Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!av8tr!elliston
From: elliston@av8tr.UUCP (Keith Elliston)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: Brookhaven coordinates, displaying molecules
Summary: no stereo
Message-ID: <583@av8tr.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 21:33:42 GMT
References: <9012131513.AA14132@genbank.bio.net>
Organization: Aviators Online BBS, Somerville, NJ
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In article <9012131513.AA14132@genbank.bio.net>, merberg@VAX.WI.EDU ("DAVE MERBERG") writes:
> 
> >> Would anyone know of a program that would produce
> >> 3-D graphics images of molecules that are defined by x,y,z
> >> coordinates in the Brookhaven Protein Data Base format.
> 
> The Prophet package, distributed by Bolt, Baranek, and Newman in Cambridge
> MA. does molecular display pretty nicely on SUN workstations.  The program
> uses shading to give the illusion of three dimensions - I'm not sure if it
> supports stereo.  I think its development was sponsored by NIH so it's not too
> pricey (it also does some sequence analysis, statistics, and graphics).
> 

Prophet does not support stereo views.. ie., actual 3D.  It does an adequate
job of displaying space filling models, but only runs on SUNs and decstations.
THere is rumor of a version that will run under A/UX, but I have not seen it
yet.

We use the quanta/charm package on an Iris to work with PDB files.  It does
a great job.. stereo, 3D, all the things you would want to do with molecules.
If you can find someone who has it, and an Iris, do it!

Keith Elliston
elliston@av8tr.uucp