Don.Gilbert@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) (09/19/90)
Archive-name: macmimic-demo/18-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: Don.Gilbert@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) Original-subject: Re: Molecular modelling with MacMimic Archive-site: iubio.bio.indiana.edu [129.79.1.101] Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Sep17.112800.2874@lth.se> sundinKC@dna.lth.se (Anders Sundin Oragnisk kemi 2) writes: > MacMimic is an application for the display, construction and comparison of > molecular models in full 3-D. It runs on the Macintosh II family of > computers with a 256 colour monitor and 2 MBytes of memory. > > A demo of MacMimic version 1.0 is available via anonymous ftp from > pollux.lu.se as macmimic_demo.sit.hqx. The demo has all functionalities This looks like a fairly nice program. I have just tried it with a tRNA molecule from the Brookhaven databank (around 1600 atoms) which it draws in less than 10 minutes on a slow Mac II. In contrast, the Chem 3D program can't draw an 800 atom structure in 2 hours (when I gave up). You can now also find a copy of the demo version of this program via anonymous ftp to iubio.bio.indiana.edu, cd [archive.chemistry.mac], get macmimic-demo.hqx. You can also find a demo copy of ball&stick there. I have no affiliation with Instar software, the developer of MacMimic. I do hope that Bionet will allow informational messages about commercial software, such as the original posting. Anders did not, in my opinion, cross the line from useful information into advertising. -- Don Don.Gilbert@iubio.bio.indiana.edu biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405, usa