About the Images
Computer Modelling
Many of the images here have been rendered using a Molecular Modelling
software package called Quanta from Molecular Simulations running under the
IRIX operating system on a Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo R4000 computer with
32Mbytes of RAM and XS24 bit graphics. Using this system it is possible to
display molecular models of structures based on X-ray crystallographic
coordinates deposited in the Brookhaven database. These models can be
rotated and magnified on screen to different angles and sizes. Parts of the
structure can be selected and emphasised by use of colours or by displaying
them in different styles or as cartoons. The raytraced space filling models
provide a very good way of visualising the overall shape of the protein but
features of secondary structure are better emphasised in the cartoons.
The SG system and Quanta software is maintained and run by Mike Clark. If members of staff are interested in the
potential use of this system to look at structures related to their own
work please contact me. Email to mrc7@cam.ac.uk
Creating these HTML pages
For information on these HTML pages and how they
were created.
This page is from 
_Mike Clark
"An antibody
engineer who also enjoys the mountains."
mrc7@cam.ac.uk
Mike's home-page
11th June 1997