In <1994Sep13.153554.18325 at Princeton.EDU> micky at berthaw.princeton.edu (Michael West) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a program which will read a protein's pdb file, and then
>make secondary structure assignments to each amino acid? Any suggestions or
>information would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>Michael micky at berthaw.princeton.edu>
Molecular images is a program package for searching, viewing and rendering Protein Data Bank
files under Micosoft Windows. PSEARCH is used to search directories of PDB files (including the
CD-ROM) for keywords. MOLW is a fast, interactive molecular viewing program that allows
coloring, selecting and fitting of PDB files. Viewing options include sticks, ball-and-stick, CPK and
ribbons using the secondary structure information in PDB files. Basic fitting functions allow
mutating residues as well as rotation, translation and bond torsions. MOLW can calculate
distances, angles, dihedrals as well H-bonds and nearest neighbour contacts. Several structures
can loaded at once and least-squares superimposed. After a view is found it can be ray-traced in
SHOWCASE to make photo-realistic images and saved as bitmaps and as postscript for making
slides.
Programs require Windows 3.1 and a math coprocessor for SHOWCASE only.
The academic price for the three program set is $195.00 + $10.00 shipping. Optional Stereo
viewers are available for $59.00 .
Available from US Science, PO Box 6689, San Diego, CA, 92106-0689,
(619)523-1949
uscience at ix.netcom.com
To get a demo of Molw and showcase bitmaps; access the directory via anonymous ftp by ftp-ing
to ftp.netcom.com, logging in as anonymous, and then cd-ing into pub/molw. If you are unsure
about how anonymous ftp works, please refer to FAQ 112. Then use the get or mget command for
file molwdemo.zip (also available is pkunzip. exe version 2.04). Download them both to a directory
c:\molimage on your hard-drive and type pkunzip molwdemo. Run Molw.exe from your Windows
file manager. This version will only let you load one file MOLWDEMO.PDB but is otherwise a fully
functional.
