acid residue is given a unique color. The
shapely color scheme is used by David Bacon's Raster3D program [4].
This color scheme is similar to the amino color scheme. Shapely can be
selected from the RasMol Colours menu."
http://life.nthu.edu.tw/~fmhsu/rasframe/COLORS.HTM#shapelycolors

> 2) I didn't understand what a "residue" was until, after some googling, I believe it's related to amino acids. Can you confirm this?

A residue is an amino acid in this case.

> 3) If my beliefs concerning (2) are true, then may be (1) is related to the way amino-acids are colored in a molecule, so in this case may be "Shapely Colors" should change to something more clear as "According to shape".
> "Shapely colors" is so misleading that translation teams are translating this in very creative ways: French translation is something like "lathed colors", and spanish one is "Well-formed colors"...

As mentioned, I think the current naming should be kept. I have no
idea how to translate it though.

/ Linus Östberg
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> Thanks.
>
> Orestes Mas
> Catalan team.
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