MOIL-View 8.0 Available! MOIL-View (MOlecules at ILlinois) is a program for SGI and IBM RS/6000 workstations designed to allow the user to view and analyze molecular structures and dynamics. The program ia available via anonymous ftp, with full FORTRAN source code and documentation provided. Version 8.0 is a major upgrade from previously available versions. GENERAL FEATURES mouse and menu interface read/write coordinates in CHARMm CRD, PDB and AMBER formats OPTIONAL use of MOIL or AMBER topology files for bonding information allows rotation, translation etc. of structures display objects as lines, ribbons and/or spheres, sphere quality variable two molecules may be loaded and displayed simultaneously overlap function to minimize the RMSD of selected particles in two molecules user definable colors and particle selection text labels, fixed to particles or screen location calculate and show distances, angles and torsions find and display hydrogen bonds postscript output of structures, including ball-and-stick and space filling print monomer-based contact maps of molecules trajectory files may be read and a movie can be shown 2D-RMS postscript plots for trajectories, with user-definable overlap selection cluster analysis of trajectories, plots of clusters, clustering information trajectory modification- format conversion, frame averaging, particle removal plot trajectory data such as distances, angles, torsions, RMS, more compression algorithm for faster playback of complicated dynamics scenes support for NTSC/genlock video hardware solvent molecules can be added to a structure (shell or box) full FORTRAN source code provided for ease of modification OBTAINING MOIL-View The new anonymous ftp site for MOIL-View is munin.ucsf.edu (128.218.14.87). Log in as anonymous, type 'cd pub', and 'get MOIL-View.src.V8.SGI.tar.Z'. The IBM RS/6000 version (MOIL-View.src.7.6IBM.tar.Z) has not been fully tested. Documentation is available in postscript (MOIL-View.V8.doc.ps) and text (MOIL-View.V8.doc.txt) versions. For more information, please contact Carlos Simmerling at carlos@cgl.ucsf.edu. Comments and suggestions are welcome. ============================================================================= Carlos L. Simmerling, Ph.D. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Phone: (415) 476-7900 Univ. of California San Francisco Box 0446, San Francisco, CA 94143 E-mail: carlos@cgl.ucsf.edu =============================================================================