RasMol

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RasMol
Basic data

developer ARCiB laboratory
Publishing year 1992
Current  version 2.7.5
operating system Linux / Unix / Windows / Mac / BSD
programming language C.
category Molecular design
License GNU General Public License
German speaking No
official page

RasMol is software that allows macromolecules to be represented graphically, such as those that appear in the Protein Data Bank . The program was originally developed by Roger Sayle in the early 1990s, today it is further developed by a community at the ARCiB laboratory. In France, the program was recommended by the Ministry of Education and used in teaching at universities, technical colleges and high schools.

Example of a molecule (TRAF2 trimer PDB: 1DOA) in Rasmol

Historically, it was an important tool for molecular biologists, as the program made it possible early on to visualize molecules on home computers of the time . Because RasMol could already run on these computers and did not require mainframes that were not freely available due to their high acquisition costs, RasMol became and still is an important research tool in molecular biology . RasMol has a complex version history and from version 2.7 is under a dual license ( GPL or under the commercial license "RASLIC"). Along with BALL View, Avogadro , olekel , Jmol and PyMOL, RasMol is an open source program that can visualize molecules. RasMol has its own scripting language that was adopted by Jmol - therefore RasMol scripts also run under Jmol. Rasmol scripts can also be read out by Sirius. RasMol is available under Unix systems as well as under Windows . Under UNIX it can communicate with other programs via Tcl / Tk , under Windows via Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

development

In the meantime, the software is hardly developed any further and the number of users is falling sharply.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ARCiB laboratory
  2. ↑ RasMol and OpenRasMol . (accessed on October 23, 2018).
  3. ↑ http://www.rasmol.org/software/rasmol/README.html
  4. ↑ RasMol / Code / [r178] /branches/rasmol-2.7.6/src . (accessed on October 23, 2018).
  5. ↑ http://www.rasmol.org/
  6. ↑ Molecular Modeling with RasMol by Andreas Bohne and Henryette Roth
  7. ↑ Server for molecular biology 6.4 3D structures University of Cologne
  8. ↑ Audiovisual Module: Enzymes in Bioorganic Chemistry TU Darmstadt
  9. ↑ Visualization software ( memento of the original from August 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ulm University @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-ulm.de
  10. ↑ Rasmol - Free Molecular Viewer for Chemistry and Biology chemistryteaching.com
  11. ↑ http://www.rasmol.org/history.html
  12. ↑ Craig PA, Michel LV, Bateman RC .: A survey of educational uses of molecular visualization freeware. In: Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2013 May-Jun; 41 (3): 193-205. doi: 10.1002 / bmb.20693. Epub 2013 May 4. PMID 23649886 ; PMCID: PMC 4098825 (free full text).