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At the same time, the power and capabilities of standard PCs increased dramatically. The Richardsons (Richardson and Richardson, 1992) at Duke University developed molecular graphics programs to run on the Macintosh. In a dramatic development, the World Wide Web emerged. Roger Sayle created RasMol as part of his PhD dissertation at Oxford, and made the source code freely available on the web. This program allowed raster display of molecules on UNIX or PCs. The RasMol... 

Crystallographers share the fruits of their work in the form of lists of atomic coordinates, which can be used to display and study the molecule with molecular graphics programs (Chapter 11). Less commonly, because fewer people have the resources to use them, crystallographers share the final structure factors, from which electron-density maps can be computed. The audience for structure factors includes other crystallographers developing new techniques of data handling, refinement, or map interpretation. 

Display of 3D Structures with Molecular Graphics Programs... 

Cn3D is a molecular graphics program that interprets structure files in MMDB (ASN.l) format (struname.val or struname.cgi) of Entrez/MMDB (Wang et al.,... 

Grids of target-probe interaction energy values can be read into many molecular graphics programs which can display the MIFs as isoenergy contours or project the energies onto molecular surfaces. 

Molecular Mechanics Simulations of Ligand Structures in Transition Metal Carbonyl Clusters. ROTOCHEM— A Molecular Graphics Program. ... 

There are many other molecular graphics programs available two of the most popular are Chime (http //www.mdli.com/products/framework/chime/index.jsp) and RasMol [29] (http //www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/index2.htm) however, Cn3D and SRS 3D are our first choice for gaining an initial view of structures because of their ability to present sequence and structure in such an integrated way. 

Before we can answer this question, it is worth reiterating the need for healthy caution in using 3D structural information. When you look at a static, concrete, and colorful model in a molecular graphics program, it is all too easy to forget that you are looking not at the molecule you are interested in but only at a model of the molecule. 

F. -X, Bon and R. Van Rapenbusch, Comput. Chem., 13(14), 387 (1989). Choodraw an Interactive Molecular Graphics Program (PC/XT/AT) to Display Small Molecules Complexed with Protein Fragments Selected from the Protein Data Bank. 

The fully extended lengths are measured in the molecular graphics program... 

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