Molecular Modeling with RASMOL

Instructions:

On this page are *.ent text files obtained from the Molecules R US facility of NIH and the Brookhaven Protein Database or constructed with the SPARTAN molecular modeling program. The files contain the atomic coordinates of the specified molecule and can be viewed with the RasMol molecular viewing program. To do this you should obtain the RasMol program from the site listed below, and then configure your web browser as follows:

In your "options"/"preferences"/"helper application" menu, set up a up a MIME/SUBTYPE entry = chemical/x-ent with file extension .ent.

Link RASWIN.EXE (RasMol) to .ent files with the path for whatever directory you have placed it in.

Revisit this site, consult any of the documentation listed below and then load any of the following molecules. Happy viewing!

RasMol Links

A Great RASMOL manual A Kenyon RASMOL This site contains a comprehensive collection of molecules. We used this site as a model for this web page.
A Great RASMOL Site: RasMol Homepage at U. Mass (Amherst). This site contains a remarkably comprehensive collection of information about RASMOL plus many applications and demos.
Original Documentation for RASMOL 2.5: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/rasmol.html
Documentation for RASMOL 2.6-beta-2: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/distrib/rasman.htm
Information about RASMOL: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/rasintro.htm
To obtain RASMOL: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/getras.htm. This site contains links to download RASMOL for many platforms and other useful information

Selected molecules (check back regularly - more are being added):

B-Form DNA Beta subunit of E. coli DNA polymerase III

This page was last updated on January 19, 1997