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MidasPlus

2.1

Molecular Modeling; Molecular Visualization

The original version of MIDAS was written by 
Prof. Thomas Ferrin and Dr. Conrad Huang. 
Many others have actively contributed to the development
of the recent version(s) of Midas. For a more detailed
information, please visit the home page of MIDAS.

MidasPlus is a trademark of the UCSF Computer Graphics
Laboratory.	 

MidasPlus is an advanced molecular modeling system developed by the
Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL) at the University of California,
San Francisco. The system is used daily in university-level research
programs in order to display and manipulate macromolecules such as
proteins and nucleic acids. Ancillary programs allow for such
features as computation of molecular surfaces and electrostatic
potentials and generation of publication quality space filling
images with multiple light sources and shadows. MidasPlus is
distributed as documented source code to serve as both a starting
point and training tool for others interested in doing their own
software development. To address the needs of our group's
structure-based drug design program, MidasPlus has been developed
with an emphasis on the interactive selection, manipulation and
docking of drugs and receptors. Although quite powerful in this
application, the system is also somewhat specialized in this
respect: it requires three dimensional atomic coordinate
data for the structures being displayed and expects the primary
structure to be based on linear chains of subunits such as amino
acids or nucleic acids. Using MidasPlus for complex inorganic
compounds or large polymers with many cross-links is discouraged.
MidasPlus is now in use in nearly 400 other laboratories.

References:

T.E. Ferrin, C.C. Huang, L.E. Jarvis, and R. Langridge, ``The MIDAS
Display System,'' J. Mol. Graphics, 6(1):13-27,36-37, 1988. 

T.E. Ferrin, G.S. Couch, C.C. Huang, E.F. Pettersen, and R.
Langridge, ``An Affordable Approach to Interactive Desktop Molecular
Modeling,'' J. Mol. Graphics, 9(1):27-32,37-38, 1991. 

C.C. Huang, E.F. Pettersen, T.E. Klein, T.E. Ferrin and R.
Langridge, ``Conic: A Fast Renderer for Space-Filling Molecules with
Shadows,'' J. Mol. Graphics, 9(4):230-236, 1991. 

G.S. Couch, E.F. Pettersen, C.C. Huang and T.E. Ferrin, ``Annotating
PDB Files with Scene Information,'' Journal of Molecular Graphics
13(3):153-158, 1995. 

SGI 

/usr/local/fbscapp/midas-21/ 

Source the following file:

source /usr/local/fbscapp/midas-21/midas21_fbsc.cshrc

Type the following command to invoke midas-plus

midas  

/usr/local/fbscapp/midas-21/doc/ 

ravichas

2002-05-28

ravichas

2002-05-28