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ARP/wARP A system for the refinement of protein structures via automatic updating and re-building of the model and solvent structure CCP4 A suite of programs covering all aspects of crystallographic structure determination, refinement and analysis CNS A system for structure determination from crystallographic or NMR data O An interactive system for building and manipulating models in electron density maps SHELX A set of programs for direct structure solution and refinement with high resolution diffraction data SOLVE An automated system for phase determination from MIR and MAD data XtalView An interactive system for building and manipulating models in electron density map and for phase determination from MIR or MAD data.Structure Analysis and Verification
Procheck checks the stereochemical quality of a protein structure WHAT_CHECK A system for protein structure validation derived from the WHAT IF program WHAT IF A protein structure analysis program that may be used for mutant prediction, structure verification and molecular graphicsMolecular Graphics (See also PDB web site for more links)
MolScript A program for displaying structures in both detailed and schematic formats (Unix) PDB2MGIF converts PDB files to animated gif files that can be used in Web pages and presentations. (Mac OSX, Windows, Unix, Linux) PyMOL RasMol A free viewing system for PDB coordinate files (Mac PPC, Windows, Unix, Linux) Raster3D for generating high quality raster images of molecules. (Freeware for Mac OSX, Windows, Unix, Linux) RasTop graphical interface to RasMol molecular visualization software (v. 2.7.2.1), (Windows, Linux)Societies & funding agencies
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