The computers at the Science Learning Center in YH 4335 and 4336 have all the programs you need for the tutorials,

If you plan to run these tutorials using your home or lab computer to view molecules, you must install:



  1. RASMOL for Windows, MACs and Linux

    RASMOL Choose the latest version 2.7.2.1.1

    RASMOL QUICK REFERENCE CARD


  2. CHIME for Windows and MACs

    You must have Firefox, Mozilla or Internet explorer 6.0.

    CHIME for PC

    CHIME for MAC

  3. SWISS_PDB_VIEWER (DEEPVIEW) for Windows, MACs and Linux

    SPDBV-DEEPVIEW



  4. PYMOL for Windows, MACs and Linux

    PYMOL Download version 0.97. (Follow the links for either Windows, OSX or Linux)


  5. Amino acid Side chains


    Representative electron density for amino acid side chains arranged in order of increasing size. From an experimental electron density map calculated at 1.5 Angstrom resolution (By. Mike Sawaya)

  6. Base Numbering

    Structures of the five major purine (R) and pyrimidine (Y) bases of nucleic acids in their dominant tautomeric forms andwith the IUPAC numbering system


    Source: Blackburn and Gait, Nucleic acids in chemistry and biology, Oxford University Press New York 1996.