From noy -8 at 8- tci002.uibk.ac.at Tue Jan 11 15:07:15 1994 Received: from uibk.ac.at for noy ^at^ tci002.uibk.ac.at by www.ccl.net (8.6.4/930601.1506) id OAA27553; Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:33:18 -0500 Received: from tci002.uibk.ac.at by uibk.ac.at with SMTP id AA28127 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 11 Jan 1994 20:32:41 +0100 Received: by tci002.uibk.ac.at (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/CFIBK-2e.AIX) id AA27897; Tue, 11 Jan 1994 20:32:39 +0100 From: noy()at()tci002.uibk.ac.at (Teerakiat Kerdcharoen) Message-Id: <9401111932.AA27897 #*at*# tci002.uibk.ac.at> Subject: Re: Rasmol To: chemistry %-% at %-% ccl.net Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 20:32:38 +0100 (NFT) In-Reply-To: <9401111711.AA05272 : at : still3.chem.columbia.edu> from "Peter Shenkin" at Jan 11, 94 12:11:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3591 Dear Netters, This may help for one who wants the information about RasMol. Teerakiat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teerakiat Kerdcharoen (NOY) Institute of General and Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry Innrain 52a, A-6020 Innsbruck AUSTRIA e-mail: noy(-(at)-)tci.uibk.ac.at, noy(-(at)-)tci2.uibk.ac.at, c72454(-(at)-)cx.uibk.ac.at : noy # - at - # atc.atccu.chula.ac.th, noy # - at - # atc2.atccu.chula.ac.th ( Bangkok ) Research : Molecular Dynamics simulations : Computer Aided Molecular/Material Designs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ informations here ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RasMol 2.1 Molecular Graphics Visualisation tool. Roger Sayle Biocomputing Research Unit University of Edinburgh June 1993 This posting is to announce the public release of the RasMol 2.1, molecular graphics visualisation program. The package has been developed in the BRU over the last few years, and following the recent collapse of commercialisation negotiations is now being offered FREE!! It was claimed in a recent conference to be the fastest available uniprocessor program for drawing shadowed spacefilled molecules. On a SparcStation it can shadow a 10,000 atom protein in less than 10 seconds. 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 24bit colour display. The complete source code and user documentation for both the UNIX/X11 version and the IBM PC/MS Windows 3.1 version may be obtained by anonymous ftp as RasMol2.tar.Z from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk [129.215.160.5] in the directory /pub/rasmol. A compressed version of the PostScript user reference is also available in the same directory as rasmol.ps.Z. 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 and space filling spheres. The space filling spheres may even be shadowed. The molecule may be manipulated using scroll bars, the command line or from a dials box if 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. The current version of the program has been tested on sun3, sun4, hp9000, sequent and mips (dec,sgi and E&S) machines compiled under both gcc and the native compiler. The version for Microsoft Windows requires version 7 of the Microsoft Optimizing C Compiler and the SDK. Binaries for the IBM PC and compatibles will be made available if there is sufficient interest. The source code is public domain and available under the terms of the GNU public license agreement. Any comments, suggestions or questions about the package may be directed to "rasmol { *at * } dcs.ed.ac.uk". -- Roger Sayle JANET: ros;at;uk.ac.ed.dcs Department of Computer Science UUCP: ..!mcsun!uknet!dcs!ros University of Edinburgh ARPA: ros%dcs.ed.ac.uk "-at-" nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK. Tel: (+44) 031 650 5163 (direct line)