Mage
Invented by David and Jane Richardson
Department of Biochemistry
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
for PROTEIN SCIENCE
MIME Type File extension
chemical/x-kinemage kin
Platforms: Macintosh, MS Windows
Retrieve: (Check the README file for instructions)
- For PCs: Mage_all.exe in the pcMAGE subdirectory
- For Macintosh: Mage_all.sea.hqx in the macMAGE subdirectory
Uses: The kinemage is used for viewing a structure for which the
coordinates have already been determined. The author of a kinemage
determines those aspects of the structure that s/he wishes to emphasize
and designs the figure accordingly. The reader can then examine and
rotate the structure in three-dimensions and interact with it by toggling
on/off buttons that are defined by the author.
Web References:
Mage Installation instructions for X Windows, Macintosh and MS-Windows
http://www.prosci.uci.edu/ProSciDocs/MageInstall.html
PREKIN is a utility program which prepares trial kinemages from
Brookhaven Protein Data Bank format coordinate files. PREKIN comes with MAGE when you download Mage_all.exe or Mage_all.sea.hqx if you would like to try your hand at creating kinemages. Some documentation is available at:
Kinemage Coobook: A Tutorial
gopher://gopher.prosci.uci.edu:70/00/Kinemage/Cook_Kin.txt
Here is an example of a Kinemage being displayed using Mage as an external viewer with Netscape. If you would like to see a larger version, simply click on the picture.
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