Department of Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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SETOR is designed to exploit the hardware lighting capabilities of the IRIS-4D series graphics workstations to render high-quality raster images of macromolecules that can undergo rotation and translation interactively. SETOR can render standard all-atom and backbone models of proteins or nucleic acids, but focuses on displaying protein molecules by highlighting elements of secondary sturcture. The program has a very friendly user interface that minimizes the number of input files by allowing the user to interactively edit parameters, such as colors, lighting coefficients, and descriptions of secondary structure via mouse activated dialogue boxes. The choice of polymer cahin representation can be varied from standard vectore models and van der Waals models, to a beta-spline fit of polymer backbones taht yields a smooth ribbon that approximates the polymer chain, to strict Cardinal splines that interpolate the smoothest curve possible that will precisely follow the polymer chain. The program provides a photograph mode, save/restore facilities, and efficient generation of symmetry-related molecules and packing diagrams. Additionally, SETOR is designed to accept commands and model coordinates from standard output. Ancillary programs provide a method to interactively edit hardcopy plots of all vector and many solid models generated by SETOR, and to produce standard HPGL or PostScript files. Examplesof figures rendered by SETOR of a number of macromolecules of various classes are presented
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S. V Evans, J. Mol. Graphics, 1993, Vol. 11, p. 134
To obtain a license please contact :
Licensor: Dr. Stephen V. Evans
Department of Biochemistry
University of Ottawa
451 Smyth
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5
CANADA
TEL (613)562-5800 x8437
FAX (613)562-5440
e-mail evans@flint.biochm.uottawa.ca