Index to Course Material Index to Section 6 HTML Revisited Imagemaps
Drawing/painting Packages
More sophisticated labelling and other manipulations of image files will require
drawing/painting software packages.
(The following are not necessarily all freeware/shareware)
Image Formats
Earlier browsers could only interpret GIF (Graphical Interchange Format, compressed) and XBM (bitmap) file types, but more
recent versions can also understand JPEG files. JPEGs allow a degree of control
over the image quality; of course better quality JPEG files are larger in terms
of storage.
The following references are in the archives (Ohio State University) of the comp.compression newsgroup:
There are more useful links on references page.
Protein Image Libraries
gopher://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov:70/11/PDB/Entries/.****/****.gifwhere **** is the 4-letter code)
Image of ovomucoid third domain (2ovo) produced by Molviewer server
Click on it for a larger ribbon representation also produced by Molviewer
Last updated 19th Mar '96