Sample figures generated using Raster3D

MSMS + Raster3D
This figure illustrates using Raster3D to draw a slice through a molecular surface, revealing interior cavities and channels.

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XtalView + Raster3D
You can render the canvas window of an XtalView map-fitting session as a Raster3D image via a simple pull-down menu.

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XtalView + Raster3D
Both XtalView and Raster3D can now represent thermal ellipsoids. This view of ellipsoids + density from the 1.25Å refinement of CTB was composed by merging files from Xfit and rastep, and then labeled using ImageMagick.

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ORTEX + Raster3D
Patrick McArdle has adapted the Raster3D components rastep and render for use with the small-molecule visualization tool ORTEX.

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New in version 2.3 "glow" lighting
Position of Bee Venom Phospholipase A2 at the Membrane Surface Using a Novel Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Technique (image courtesy of Ellie Adman).

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Example6: The Raster3D utility programs ribbon and rings3d can generate filled-ring diagrams of sugars, nucleic acids, and other biological molecules.

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Example2: A representation of the E. coli heat-label enterotoxin LT-I binding to multiple copies of a branched oligosaccharide at the cell surface. This example was created using the Raster3D utility programs balls and rods.

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Example3: A closer view of the sugar binding site in the LT-I toxin. This figure was created by feeding the output of Per Kraulis' program Molscript into the Raster3D rendering program.

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Example4: Another closeup of the same binding site in the closely related Cholera toxin. This example was created using the Raster3D utility programs balls and rods.

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Raster3D can render transparent surfaces. The stereo pair shown here was built up by merging a description of protein secondary structure from Molscript and the corresponding molecular surface as caculated by Anthony Nicholl's program GRASP.

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An MPEG movie: Clemens Vonrhein and Gerd Schlauderer (University of Freiburg) have used Molscript and Raster3D to prepare an animation of adenylate kinase moving between the "open" and "closed" conformations. More information on "Adenylate Kinase - the movie" is available from the authors via WWW. This work was described in Structure 3: 483-490 (1995).

An MPEG version of the movie is available here.

Biomolecular Structure Center at the University of Washington / merritt@u.washington.edu