From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Sat Mar 2 09:06:10 2002 Received: from ccl.net ([192.148.249.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g22E6A502697 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:06:10 -0500 Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls3.std.com [199.172.62.105]) by ccl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/OSC 2.0) with ESMTP id JAA17202 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:06:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from vaio.theworld.com (1Cust208.tnt6.bos10.da.uu.net [63.16.135.208]) by TheWorld.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08394 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:05:38 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.1.20020302091240.00a43df0@pop.theworld.com> X-Sender: jle@pop.theworld.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 09:14:36 -0500 To: chemistry@ccl.net From: Joe Leonard Subject: RasMol this time Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Folks, I'm interested in learning where the "best version" of Rasmol is for Linux. I've found/built OpenRasmol (from www. openrasmol.org), and it works after some tweaking with the Makefile. Are there better/newer versions of the source I should be using? Also, are there alternatives to Rasmol? There are some annoying "doesn't do's" with the menus and I'd really rather not do X/Motif programming :-).... Thanks! Joe From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Sat Mar 2 11:16:27 2002 Received: from ccl.net ([192.148.249.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g22GGR503909 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:16:27 -0500 Received: from mercury.sunesis.com (sunesis.com [64.240.200.4]) by ccl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/OSC 2.0) with ESMTP id LAA19514 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 11:16:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from apollo.sunesis.com ([192.168.1.17]) by mercury.sunesis.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:15:31 -0800 Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Warren L. DeLano" To: Joe Leonard cc: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:RasMol this time In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020302091240.00a43df0@pop.theworld.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2002 16:15:31.0017 (UTC) FILETIME=[7961EB90:01C1C205] Joe, There are a number of free viewers out there now http://homepages.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/marc.saric/molmod1.html http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/index.html but there is only one free program that provides professional-quality visualization and coarse modeling under a completely unrestrictive open-source license, and thats PyMOL. http://pymol.sf.net In addition to being a great viewer, PyMOL has a 3D molecular builder, interactive molecular modeling (like Sculpt), full support for macromolecular structures and crystal symmetry, a scripting language, a Python API, an integrated ray-tracer, Molscript-quality ribbons, animation capabilities, fitting, mutagenesis, electron density, surfaces, and so on. Plus, it is cross-platform (Windows, Unix, Mac) via OpenGL. It was developed on Linux using nVidia graphics cards, so it runs great there. Disclaimer: I am the author, and well-known to be biased, but I think PyMOL provides much more functionality than RasMOL under a software license that is suitable for both academic and commercial applications. Cheers, Warren On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Joe Leonard wrote: > Folks, I'm interested in learning where the "best version" of Rasmol is for > Linux. I've found/built OpenRasmol (from www. openrasmol.org), and it > works after some tweaking with the Makefile. Are there better/newer versions > of the source I should be using? > > Also, are there alternatives to Rasmol? There are some annoying "doesn't > do's" with the menus and I'd really rather not do X/Motif programming :-).... > > Thanks! > > Joe