Resources for Viewing & Using Online Molecular Models 2002

Web Resources for Viewing/Using Online Molecular Models

Resources for downloading or using Chime and Rasmol

http://www.mdl.com/chime/index.html Doweled site for Chime.
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/crofts/bc1_in_chime/chime_talk/chimehow/chimehow.htm How to use Chime.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/getras.htm Download site for RasMol/RasWin/RasMac.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ The UMass Rasmol/Chime/ and Protein Explorer home page. Maintained by Eric Martz.
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz/index.htm Eric Martz's site with Viewer information and links.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/othersof.htm Provides links to over 10 free viewers.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~emlaughl/mmlab/ Molecular Modeling link with emphasis on RasMol.
http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/molvisfw/find_recent_submissions.jsp Free molecular visualization software.
http://www.nesacs.org/nucleus/software_review.htm a review of Chime, RasMol, and ChemSite and use for high school students. Includes directions on use, including how to download files from the Brookhaven data base.
http://www.isat.jmu.edu/users/klevicca/vism/vism.htm Molecular Visualization Resource Page with many links for visualizing programs and pdb files, including crystal images. Has links to several chime tutorials.

Sites for downloading .pdb files to use with Chime or Rasmol

http://people.ouc.bc.ca/woodcock/molecule/molfrag/mf006.htm Dave Woodcock's site with over 1500 pdb files.
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ Protein Data Base

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/downloading.html Instructions for downloading pdb files through the web.

http://www.concentric.net/~Molimage/ Molecular Images software for pdb files.
http://chemistry.gsu.edu/glactone/PDB/pdb.html Pdb's for teaching biochemistry.
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/whereget.htm Where to get pdb files to view with Chime or Rasmol.
http://moose.bio.ucalgary.ca/download.html Includes micelle and lipid pdbs.
http://chemlinks.beloit.edu/drugs/ A ChemLink site with many pdb files for drugs.
http://www.inweh.unu.edu/biology447/Chemis3d/pdbmodels.html pdb images of EPA hazardous chemicals.

Molecular Visualization or Modeling Sites

http://www.phc.vcu.edu/link/molmodsites.html Links to molecular modeling sites.
http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/software.html A Cambridge site with many links for Molecular Visualization.
http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/index.html Molecular visualization resources, especially on the use of Chime.

Other Resources

http://www.distributedfolding.org/Download.html Distributed Folding Project. A screen saver, much like Project SETI, which uses computers with the screensaver to contribute computing power to the calculations for the folding of proteins.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/ Gif or Jpg images of molecules (which cannot be manipulated), but which can be used grades 6-12.

Hemphill and Ellison
November 14, 2002