Protein structure viewers (was Re: [bioknoppix-discuss] (no subject))

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:50:28AM -0400, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote:

> The 0.2.1 release has rasmol and Cn3D, both described on the applications page:
> 
> http://bioknoppix.hpcf.upr.edu/applications
> 
> There are some nicer protein structure viewers, but the ones we have
> seen have restrictions on redistribution, preventing us from including
> them on the bioknoppix disk.
> 
> rasmol and Cn3D work for .pdb files and the structure databases at NCBI.

PyMOL is a free software protein structure viewer.  

As a plus for bioknoppix, it is being actively maintained for Debian
by Michael Banck, and so should be easily apt-get'table into a future
version of bioknoppix.  

--Joe