Hypertext Images
It is straightforward to produce images from most molecular graphics packages,
including RasMol and Mage (e.g. use RasMol's Export function on
the menu, or the command write GIF <filename>). Annotations
can be added to RasMol: label string displays the text
string next to the currently selected atom(s).
Drawing/painting Packages
More sophisticated labelling and other manipulations of image files will
require drawing/painting software packages.
(The following are not necessarily all freeware/shareware)
The following URL maintained by Lance Ladic at the University of British
Columbia Computer Science Department lists
Freeware/Shareware
Graphics Applications (miscellaneous graphics packages, not just painting/drawing)
Image Formats
Earlier browsers could only interpret GIF (Graphical Interchange Format,
compressed) and XBM (bitmap) file types, but more recent versions can also
understand JPEG files. JPEGs allow a degree of control over the image quality;
of course better quality JPEG files are larger in terms of storage.
The following references are in the archives (Ohio State University)
of the comp.compression newsgroup:
There are more useful links on references page.
Protein Image Libraries
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Images of space-filling models in CPK colours on the Brookhaven
PDB Gopher server -entries often have a GIF image such as in this entry
for 2ovo
(click here
for the image; URLs of the GIFS are of the form
gopher://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov:70/11/PDB/Entries/.****/****.gif
where **** is the 4-letter code)
SWISS-3DIMAGE at
ExPASy
Creation of images 'on-the-fly': Molviewer,
by Mike Hartshorn and PPS Consultant Glenn
Proctor of the Protein Structure Group, University of York, generates
a number of different types of representation of an existing PDB structure.
Use this WWW
Interface to search for a PDB file and produce the image.
Image of ovomucoid third domain (2ovo) produced by Molviewer server
Click on it for a larger ribbon representation also produced by Molviewer
Last updated 15th Jan '97
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