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From: prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 3-d molecule databases
Keywords: DNA, other complex molecules
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Date: 14 Nov 89 21:09:21 GMT
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Reply-To: prem@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
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   Hi, I need some LARGE databases to do some testing of a new ray-tracing
   algorithm I'm working on for an honors' thesis.  One specific type I
   would like to find are some spatial coordinate descriptions of various 
   molecules, most especially DNA.  If I use your database, you will receive
   acknowledgement in the thesis paper, publication article, etc.  (I don't
   know how far this one will go).  So, does anyone have anything of this
   sort?  I know someone must, as I've seen ray-traced and hidden-line
   modelled DNA and other molecules before.  Heck, my friend's biochemistry
   textbook has stereo computer-rendered pictures of thousands of organic
   molecules, so someone resident on this planet has these.  It's just a 
   gamble of whether any owners of these read this newsgroup, right?

   PLEASE, if you have any, send them to me.  Also, a description of the
   format would be nice, so I could write a filter to convert them to
   DBW_Render format (1.0).
   ---Prem Subrahmanyam (prem@geomag.gly.fsu.edu)