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Re: Cif viewer

There is a beta version of a tool called mmtool which you might find
useful. It can be dowloaded from
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/sdsc/biology/CIFters/

It has the functionality of PDBtool
(http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/PDBTool/), but includes parsing and display
of mmCIF files.

Cheers.. /Phil Bourne

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:

> If you are looking for programs to draw for molecules presented as CIFs,
> XTAL (either Xtal 3.5, the full crystallogrpahic computing package) or
> XTAL_GX (a subset of XTAL), will do a nice job of displaying small
> molecules.  For macromolecules, you need to convert from mmCIF to PDB
> format (e.g. with the program cif2pdb), and then you can display the
> molecules with any of a variety of macromolecular graphics packages, e.g.
> RasMol.  The latest version of cif2pdb also works for small molecules.
> mmCIF-native molecular graphics packages are in the works.
> 
> You can find out more about software tools for CIF by going to the IUCr's
> CIF web page, at
>   http://www.iucr.org/cif/
> or the equivalent page at any of the IUCr mirror sites.  You will find
> Ciffilter, a nice XTAL-based visualization front end for CIFs there, as
> well as links for XTAL-GX and cif2pdb.  You can find information on RasMol
> at
>   http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
> 
>    -- H. J. Bernstein
> 
> 
> At 4:04 PM -0500 7/31/98, Pengcheng Zou wrote:
> >Hi, all
> >
> >I am new to CIF, wondering is there any CIF viewer application
> >availble under solaris.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
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