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Rochus Schmid <rschmid \\at// acs.ucalgary.ca> |
| Date: |
Mon, 25 May 1998 15:27:26 -0600 (MDT) |
| Subject: |
summary: molecular builder |
hi netters,
thanks to all who responded to my question.
there is not much to summarize and I won't list all the answers I've got
here. Most replies are roughly:
"we've been looking for that kind of software, too. Couldn't find
anything."
BUT:
I was pointed to molden3.3
http://www.caos.kun.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html
and looked at it again.
It's not exactly what I wanted but it's worth to consider. The problem is:
you can easily edit a z-matrix with it. but in order to change *any*
internal coordinate this must be defined in terms of the z-mat. so if I
start from xyz and the auto z-mat builder doesn't make a z-mat which
includes this int. coordinate I have to reedit the whole z-mat.
this is all I have, sorry ;-)
greetings,
rochus
P.S.
what about if all those people (including me), who want to have such a
software think about "creating" it?
I was thinking about using a openGL extended scripting language like
tcl (or maybe python) for the job. since I have no clue about tcl I was
wondering if someone could supply a "viewport" which just displays a ball
and stick model which can be rotated etc.?
if you want to comment this idea or have any (definetly better ;-) ones
please reply *directly* to me, since we don't want to waste the bandwidth
on ccl.
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Rochus Schmid wrote:
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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