<2rvkoj$4d7 at mserv1.dl.ac.uk>, mjones at crc.ac.uk (Dr. M.D. Jones) writes:
|>|> Hi netters
|>|> We have just started a project on site-directed mutagenesis of a protein.
|> We have the three dimensional crystal structure, and here at the RPMS we
|> have RasMol and XMol progs to look at the structure.
|>|> However, we would like to be able to produce models and figures, like the ones
|> that adorne the pages of nature [e.g. Nature, vol. 368, 215-221 (1994)]
|>|> They use molscript, O, ChemDraw, Ribbons and MS progs
|>|> I guess that ChemDraw is a commercial package.
|>|> The others (Molscript, Ribbons, O and MS) are they available ?
|> from where ? How (ftp ?) ? How much ? What hardware is required ?
|>|> Any answers and comments will be gratefully accepted.
|>|> Thanks
|>|> Mick Jones
|>
MolScript comes with source code and should therefore compile
on most Unix boxes. The author is Per Kraulis, e-mail
pjk at oyster.csb.ki.se. I think the program is (almost) free.
O is probably overkill if you just want to generate pictures;
it is mainly intended for macromolecular model building
(using X-ray data). The author is Alwyn Jones, e-mail
alwyn at xray.bmc.uu.se. An O license costs US$ 250 for
academics.
--Gerard
