On Wednesday 29 October 2003 18:23, PHILLIP W BARAK wrote: > > > Just discovered, downloaded and spent a few hours playing with > > > Jmol-8/JmolApplet-8 and the ?sneak preview? of Jmol-10. ABSOLUTELY > > > BRILLIANT! > > > > Glad that you like Jmol > > > > > The materials I have been working on have been mainly targeted at > > > pre-university level (AS and A2 level in UK edu-speak) and involve > > > inorganic crystal and metal structures as well as organic molecules > > > and biopolymers. All currently use .pdb format. > > > > Phillip Barak of the University of Wisconsin USA recently sent me > > a link > > that shows some excellent web pages with inorganic molecules. You > > shouldtake a look at them: > > http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/ > > Just to jump in here about our use of pdb files for the minerals on our > site: > > Using pdb was not our first choice. We would have prefered CIF format, > files with the barest minimum of spatial information, since symmetry > operators allow 'tiling' out in any direction per user parameters, but that > was not to be with Chime.
Jmol v8 has very limited support for PDB files... it reads only the atomic coordinates and the unit cell parameters, and symmetry operations are not yet supported... I am not sure what you mean with tiling, but what would the CIF file that would define the 'tiling' look like? Egon -- PhD Molecular Representation in Chemometrics Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry http://www-cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
