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MINIMAGE : a program for plotting electron‐density maps
Author(s) -
Arnez J. G.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s0021889894001858
Subject(s) - contouring , electron density , electron , computer science , transformation (genetics) , coordinate system , computer program , unix , computer graphics (images) , software , crystallography , physics , chemistry , operating system , artificial intelligence , nuclear physics , biochemistry , gene
MINIMAGE is a program that enables the molecular structure plotting programs MAXIMAGE (© M. Rould) and MOLSCRIPT (© P. Kraulis) to draw electron‐density maps. Thus, electron‐density drawings can be combined with different renderings of molecular‐structure models. The user specifies electron‐density contouring, coordinate transformation and selection parameters. The program produces an input file for subsequent programs that contains plotting instructions and electron‐density contouring information, and two files in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank format, one containing selected atomic coordinates and the other containing electron‐density vertices. MINIMAGE is designed to work on both VAX/VMS and Unix‐based operation systems.