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Re: Cif viewer

• To: imgcif-l@bnl.gov
• Subject: Re: Cif viewer
• From: "Herbert J. Bernstein" <yaya@bernstein-plus-sons.com>
• Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:00:00 -0400
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980731160322.7657C-100000@alcmena.lsc.nd.edu>

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
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>Pengcheng Zou
>Tel: (219)634-3215(H)  (219)631-3906(O)
>E-mail: pzou@lsc.nd.edu
>Hard Mail Address:
>Dept. of CSE, Univ. of Notre Dame
>Notre Dame, IN 46556
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