From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 16:52:16 MDT
Anders wrote:
> I took a look at PDB; it seemed both quite powerful but also terribly
> chemistry specific and ancient (a format from 1971!). However, it
> doesn't seem to support edges between the atoms as would be desirable.
> Doing a VRML output function is fairly easy, but then we miss out the
> chance to be come immortalized as atoms :-)
Hmmmm, I think I understand. Well RASMOL is supposed to understand
a bunch of other formats, some of which may be useful:
http://openrasmol.org/
and with RasTop, it looks like it is getting pretty close to Chime.
If none of that works, you might want to send an email to Roger Sayle
and ask him if you can just get the GUI and renderer code from Protein
Explorer and define your own format for a more general graph format.
Another possibility might be NanoCad, which seems to now be moving
in an open source direction:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncadjava/
Robert
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