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- RasMol 2.3
- Molecular Graphics Visualisation tool.
-
- Roger Sayle
- BioMolecular Structures Group
- Glaxo Research & Development
- Greenford, Middlesex, UK.
- February 1994
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- RasMol is an X Window System tool intended for the visualisation of
- proteins and nucleic acids. It reads Brookhaven Protein Databank (PDB)
- files and interactively renders them in a variety of formats on either an
- 8bit or 24/32bit colour display. The complete source code and user
- documentation for the UNIX/X11, IBM PC/MSWindows and the VMS/DecWindows
- versions may be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk
- [129.215.160.5] in the directory /pub/rasmol. All the source code is
- contained in the file RasMol2.tar.Z and the MS Windows source code and
- executable in the file raswin.zip. Both of these files include on-line
- help, hypertext documentation and the previous (dated) version of the
- PostScript user reference manual.
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- Please remember to use "binary" mode when transferring files between
- UNIX and MSDOS systems. Check that the file size is the same before and
- after transfer. The MSWindows error "No Memory for Application" is
- symptomatic of transfering "raswin.exe" in ASCII mode (corrupting it).
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- The program is intended for teaching and generating publication
- quality images. The program has both a menu system and a full featured
- command line interface. Different parts and representations of the
- molecule may be coloured or displayed in a number of formats independently.
- Currently supported formats include wireframe, ball and stick, backbone,
- space filling spheres and solid or strands ribbon models. The space filling
- spheres may even be shadowed. The molecule may be manipulated using the
- mouse, the scroll bars, the interactive command line or from a dials box
- (if one is attached). The resulting image may be saved at any point in
- PostScript, GIF, PPM, Sun rasterfile or Microsoft BMP formats. For more
- details see the RasMol user reference. On a SparcStation, it can shadow
- a 10,000 atom spacefilling protein in less than 10 seconds.
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- The current version of the program has been tested on sun3, sun4,
- sun386i, SGI, DEC & E&S mips based machines, DEC Alpha (OSF/1 and OpenVMS),
- VAX VMS (under Dec Windows), IBM RS/6000, hp9000, sequent compiled under
- both gcc and (typically) the native compiler. The version for Microsoft
- Windows requires version 7 of the Microsoft Optimizing C Compiler or
- Visual C++ Compiler and the Microsoft Software Development Kit (SDK).
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- The source code is public domain and freely distributable provided that
- the original author is suitably acknowledged. Any comments, suggestions or
- questions about the package may be directed to either "rasmol@dcs.ed.ac.uk"
- or "rasmol@ggr.co.uk".
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- Thank you for acquiring a copy of the RasMol distribution. I hope you
- enjoy it! If you like the program and decide to use it, *Please* send me a
- short email message to that effect, together with any comments or suggestions
- for improving the program. If you appreciate the large amount of work that
- has gone into creating RasMol, a small donation of $40 US or #25 GBP to the
- address below would be welcome.
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- Contact Address:
- Roger Sayle,
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Edinburgh
- The King's Buildings,
- Mayfield Road,
- Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
- SCOTLAND
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- Tel: (+44) 081 966 3567
- (+44) 031 650 5163
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- EMail: ros@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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