Graphics Software

Molecular graphics software packages can be used to create images also. One such package that is available to 'Dept Users' on PCs in the Windows environment is RASMOL. This is free software available by 'Anonymous FTP'. It can read text files in Brookhaven PDB format and view these files as images. Dept Users can find PDB files on the P: drive, within the \data subdirectory. These files have the extension (or suffix) as .PDB

The viewed images can be resize, rotated etc and then saved in GIF format (which is suitable for Mosaic).

Try it for yourselves. Here are four images produced using RASMOL. The first two are small molecules whose files were created from scratch. They are displayed in 'sticks' and 'spacefill' modes. The last two are the single default protein displayed in 'wire frame' and 'ball & stick' modes.

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