RasMol V2.5

Molecular Visualisation Program

Roger Sayle
Glaxo Research and Development
Greenford, Middlesex, U.K.

MIME Type                        File extension 

 
  chemical/x-mdl-molfile          mol
  chemical/x-pdb                  pdb
  chemical/x-xyz                  xyz

Platforms: Macintosh, MS Windows, Unix

Available at:ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/rasmol

Retrieve:

Excerpt from the program announcement:

"RasMol2 is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images. RasMol runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, UNIX and VMS systems. The UNIX and VMS systems require an 8, 24 or 32 bit colour X Windows display (X11R4 or later). The program reads in a molecule co-ordinate file and interactively displays the molecule on the screen in a variety of colour schemes and molecule representations. Currently available representations include depth-cued wireframes, 'Dreiding' sticks, spacefilling (CPK) spheres, ball and stick, solid and strand biomolecular ribbons, atom labels and dot surfaces."

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst has a RasMol home page (see below), which I would suggest visiting. It has information on the lastest releases of RasMol (ie RasMol 2.6 beta versions), installation instructions, tutorials, the history of RasMo

Web Reference:

RasMol Home Page at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
RasMol Online User Manual
http://www.glaxowellcome.co.uk/netscape/software/rasmol/ or
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/

When RasMol opens, two windows are displayed, graphics and command. The graphics window is shown immediately below

The command window allows you to interact with the program and give information on the molecule.

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