From rschmid -AatT- acs.ucalgary.ca Tue May 12 21:30:37 1998 Received: from ds11.acs.ucalgary.ca for rschmid $#at#$ acs.ucalgary.ca by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id UAA29879; Tue, 12 May 1998 20:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA51334; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:41:37 -0600 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:41:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Rochus Schmid To: ccl Subject: molecular builder Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Netters, Please forgive me for asking that question, which came up a couple of times already, I know. But I am desperate and my question is rather specific: I am searching for a (simple!!!, 3D!) molecular builder: - it should run under UNIX/X and be free (I know cerius2 and insightII and and and ....) - it should be very simple (I don't need ruberbands, rayshading etc. and it is only for a couple of atoms and not for proteins) - it should be able to add or delete atoms by mouse and change bond length, angles and dihedrals by selecting the atoms. - it should be able to read and write the stuff as pdb or xyz or whatever I follow this mailing list for quite a while now and similar questions came up quite often, I know. So I know about gopenmol and xmol and viewmol and molden and vmd and a couple more. But none of these programs is what I'm looking for. To make that more clear: I really like xmol. It's simple and free etc. but you can't build molecules. And I really liked the UNICHEM interface by Cray. This was perfect to me but it is not free ;-) Is there anything on this beautifull world like that?? I can't believe, that I'm the only one who needs that kind of software. Thanks in advance for any comment or hint. Happy computing, Rochus ******************************************************************** Rochus Schmid Phone: (403) 220-3232 University of Calgary Fax: (403) 289-9488 Department of Chemistry Email: rschmid #*at*# acs.ucalgary.ca 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/groups/ziegler/ ********************************************************************