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- From: gwilliam@mrc-crc.ac.uk (Gary Williams x3294)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Public Domain molecular modelling packages
- Message-ID: <Jan.22.22.36.31.1993.11573@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:36:31 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
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-
- The following list of programs may interest those of you who expressed
- an interest in public domain molecular modelling/molecular dynamics
- packages.
-
- I haven't followed up any of these programs, so I look forward to
- hearing on sci.nanotech from anyone who gets them up and running.
-
- This list is about 6 months old, so some of the information may be no
- longer valid.
-
- You should note that you get what you pay for :-)
- As has already been remarked in this news-group, there are many
- excellent packages for a few hundred pounds/dollars/marks/yen/ecu.
-
- There was also a question about formats for storing molecular structures
- in files. There are many conventions, but nearly all good packages
- should understand the Brookhaven format (also called the PDB format).
-
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-
- [ Based on a list from cristy@dupont.com < Cristy > , which asked for
- systems for displaying Molecular Dynamics, MD for short ]
-
- a. Flex is a public domain package written by Michael Pique, at The Scripps
- Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Flex is stored as a compressed,
- tar'ed archive (about 3.4MB) at perutz.scripps.edu [137.131.152.27], in
- pub/flex. It displays molecular models and MD trajectories.
-
- b. MacMolecule (for Macintosh). I searched with Archie, and the most
- promising place is sumex-aim.stanford.edu (info-mac/app, and
- info-mac/art/qt for a demo)
-
- c. If you are running on an SGI, try MD-DISPLAY, from Terry
- Lybrand (lybrand@milton.u.washington.edu).
-
- d. Duncan McRee <dem@scripps.edu> has something called XtalView. It is a
- crystallography package that does visualize molecules and much more.
- It uses the XView toolkit.
-
- e. landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu:
-
- I am writing my own visualization code right now. I look at MD output
- (a specific format, easy to alter for the subroutine) on PC's. My
- program has hooks into GKS. If your friend has access to Phigs for X
- (PEX) and fortran bindings, I would be happy to share my evolving code
- (free of charge). Right now it can display supercells of up to 65
- atoms (easy to change), and up to 100 time steps, drawing nearest
- neighbor bonds between 2 defining nn radii. It works acceptably fast
- on a 10Mhz 286.
-
- f. icsg0001@caesar.cs.montana.edu:
-
- I did a project on Molecular Visualization for my Master's Thesis, using
- UNIX/X11/Motif which generates a simple point and space-filling model.
-
- g. KGNGRAF by IBM.
-
- h. ditolla@itnsg1.cineca.it:
-
- I'm working on molecular dynamic too. A friend of mine and I have
- developed a program to display an MD run dynamically on Silicon
- Graphics. We are working to improve it, but it doesn't work under X,
- we are using the graphi. lib. of the Silicon Gr. because they are much
- faster then X. When we'll end it we'll post on the news info about
- where to get it with ftp. (Will be free software).
-
- i. XBall V2.0: written by David Nedde. Call daven@maxine.wpi.edu.
-
- j. XMol: an X Window System program that uses OSF/Motif for the
- display and analysis of molecular model data. Data from several
- common file formats can be read and written; current formats include:
- Alchemy, CHEMLAB-II, Gaussian, MOLSIM, MOPAC, PDB, and MSCI's XYZ
- format (which has been designed for simplicity in translating to
- and from other formats). XMol also allows for conversion between
- several of these formats.
- Xmol is available as ftp.msc.edu:pub/xmol/xmol.tar
-
-
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