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. Some *.pdb files have embedded RasMol script commands to set the view. To view these molecules you should obtain the RasMol program from the site listed below, and then configure your web browser as follows:

• In your Netscape "options"/"general preferences"/"helpers " menu, edit a new MIME/SUBTYPE as follows:
  
  Description = whatever you want
  Type = chemical/x-ent
  extension or suffix = ent,pdb
  

• Then browse and Link RASWIN.EXE on a PC or RasMac as the application. On UNIX machines use " xterm -e directory/rasmol %s " where directory contains the rasmol program.

• 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/distrib/rasman.exe
Documentation for RASMOL 2.6-beta-2 in HTML format: 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 example molecules ( more are at PDB files ):

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