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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introductions to RasMol and this Manual
RasMol v2.5 Manual
HTML & v2.6 versions and Revision History
Navigation Options
No Frames: Remove the Index frame.
        Frames: Add the Index frame.
Navigation Notes & Downloading this Manual

General Operation   Configure your computer.

    Section Introduction
Running RasMol under UNIX or VMS
Running RasMol under Microsoft Windows
Running RasMol on the Apple Macintosh/PPC
RasMol's Window and a page on the Pull Down Menus
Mouse Controls
Scroll Bars
Picking
Dials Box
Command Line Interface
Dimensions within RasMol
Start-up Initialization Files
Inter-Process Communication

Command Reference   Do something to the model.
    Section Introduction

Backbone
Background
Cartoon
Center
Clipboard
Color
Connect
CPK
Define
Dots
Echo
Exit
HBonds
Help
Label
Load
Monitor
Pause
Print
Quit
Refresh
Renumber
Reset
Restrict
Ribbons
Rotate
Save
Script
Select
Set
Show
Slab
Source
Spacefill
SSBonds
Stereo
Strands
Structure
Trace
Translate
Wireframe
Write
Zap
Zoom
 
  Internal Parameters   Set something useful.
    Section Introduction
Ambient
Axes
Backfade
Background
BondMode
Bonds
BoundBox
Cartoon
Display
FontSize
HBonds
Hetero
HourGlass
Hydrogen
Kinemage
Menus
Monitor
Mouse
Picking
Radius
Shadow
SlabMode
Solvent
Specular
SpecPower
SSBonds
Stereo Viewing
Strands
Transparent GIF
UnitCell
VectPS
Write
 
 
Atom Expressions   Identify something uniquely.
    Section Introduction
Examples
Primitive Expressions
Comparison Operators
Within Expressions

Predefined Sets   Define something in a class.
    Section Introduction

AT
Acidic
Acyclic
Aliphatic
Alpha
Amino
Aromatic
Backbone
Basic
Bonded
Buried
CG
Charged
Cyclic
Cystine
Helix
Hetero
Hydrogen
Hydrophobic
Ions
Large
Ligand
Medium
Neutral
Nucleic
 
Polar
Protein
Purine
Pyrimidine
Selected
Sheet
Sidechain
Small
Solvent
Surface
Turn
Water
 
  Table of amino acid classes

Colors and Color Schemes   Color something specifically.
    Section Introduction & Predefined Colors

Amino
Chain
CPK
Group
Shapely
Structure
Temperature
Charge
User
HBond Type
Potential
(electrostatic)
  Tables of RasMol Color Schemes:
   Predefined     Amino/Shapely     CPK

Files and File Formats   Load something interesting.

    Section Introduction
Brookhaven PDB Files with an annotated Example: 1crn.pdb
Other File Formats:   MOPAC     Alchemy     IRIS RGB     MDL Mol
Machine Specific Support: X Windows; Tcl/Tk; UNIX Sockets; RasWin with Borland.

Bibliography from the RasMol v2.5 Manual
  A separate page describes scripting commands that are specific for the Chime plug-in.
  For an introduction on using the RasMol program, go to the CMU RasMol Tutorial.

Back to Molecular Models for Biochemistry at CMU.

Dr. William McClure
wm0p@andrew.cmu.edu
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213