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  Re: Kpovmodeller in Ubuntu 8.10  
From: nemesis
Date: 21 Nov 2008 10:48:33
Message: <4926d851$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis escreveu:
> Bryan Heit escreveu:
>> Because I'm not modeling.  I'm trying to modify the output of a 
>> protein structure prediction program that outputs protein structures 
>> as pov. The structures themselves are made entirely of primitives 
>> (spheres and cylinders mostly); often 10,000+ of them per protein 
>> structure. kpovmodeller allows me to select, move or delete these 
>> visually; wings3d, etc would not, and its next to impossible using 
>> text-editing.
> 
> Blender has a script that reads in protein structures in the PDB format, 
> if your program exports to that:
> 
> http://freelancingscience.com/molecular-renderings/
> 
> Follow the instructions at bottom of the article.

Hmm, and BTW, following a few hints in that page, I reach an open-source 
project for molecular visualization that seems much more well suited for 
this specific task:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

It was used to render some of the pictures in the previous page...


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