Announcing new software for structural biology:
DINO, a realtime 3D visualization tool for structural biology data
Version 0.7.5 is available for free from the homepage at:
http://www.bioz.unibas.ch/~xray/dino
DINO aims to visualize structural data obtained from x-ray
crystallography,
structural NMR, electron and atomic-force microscopy and bioinformatics
(such
as molecular dynamics, structure prediction, molecular surface
calculation or
electrostatic potential calculations).
DINO incorporates five different data types: structure (for atomic
coordinate
data and trajectories), surface (for molecular and solvent accessible
surfaces),
scalar field (for electron density, reconstructed EM density or
electrostatic
potentials), topograph (for height fields generated by AFM) and
geometric
primitives.
Input formats:
PDB (coordinates), CNS/XPLOR (coordinates and electron densities), CCP4
(electron densities), CHARMM (coordinates and trajectories), UHBD
(electrostatic
potentials), MEAD (coordinates and electrostatic potentials) MSMS
(surfaces),
MSP (surfaces), TIFF (topograph)
Output formats:
TIFF (scaleable), RGB (scaleable), PostScript, Raster3D, POV-ray
DINO uses realtime 3D visualization provided by the OpenGL library. It
runs in
an X-windows environment and binaries are provided for SGI, DEC-Alpha
and Linux
(i386 and PPC). The source code is not provided at this time.
Please note that the current version is considered beta. Most planned
features
have been implemented, however, and current work is dedicated to
improving code
robustness, hunting bugs and implementing more formats.
For more information and example pictures, please visit the homepage at
http://www.bioz.unibas.ch/~xray/dino
For comments, questions, bug reports, etc please mail to
dino at bioz dot unibas dot ch
