Dear Asano san,
I'm sorry for interrupting your mailing to Dr. Clare Sansom, but I am
using MSI software, and comparing to ones you mentioned about MSI
products are very good. Although still there are many things that
require upgrading, and many parts are still under construction, I would
like to recommend MSI software anyway! For sure it is MUCH better than
Rasmol and Modeller. The disadvantage is that you cannot use that on PC.
I work on Indy, O2 and ORIGIN machines. Mainly I am interested in
InsightII and Quanta. Very interesting is Gene Explorer (a new baby of
MSI) that is very good for homology analysis (so far it is probably not
available yet, and so far only protein part is done - the part
concerning homology analysis of nucleic acids is not finished yet). Such
stuff like Rasmol, Hyperchem, Predict7, Macaw, Gepasi, Editbase, etc.
are used only as additional tools for pilot preliminary research.
I would like to mention about two programs of mine, concerning analysis
of homology and semihomology in protein primary structure. They are
based on the algorithm of genetic semihomology (the paper describing
this algorithm will show up in Computers & Chemistry" this year). If you
are interested in those programs, and a new algorithm I will be pleased
to give you more inforamtion about that.
Sincerely,
Jacek Leluk
lulu@bf.uni.wroc.pl