3. Looking at 3D Structures

3.1 3D Viewers

The following freeware allows for interactive inspection of PDB files on PCs and MACs.

• RasMol for PC, Mac, unix
  http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
• MAGEfor PC, Mac, unix
  http://www.faseb.org/protein/kinemages/MageSoftware.html
• WPDBfor PC
  http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/wpdb/wpdb.htm
• Cn3D for PC , Mac, unix
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.html
• MOLVIEW for Mac
  http://www.danforthcenter.org/smith/molview.htm
  

For more info:

• D.C. Richardson & J.S. Richardson (1992). The Kinemage: A tool for scientific communication, Protein Sci. 1, 3-9.
• D.R. DStampf, C.E. Felder & J.L. Sussman (1995). PDBBrowse - a graphics interface to the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank, Nature 374, 572-574.
• I.N. Shindyalov & P.E. Bourne (1995). WPDB - PC Windows-based interrogation of macromolecular structure, J. Appl. Cryst. 28, 847-852.
• Smith T. J. (1995). MolView: a program for analyzing and displaying atomic structures on the Macintosh personal computer. J. Mol. Graphics 13:122-125.

3.2 Organized Collections